If you skim read
you could quite correctly, I suppose decide that to build a good chest, you need to press at various bench angles. There are lots available; However to a review of the conclusion leads you to just 2 angles, horizontal and 30 degrees.
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The older your therapist or trainer, the more likely they are to muddle up what to call your tendon pain. The younger your trainer or therapist, the more likely they are to waste your time with an obnoxious mini-lecture if you use the wrong word.
A few years ago the word “tendinitis” was widely employed to describe pain located at the tendon which was associated with inflammation (Maffulli et al., 2003).
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In our obsessive pursuit of stronger muscles and hearts, we’ve failed to understand how to train and feed connective tissue like ligaments, tendons, bones, and cartilage.
Almost everyone is told that the tendon doesn’t have much of a blood supply and takes ages to recover from an injury. We do nothing with this information.
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There are hundreds and thousands of therapists and trainers, that, when confronted with your hurting hamstring or your terrorised tendon will simply dive in and rub that bit! Maybe they will give you a specific stretch and maybe a reassuring “There there, therapist kiss it better”
The reality is that your body is a global system and highly interrelated. Leg issues can be caused by core issues, how you chew your food can screw your knee!
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The next back to exercise habit challenge starts 19th October . Join it here
The benefits of regular exercise are frankly beyond doubt for most people*
You know you should exercise and you probably know how , either at a basic, or a super advanced level.
The issue is you wont or can’t.
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The last cycle had these 3 workouts
Day 1
This was simply a way of disguising 10 minutes of push ups:
max push ups,
10 lunges
4 shuttle runs
Amrap 10 minutes
The DWF, or daily workout and food is aimed at giving you some basic conditioning ideas. For some it’s the only thing they do, for many it’s just part of your training day.
Most days you also need to work on skill ( I often focus on gymnastics), Strength and therapy drills: I need always focus on my vulnerability to Plantar fasciitis, Patello-femoral and back pain. By having a sensible self applied therapy regime, you can stop the problems before they start.
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Its been a fun three days. I hope these workouts inspire you to start training. You don’t always need a gym. If you join the mailing list, I’ll try and keep you updated with cool and effective training ideas
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Three fantastic metabolic conditioning workouts! Enjoy. Tweak as you need to
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Ive had a chat with some of my followers, all of whom have said they would prefer to get the DWF’s in their 4 days blocks, so people can see in advance whats coming next.
so I’ll publish this series on the rest day. In each post you’ll get 3 workouts, and a food hint.
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