Archives by Tag 'Fitness'
Bodyweight Workout
Just got this via the Jamfitness.com newsletter. Thought my readers might enjoy it.
“What builds muscle? Your body builds muscle. Training is a stimulus. Food and rest are the building supplies that make the remodelling, adaptation and replenishing possible.
This will take you about 5 minutes and jack you up so you’re running in [...]
Aiming For The Wrong Look
One of the issues I had to deal with when starting my quest for personal fitness and health was a mistaken idea of what healthy and strong looked like. My body-image was horribly skewed and a source of a great deal of shame and self-loathing. That much was pretty obvious from the start. What I [...]
100 Push Ups Week 1, Day 2
Below are the totals for today’s workout. Note, this program has three workout days per week. I am doing mine on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Week 1, Day 2:
Instructed -
Set 1: 10 reps
Set 2: 12 reps
Set 3: 8 reps
Set 4: 8 resp
Set 5: 12 reps minimum (to failure)
90 seconds rest between sets.
Achieved-
Set 1: 10 reps
Set 2: [...]
Little Things Can Add Up
Awesome post over at the Better Health blog. HEALTHY EATING: Little things can add up.
“I learned encouraging news that little bouts of exercise — as few as 10 minutes in duration — can add up to significant gains in fitness.
Unfortunately, it’s the little bites eaten here and there above our daily caloric needs that can [...]
Challenges That Help
I recently came across the excellent website, hunderdpushups.com. I can highly recommend the program. I started it a couple of weeks before my recent trip to Paris. On my first initial test I was only able to crank out 18 good-form push ups, due to a long stint of bed-bound recovery from a recent surgery. [...]
Welcome to Embrace Tiger, Return to Kitchen
T’ai Chi fans out there will find the name of this blog to be familiar. It’s taken from a technique in most T’ai Chi systems called “Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain”. The reason for that is that T’ai Chi was the first martial art that I studied when I began my climb down [...]