(BlackFitness101.com) Somebody in my class last week held up two little dumbbells and asked me flat out, “Do these actually do anything, or am I just carrying decoration?” I laughed, because that question lands in my lap more than any other. People want their stroll to count. They crave the ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Folks love to talk about the stationary bike like it belongs in the corner reserved for people who just signed up and cannot figure out where else to stand. They stroll past it, glance at somebody pedaling with a magazine propped up, and decide right then that nothing serious ...
(BlackFitness101.com) A treadmill offers far more than the dull grind of one running pace, though most never bother to find out. Now let me talk to you straight. I lost count of how many folks climbed onto that machine, bumped it up to a jog, fixed their eyes on the ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Balance training belongs in your routine long before your body ever gives you a reason to think about it. I tell clients in their sixties and seventies this constantly, and plenty of them wave me off. They came to me for less back pain, or more pep to keep ...
(BlackFitness101.com) After more than a decade of training couples, the pattern is impossible to miss. The plans that fail are rarely the ones people are too tired for. They are the ones that never fit the calendar in the first place. Two jobs, a mortgage, a family group chat that ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Let me talk to you for a minute, sis, because I know how a lot of us have been feeling lately. Knees fuss at you. Getting to the gym feels like a whole production by the time the kids are fed and the kitchen’s halfway clean. And the last ...
(BlackFitness101.com) I have spent better than twenty years training men in iron rooms, and let me tell you, there is no creature on God’s green earth quite like a fellow who just turned forty walking back into a gym. His frame used to do certain things, and he remembers every ...
(BlackFitness101.com) A lot of folks make chest training sound like something that has to happen in a gym with loud music, benches, mirrors, and somebody walking around with a gallon jug of water. I have been around fitness too long to believe that. I have seen people get stronger in ...
(BlackFitness101.com) I know some folks hear the word exercise and already start looking for a reason to leave the room. I get it. After a long day, nobody wants to feel like they are being fussed at by some trainer who acts like everybody has fresh knees, perfect sleep, and ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Knee pain can make a person feel old before their time. I have heard that from sisters in the gym, brothers at health fairs, women after church, and men who wait until nobody else is close before they say it. They want to move, but they are tired of ...