“…was talking to boss about working out, his bench press routine right now consists of 2 or 3 sets of 25 reps of 225, plus 2 or 3 sets of dumbell press with 85’s or so. As I try to get back into lifting, I am thinking that I should lean towards slightly higher reps than I have in the past…since I have always tended to try to move up the weight fast, leading to the occasional long-lasting injury. However, I also recall that Manny (Osteopath), suggested that high reps may put excess stress on tendons. He was also very much against doing any behind the head exercises (pulldowns or military press) and any exercises while bent over, even with light weights, unless your body was completely supported. Do you have thoughts on limiting the # of reps per set? Any thoughts on completely avoiding behind the neck/bent over exercises?” Read more...(203 words, 0 images, estimated 49 secs reading time)
Hardest thing is making time for myself, given that I’m a working mom and running from rink to rink with my boys. Its
trying to balance all that and finding the time and energy to incorporate some time for myself in the day to workout.
If you want to succeed at building a healthy body, mind & spirit you would be foolish to only have a short-term focus.
In my planning and forward-thinking brain there are short-term, medium-term and long-term goals to be realized and you must develop a blueprint to stay focused.
Only then are your health and fitness habits going to be “Sustainable”.
Building and shaping a sexy muscular body is fantastic, but this cannot be the only reason why we exercise and choose healthier nutrition choices, right??
There are dozens of subcategories within 7 main areas in our lives which fall into The Life Wellness Approach, listen to find out more:
There are two motivating factors in my opinion which allow us to shape our body image and how we view ourselves and for some people more importantly how others view us!
I feel we must try to improve upon how we become healthy through our two motivating factors which I will dub “Extrinsic vs Intrinsic” Motivators.