When I talk to people about exercise and personal training, it’s remarkable how many of them reject them out of hand, saying that exercise hurts. It’s roughly similar to the reaction you get when you offer someone a liver sandwich with chocolate sauce. It’s hard to get past that reaction, and usually that’s the...
Read more →If exercise or fitness makes headlines, it’s usually something peculiar. After all, if someone wrote an article entitled “Exercise Linked to Fitness”, or “TV-Watching Insufficient Training for Olympic Marathon”, it would probably not bubble up to the top. As such, the only fitness article that the average person sees is either something really extreme...
Read more →Kettlebells have become a very important and enjoyable part of my training. The kettlebell originated in Russia, and resembles a cannonball with a handle. It also somewhat resembles a kettle (albeit an extremely solid and heavy one), and no doubt “kettlebell” is a catchier name than “cannonballbell”. Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet...
Read more →The following is excerpted from an response I gave to a trainee who said that he really hated squats because they gave him so much pain. He had heard many people say that squats were valuable, so he wanted to know if he still “had” to do them even though they made him dread...
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