Some times I bang on about training.
I work out most days; more times than not. Sometimes twice a day. I have been known to overtrain, but I’ve also grown quite good at listening to my body now I’m in my 40’s.
I’ve also recognised just how stressful modern living can be. 24 hour connectivity means little time to properly unwind. Never ending emails, rising costs v falling wages all add up to some really awful stress levels with people just being unable to switch off.
To combat this, personal physical fitness is essential. Make your body strong and your mind will be too. To some extent it doesn’t matter what form of exercise you take as long as you do something. I also have this motto:
If it doesn’t challenge you; it doesn’t change you.
Digging around in the garage
I found the old Wii fit board. My daughter was delighted! So was I secretly. Once I’d managed to shoo her off of it, I discovered an old routine I used to do.
If you’re not familiar with Wii Fit, it’s a games console and a special board (digital scales with no readout) and a load of different games and exercises.
You get a personal trainer who will demonstrate the exercises for you, then you perform them yourself. The majority of them use the balance board, which uses witchcraft to tell you if you’re doing it right. It judges you if you’re not.
A feature of the game is customised workouts. You string the exercises together to make a workout, for a set duration; simple. All you have to do is start.
Will it make you fitter? In my opinion yes.
Will it make you fit? No
It doesn’t give you willpower, you still have to switch it on and it doesn’t tell you what to eat, 6-packs are made in the kitchen.
Like those ads you see for ab crunchers etc, sold to you by Amazons and Adonis’, what they don’t tell you is that you’ll probably need to make some serious lifestyle changes to get in shape. It’s not easy but the rewards are so worth it. Not just the ability to master your stressful lifestyle but also feeling great and having abundant energy.
Yesterday I created two personalised workouts for family members; I’ve challenged them to complete the exercises for one month. Three times a week for her and four times a week for him.
As they both read my blog, here’s my workout:
- Warm up – 200 star jumps
- Chair squat
- Front squat
- Press-up with side stand
- Tricep extension
- Single-leg reach
- V sits
- Parallel stretch.
As I said before, you’ll need to supplement any exercises here with lifestyle changes to make a real difference but the usefulness of Wii Fit shouldn’t be underestimated. Will power not included.
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