These posts describe or talk about an exercise or activity you can try out.
Around here, we’re mostly interested in overall fitness and functional strength. By that, we mean that we’re looking to develop the kind of strength useful in everyday life, the kind that helps you move boxes of stuff, lift heavy things, and climb up stuff.
Ok, the last one may not be an every-day thing but it is fun. Continue reading Full body and isolation training
Stretching is a bit like the fairy tale stepchild in training. Everyone knows it’s there, but too many people either dismiss it, or rush through it just to get it over with and into the “real” exercise. That way, they get little or no benefit from stretching, and less benefit from their workout than they might otherwise do. Continue reading Stretching
Yes. Walking. As in, using your legs to move from one place to another.
Running is a great form of exercise. There’s even some suggestion that our bodies evolved to make running our optimal form of movement. Thing is, while you may have been born for it, odds are you haven’t lived for it. Try to run a few laps around the block as your first exercise on day one, and you’ll either hurt yourself or end up exhausting yourself to the point that you can’t do much else. Either or both of those are likely to kill any motivation you have worked up. Continue reading Walking the walk
