Ever have one of those weekends that things just don’t seem to go right? My team lost, my apartment is barely breaking 60 degrees fahrenheit, and the first thing I did on my birthday was sit up in and bed and listen to a loud crack as my neck decided it didn’t want to do…
Whenever possible, get outside and enjoy the weather. It can do wonders for clearing your head, especially in the winter time when we spend most of our time indoors. When I lived in Florida, I used to set up my weight bench in the car port to my workout. I hate running inside, so most…
When working out, try to always have a water bottle to hand. This is especially easy in a gym when lifting weights or using cardio equipment, but is also important if playing basketball or running around a track or riding a bike or any number of physically active pursuits.
Pay attention to how tight your watch is while you are working out. If it is too loose, it can spin around on your wrist or fall off. Or, it could just be an annoyance. It is fairly easy to tell when you watch is too loose. Something that I have noticed, though, is that…
If you are doing straight sets during your weight workout, then stroll about the room between sets. Do not just sit idle and allow your heart rate to go down. Stretch your arms a bit, walk around the room and stretch out your legs. This will keep you looser than not moving around, and will…
An overview of one of my 3-day a week workouts.
Imagine that you are weight lifting, and all of a sudden something goes numb and you are not really expecting that. Hopefully, it does not happen when you have heavy weights above you; in my case, it happened as I was hanging suspended in the air.
The Health and Fitness Blog (dead link) links to an article that discusses daily weighing of oneself and weight loss. They list these weigh in tips:
The Health and Fitness blog has an article about heart rate monitors. The article relates a story about how some joggers in the park were put off by the auther not providing the time because he was wearing a heart rate monitor and not a watch, and gives the usual 220 minus your age for finding your max heart rate. I include a discussion about a better way to calculate the max heart rate.
Should I lift weights first or should I do my cardio exercise first?