You can make a homemade medicine ball out of an old basketball, some sand, and strong duct tape. On this page are some videos and tips on how to make one using these materials. This works. I have made medicine balls using methods similar to these and I use them all the time. These homemade balls, […]
Fitness
You Do Not Have to be An Athlete to be Fit
You do not have to be an athlete to be fit. You do not have to “get really good at something” to enjoy the type of fitness that the fitness industry should generally be promoting, general health-related fitness. Yet, the fitness industry continues to conflate athletic fitness and ‘training’ with general health-related fitness. It is […]
Are Health and Fitness The Same?
Previous: The Data Dump In Fitness Information | Table Of Contents I saw a fitness post the one day that said, “If there is no progress there is no health benefit.” I replied that this is not necessarily true, but the author of the post decided not to engage me on the subject. The statement […]
How Our Attitudes Affect Our Fitness, Strength Training, and Muscle Building Pursuits
Blogs and magazine articles abound that are aimed at changing people’s attitudes about fitness. I particularly notice those that concern attitudes towards strength training. Just recently I complained about the “selling of strength training” and much of my writing concerns strength training “propaganda” as I call it. More often, however, it is not propaganda. In […]
There Is No Fitness Community: The Internet and Exercise
Since the term fitness community is used so often and people even consider the fitness industry to be a ‘community,’ the title of this article may need some clarification. Of course, there are communities built around fitness, but there is no ONE fitness community. Instead, there are many different groups. These groups are what social […]
People Don’t Work Hard, Says the Fitness Trainer
I try to keep my cool, but when 20-something certified “fitness trainers” start going on about how nobody wants to work hard, I start getting antsy. Sometimes I think that before you make such a statement you should have to list out your job history. Does it look something like this? 2012: Graduated High School […]