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-Why did you get into the industry? How did you come to organize Europe's biggest Crossfit Competition?
Q. I have been trying to get fit and lose weight, I am getting more fit but putting on weight… people say ignore the weight your thoughts?
Q. Is there a trick to avoiding injury? I get sore knees and had a back thing often after simple exercises, maybe I don’t rest enough?
Found a nice read talking about what fitness is!
-Cardiovascular endurance
-Muscular endurance
-Muscular strength
-Flexibility
-Body composition
Q. what is your favourite goto exercise?
Q. what did you have for breakfast?
Ever heard of sliding disc workouts?
One of the latest trends in full-body, portable workout equipment is sliding (or gliding) discs. And although they may seem just trendy, these sliding discs are a seriously effective workout tool that is perfect for every athlete at every level of sports training. Sliders are inexpensive, portable and provide a challenging workout that builds both strength and stability, and can also be used to build endurance, flexibility, and even assist in injury rehab.
What Are Exercise Sliding Discs?
These small, flat round discs are designed to create a sliding surface between your hands or feet and the floor. So rather than lifting your arms or legs during bodyweight exercises, you slide your hands and feet across the floor while supporting your full weight.
About the size of a frisbee, sliders are two-sided discs (one side hard plastic and the other fabric, or both sides a strong coated canvas-like material) that allow you to exercise on a variety of floor types. Keep the smooth side down to slide more easily on carpet, and keep the fabric side down to slide on harder surfaces, such as wood or tile floors.
Depending upon your goals and the specific exercises you perform, you can use your own body weight and sliders to get a high-intensity cardiovascular or interval workout, or build strength by targeting specific muscle groups. Because they are so small, compact, and lightweight, they are ideal for home use or travel workouts. At about $20 or less for a set, they are an excellent addition to a home exercise equipment list and they make a great gift.
What Are the Benefits of Using Sliding Discs?
Exercise sliders are useful for home workouts simply because they are small and portable. The variety of exercises that can be done is also fairly comprehensive.
Sliders offer a low to no-impact workout and are easy on the joints, so they are often prescribed during physical therapy for athletes who want to maintain fitness while recovering from an injury.
Because you are in contact with an unstable (sliding) surface during the entire range of motion, sliders work the muscles differently than typical bodyweight exercise. In order to slide from one position to the next, you need to maintain constant tension in the muscles, both the prime movers and the stabilizers, during the full range of movement on a slippery surface. Whether you are moving your hands or your feet, you will be performing both concentric and eccentric muscle contractions during nearly every move. Using sliders also can be a useful way to improve balance.
Keeping the Gym workout on track is maybe at the top of the list of things to think about as it tends to point to motivation, loved this little read!
All are simple and easy, your thoughts on applying them!
More on motivation!
Love your thoughts on it!
- Achieving your goals, both large and small, takes hard work, dedication and, most of all, the motivation to stick with them, even when things get tough.
- While staying motivated may seem tricky, there’s actually a science to it – and you can train yourself to approach motivation more effectively.
- Set small, actionable goals that you can celebrate along the way. Instead of looking at success as getting to the finish line, acknowledge that any step towards it is progress.
Dumbell exercises have to love them!
Q. Flexibility vs mobility is one more important than the other?
Q. Even if we are not looking to bulk up we need some strength training why?
This article is cool on the 10,000 step goal!
10,000 steps” is part of an outdated marketing campaign – not a useful fitness strategy
The origin of the 10,000 steps regimen is actually tied to a 1960s marketing campaign in Japan leading up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Concerned that Japanese people would fall victim to a Westernized lifestyle, Dr. Yoshio Hatano, an academic at Kyushu University of Health and Welfare wanted to get people more active. He believed that if he could increase their daily steps from 4,000 to 10,000, then they would burn approximately 500 extra calories a day and remain slim.
Shorter durations of brisk walking beat out 10,000 steps
Recently, British journalist and author Michael Mosley and Professor of Physical Activity and Health at The Centre for Sport & Exercise Science, Sheffield Hallam University visited a factory in Sheffield with a goal to compare the benefits of 10,000 steps to “Active 10” – a program aimed at approximately three sessions of 10 minutes of brisk walking each day. Their small group of volunteers wore activity monitors to measure what exercise they did, as well as how vigorously they did it. A normal day’s activity constituted a control. Copeland divided the group into two – group one walked 10,000 steps (about 5 miles) each day, while group two completed three sessions of Active 10, which equates to about 3,000 steps or 1.5 miles.
The results revealed that the Active 10 group actually completed 30% more ‘moderate to vigorous physical activity’ than the 10,000 steps group, though they exercised for a shorter duration.”It’s when you are doing moderate-intensity activity that you are starting to get the greatest health benefits. There’s lots of evidence to suggest that by [getting your heart beating faster] you can lower your risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers,” explains Copeland.
Dealing with the comparison trap!
Rest and not being 21 anymore why we need it!
3 reasons to exercise!
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