Help me. Help you. Help me. Help you.
I am just waiting for “Glee” to start, so I am giddy as a school girl. I have sure enjoyed the TIME to train and lift and write. Gary (my brother) and I have been throwing quite a bit. It has been five years since I actually had the time to train. This is no joke, at best, all I did was hold on.
I enjoy the writing. I am working on my second and third books and while I was swimming, I thought about how valuable Questions and Answers are for me to muse about in my little head.
So, if you are interested and have questions regarding “The Art of Lifelong Fitness” and it relates to goal setting, posture, grace, stretching, eating, life in general or lifting long term, I would enjoy mulling over them and adding them to the work. Help me. Help you.
It’s been fun lately training. Fun. I’m sure I have lost a ton of fat this week as I just feel better and happier. I really enjoy this stuff. I miss training. I miss learning things. Oh, I wouldn’t trade coaching Kelly to All State and Lindsay to the State Championships for the world (well, maybe the world…), but it came at a high price. Anyone who ever said that I got my “dream job,” truly was making things up in their head. If you have a hobby that you truly love, LOVE I tell you, then have to teach a group of kids who were often sent in because of discipline issues in other classes this hobby, trust me, it will make you ache. Sure, absolutely most of the kids were gems, but life is all about Power Laws and one or two (or four) in a big class can make life miserable for everyone.
That’s why I love what I will be doing tomorrow. Each week, Dan Martin organizes a little gathering, for free, and people who want to learn kettlebells or mobility or whatever, just show up and train.
I can’t wait for tomorrow. Just after Glee, of course.
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June 9, 2010
Help me help you: this may be a bit scattered but…my strength training benefits show when rest is 3-4 days a week; work capacity, gpp, or cardio seems to be an every day source of energy (vital need) do you relate, or know something about this? 2nd major issue is lumbar spine posture; sometimes squats help, other times they hurt, sometimes deads put me back, other times not, sometimes I need glute ham raises, sometimes tgu’s + swing cleans + goblets fix me; why the hell is there so much chaos with the flexibility and posture of this area of the (my) body?
June 9, 2010
I can relate to the 1,2, or 4. I’ve got a class of 6 of them. We’re getting along fine now that there is a week and a half left of school.
My question is why do we stop using the things that work? I had that thought upon doing Farmer Walks. They work but for some reason, I didn’t do them for the longest time. No explanation why other than ‘duh’ comes to mind
June 9, 2010
I continuely work on flexibility/mobility and have seen some good progress over time, except for my left hip. I can’t get the darn thing to let go and it leads to low back pain poor form in some of my lifts. Any suggestions? Sinceraly, locked up in Lexington
June 9, 2010
I would love to see some work looking at strength training for someone who plays a sport on a casual level year round, especially if they aren’t a teenager anymore. I don’t know whether that comes under the topic of lifelong fitness, or sports training.
Much of the information on strength training seems to assume a preseason, inseason, off seaon etc, but I’m guessing that there are lots of guys who want to be ‘play’ at good (not elite!) level all the time without abondoning everything for a focused attack on strength work. Of course this information may also be valuable for those that need to maintain a certain level of performance for their job, such as law enforcement of firefighters etc.
But maybe that violates the principle of keeping the goal the goal?
June 9, 2010
I would be interested in general fitness information to ensure aging gracefully and still be in good shape. I am in my mid 40′s, no longer play competitive sports (do not need the injuries) but will play with the kids on the rec teams I coach. As an ex-wrestler, explosive strength is important along with staying trim. I would like like to maintain flexibility, mobility, muscle mass and and a solid level of speed and endurance.
What is the best method to reach these type of broad based goals with 20 to 30 minutes of various types of exercise three or four times a week.?
June 9, 2010
The front of my hips are feeling it today, not the usual all left hip only.
I worked on the long front foot step and turn after dinner. Aha!
June 9, 2010
What you said about hypertrophy and mobility being the most important issues once you are over 40 is really sinking in. Think the biggest issue for me is trying to program everything, get information overload and want to experiment too much. Slowly starting to distill what works best for me and trying to stick to those things.
June 10, 2010
Anxious to read your new book. Always great to hear what you are up to.
June 10, 2010
I really liked your thoughts about training the “older” guy. It would be great to hear more of it at length. Also, I would love to hear what you and Pavel would talk about if you were sitting down together. You are not only a good “lead” guy but you’ve got the ability, (humility), to follow someone elses lead and make monster contributions. Chapter 10 Dan and Pavel walk into a coffee shop and ……
June 15, 2010
Please come to these kettlebell al fresco training sessions. I’m taking an ass-kicking. It’s probably elder abuse.