Comments on: Fitness Trends That Define Decades

By: seo

seo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:42:19 +0000

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By: Home Improvement

Home Improvement — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 02:08:45 +0000

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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. .-= James´s last blog -> Rowing Machine Good For Fitness =-.

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! .-= Custom Dog Tags´s last blog -> Military Dog Tags =-.

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. .-= The Mind Relaxer´s last blog -> EndoBarrier Gastrointestinal Liner System – Designed To Treat Diabetic And Obese Person =-.

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!!!