Originally published on June 22, 2014 By Eric Troy and Tony Ingram Is Personal Training a Real Need? Of the following items, which do you feel you absolutely need: Food, water, clothing, shelter, microwave oven, cell phone, and personal training? A bit of a daft question, perhaps. We know, as humans, that our absolute necessities of […]
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Making Exercise a Habit: How Guilt and Exercise Don’t Mix
Originally published on January 12, 2011 I have a particular problem with the word habit being used in regards to exercise or any health-related activities. Exercise should be a positive and rewarding experience. Not a dull chore you are forced to do. The word habit, even when were are talking about positive habits, always somehow […]
Exercise Has Immediate Benefits: Countering Exercise Myths that Keep Us Unfit
Inventing the Couch Potato I’ve longed believed that the proverbial couch potato, the very person that fitness professionals reference so often in their half-baked motivational messages about fitness, was in large part invented by those that very same fitness industry. No, I don’t mean they invented the concept out of whole cloth, but that the […]
Richard Simmons: Looking Fit vs. Being Fit
Looking Fit? This may come as a surprise to you, but the way you look does not prove how fit you are. Watch a reality show where the contestants have to do an endurance challenge. Most people will assume that the most muscular individuals will win the challenge. But, most of the time, it is […]
Fitness Principles vs. Training Methods and Programs
When is a program a program and when is it programming methodology? Easy. A program is a program when you are doing it exactly as it has been written or planned. And it is “programming methodology” when somebody spins it into one. Always realize that the underlying principles that drive a fitness training program are […]
Average Deadlift Weight: How Numbers Lie In Fitness Advertising and Info
This is not the first post where I talked about how numbers can easily impress and mislead us. I mentioned numbers and “proofiness” in The Data Dump in Fitness Information (Part of the book, The BS Vaccine For Fitness). Another closely related post is Strength Measurements Versus Assessments Our [western] culture is a bit obsessed […]