尋夢園

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I consider myself a functional fitness guy and since I'm doing kettlebells a lot, I guess that's a given. But the functional fitness community really likes to throw stuff under the train sometimes. Take this dumb idea that ab flexion isn't functional, for example.

First of all, one of the primary functions of the rectus abdominus is flexion, right or wrong? Let's just keep it simple with no hemming and hawing. The answer is right, so please explain to me how then ab flexion is somehow non-functional? How can a natural function of a muscle be non-functional?

These two halves of me are at war with each other. Again. Kettlebells will always be my specialty but should I get a power rack, dumbbells, and an Olympic set of weights to round out my gym? Are kettlebells enough long term? Do I miss out on people that might want to do personal training with me without kettlebells?

Don't tell my wife. Haha. Actually, her English name is Cindy so she wouldn't mind. But I'm referring to the Crossfit workout by the name of Cindy:

Wow, I had no idea. Very impressive.

There are so many myths out there regarding health and fitness. Here's my pass at a few of them.

First of all, thin does not necessarily equal health and it sure doesn't automatically equal fitness.

Short on time these days so here's a quick post of the workout I did yesterday.

100 jumps on the rope

A while back, Time Magazine published one of the worst articles I've ever read in a mainstream publication: Why Exercise Won't Make you Thin. Time is in every doctor and dentist's office in America ironically so we'll have to deal with this nonsense for years to come. Way to go, guys.

Basically the author talks about how he exercises all the time and doesn't lose weight. Reading the article, I had a lot of geewhiz-I-wonder-why moments. Look at these quotes:

On one of the fitness boards I post on, a person asked a question about a trainer. They said they wanted to train with this person because he got good results. But the trainer was well-known for making everyone go through a period of stabilization training. But the person asking for some reason didn't want to do that type of training because she thought it was worthless (based on her one year of experience working out at a gym, no less).

To my surprise, many people got on there and gave her advice on how to argue against the training, even trainers gave her tips against it.

Cindy

5 pullups