Coach Sal: Challenging the Nonsense

It’s a cliche, but it’s true! As we get back to a regular activity level it’s important not to overdo and do too much too soon. Increase your exercise frequency and intensity incrementally not exponentially, especially if you have kids getting back to sports

Stop wasting your time doing Planks. They make you ‘better’ at nothing except doing Planks.

Review of the ‘8 Purposeful Elements’ everyone needs to include in every workout and discussion regarding the important difference between ‘Purposeful’ and ‘Functional’ training.

This podcast recommends everyone read the book The Poor Misunderstood Calorie’ and discusses in more depth some of the book’s concepts. It’s a Kindle bargain at $2.95!

In this podcast I discuss why body composition is more important than body weight.

In this podcast I discuss why body composition is more important than body weight and how body comp provides a better ‘snapshot’ of your state of health and fitness.

Calisthenics are a great mode of exercise and can be adapted in any number of ways so they are suitable for everyone, regardless of conditioning level.

Discussion of the presentation ‘There’s No Such Thing As Cardio,’ which is available on the Internet.

Discussion about the how there is no such thing as ‘Cardio’ exercise. Properly performed, resistance exercise can result in improvements to Cardiovascular Fitness, more efficiently and effectively than ‘Cardio.’

In this episode I discuss the difference between ‘performance’ and ‘fitness’ and why everyone’s training program should be performance-based.