Fitness For Freedom Tips

For the most part these videos are really good, Fitness Blender is probably the current marketplace leader on youtube, and they’ve built a massive following, they make the world a healthier place. But if you’re trying to change your body composition, doing these follow along videos will only take you so far.

Variety just means different ways of training, of course you have variety between exercise types whether you’re doing cardiovascular training, strength training or mobility training, but there are also several different ways you can add variety into each of these training modalities.

An account-i-billi-buddy is someone you not only exercise with but also talk to about exercise philosophies, you lean on each other when one of you doesn’t feel like working out, you spot each other and offer each other encouragement to make sure you’re getting maximum effort out of your fitness routine. Also, there is strength in numbers and having someone to lean on to help you figure this stuff out can be really helpful especially if you’re nervous about taking your first exercise steps. Simply put an account-i-billi-buddy is someone you exercise with, but in order to have a successful relationship with this person you need to make sure it’s a right fit for both of you, so these are some things you need to look for in a person you want to exercise with.

Going to the gym has a lot of great benefits, they have lots of equipment and weights, it’s easier to get into the frame of mind to exercise, sometimes you meet friends and have groups of people that are trying to overcome some of the same challenges you face.

When most people think of flexibility they think of their ability to touch their toes, which probably comes from high school gym class because that was the test for flexibility, but flexibility is so much more than that, it’s your ability to reach behind you or to reach low enough to pick something up off the ground without hurting your back. Flexibility and mobility go hand in hand because you want to be able to move well and this goes beyond being able to touch your toes because you need to move all the parts off your body, your shoulders, ankles, hips, wrists and your neck. If you’re going to stay functional good mobility is required through all your joints not just your lower back.

Before we get into this I need to throw a disclaimer up, this is not my area of expertise, so what I’m going to do is give you some possibilities so you can explore them with your personal health team.

Based on the email Joanne sent us I think this is what she is actually asking.

‘I feel like I’m starving myself and I’m still not losing any weight, I’m at the end of my road and I don’t know what to do anymore, can you help me?’

Does a workout have to be at least 30 minutes long to be effective? The short answer to your question is No it doesn’t but it really depends what you want, If you’re an elite athlete then no it won’t be enough, if you’re just trying to live a healthy life then it probably is. There are are several considerations you have to make in deciding how long a workout should be.

There are a couple of things we need to cover here, the first being for most people there is nothing inherently dangerous with losing weight quickly, but you should check with your doctor first in case it is for your individual circumstance. But for the most part if losing weight quickly was dangerous for everyone gastric bypass surgery wouldn’t exist.

Unless you and your partner together decide to make a change or live a certain way, you probably won’t get buy-in from your partner, so you need to find work arounds if you want to stay with that person. Because if there’s one thing I’ve learned you can’t change someone that doesn’t want to change, and most people don’t want to, but here’s my best guess for how you can make it work.

We're doing this episode because you have a box of what exercise is in your mind, not a literal box a metaphorical one, it’s a story you tell yourself about what exercise is. Where you've come to the conclusion that there are only one or two ways to exercise.I think we really need to broaden the definition of exercise.