Strengthlab on Oct 25th 2015 StrengthLab Thoughts
The majority of us seem to rate the value of our lives by how much we have in things or how widely recognized we are within a social circle or corporate ladder; on a larger scale, fame and fortune seems to be the only thing worthy of real value to most Americans. However, the wise among us, only seem to mention the ordinary moments as extraordinary, indeed, the moments spent with those we care the most about. These are the things we wish we had the most of when time grows short.
Strengthlab on Oct 25th 2015 StrengthLab Thoughts
The majority of supplements are worthless and waste of your money!
Various “powder” blends and products; items for the landfill. Various energy drinks; drink coffee instead, it’s abundant and actually good for you. Meal replacement bars and muscle building shakes; a lack of protein isn’t the problem here (even if you’re a bodybuilder). Exotic juices and berries in handsome bottles; garbage, commercial juices are heat pasteurized.
Save your money and buy the real deal at the grocery store: fruits, vegetables and lean proteins.
Scientists who study food and nutrition, at this very moment, don’t fully understand how the colors in fruits and vegetables keep us so healthy… so don’t believe the marketing of someone who knows even less than the scientists who study it.
We cannot bottle what we don’t understand.
Strengthlab on Oct 25th 2015 StrengthLab Thoughts
Fitness and exercise get more important, rather than less important, as we get older, so we should take a long-term approach to exercise, an approach that’s designed to keep us training for a life-time. Weight training is the first priority here, not only to increase personal fitness through enhanced muscular strength and muscular endurance but to maintain a dynamic balance between opposing muscle groups; which equates to a healthy range of motion throughout the body and its joints when practiced consistently. This is how range of motion is maintained or re-acquired as we age – stretching is NOT the answer to maintaining or increasing flexibility!
Consistent and intelligent weight training builds a robust foundation that aerobic exercise can be built upon. Aerobic exercise persued habitually, without a strategic resistance training program, is a recipe for imbalance, future injury and burn-out. Furthermore, as we age, imbalances occur naturally (as well as unnaturally) throughout our bodies due to work related repetitive motions, trauma from accidents and muscle tissue loss due to inactivity (which can occur as early as 25 years of age). As we age time spent resistance training should increase!
No health and fitness program is complete without both elements – weight training and cardiovascular training. Unfortunately, both are typically not practiced consistently (or at all) and often when they’re executed they’re performed incorrectly by the majority of end users; the selected exercises, technique, frequency, intensity and duration are all keys to long-term progression and success.
