Too old? I don’t think so!
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One of my friends Dolores Hagen writes a blog “Sixty and Sensational” about style and confidence for women over-sixty. She came across a video that I think anyone would find inspiring but I find it particularly pertinent to those who “feel old”.
What age you “feel” is determined by the exercise you get or don’t get, by the foods you eat or don’t eat, and how you emotionally handle the stresses in your life.
While reaching the “end” of your life span is inevitable, it is ultimately the lifestyle choices you make that will improve the quality of your life.
We can believe a lot of things about ourselves… (they can become excuses), the actions we take will support that belief. In other words, you will get the result of what you believe to be true about yourself. When you have a limiting belief about yourself, (not enough time, too old, too injured, poor genetics, etc.) one of the most powerful tools is to find a role model who will prove that belief to be untrue.
Check out this quick video of 85-year old Dorothy Dale Kloss, the world’s oldest showgirl.
Get Fit With the Lebert Equalizer
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About a year ago Marc Lebert and I did a teleseminar together about the Top 10 Reasons Why People Struggle With Their Fitness and Nutrition Plan and What to Do About it. You can listen to that recording here:
I also wanted to tell you about the Lebert Equalizer which I have been using in my boot camp for years. You might consider having your own set for a really awesome home workout. You can find tons of resources for doing the exercises on YouTube, and each set comes with a poster full of exercises. There is also a DVD.
I credit using the equalizer to allow me to build enough strength to be able to do a vertical pull-up.
…The hottest new strength and flexibility training tool to come to market in many years…”
Simplify your exercise routine, and conquer your fitness goals with the LEBERT EQUALIZER Total Body Strengthener™. It was designed to do traditional strength training exercises for group aerobic classes and is portable for personal training sessions at the club or in-home. The Equalizer targets muscles we love to hate. It works the triceps, lower abs and back muscles like no other. Participants use their own body weight as resistance and decide what level is right for them (resistance is variable as the legs can be used to assist the exercise). The Equalizer is safe and most importantly will add an new exciting dimension to your workouts!
Click Here to Get Your Equalizer!
Push-up Variations
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I’ve always enjoyed the many different varieties of push-ups. They can range from easy to very challenging. The one-handed push-up is one that still evades me!
They are a great upper body exercise, developing strength in your chest, shoulders and triceps and work your core like you wouldn’t believe.
This is one great exercise you can do just about anywhere, making it a boot camp staple.
Here are some of my favorites, but I would love to know which ones you like. Don’t forget, if you are enjoying the on-line training I am giving you here, you will really love this: ON LINE TRAINING PROGRAM
Renegade Rows with Pushups in between each row
Spiderman Pushups--bring your knee to your hand as you are lowering and alternate each side
Close Grip Pushup on Medicine Ball
Quick Super-Set Workout
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If you follow this blog on how to exercise for fat loss you will know that the most effective workouts are interval training for cardio and super-sets for strength training.
A super-set is when you do two or more exercises one right after the other.
Non-competing super-sets are when the exercises use different or opposing muscle groups. The muscles you used in the first exercise will be at rest while you work out different muscles in the second exercise.
When you perform the exercises without rest in between, you get a cardio workout and a strength training workout in one.
Super-sets that use high intensity, full body combination exercises like squats, lunges, pulling and pushing give you more bang for your buck.
Exercise this way for the most effective metabolism boost to burn more calories.
You will be work your abs plenty with all the exercises even if they do not seem ab specific like crunches.
Here is a quick super-set workout for you to try. The more intense you make it, the more effect it will have on your fat loss.
If you find this too easy or too hard, I can easily ramp it up or down for you with a custom designed workout. Also, you can get my Women’s In Home Workout E-book where these exercises came from. It has beginner, intermediate and advanced workouts in it.
A woman I coach told me her husband borrows her printed copy and takes it to the gym with him. She says he loves it… what a guy!!
Here is the workout. There are 3 super-sets each with 2 exercises… “A” and “B”. Perform A & B one right after the other, 8-12 reps each without resting. Then rest one minute and repeat 1A and 1 B again. Go again for a third set, and continue the same way with the other 2 super-sets, 2A & 2B and 3A and 3B.
The weight should be challenging enough so it gets hard at the end of each set. Increase the weight as you get stronger. Always warm up before starting.
1A Dumbbell Alternating Forward Lunges / 1B Alternating Dumbbell “T” Pushups
2A Dumbbell Squat / 2B Dumbbell Row
3A Dumbbell Dead Lift / 3B Medicine Ball (or use a dumbbell) “V” up
1A-- Dumbbell Alternating Forward Lunges
1B Alternating Dumbbell T pushups
2A Dumbbell Squat
2B Dumbbell Rows
3A Dumbbell Dead-lift
3B Medicine Ball "V"up
