Training advice
SOME CONSIDERATIONS Harvard Health recognizes that we have different goals for exercise. These are: 1. For work – Energy for manufacturing and agriculture is not nearly as dependent on human muscle power as in the past couple of centuries. We… Continue Reading
BOTH HAVE VALUE This will be a relatively short post. There are differing ways to lift weights or to otherwise work out with resistance. We can use light or heavy weights, short or lengthy numbers of reps and fast or… Continue Reading
BEGINNING This is by far the most difficult part. You are launching a life change and this may be uncomfortable. The discomfort should only be brief and temporary – the results will be forthcoming quickly. MOTIVATION – is an absolute… Continue Reading
BUT ONLY IF YOU REALLY WANT TO I have done it twice. When I was 19, I was finishing high school and preparing for college. During the months of March through early September, I worked out in my garage with… Continue Reading
HOW SO? Traditional cardiovascular activities include: Running Walking Bicycling Swimming Rope jumping Rowing Boxing Dancing Also, sports like basketball and tennis certainly have fat burning and cardiovascular benefits. Weight training is also a form of cardio. Unlike other forms, weight… Continue Reading
THIS WORKS BETTER FOR ME BECAUSE……. Intensity cannot be maintained for long periods of time. An elongated workout, with lots of rest time and “cooling-off” is better than no workout at all, but is not the best use of one’s… Continue Reading
DEFINITIONS Resistance bands are exercise tools usually made of rubber, but sometimes of plastic. They give us a force to be stretched for muscular development. They are colored differently to indicate thickness differences, which provide a variety of levels of… Continue Reading
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? I believe that George Bernard Shaw said it best, “We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing”. My personal workouts have not changed appreciably in about 20 years, though… Continue Reading
LOTS OF CONTROVERSY When I began “pumping iron” at age 18, the best advice I got was to do 3 sets each of about 5-6 different exercise movements. This program worked best for me. I had experimented with more sets… Continue Reading
FIRST, AN EXPLANATION The lower abdominal area is not a distinct muscle group. The “lower abs” are part of the rectus abdominis, which runs from the rib cage to the pelvis. But there are certain movements that will activate that… Continue Reading