A lot of people spend a lot of time looking for the magic number when it comes to working out. You would think that there is this special lottery like number of reps, time, or hours a week spent that will just make the weight fall off. The reality is the magic number is dependent on you and your conditioning. Share on Facebook
Too often I hear someone say I like weights but I hate cardio or I love cardio but have no interest in weights. Well both are very important for weight loss, weight maintenance and overall health. However they do serve different purposes. Share on Facebook
Every so often I hear someone say can’t I just lose weight without working out? Well the answer is yes, diet alone will take pounds off, but is the goal to drop pounds or is the goal to improve your health? I mean if you are going to deny yourself the joys of food, and I know the joys of food well, then shouldn’t your goal be to improve your health just not dropping pounds? Share on Facebook
Have you ever noticed how few cars are in a gym parking lot, with the exception of the first few weeks of a new year that is? Now clearly the gym has more members than the parking lot reflects, since they rely on membership dues to keep their lights on. Why are there so few cars in the parking lot then? Share on Facebook
There is nothing worse than being bored with your workout routine. This isn’t only because doing something that is boring is, well rather boring. The other problem here is if you are bored with you routine your body probably is too. Now when you get bored you have to find your mind to get yourself to do something, when your body gets bored it stops growing. You won’t see the progress you want to make once your body is bored because it has adapted to what you are doing and is no longer being challenged. Share on Facebook
Anyone who is on an exercise program long enough has stumbled across a pain that just wasn’t right. Maybe you turned the wrong way, maybe you used too much weight but for whatever reason you’re now feeling something that you shouldn’t be. Sometimes when people begin a program or make a change in their program they set themselves up for this injury, and sometimes the injury is the result of you refusing to listen to your body in the first place. You have to be able to determine what type of pain it is when it happens to know what to do about it. Share on Facebook
There comes a time on every fitness journey when we fail to listen to our body. Even though our body screams at us we still can’t manage to hear it. Our poor bodies are trying to tell us something for a reason and you would think we would want to listen since we are going through this journey to improve our bodies after all. The reasons we don’t listen aren’t usually really good ones, we want to hit a weight goal by a certain day, we want to look our best for a special event, we need to push ourselves and the like all sound good but failing to listen to what your body is saying can lead to substandard results at best and injury that sidelines us at worst. Share on Facebook
The leading cause of injury from weight training is improper form and sadly you see it every day at gyms across the country. The worst example I have seen was two guys who were determined to hurt themselves. They were doing bench presses with so much more weight than they should be using that one guy had to help the other lifting the weight up and down, they were only able to do two or three reps and both of their elbows were buckling as their backs were arching like a freshly scratched cat. Why they thought this was a good idea I can’t tell you. This isn’t working out this is trying to hurt yourself. Who cares if you got two fifty up on the bench press if you hurt yourself in the process? Share on Facebook
How many times have you had a friend plop down a few hundred bucks on the latest and greatest fitness machine only to have it gather dust in their garage? How many times have you had friend join the latest and greatest gym only to never go despite forking over money every month? Exercise is a massive industry, and when I say massive I mean close to the hundred billion dollar a year type of massive. How is so much money spend and so many people still overweight? Well the reality is it doesn’t matter how much you spend but rather what you do with what you buy that will get those pounds off. Share on Facebook
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