Fitness For Freedom Tips

We inspire you to be the most active version of yourself. Talking about strength, why it's important and what you need to do to get it and yes it's something everyone can have. Strength training can change your life in a positive way you've never imagined.

The Power of Habit is a really solid book and covers habits on a personal level, as well as how they form in workplaces and the communities at large. I personally thought this was an excellent book for the first three quarters or so, but then it got a little bit long, repetitive and not as interesting.

To the dismay of English teachers everywhere I answered her question with a question ‘Do you do Yoga or would you do yoga?’ and she said ‘No’ and I responded ‘Then I guess Pilates is better than yoga.’

The best exercise to do, is always exercise you will do.

I first met Maggie 7 years ago, when we started working together. She was very overweight, had lots of back pain and was just ‘reelling’ from a visit with her doctor. She had just been told she was pre-diabetic and if she didn't make some serious changes to her lifestyle and improve her health she would have to go on medication.

To start mental toughness is your ability to push through the pain of something that seems insurmountable, this can be physical pain, psychological pain or emotional pain. It’s important to understand that pain is relative to the person experiencing it. Someone that is suffering from depression may find it too painful to get out of bed in the morning whereas an elite cyclist may be able to ignore the 10 out of 10 painful burning sensation in their legs on the final stretch of the Tour de France and to add another layer of complexity to this, they could be the same person.

Let's take two steps back for a moment and consider all the goals that you're trying to achieve, whether you're trying to lose weight, trying to get stronger or trying to get bigger let's just throw that out the window for a moment, forget about it and let's assume that at the end of the day what you're really looking for is to be healthier person and all of your other goals are just your method or your way of becoming a healthier person.

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The first step to designing a strength training program that works for you, is to decide why you want to strength train. Are you interested in function, size, strength, power or muscular endurance? If you’re first starting out I always recommend you start with function.

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If you're comparing yourself to someone that is more fit than you, in an absolute sense then that’s fine, it’s how weightlifting competitions are done, the person that finished first is absolutely stronger than the person that finished second.

No one is perfect, especially when it comes to exercise and eating healthfully, this means we all have failures sometimes, but it’s often how we deal with these failures that make the difference in the long run.

How do I ensure that I'm not overcompensating for weaker muscle groups and achieve a consistent level of development of muscles? Gord this is a great question and I think everyone wants to be balanced so let’s sort this out!

So the root of the question is this, how do I make sure I’m strength training in a way that keeps me balanced so I don’t over or under develop certain parts of my body? Gord’s specific issue is this, He does his regular workout’s but he finds he can bicep curl much more with his right arm than his left arm, so he feels like he’s compensating somewhere during the workouts that is not allowing his left arm to develop the same way.