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Physical fitness is the centerpiece of a fun filled, active lifestyle.
Physical fitness is essential to enjoying life.
Physical fitness is more than just strength. It’s the ability to play with your kids when you get home. It’s the ability to enjoy your weekends with a round of golf or dancing the night away. And it is absolutely key if you want to continue to enjoy all these things as you age.
There’s no one way to stay fit, so mix it up.
There are so many different ways to approach strength training: free weights, kettlebells, TRX suspension training, resistance bands and body weight training. Strength training can improve your posture, your energy levels, your self-image and it can and should be fun.
And of course there’s yoga. Yoga isn’t just stretching and flexibility. You’ll also gain strength, balance and greatly improved body awareness.
And physical fitness isn’t restricted to a gym.
Whether your movement happiness is yoga, tai chi, rock climbing, cycling, stand up paddleboard or Brazilian jujitsu, it all counts toward your physical fitness. While strength training and GYROTONIC® training can help improve your performance in any of these activities, by themselves they all ask you to move with a purpose. And because you enjoy them, you’re more likely to get out a move.
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Your exercise choices should improve what you do outside the gym
What you do in the gym matters to what you do outside it.
When you make exercise choices at the gym, are you thinking about what you enjoy the rest of the week? Whether your weekend involves a round of golf with your friends, a long ride on your road bike or social yet competitive tennis match,
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The Wall Stand Exercise for improved posture.
The Wall Stand Exercise is a simple and effective stretch.
With the majority of people having desk jobs sitting in front of a computer, common avoidable postural distortions like Forward Head Posture and Upper Crossed Syndrome have become almost the norm. If you’re able to keep your focus on proper posture from a young age and throughout your life
Exercise and weight loss questions and answers part 1
Exercise and weight loss. Questions & Answers
Exercise and weight loss are frequently discussed on message boards. I occasionally venture into these fitness forums and answer questions.
Q: I recently began a workout routine and have been doing my cardio mostly on the elliptical machine.
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Kettlebells develop strength and power and are alot of fun.
Kettlebells look like cannonballs with handles
And a workout with them will strengthen you in ways nothing else can. If you were to purchase one piece of home gym equipment, I’d choose kettlebells. A kettlebell workout is a total body workout, it’s strengthening, it increases core strength and increases your ability to generate power. For such a really simple piece of equipment, it can have dramatic impact on your physical fitness.
Read moreKettlebells develop strength and power and are alot of fun.
A kettlebell swing is based on a deadlift, not a squat.
Get the base of a kettlebell swing right.
All too often when I’m at a gym, whether watching a person work out on their own or watching a trainer use kettlebells with their client, the very root of the kettlebell swing motion is done incorrectly. To easily explain the reason one motion is correct and the other is not
Read moreA kettlebell swing is based on a deadlift, not a squat.
Your workout posture affects how you look and feel outside the gym.
Is your workout posture actually ruining your posture?
It seems most people see the obvious when they are at the gym, that they are working on strengthening their muscles (and hopefully stretching them out as well). But one not so noticed aspect of everything you do at the gym is your workout posture. Every exercise you do is training your body
Read moreYour workout posture affects how you look and feel outside the gym.
One size fits all doesn’t fit all… or even one.
Don’t get suckered in to the “one size fits all” approach.
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There are an untold number of sources you can find with advice about fitness and exercise. And that’s good. Bodies are different and goals are different which makes the “one size fits all” approach a hindrance.
Between the dozens of health and fitness magazines and the nearly infinite number of websites
