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Train for shape

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Chances are if you look good you’ll feel good – at the very least you will feel better about yourself. But don’t forget you are an individual with your own ideal shape (not anybody else’s idea of an ideal shape!) The other things you may want for yourself will follow. Concentrating on too many issues [...]

Muscle bound?

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Both for men and women, keeping muscles in shape is important – as I point out in my post Why muscles? But there is one reason why many people steer away from any exercise that forcefully contract the muscles (particularly weights). And that is a fear of getting too big. Now, really big muscles are [...]

How is your self image?

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Great post on fatmanunleashed.com entitled Let’s Start with the Man (or Woman) in the Mirror about the importance of self image with regard to weight loss. Now, I don’t know about you, but for me THE MIRROR LIES! With my Easy Fitness muscle control exercises I check with the mirror periodically to see if I [...]

Swimming as cardiovascular exercise

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

I am sure that swimming is a really great form of exercise. And, equally, I have no doubt that the resistance of pushing water around is good for the muscles, but, for most, I have reservations about its’ effectiveness as a cardiovascular exercise. Now I am not talking about the dedicated swimmer, who probably belongs [...]

Knee trouble and exercise

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

I’ve had fairly bad knees for a long time – cartilage damage from too much football (soccer) when I was young. A long time ago when I was still playing, a couple of days after a match, I went to my doctor with an extremely swollen and painful knee. He told me to quit football, [...]

Change is the key to effective exercise

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

You may well have seen this theme on many other sites and I am going to reinforce it here. Just doing the same routine forever will not work. Not only will you get bored, so will your muscles! The exercises will lose their effect. There are two main ways round this. One is to change [...]

The Golden Mean

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

There is a “Golden Mean” or “Golden Ratio” for pretty much everything – architecture, music, art, the human form – on and on. Just do a search on either of these terms and you will see what I mean. Seemingly starting from Confucianism and much referred to in philosophy, the “Golden Mean” is an optimum [...]

Muscle loss as you get older

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Known as Sarcopenia – see Wikipedia for the full details. I realise that with my balance being aimed at core and torso exercises and the emphasis on shape, I may have slightly neglected a point associated with muscle mass, in that the biggest muscles are around the top half of the legs and the hips. [...]

Running surfaces

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

I often hear fitness experts on running say that there is more stress on the joints when running on hard surfaces like roads, pavements and paths etc. Now, I like to run a bit, and my knees are not too good at all (cartilage damage from too much football when I was young, one knee [...]

Can YOU feel?

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Those of you following this site will have noticed the emphasis placed on listening to you body, really being aware of your body and feeling the effect that your exercises are having on your muscles etc. I was made aware some time ago that this, for some people, is far from easy! A colleague of [...]

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