Training and Exercise

Bodyweight Strength Training: 6 Reasons That It’s NOT The Path to Your Goals

April 11, 2010

I make it very clear that I’m a big proponent of resistance training for optimal health. In particular I believe that the most effective and practical method of training is through lifting weights. However, one cannot ignore the tremendous physiques built by some athletes (especially gymnasts) solely through means of bodyweight strength training. In this [...]

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On Being a Commuter Cyclist

March 20, 2010
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Today’s post is going to be long and anecdotal in nature. However, I will promise a list of what I learnt from the experiences I am about to describe at the end of the post. This is a post about cycling, specifically, cycling to work/school/etc. Background I learnt to cycle when I was 6, and [...]

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Building a Home Gym

March 13, 2010
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Having worked out at various gyms over the years, from the high school gym to many public gyms, I finally decided this year to make the switch to a home gym. Note, that this home gym I’m speaking of is specific to strength training purposes. It addresses my needs perfectly, and leads to much more [...]

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Can you run safely?

March 2, 2010
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When I say running, I am referring to middle to long distance running at a slow to moderate pace (which most people can sustain for a considerable period of time, from as low as 15 minutes, to as long as several hours). Jogging may describe the activity better, but most people like to refer to [...]

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Sports for Life

January 26, 2010
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All too often we see fitness enthusiasts recommending dedication to a certain lifestyle. But their missing the point. The point is: The Goal of Sports training is to become good at the sport, Not to get healthy [1] Remember that, and never claim that your sport is the path to being healthy. There are other [...]

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Training with weights: Do it right from the start

January 21, 2010
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When I started out training with weights for my sport when I was 13, I had no clue about how to go about doing it. Unfortunately for me, my coach had no idea too. We hammered on with the notion that more is better, training 5 days a week, doing 10 sets on the bench [...]

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A Basic Weights Room Routine

January 11, 2010

This is a related post to my original post on “The Most Basic Beginner Routine for Sedentary Folks without Weights“ This time though, we’re going to bring in weights. While I support many routines like ‘Starting Strength’, they are largely catered towards people pursuing fitness goals. In this very long post, I describe a routine [...]

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Body Mechanics – Why it is important to know your own if you want to lift safely

October 15, 2009
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Let me say first that the reason I write this post is because I have sub-optimal lifting mechanics for the kind of lifting that I do. This is also more relevant to those people who are actually involved in such activities, namely, weightlifting and related stuff like bodybuilding. The other reason why I write this [...]

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How many calories are you burning?

August 12, 2009

This gadget over on the right is the Gowear Fit. It is a device which actually monitors various parameters of the body (explained in the science section of the product website) and calculates the caloric expenditure of the given individual. When I first saw this product, I was wondering how accurate it was. Fortunately, the [...]

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The Most Basic Beginner Routine for Sedentary Folks without weights

July 26, 2009

Alright, so let’s just give a super simple program to get anyone started off with resistance exercise. It does not have to be hard like in the picture. It does not have to be complicated. It does not have to be time consuming. This is not for anyone who has any training experience and it [...]

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