Comments on: Fitness Trends That Define Decades

By: James

James — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:55:33 +0000

Being youngish I cant go back all that far but I remeber being made to run with crazy amounts of weight on my back and strentching on one of them vibrating machines.

To be fair I think both of thoes are good ways of training, adding weight to increase power of legs for sprinting and stretch on the vibrating machine as the vibrations loosen the muscles meaning you can increase your flexability (or strid if your doing it for running) quickly.
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By: Custom Dog Tags

Custom Dog Tags — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:27:30 +0000

This is very interesting, I haven’t really thought about it, but I guess bootcamp style workouts haven’t always been popular!
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By: bo7ka

bo7ka — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:03:50 +0000

Hi Adam and everyone,
for over the last ten years my workouts consisted mainly of lifting free weights and running. It was that idea of the faster and stronger ideology that I stuck to. I got bored with doing the same kinds of exercises even then and didn’t think that the exercises that were more bodyweight based were effective. Nowadays I’ve become more open to new ways of training and keeping in tune with my body and mind and emotions, and am learning that all these things are part of one unit that work together.

All the best wishes
Stephen

By: Imerson

Imerson — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:48:24 +0000

I kicked of the decade by hanging out at the gym and using free weights for strength training. I stopped exercising completely when my schedule became too hectic. In the mid 2000s, I fell in love with marathon, but ended up on the treadmill after a year or so. Currently, I use the treadmill cardio and bodyweight training, which works perfectly for my current schedule.

By: The Mind Relaxer

The Mind Relaxer — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:49:03 +0000

Looks like my first attempt is not good, I’m wishing to be consistent this 2010. Wish me luck guys.
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By: Nan

Nan — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:02:58 +0000

I can relate!! I was an instructor in 1986, wearing black tights, white high top sneakers, leg warmers, etc. ’80s was def church basement aerobics, high impact all the way. Then ’90s step and slide and I remember teaching pilates and relaxation techniques. Early 2000’s- interval circuit training, and ball classes…now we have the rebirth of kettleballs. Yes, thank god for education.

By: Bonnie Stone

Bonnie Stone — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:10:47 +0000

I grew up in the 90s and I remember the residue of the aerobics movement in the 80s. Lots of women in overpriced fitness clothes sweating to cheesy music. We had a fitness club in middle school which was comprised of myself, a friend and two female teachers who sweated to those tapes twice a week. It lasted for about two weeks.

Then came track and cross country, neither of which I was good at doing-kind of akin to gym class.

But it was dancing that really was the best for me, I started back up in middle school as an overweight young teenage girl and ended in mid-high school as a fit young woman. After that ended and my high school career ended I had quit exercising period and gained almost all that weight back even before I became pregnant with my daughter. After she was born I still did not exercise much. There were bouts of yoga but no practice ever came out of it, and I went back to ballet for a while but after the semester was over I quit again. It wasn’t until my then husband and I got a free membership at a local gym that I began to exercise more and then I became a gym rat despite the Turbulence Training I had signed up for and all the fitness and diet blogs I read. I lost a lot of weight because of it, although I had, what some people have charmingly labeled, “Skinny Fat Syndrome”. I was close to having a yoga routine down but I allowed the absence of a room with a firm floor to practice on to become an excuse.

I have deteriorated since because I haven’t found a fitness program that works with me but thus far what I’ve seen of Bodyweight Blueprint I am liking and can actually do! I am also very excited about Prasara yoga and am gearing up to buy Scott Sonnon’s videos.

Well, here’s to a new year of better health! (and less exercise equipment. I forgot I had bought a set of Perfect Pushups and used them maybe twice. )

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:08:56 +0000

In broad strokes….
The 70’s were running and bicycling for me. In the 80’s I kept running; eventually completing 5K, 10K, 15K, 1/2 marathon and marathon races in a single year.
The 80’s were martial arts with some eccentric strength training programs (John Allen’s Green Dragon ring a bell with anyone?) including ’super-slow’ Nautilus machine work, ramping up to kickboxing and point-sparring.
The 90’s were kali, ramping up to more general hand/stick/knife combatives that included Tom Cruse, the Dog Brothers and Hock as teacher/coaches.
The 00’s started with Matt Furey, merged into Pavel, and culminated in training BJJ with Steve Maxwell, who also taught Joint Mobility, Warrior Wellness, kettlebells and some yoga. And Steve obviously has paved the way towards Scott Sonnon’s work.
Coming into the new decade, I’m 51 years old. I’m stronger, more flexible and less injury prone (way less) than at any other time in my life. I’m a systems/principles kind of guy, and in CST(with 4×7, IntuFlow, FlowFit, Forward Pressure, Prasara and Reset) I’ve found a really rich toolbox for setting, training for and achieving my goals.
In the coming decade, I know that I’ll be doing more with Clubbells, and more with MMA-specific 4×7 programs (even if I have to design them myself) and delving into Systema. And with Systema, the more I look at the training methods I just see CST stuff and Beyond Push-ups and breathing driven methods that I’ve already been introduced to through Scott, Adam, Ryan and RMAX.

I wish everyone the best of the New Year!!!

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:44:38 +0000

In the mid 70’s, it was grade school baseball, basketball and football. Early 80’s, high school football until i blew out my knee in my sophomore year. I started lifting at that time also. I got my first Olympic set at that time. Late 80’s, I tried my hand at Bodybuilding. even had my NPC card. That lasted until 1994, the I started American Kenpo Karate(Ed Parker’s Flavor). That lasted until 1997. The I got a sit down IT job….Pretty lazy until November 2006, when i decided to lose some weight. I have been training consistently ever since. I found KBs in june 2007 and made some CB late in 2008. I will be getting a set of 25s when they get back in stock. I bought The clubbell black book nd will start it when i have my 25s. I just want to say great work on that product to both Ryan and Adam.
Todd´s last blog -> 12.30.09 – Wednesday – density Cycle – Hammer swings.. Also back to the Warrior Diet

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:19:30 +0000

First it was the playground: playing soccer in the backyard with the boys from the neighbourhood. This was until I was 14. At age 16 I dicovered Martial Arts. Bruce Lee movies! I joined the local karate school. In my town there was only Judo and Shotokan Karate. At the same time I read Kenneth Cooper’s “Aerobics” and started running for cardio. BWEs and boxing bag at home. PE in school which was boring. Long bike rides.
When I started University I was reading books, writing papers and playing pool billard in the evening. Not much exercise. I was fat and deconditioned. Didn’t like it. Lost weight and started running agaim. Sometimes a bit soccer. I tried some martial arts classes but didn’t like the training methods very much . So I didn’t stick with it. Today I know why.
I started dancing, my second passion besides martial arts. I loved it. I trained for ten years and started to give dance classes.

I never was a member of these “fitness studios” with step aerobics, Nautilus machines and spinning. It looked ridiculous to me. I tried it a couple times out of curiosity because a friend of mine used to train there. I started MMA but stopped because of a herniated disc and tight muscles. This was 2005 I guess. While I was researching about “rehab for wounded warriors” in the world wide web I discovered the world of kettlebell, Pavel Tsatsouline, Steve Cotter, crossfit, and finally CST. I was fascinated. All of this was much better than anything I met before.
I live in Germany and there are only traditional sports clubs and “fitness studios”. Hard to find good training if you don’t compete in a traditional sport.

I spent hours, days, months searching through Dragon Door Forum, crossfit forum and RMax Forum. I studied the crossfit website, read Pavels books and Ross Enamait, – it all looked impressive and “everybody is an athlete” made complete sense to me. I started kettlebell lifting and interval sprints. Got KB DVDs from Mike Mahler (funny guy) and Steve Cotter. But man I have a lot to do to clean my slate and do rehab from adrenal fatigue – crossfit WODs would crush my body. That’s not for me. And from dancing I am all about quality over quantity and sophistication as tool for lifelong improvement. So the sophisticated training and health first principle of CST was the best thing I ever found for my rehab and performance goals. I’ll stick with that – using the principles for all my training.

New steps in 2010: I will join the “Kettlebell Gang Berlin” (Steve Cotter style), take lessons from Coach Mohrdieck in Hamburg and get a pair of clubbells and the Prasara Yoga DVD. I already practice Intu Flow and did my first sessions in Ageless Mobility, Flow Fit, BER and Ryan’s “Beyond situps”. If I have cleaned the slate and improved my strength and GPP – which will take some time- I want to incorporate ringtraining, gymnastics, martial arts, a bit basic parkour, olympic weightlifting.