Take a look around. If you like something please use the comment section, or you can email me at info@strongoldguy.com. If you have had a hard time getting started with any kind of fitness program, I would recommend that you start with the Sneak Up On Fitness series, especially parts I, II, and III. I […]
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Keith vs. Reggie: Why the Difference?
In the previous post, we had two disc jockies going at it to see who could gain the most muscle and lose the most fat in a 10 week period. They both made great progress, but clearly Keith won. In just over 10 weeks, Keith gained 27 pounds of muscle vs. Reggie’s still respectable 9 […]
Continue Reading...Strong On the Inside
The various anomalies collectively know as cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of Americans. One of the big benefits of regular cardio and strength training exercise is that they both reduce cardiac risk factors. Today I went in for a screening for various heart and vascular system risk factors. This was required by our […]
Continue Reading...Sneak Up On Fitness Part IV
This is just a quick post to update my own experience with the bike and the AirDesk. As usual, I’m typing this post on the laptop while pedaling at about 520 calories per hour. Over the past four weeks I have burned just over 28,000 calories performing low to medium intensity aerobics. Some of it […]
Continue Reading...Sorting Out the Options
People get out of shape and put on too much weight for fundamentally two reasons: they eat too much and they don’t move enough. The solutions to these two problems are fundamentaly simple : eat less and exercise more. However, what people need to do depends on the relative percentages of these two main factors contributing to their lack of svelteness . Accordingly, their […]
Continue Reading...Introduction: This is Where It Starts
Weakness and frailty are not the inevitable consequence of aging! You’ve heard that you lose .5% to 1% per year of your skeletal muscle mass after age 25? Sure, it’s possible, but hardly inevitable. Similarly, you’ve heard that your strength peaks in the mid to late twenties and then it’s down hill from there? This […]
Continue Reading...Home or Commercial Gym?
I work out at home, commercial gyms, privately owned hard-core “pits”, and out doors by hiking and biking. It’s all good. What is the most effective? That all depends on your individual circumstances; however, eventually I think it’s best if you can migrate to a commercial gym to get a solid, well qualified start to developing good, […]
Continue Reading...Guest Post by Jennifer Nagy, MD
I’ve known That Strong Old Guy ever since I can remember. Later, while attending high school and college, I worked at the small fitness center owned by him and his wife. I can’t remember exactly when he showed me how to do what he called at the time “aerobic squats”, but as a result of […]
Continue Reading...The Best Leg Exercise Ever?
I have come to believe that the lowly deep knee bend might offer the best over-all combination of flexibility, intensity, and progressivity of any leg exercise you can do. If you had to pick only one movement that would offer you the best chance to strengthen the most muscles as well as your cardio-vascular system, […]
Continue Reading...Sneak Up on Fitness Part III: Finding the Time
Now that you have a treadmill or recumbent bike desk, or not, what can you do at home when you otherwise would be sitting? More importantly, where will you ever find the time? For a hint as to when a person might “find the time”, the following is from a 6/22/11 release from the U.S. […]
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