by dailymuscle on December 23, 2009
While most people (me included) tend to lay back during the year-end, slowing down the pace of things, spending more time with family, eating more meals outside due to the holiday season - there’s no reason why one should absolutely stop working towards their fitness goals.
Sure, this may not be the time to achieve a new personal best, but as long as you keep the weight from piling on, or prevent yourself from ‘derailing’ too far from your fitness goals - I think that the year end holidays are a very welcome and much-needed ‘break’ for us. It is not realistic and not practical to be on a super-strict fitness routine 24/7, 365 days per year. This isn’t the Biggest Loser Asia… this is real life. :-D
Food is an important part of many holidays, celebrations, family and cultural traditions. In fact, people tend to gather ‘around’ food for special occasions, and as a result, many people gain a little (or a lot of) weight towards the year end holidays.
So to get you started on the right foot come January 2010, and to help you stay on track this holiday season, here are 5 tips that will come in handy. [click to continue...]
by dailymuscle on December 9, 2009
If there’s one thing I learned at the Asia Fitness Convention, it’s that the human body has incredible potential, and most of us have great potential to really excel in a sport.
Push yourself hard enough in the area you are weak, and your body has no choice but to respond. (but push yourself stupidly and you’ll end up injuring yourself like a Biggest Loser Asia team member, but we’ll save that for another blog post). Terms like Maximum performance, speed, power, and evasiveness - it’s almost as if you were describing a 40 million dollar fighter jet… but nope, it’s our body that I’m talking about.
I guess I’ve learned how to appreciate the body in a whole new way - even the way we walk, balance, sit, jump, and run - the simple things we do everyday without a thought can be improved to create a super-efficient body if we only trained it to.
In the new Integrated Fitness Training(TM) Model introduced by the American Council on Exercise, much emphasis is now being placed on getting the basics right for an individual wanting to train to see results. Even if that person is an athlete, or just a recreational exerciser, it is now recommended that the trainer takes a look at the basics for a start, focusing on client Stability, Mobility, and building a good aerobic-base. Get these right and strong from the beginning, and we’ll be able to push our bodies harder and stronger without injuring ourselves easily.
The rationale behind this is that if one has not even trained our body to do the basics correctly, and to even just move correctly (especially for a new exerciser) - then what business do we have adding more load to the body and immediately progressing to heavy resistance training, which will only further reinforce any poor technique, postural imbalances, etc that one may have? [click to continue...]
by dailymuscle on December 3, 2009
All I can say is WOW. I had the most amazing 3 days over the weekend at the Asia Fitness Convention 2009 in Bangkok. New concepts, doubts cleared, tonnes of tips and tricks learned, and countless new things to try both on myself, and ultimately my clients. [click to continue...]
