My views on kettlebells
I just watched a few well made kettlebell videos…because I promised myself that i should at least be aware of what i tend to criticize…While the athlete demonstrating was a very fit physical specimen, nearly everything he espoused was anathema to our hi intensity training philosophy. One of the first points he made was that unless you learned how to relax in certain positions or had the flexibility or range of motion to allow your skeleton... [Read More...]
Belmar Fitness knows Arthur Jones training methods
Joel Waldman An observation of human nature from Arthur Jones…if you spent the last 20 years digging a whole in the ground with a shovel…16 hours a day 7 days a week 52 weeks a year…and all you had to show for your efforts was a hole 20 feet deep 20 feet square…and I brought you a back hoe to dig the hole in one day…would you praise me or hit me over the head with the shovel? Most folks would hit me over the head with... [Read More...]
Exercise can be an addiction
Exercise can be an addiction…. Better than drug, substance, even person addiction…but you can still be mindlessly addicted to exercise rather than intelligently committed to progress!! If a person persists and insists on performing 10 or more hours of low intensity exercise per week…even when exercise scientists know that 1 hour or less per week will produce better and more worthwhile results while having a fraction of the bad... [Read More...]
Understand and evaluate your exercise routine get ready for 2011
Joel Waldman First understand that real exercise performed for the purpose of changing your body for the better is not going to be fun. Second, look at it as you would a prescription med…use the least amount necessary to avoid unwanted side effects. Third understand that understanding your recovery time is crucial to your success. Fourth, you will learn that warming up for proper exercise is unnecessary and often counterproductive Fifth, you... [Read More...]
Got a sweet tooth?…Can’t resist ice cream
Got a sweet tooth?…Can’t resist ice cream, cookies, baked goodies, or even excessive fruit…here’s a supplement that may be the answer to controlling your cravings. Udo’s Choice Omega 3 6 9 cold press oil. When the ratios of our Omega fatty acids is out of whack, we respond by craving these hi carbohydrate highly sweet and refined foods that sabotage our diets and our health. The addition of just an ounce a day of these... [Read More...]
Enticed by fraudulent gyms advertising $14.95/month?
This is one I just had to get off my chest…so thanks for hearing me out. Having started Belmar Fitness in 1972, I have seen literally 100’s of fitness facilities come and go…a few were good clubs, but the vast majority were scamming, frauds…just as the gyms today that advertise $20/month, $14/month, and now the final insult to any sane persons intelligence $10/month. Even a moments consideration will make it obvious that... [Read More...]
Why is the Belmar Fitness program better than classes, cardio, pilates, kettlebells, etc. ?
I get asked all the time “Why is your exercise better than pilates, spinning, aerobics, jogging, boxing, kettlebells or whatever the latest fad du jour might be?” I could write volumes on this one and offend a lot of people. The JWBF high intensity exercise program is truly “one stop shopping” when it comes to exercise. One half hour session will stimulate Maximum Strength Gains Largescale Cardiovascular Improvement Maximum “Metabolic... [Read More...]
What is your fitness scenario?
Two men are working out on a Friday afternoon. One is jogging along the side of the road. Cars whiz by as he plods along his route. He’s sweating liberally and breathing rhythmically. On Thursday, he jogged for three miles:the day before he jogged 5; on Tuesday it was three miles; and Monday saw him hitting the pavement for 6 miles. Today, after his usual ten minute warm up of stretching movements, so as to not pull anything while jogging, he’s... [Read More...]
Bypass surgery
http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/hurtful-food-bypass-surgery.html This is a truly inspirational post on Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s website disease proof…it chronicles the pain and suffering and anguish of a quadruple coronary bypass patient who had two failed surgeries, 3 stents placed…and finally was sent home to die. Three years later, he is disease free, medication free, pain free…the picture of total health…it is... [Read More...]
Standard Cardio is Counterproductive… “worse than worthless”
Are you wasting your precious time and bodily resources doing counterproductive, worse than worthless standard aerobic/cardio exercise? Recent SCIENTIFIC research clearly demonstrates that getting on this treadmill(any cardio exercise done improperly) teaches the body to store bodyfat and trains the heart and lungs to shrink in size and reduce their maximum outputs…exactly the opposite of what we should be trying to do. Turn up the volume!!! Confused... [Read More...]