(BlackFitness101.com) After many years coaching bodies of every age and background, here is the one thing most folks never figure out. Your legs can stay remarkably capable for many years, provided you keep asking them to do a real job. Somewhere down the road though, plenty of older adults swallow ...
(BlackFitness101.com) So here is something nobody bothered warning me about before my forties showed up. The mileage you racked up young and reckless, running on concrete as if your body owed you nothing, it can catch up with you eventually, and usually it comes calling at the worst possible moment. ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Everybody and their cousin dropped good money on a walking pad this year. You’ve seen the ads. Little treadmill that slides under the couch, folds up, promises you’ll melt fat while you answer emails. Cool gadget. Long before that gadget existed, back when nobody had slapped a price tag ...
(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 ...