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[OT]Exercise follow-up
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From today's NY Times: The main problem with weight lifting is that many people do it all wrong, said Kent Adams, the director of the exercise physiology laboratory at California State University at Monterey Bay. They dont have a program or a goal. Technique may be sloppy. Or, Dr. Adams said, they use weights that are too light. Muscles need to be stressed if they are to respond, he said. Dr. Kraemer is on the same page. One study, he said, found that women tend to lift half or less of what they could lift. And this happened even when women were working with personal trainers, he said. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/he...l?pagewanted=2 -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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[OT]Exercise follow-up
"Melinda Shore" wrote in message ... Dr. Kraemer is on the same page. One study, he said, found that women tend to lift half or less of what they could lift. And this happened even when women were working with personal trainers, he said. Somehow this is not surprising. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/he...l?pagewanted=2 Interesting article - thanks for the link. I found this bit particularly interesting: "DR. O'CONNOR, for example, lifts weights for health, for enjoyment and for vanity's sake (he does not want an emaciated upper body, he said), but stops lifting when he is training to run a marathon. Those muscles, he said, "are just dead weight you have to carry around.He adds that a sport like rowing, swimming or running requires specific muscles and nerve-firing patterns that may best be developed by actually doing the sport. |
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[OT]Exercise follow-up
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:27:11 -0500, "sionnach"
wrote: "DR. O'CONNOR, for example, lifts weights for health, for enjoyment and for vanity's sake (he does not want an emaciated upper body, he said), but stops lifting when he is training to run a marathon. Those muscles, he said, "are just dead weight you have to carry around.He adds that a sport like rowing, swimming or running requires specific muscles and nerve-firing patterns that may best be developed by actually doing the sport. *Fascinating*. -- Handsome Jack Morrison Economic Facts & Fallacies with Thomas Sowell. http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge/ Obama: Feminized? http://drhelen.blogspot.com/2008/02/...feminized.html Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling... http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature...ticle10866.htm Snow cover over North America greatest since 1966... http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/...html?id=332289 |
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[OT]Exercise follow-up
Melinda Shore wrote:
[] From today's NY Times: The main problem with weight lifting is that many people do it all wrong, said Kent Adams, the director of the exercise physiology laboratory at California State University at Monterey Bay. They dont have a program or a goal. Technique may be sloppy. Or, Dr. Adams said, they use weights that are too light. Muscles need to be stressed if they are to respond, he said. Dr. Kraemer is on the same page. One study, he said, found that women tend to lift half or less of what they could lift. And this happened even when women were working with personal trainers, he said. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/he...l?pagewanted=2 I was interested in the article and am glad you posted the pointer to it. It took me a minute, however, to realize that the article has limited application for me. He's talking about becoming a better athlete, improving performance and efficiency, increasing endurance. When he says that women don't have a program or a goal, I doubt that he's taking into consideration goals like lessening the chances of heart attack, broken hips, peri-menopause symptoms, and pain from arthritis and soft tissue damage from an ancient injury, in middle aged and elderly women. For me, I'm taking the weight conditioning class because I was getting bored with my previous work-out. Since I know that the best exercise is the exercise that the individual will stick with over the long term, it made sense for me to try something new and challenging. That's better than getting bored and giving up. It's working. I went to another class today, chatted with the teacher afterwards, don't feel nearly as sore as I did after the other classes, and am oddly looking forward to next week. I'm sure I'm not lifting all the weight I could nor making the most progress in the least time, but since that's not my goal, I'm giving myself a pat on the back. --Lia |
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