The heart and lung of most people who have NO exercise
are quite fragile.


In the military, you have the luxury of a CONTRACT.


You can order people through pain and tears and you have their signature
and you give them a pay check and medical care.


I have people who REALLY can get hurt and/or walk away and not comply.

A Bearman, who is NOT exercising, who starts out with jumprope

CAN bear feet bones right away.
Does he have health care?
We dont' know.

If his feet bones break and he doens't have health care
( and even if he does )

the path of healing INCLUDES rest rest rest.

All that rest further weakens the heart and lungs.

here is the over view of what ends up happening to most people:


*feeble or harsh exercise when young

* feeble or harsh exercise in college
OR no college and off to work leaving no time for exercise

* adult hood invades and lower fitness level in JUST a few months

* excuses get made

* frantic attempts at getting "in shape" ensue.
MANY excuses are made and stories of what WILL be done when the bod is in shape
abound

* work and children smash most workouts.
even those with gym member ships
get good at excuses.

MANY who can afford it, take lunch classes because home gives no time.

* single people exercise until they find steady sex
at which point the alcohol used for sex and the sex itself
wipe the workout off the map


* a person in the 30s is created
who is full of stories about What Would Have Been
and then they come to me.

i make them a tiny workout that will fit with children and I pray


* then, a person in the 40s is created who is FULL of problems
mostly from a high fat diet, lack of sleep and lack of weightlifting and lack of cardio

This person wil lick a doctor's feet clean but will whine if I tell them to JUST WALK 15 MINTUES EVERY OTHER DAY AND GET YORU HEART STRONG ENOUGH TO LIFT WEIGHTS!!!


sigh.



If we take ANYone who hasn't been exercising and give them somethign that WILL NOT
hurt, we can get the heart and lungs strong enough to add stuff every year.

By this method, we get COMPLIANCE, Low-injury level, long-term compliance,
and a person who gets a LOT stronger with low injury level LONG-TERM

NOT exercising - into exercising is a REAL spot to get a person so winded
that they feel like pure crap for three days
and start to fera exercise

In the past, people would just retreat from coversations and/or move away.

Now, in the tech-age, people stay behind the screen unseen

suffering while I worry

Those are good points.

In all honesty I have been known to shrug and say "What the hell, guys... I have free medical" before quite a few activities.

So I have to acknowledge that you're talking sense here.

There are faster ways to get in shape. It's true that they risk injury more than what you described and that if you aren't commited to a goal they could be easy to rationalize quitting.

Personally I would get quite bored with a year of only walking. But I fit into a lot of the bad categories you described (sleep, fat in diet, virtually no weightlifting [i do bodyweight driven exercises regularly, though])...

I also kind of take it for granted that anyone I make exercise suggestions to is to some degree already in basicly okay shape -- a false assumption based on my experiences, I guess.

Sorry to butt in.

The injury part takes out a LOT of people.

It is my job and job ONE to make sure that people do not get hurt
or LOSE BREATH

The fight of boredom my professional challenge


If at home, I put people up in a room with windows and a TV
and map out the food so that they do exercise with their favorite show.

If outside, I FIRMLY recommend radio or audio books or friends.

Think of how many people have not shown up due to injury.

I can't have those numbers and still, I do




Today in class i had: A woman who used to work for me in scarf
because of chemo, four feircely fit people, a woman with parkinson's and
a woman with MS who's left side barely works.

I have to serve them the same lunch and tell no one any one's probs
and it can't show who has what except for who goes airborn and who doesn't.



WE ROCKED!!!!!!!

I have this thing:

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I dunno how much they go for. mine was a gift.

but ellipticals are really good for cardio. they provide nonimpact workouts. check out a local thrift store like the salvation army, they generally have exercise equipment for really cheap.

I've had four different gym memberships over the last 6 years. and I only really used the last one cuz I worked in the same facility it was located in, so I used it almost daily, and I was freakin ripped as a result, but since I don't work there anymore,I don't go there anymore.and I've suffered as a result.

I HATE the gym usually. I have kind of a weird phobia about working out in front of other people. I tend to only do my excersizing in the small gym at my apartment complex, and only in the early hours when people aren't around.

I mostly stick to free weights, and occaisionally use the press machine there and low-intensity workouts on the elipticals and treadmills. I have a bad knee, so doing too much weight training with the legs or high-intensity cardio work is very difficult for me without causing myself severe pain. I still do them when I can, but not nearly as much as I should.

Fist,
I have a bad knee too, and have found that riding my bike to and from work seems to have helped. Its a low impact workout utilizing the full range of motion, it really does seem to help my knee quite a bit.

As far as elliptical machines... I can't do them my legs don't seem to move that way... it just feels too weird and if I try to do a normal pace in one I stumble off the machine. If I force myself to the motion of the machine I can't walk right for a little bit once I get off it, lol
I used to work in a sporting goods store and would try out the machines if it was a slow day... I kinda like the tread climber, but would never pay that much for one. My current exercise regime is one I worked out myself with help from Flora. Thank you Flora! Based for the most part on commons sense bodyweight exercises it uses very little in the way of weights, includes quite a bit of cardio, and I've recently worked in a few martial arts exercises as well.
Now I just have to stick to it, lol