Training Tips – Tips to Speed Your Progress Towards Fitness & Health

A collection of blog posts chock-full of tips that will make your exercise more effective for increasing your health and fitness. Check out the How to Exercise for Fitness & Health Resource Page.

Why You Should Measure Everything You Want to Improve

October 15, 2011
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The first reason why you should measure everything you want to improve is because you want to improve. You might go for a run and say, “Wow! That felt great—I think I did better than last time!” But, you don’t know if you did better until you measure. Time and distance. Feeling is just subjective. [...]

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Exercising for Health Getting Started Guide

September 26, 2011

Today’s the day. You’re going to start exercising. Now what? Or, you’ve been exercising inconsistently for years. You’re ready to learn consistency. How will you accomplish that? Or, you already exercise somewhat consistently, but the goals of weight loss and increased muscle tone still elude you. You’re vexed. Let’s be clear about exercising for health. [...]

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Why I Walk

September 19, 2011

Many people wonder: How can I get started with exercise? Start walking. There’s a book called Born to Run. It presents solid evidence showing that humans were, as the book says, born to run. If we’re born to run, however, how much more so were we born to walk? Or, born to move? The new [...]

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Zack Morris’ Fitness Advice

July 27, 2011

I was listening to a local Milwaukee, WI radio station on the way home from work yesterday. Ryan Seacrest was being syndicated and he was interviewing Mark-Paul Gosselaar. “Wow, you’re looking good!” Ryan told Mark. “What are you doing to stay in shape, how old are you?” “Well, I’m 37 and I’m not a gym [...]

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The Power of Progression

June 29, 2011

Ever notice Americans have no patience? Always racing ahead. And it’s not just racing ahead, it’s racing ahead at the expense of someone, or something, else. Sometimes, even, yourself. In exercise, people race ahead to be something they are not, so they do exercises that their body isn’t ready for but their mind neurotically wants [...]

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Hacking Away the Inessential (in life and exercise)

June 3, 2011

The old process was wasteful. The economy forced us to look at it and we’ve done some streamlining. “Bad stuff” sometimes leads to tremendous discoveries. Bad stuff makes you reflect on what you’ve been doing to get where you got. Bruce Lee used to say, “It’s not about daily increase, but decrease–hack away the inessential.” [...]

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Is momentum killing your training productivity?

August 22, 2010

A good kind of training momentum is when you train consistently, day after day, month after month, year after year. A bad kind of training momentum is when you do your exercises too fast.

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How to feel Bruce Lee strong via Steve Justa’s Isometrics

August 8, 2010

In Rock, Iron, Steel: The Book of Strength, Steve Justa dedicates a whole chapter to isometrics. You never really hear anyone talk about isometrics. Have you ever seen anyone do isometrics? Have you ever done them? I remember seeing pictures of Bruce Lee training isometrically. He was a real fan of isometric exercise. After doing [...]

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Steve Maxwell’s Daily Dozen

June 27, 2010

I was just cruising around on Steve Maxwell’s website and came across a program that makes a great daily regimen. Parts of it remind me of Hackenschmidt’s routine which I still do everyday, although I don’t do the entire routine. Anyway, over at Steve’s site, you’ll find some nice descriptions and decent pictures for a [...]

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Don’t Let Bad Posture Become a Habit

May 8, 2010
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The other day I found a book, Living the Martial Way : A Manual for the Way a Modern Warrior Should Think, that said most people, by the time they are 30, have bad posture from years of sitting.

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