100 Best Fitness Tips from Men's Health

[JoeJustice]

I haven't read through them all yet. If you're looking to kill a little time take a look at the list and see what you think:

http://menshealth.com/mhlists/100-best-fitness-tips/?cm_mmc=FitnessNL-_-2009_11_17-_-HTML-_-1

-Joe

[Viking Dan]

Lose Your Weak Spot

If you don't like an exercise, start doing it. "You're probably avoiding it because you're weak at it," says Mejia.

This is the reason I do leg work at all. :wink:

Stop Screwing Up

Don't try to lose your gut by working your abs. Researchers at the University of Virginia found that it takes 250,000 crunches to burn 1 pound of fat—that's 100 crunches a day for 7 years.

Unless you're doing 1000 sit ups a day, in which case it takes a mere 9 months.

[tom]

I'm not so sure about this training your weak spot thing. I used to think so, but I've changed my mind on it. No one is equally good at everything.

A boxer has his certain moves. A soccer player has their preferred foot - some of the best in the world are extremely uni-lateral. Champion runners have their own gait. Karate dudes have their special moves. Almost all athletes are recognizable by their methods and movement. So why stress so much over keeping everything equal? Do what works and fuhgedaboudit.

All great musicians are distinct in their playing. That is because they cannot be exactly like one another. Do what works. Look at Django. He got generations of guitar-players secretly wishing they had burned, deformed fingers from a trailer fire. No thank you - he can be him, I'll be me.

Bodybuilding is a sport that requires a standard, universal ideal. Other than that, fuhgedaboudit.

Tom

[JoeJustice]

Look at Django. He got generations of guitar-players secretly wishing they had burned, deformed fingers from a trailer fire. No thank you - he can be him, I'll be me.


How many people do you expect to get your Reinhardt reference??

-Joe

[tom]

The cool ones. They'll reveal themselves.

See?

Tom

[MikeNY]

Gypsy Jazz love it. Thank you Donna.

[tom]

Not off-topic. Make it work - forget the rules.

Tom

[JoeJustice]

We're off topic here, huh?


In order to answer this question you need only to check and see if Tom has posted :tongue:

Wait... I'm off topic...

-Joe

[tom]

Breathing with the abs is one of the best all-around ab exercises, for free, the tongue to the roof of the mouth tends to keep the mouth from doing dumb things and keeps the tongue from between the teeth, a dangerous thing in activity especially sparring and the Faux Frenchman, very clever, very good.

Tom

[VRT Man]

Not off-topic. Make it work - forget the rules.


Hey, I love it when things go off topic and wander down interesting avenues. I've enjoyed the biography of Django Reinhardt, and liked the music link that Donna put up.

And yeah, I invent funny things too with my own creative version of exercises. I'll try the tongue on the roof of the mouth, and exhaling forcefully at the top of a sit-up or crunch to exert a tighter ab contraction.

I'll try anything. Once. (That's GOOD for you, I mean!!)

Greg Mangan
VRT Man

[JoeJustice]

And here I always thought Tom's tongue was always in his cheek.

-Joe

[tom]

Good one. Sometimes it's the only way I can get my foot to fit.

Hey, I love it when things go off topic
Hey, Greg, focus a bit, will you. We'd like to include you.

Tom