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Cool video…

Chris Lutz — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:51:41 +0000

Here is a good example of a circuit resistance training workout using S.P.A.R.T.A. Training Systems. This is a consolidated 3 exercise routine. I’m not really a big fan of complete workouts this short even though some advanced trainees can do them, this is meant to be an example of a longer 8-13 exercise routine. Although it is very similar to one of my favorite metabolic routines and that one is called the 3×3x3 routine. It’s detailed in my book “The I Don’t Have Time to Workout Workout” . This video routine does, however, show you how to combine exercise effects and organize your routine so as to derive cardiovascular (or aerobic) and muscular benefits at the same time. This kind of routine attends to more than one component of fitness. Check it out below.

If you don’t have time to workout or were scheduled to, but are running behind, this is a great routine to give a shot. Pick it up here. “I Don’t Have Time to Workout Workout”.

Can you really get it all from one program?

Chris Lutz — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:15:34 +0000

A widespread myth among fitness enthusiasts has it that one must train one way for increasing muscular size and strength and another way for improving cardiovascular condition; lift weights to build strength and jog to enhance aerobic condition. As Arthur Jones of Nautilus stated, “Half of that belief is true, since jogging will do nothing to build strength and size and will, in fact, if overdone, as it usually is, do quite a bit in the way of reducing both muscular strength and size. But it’s not true that proper strength-building exercises will do nothing for improving cardiovascular condition.” How did Jones arrive at that conclusion?

In 1975 Nautilus Sports/Medical Industries funded one of the most important studies in the history of exercise science. Project Total Conditioning was conducted at the United States Military Academy at West Point and was overseen by Colonel James Anderson. The purpose of the study was to pin down how to use Nautilus exercise equipment properly and identify the physiological consequences of a short-duration, high-intensity-training program. It asked such questions as, How much skeletal-muscle strength can be achieved from brief, intense workouts? How does strength training affect cardiovascular fitness, flexibility and overall body composition? Improvements in muscular size and strength, improvements on 60 separate tests of cardiovascular fitness, and improvements on 4 tests of flexibility. All from 1 basic simple strength training program.

The results? Read them here.

Exercise is an Absolute Requirement for Life

Chris Lutz — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:29:56 +0000

This is a great article by my friend, Drew Baye, a personal trainer in Orlando Fla. He wrote it several years ago, but every word captures and describes the public’s growing realization that exercise, is indeed, a requirement for a long and functional life. He does a great job of putting it in perspective in terms of the real risks, like osteoporosis, and how if left unattended, the body will deteriorate to a state of non-function. High intensity training (HIT) is a safe, effective, and efficient means to combat those risks.

This quote from the article from Arthur Jones, founder of Nautilus, delivers the message simply:

“If I were to grab you by the throat, and choke off your air supply, it would immediately become apparent to you that oxygen is absolutely essential for life. If I were to lock you in a room with no water, after several hours, the degree of thirst you would experience would indicate to you that water is a requirement for life. If I were to lock you in that room with water, but no food, it would take a little longer, a matter of a couple of days, before you would be ravenously hungry, and there would be no question in your mind that food was absolutely essential for life. However, it often takes years before ones body begins to show the harm done by a lack of proper exercise.”

Read Exercise is an Absolute Requirement for Life