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In my ongoing effort to stay young in body and in heart, I’ve decided to start jumping rope. Today, my new new toy arrive from Amazon (I love having stuff delivered!): a York Leather Skip Rope. I just had my first skip out on the patio (I love having a patio!) and I’m [...] This is a guest post from my friend, Xandros. Xandros has been attending a fitness “boot camp” in recent weeks and I asked him to write a little something about his experience. I’m so grateful that he did! Boot camps were a bit of a mystery to me, but now I’m curious to check [...] Today I learned that sometimes it’s good to attempt the impossible. “Core strength” refers to your ab and back muscles and their ability to support your spine and keep your body stable and balanced. These muscles receive a lot of buzz, and rightfully so – they are vital for functional fitness. But guess what – you don’t need pilates classes or a gym membership to [...] An quick read at the NYT discusses the US Olympic training programme’s use of hill training on “the Incline”. Recently, we’ve been thinking lots about functional fitness and getting hard without the gym. Although we like to avoid equipment as much as possible, a medicine ball could be a useful addition to our “home gym” (which is thus far small enough to stash under the bed, bicycles aside). I just stumbled across a really great series from Outdoor mag. circa 2002. One of the fitness trends I’m following is the movement towards minimalist training using functional training techniques. That’s training movements and not muscles. “It takes strength to do them, and it takes endurance to do a lot of them,” said Jack LaLanne, 93, [...] Over the past few months I’ve come across a couple of articles about functional training. Gym Jones used it to train the cartoon-like warriors in 300 and then I caught an article in Outdoors about the Monkey Bar Gymnasium, a non-traditional gym with no machines or mirrors. |
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