(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) Something happened in one of my classes about three years ago that I still think about. A woman, probably 52 or 53, came in for the first time and before she even put her bag down she said I know I have a lot of work to do. She ...
(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) Folks keep acting like hybrid training just fell out the sky with a new pair of leggings and a fresh podcast name. I hear it all the time now. Somebody lifts on Monday, runs on Wednesday, takes a boxing class Saturday, then suddenly they have discovered something brand new. ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Most of us remember jumping jacks from somewhere. School gym, summer camp, football practice, basketball warmups, maybe even a coach in the neighborhood counting loud with a whistle hanging from his neck. Nobody gave a long speech about the move back then. You just opened the feet, raised the ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Let me speak plain to the brothers who have passed fifty, or who are close enough to feel it coming. There comes a morning when the body starts telling on you. Maybe the shoulder does not turn the way it used to. Maybe the knees make noise before you ...
(BlackFitness101.com) I have had young folks ask me about sit ups and crunches like they were asking which team to bet on. They want one answer, quick and clean. Which one works better? Which one gets the stomach right faster? Which one should I do if I am just starting? ...
(BlackFitness101.com) I wish more beginners knew this before they ever got on the floor. You do not have to start your fitness journey by fighting your own neck. I have watched people grab behind their head, pull hard, rush through sit ups, then wonder why they feel awful the next ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Let me tell you something I have had to tell more than one couple after 40. You are not lazy just because the floor feels farther away than it used to. You are not washed up because your shoulder makes a little sound when you reach for something on ...
(BlackFitness101.com) There comes a moment in every fitness journey when you realize the body doesn’t bounce back like it used to. For many African Americans, that moment often arrives around 40. The aches linger longer, the pounds seem to cling tighter, and the energy levels don’t spike like they did ...