(BlackFitness101.com) So you’re 60 and change and eyeing that bike again. Good. Let me save you some grief before you start pedaling. Here’s the trap most folks fall into. They think going slow means they’re doing it wrong. Nah. On a Tuesday morning in the park, there’s no clock running, ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Listen, I been training folks a long time, and I can tell you the gym floor scares people off before they ever break a sweat. All those mirrors. The grunting dudes tossing plates around like it’s nothing. Somebody half your size doing things your body ain’t tried since high ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Now here’s a hard truth, and the fellows selling memberships sure won’t say it. A gym contract never made anybody healthier. Neither did a shelf of fancy sneakers, or one of those wristbands that buzzes like a mad wasp. A perfectly good starting point is already sitting right there ...
(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 ...