Friday, September 28, 2007

Charles Atlas and Personal Exercise Fads


I have a garage loaded with old exercise equipment. These have been my last eight personal exercise fads going back the last five years:

1. Bike riding
2. Eye Toy
3. The Bun Roller
4. Weight Lifting
5. Running and jumping rope
6. Disc golf
7. Racquetball
8. Going to the gym

Yeah, I switched them around, so it's not like I did one thing and then stopped doing it and started another.

Anyway, my new thing is the Charles Atlas course - maybe not for the rest of my life but at least for the next ten weeks.

I'm very impressed. The course builds muscle mass without the use of one free weight or any other equipment besides a chair. They're isometric exercises - you need no equipment and they leave you feeling better than you started. You do the lessons for about 15 minutes every day and, at the end, you feel like you have more energy than when you started. Ladies and gentlemen THAT is a great exercise program.

It takes care of stretching and strength training - the only thing missing is cardiovascular training. For that, I plan to run a couple times a week.

Anyway, all the best -

Jim

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