Is your Body your Boss?
By Eitchy
@Eitchy (178)
Johannesburg, Sudan
September 14, 2016 7:57am CST
Maybe all of us have started an exercise program at one or other time of our life.
We understand the importance of it, and how it can give us quality of life. And yet, some or other time we give up on it.
Is there some secret power hidden in our bodies that is influencing us in some or other way?
I am a former gym owner, qualified Physical Educationist, have more than 5 decades experience of training, and yet it remains so difficult to keep going.
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@Eitchy (178)
• Johannesburg, Sudan
14 Sep 16
I agree, but do you mean using willpower in the sense of forcing yourself to read?
Thanks for the welcoming greeting, but I nevertheless feel very green in this land.
@Amel94 (1741)
• Serbia
14 Sep 16
Oh, I am very glad to meet you, I am going to the gym last two years. I tried a lot of training programs but I just got big results in first three months then just a little more after. I am ectomorph and I have problems to gain mass, maybe you have experience in teaching others how to gain more weight, especially clean muscle mass.
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@Eitchy (178)
• Johannesburg, Sudan
14 Sep 16
Yes Amel I certainly do have some rules that will help you.
1. Almost everything is dependent on correct nutrition.
2. Training INTENSITY is the number one stimulant for weight gain.
3. Enough rest for your muscles to recuperate is very important.
4. Read as much about the above topics as you can. The top people in this trade are also the most scientific ones.
I highly recommend Frank Zane and Mike Mentzer who lived in a time when it was still an artwork to be a bodybuilder, and not an effort to become a muscled gorilla.
@shaheena11 (375)
• India
14 Sep 16
I tried tooooo many times to increase my weight! But I'm not successful...I'm the same since 10 years...!
Now I'm not worried any more....
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@marguicha (215909)
• Chile
14 Sep 16
Interesting! Do you mean that at some time of our lives our body "gives up"?
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@Eitchy (178)
• Johannesburg, Sudan
14 Sep 16
A good question Marguicha. No I mean that we mainly seem to start, and then give up later because of the feelings of resistance we experience in our bodies, when it is time to go and train.How can this resistance be overcome so that we can make a success of our keep fit and shaping up programs?
@Eitchy (178)
• Johannesburg, Sudan
14 Sep 16
Indeed Arm, we all need to do some form of movement, or we will completely deteriorate eventually. It has become a great help to me that I can do the 100 Second Super shape up program.
It can be done while my bathtub is busy filling up, and that way is not a major effort to work out.
@TheAythingGuy (51)
• New Delhi, India
5 Oct 16
I feel that every time you feel to be settling into a routine, some impediment or the other causes you to lose the rhythm. I guess fitness discipline needs a very static routine and for those with peripatetic lifestyles, it can get really difficult to maintain the regimen.
