(BlackFitness101.com) Getting your nutrition right before an early workout deserves more attention once you cross 40, and the good news is that the answer does not have to be complicated or expensive. Let me speak plain here, since I have spent years working with people in this age bracket and ...
(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 asked me last week whether 30 minutes of pedaling could really move the needle. My answer was the same one I hand everybody who walks into my sessions dragging doubt behind them. It moves. Not in that loud magazine-cover fashion people show up hoping for. The change stays ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Fifty push-ups before breakfast will not melt the ring sitting around your midsection. I have coached people long enough to watch a bunch of them believe it would, so I am telling you straight before the mirror tells you the hard way in a month. You know that viral ...
(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) 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) Physical fitness deserves a fuller definition than the narrow one most of us inherited, and broadening it changes how well we actually live. So here is the question I put to new clients when they walk in glowing about a smaller number on the scale. You dropped the pounds, ...