Category: Health and Wellness
As a Marine I had to work out just about everyday in boot camp. I love new ideas for workouts, so let me know some of your ideas.
If you have no equipment, how about any activity that brings on a good sweat?
Jobbiing in place, running or walking as fast as you can up and down a flight of steps, dancing, anything you can do with your body that brings on gentale tiredness? Jumping rope?
For people with no equipment, use your body: crunches, push-ups, pull ups if you have a sturdy bar/branch, jumping jacks, punch-bag, arm-lifts, leg-lifts, shadowboxing, dancing.
Take a couple spare books, balance them out weight-wise, and put them in pillow cases. Use the cases to lift the books and you have instant weights.
Cool, I love the books as weights idea; Never thought of that one myself.
As for suggestions for equipment based exercise, I just got a relatively inexpensive spin bike, and I can't rave about it enough. It's giving me the best workout I've ever had on any exercise machine. No other machine, including the eliptical is worth the money in my humble opinion.
Ah to Post 1, thank you for your service.
My brother is a Major in the Marines.
I agree with what others have said: My daily PT consists of running, lunges and jumps on an exercise mat, and while I just used to do floor push-ups and crunches, I now use a Trainer Ball - giant rubber ball which I describe other exercises on these boards someplace. Anyway it's not very expensive, the wife got it for me for Christmas, and you can really work your core.
They really advertise the core on those things, I guess that's from pecs to ass, but I'll say it does a number on the upper arms and upper legs as well.
Being an ex-marine I'm betting you can push out quite a number of push-ups, but doing them on the ball will kick your ass. Troll through the Daily Living Board and there's a post where I put a bunch of audio descripts of me using the thing and trying to describe it from the perspective of having no sight. Hopefully it helps.
Leo
I have a very portable eliptical trainer. It kicks butt. If possible, try to get a stationery bike, jogging trampoline, treadmill or eliptical trainer. The cost of the machine is a small price to pay for great health and a good body. Not to mention increased metabolism, sleep, and energy.
A rather stationary act you can do to exercise / work your legs is a sort of vertical lunge, a combo between a squat and a calf raiser. I started doing those as part of my cardio routine - runs, jumps and sprints. But here ya go with the moves:
I hold my Fitness Trainer Ball above my head with both hands, hold anything that is large enough you gotta use both hands. Sometimes I use my 20-lb weight instead.
Anyway with feet shoulder width apart, you go down to the squat position keep your back straight - having your arms up holding something helps with that. Now go straight up all the way, to being on your toes, as though you were springing at something, only your toes and the fronts parts of your feet are still on the ground, then back down, then lunge back up again.
Do you a ton of those when you don't have much time to work out but you still are hankering for a good hard run.
I know the modern institutional types say all this about you gotta warm up for x amount of minutes followed by y minutes of this, check the heart that, but not everyone says it that way. According to the paleolithic persuasion, do it more like your ancestors: a hunter would perhaps be still for a long time, kind of like you and I working at desks all day, only stiller. Then, when it's showtime, it's go, hard and fast!
Then there are other times they'd be on the move, when distance was all that mattered so you get your distance in. You just gotta mix it up and be as real about it as possible. I am not total hardcore about this: I work out in my garage. But I know other paleos who do theirs by climbing over logs and shit basically doing it like the people of yesterday. And granted that's good times, fun when you can, but you can't always be doing that. It's all about being flexible within your environment. Plus, unlike the more institutional types, if you're on one day, off the next, some claim that's even a good thing, or more like how we evolved. I'm personally kinda on more than off most days when I'm working, as it's sort of a release valve after playing corporate peon / hoe all day but again, just make it fit however you're living. As long as you're kickin your own ass, nothing else matters really.
blw that sounds cool along with the training ball
Are there any people who live on the South side of Milwaukee who are looking for someone who likes to run, or otherwise work out with?
I have a sighted friend who is prepairing for a job related test who is in need of a buddy to work out with. Please send pms to me if you're interested in learning more. Thanks.