Training for General Health and Wellness – Q&A
Obviously folks wanting to change body composition (lose fat or gain muscle) or maximize strength gains have to put in a proportionally larger amount of training to reach their goals but my question is this: what if my goals are simply basic overall health and wellness? What type of overall training program would you recommend for that?
Fundamental Principles Versus Minor Details
As I’ve written about in a previous article How Detail Oriented Do You Need to Be, with the advent of the Internet (along with other forms of constantly running media) people are absolutely overwhelmed with information, much of it dealing with what can only be termed completely irrelevant details. That is, stuff that just isn’t likely to make an iota of difference to anything in the real world. I think the reason for this trend is that writing about the basics and the fundamentals all the time isn’t sexy or interesting. It certainly doesn’t sell magazines.
Training the Obese Beginner: Part 6
Ok, seriously, time to finish this thing up. In Training the Obese Beginner: Part 5, I made a case for the inclusion of both weight training and cardiovascular training for the obese beginner, despite having listed some limitations to both in earlier parts of the series. I also described what I did generally as far as a first workout session with my beginners, including the obese.
Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 4
Having discussed my training immediately after the Texas Road Rash in Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 3, I want to return to the realm of self-indulgent prattling and provide another detailed race report. This race was the Napa Inline Marathon in Napa Valley California where both a half-marathon (13.1 miles) and full marathon (26.2 miles) were being held with an open division for the half- and full along with the pro/elite division for the full marathon.
Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 3
In any case, as some of you might have guessed, I was travelling to an inline race. So while I continue to put off doing a research review (it’s been months), I’ll do yet another update on my own endurance training including how I prepared for my second race of the year and how it turned out. Again, two parts with today discussing some physiology and training concepts and continuing Friday with another self-indulgent race report.
Training the Obese Beginner: Part 5
Well, I had really hoped to finish up today since I have something else to talk about next week but, well….Tuesday or this thing will be unreadably long, even for me. Today, I want to start to bring together everything I’ve talked about, addressing why I think the inclusion of both weight training and cardiovascular training of some sort is important for the obese beginner and why both should be done from day 1.
Training the Obese Beginner: Part 4
Anyhow, in Training the Obese Beginner: Part 3 I basically summarized everything to date to conclude that the best approach to target all of the various issues going on was a combination of progressive volume higher rep weight training (to deplete muscle glycogen) along with dietary modifications (both carbohydrate and/or calorie reductions) with progressive amounts of cardio as fitness improves to both burn of fatty acids directly and start to retool mitochondria to overcome that defeect. All wonderful (and a nice run-on sentence), but how to practically go about it?
