Monthly Performance Roundup

Exercise programming is an art to some degree, and you need to be somewhat fluent in the language in order to be consistent. Here’s a few reasons why you’ve got to be somewhat of an exercise scientist for yourself:

• Injuries will pop up as you push your body and progress your exercise routine, that’s normal..so don’t be frustrated when it happens, expect it to happen.

• “Busy” times in life come and go, you can’t use that as an excuse to put your fitness on the back burner. Getting out of shape, strokes, heart attacks, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, Type II Diabetes, or (name any other condition) doesn’t wait for the right time to happen.

• You’re buying an exercise program from another company because it’s cheaper and it’s worked in the past to get ready for your hunt. However, after every leg workout, you need to pop a few Tylenol/IbuProfen because your knees are killing you. You’ve got three decisions…stop doing the workouts (wouldn’t recommend), modify the workouts (highly recommend), or continue doing the same workout and beating your head against concrete expecting to come away from that without a head injury (wouldn’t recommend continuing the workout or beating your head against the concrete).

These are just a few reasons as to why you need to have a bit of a clue about basic exercise science. If you don’t, you may continue to “yo-yo” exercise, be on/off the exercise wagon, and never actually reach your true potential as you get older.

Podcast Updates

No updates yet. Working on the outlines for those today once I’m finished up here 🙂 

That’s it for this month.

Keep showing up, keep cheering each other on in and out of the fitness realm — and as always, giver hell!

Dr. Rob Minturn PT, CSCS