Visit this place, O Lord, and drive far from it all snares of the Enemy; let your holy angels dwell with us, to preserve us in peace; and let your blessing be upon us always; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
What are your daily habits?
My daily habits revolve around three things – my faith, my family and my fitness. Below is a typical day for me.
My daily activities have changed a lot in the last year as I have retired. Before that I had to squeeze these things around work.
I was planning to do a post today about the hope we have in Jesus and being a light to the world, but then I saw this message from Pope Leo. He said it way better than I could.
What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?
My gym would be my luxury I could not live without. I know how much of a difference weight training has made and still makes to my life. I could not imagine being without my home gym this past 40 years of training. I love the feeling I get while I do my weight training and how I feel the rest of the week. It has been good for both my physical health and also my mental health. For me personally, it would be hard to live without.
One of my go to YouTube channels for fitness advice as I age is Train Right Fitness.
They talk about strength training performed twice per week, at a high level of intensity, with minimal sets. By minimal sets I mean 3-5 total for upper body, 3-5 sets total for lower body, 1-2 for core. That takes about one hour total per week, this leaves plenty of time for recovery and doing other things.
Their philosophy is about taking your muscles to momentary failure in a controlled way. This means on your last couple of reps the weights slow down and you cannot do one more rep in good form, at that point you stop.
A lot of there videos are based on peer reviewed scientific studies. As I get older I find it a lot more interesting and safer than watching a 25 year old fitness influencer secretly on steroids.
The video above is about stretching and weight training. When I was younger I would stretch religiously before weight training and cycling. These days I do not and I find I am way more flexible from just doing weight training in the way they suggest.
If you are interested in starting strength training I would binge watch their videos.
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