Here is a simple way you can work out at home and get a full range of motion.
Take a couple of light-weight dumbbells and start randomly moving your body and the dumbbells.
By keeping the weight light, you can exaggerate the movements somewhat, thus ensuring you are getting a full range of motion.
Using dumbbells gives you additional cardiovascular and strength training work.
Have some fun drawing your name in the air and doing other random movements.
Working out at home this way is totally adaptable to your ability level.
As you improve, simply increase the amount of weight while you move your body around and move faster as you warm up.
This is another example of the three qualities of movement; distance, direction, and velocity at work, and how you can effectively increase all three.
Play your favorite music and let your body guide you.
Life is all about getting a full range of motion; it determines your ability to function and express all your senses.
Strength training and cardiovascular is putting your muscles and your heart and lungs through a range of motion.
Whispering or shouting, opening or closing your eyes, listening to quiet or loud sounds are other examples of range of motion.
Maintaining your full range of motion is what keeps you young; able to be a participant in life, instead of merely a spectator.
Engaging your range of motion facilitates your human instinct to stretch.
It removes a lot of stiffness from your body without having to resort to taking pills or having to give up enjoyable activities.
Now, when working with dumbbells, as an excellent variation, put your body into temporary poses, becoming stationary a moment or two, then switching to another position and holding that one a few moments.
This varies your routine and works on maintaining your balance and coordination, too.
More range of motion means less pain and stiffness, added flexibility, and a greater, more thorough use of your muscles.
It will improve your overall posture, which gives you more efficient use of your energy.
By using light weights, you can easily and safely put your body into positions that give it a great stretch and uses muscles you don't ordinarily in daily life.
This type of activity, done a few minutes, provides your body the best opportunity to utilize a vast range of motion in a short amount of time.
This is how you work smart instead of hard.
If you go to a gym, use the cables and vary the movement incrementally while using light weight; it's exceptional for making your whole body work as a unit, which it must do in daily activities all the time, instead of exclusively isolating specific muscle groups.
Unless you are specifically training for an athletic event, like running a 10K, it makes no sense to workout exclusively isolating specific muscle groups.
Nothing in daily life works like this.
Think about it.
Just to lift a simple object requires many different muscles to work together, so train and exercise your body the same way.
As a personal fitness trainer who has worked on Olympic and professional athletes, I recognize the distinction between being athletic (someone in good shape and active with their body, such as recreational runner), and an athlete (a football player, for example: Someone engaged in ultra high intensity and long duration physical activity every day).
Being athletic is something that is part of your lifestyle; being an athlete is a total way of life.
Another difference between athletes and the rest of us, the one we can easily do something about, is that they are much more efficient when they move their bodies.
Little if any energy is wasted, precisely what happens to us when we walk and sit properly, pay attention to our posture, and maintain our physical structure.
Why waste energy if you don't have to? In the gym, most of the troubles involve not spending enough time warming up, stretching, and properly cooling the body down.
Also, the weights are often too heavy, and the movements are routinely habitual (same ones over and over).
Youth presents the opportunity to explore life through the use of the body: To go camping and sleep on the ground, or to play basketball and jump up in the air.
After age 35 or so, most of us (beyond looking good) want our bodies to be pain-free, and this requires that we maintain our physical capacity through non-habitual movement, thus allowing us to keep our bodies released, lengthened, and realigned.
Working out at home and getting a full range of motion into your workout makes sense and is easy to do when you know how to optimize your efforts.
Take a couple of light-weight dumbbells and start randomly moving your body and the dumbbells.
By keeping the weight light, you can exaggerate the movements somewhat, thus ensuring you are getting a full range of motion.
Using dumbbells gives you additional cardiovascular and strength training work.
Have some fun drawing your name in the air and doing other random movements.
Working out at home this way is totally adaptable to your ability level.
As you improve, simply increase the amount of weight while you move your body around and move faster as you warm up.
This is another example of the three qualities of movement; distance, direction, and velocity at work, and how you can effectively increase all three.
Play your favorite music and let your body guide you.
Life is all about getting a full range of motion; it determines your ability to function and express all your senses.
Strength training and cardiovascular is putting your muscles and your heart and lungs through a range of motion.
Whispering or shouting, opening or closing your eyes, listening to quiet or loud sounds are other examples of range of motion.
Maintaining your full range of motion is what keeps you young; able to be a participant in life, instead of merely a spectator.
Engaging your range of motion facilitates your human instinct to stretch.
It removes a lot of stiffness from your body without having to resort to taking pills or having to give up enjoyable activities.
Now, when working with dumbbells, as an excellent variation, put your body into temporary poses, becoming stationary a moment or two, then switching to another position and holding that one a few moments.
This varies your routine and works on maintaining your balance and coordination, too.
More range of motion means less pain and stiffness, added flexibility, and a greater, more thorough use of your muscles.
It will improve your overall posture, which gives you more efficient use of your energy.
By using light weights, you can easily and safely put your body into positions that give it a great stretch and uses muscles you don't ordinarily in daily life.
This type of activity, done a few minutes, provides your body the best opportunity to utilize a vast range of motion in a short amount of time.
This is how you work smart instead of hard.
If you go to a gym, use the cables and vary the movement incrementally while using light weight; it's exceptional for making your whole body work as a unit, which it must do in daily activities all the time, instead of exclusively isolating specific muscle groups.
Unless you are specifically training for an athletic event, like running a 10K, it makes no sense to workout exclusively isolating specific muscle groups.
Nothing in daily life works like this.
Think about it.
Just to lift a simple object requires many different muscles to work together, so train and exercise your body the same way.
As a personal fitness trainer who has worked on Olympic and professional athletes, I recognize the distinction between being athletic (someone in good shape and active with their body, such as recreational runner), and an athlete (a football player, for example: Someone engaged in ultra high intensity and long duration physical activity every day).
Being athletic is something that is part of your lifestyle; being an athlete is a total way of life.
Another difference between athletes and the rest of us, the one we can easily do something about, is that they are much more efficient when they move their bodies.
Little if any energy is wasted, precisely what happens to us when we walk and sit properly, pay attention to our posture, and maintain our physical structure.
Why waste energy if you don't have to? In the gym, most of the troubles involve not spending enough time warming up, stretching, and properly cooling the body down.
Also, the weights are often too heavy, and the movements are routinely habitual (same ones over and over).
Youth presents the opportunity to explore life through the use of the body: To go camping and sleep on the ground, or to play basketball and jump up in the air.
After age 35 or so, most of us (beyond looking good) want our bodies to be pain-free, and this requires that we maintain our physical capacity through non-habitual movement, thus allowing us to keep our bodies released, lengthened, and realigned.
Working out at home and getting a full range of motion into your workout makes sense and is easy to do when you know how to optimize your efforts.
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