Personal Trainer In San Diego County Including A Useful Definition For "Exercise"

As a www.theperfectworkout.com/, I've been a rabid exercise enthusiast for nearly thirty years, and my very own workout routines consist solely of 20-minute high-intensity strength training sessions.

After understanding that loading muscles is how you go about conditioning your body, it will become clearer that sensible versions of strength training make the perfect fit to classify as "exercise". Rational power workout is a logical approach of looking at how you can efficiently, effectively, and safely load the muscles of the body. Effective power workout takes into account the muscle and joint functions of the body, modulates the resistance appropriately according to the varying strength curves from the different muscles, considers speed of motion to keep the security of the body, and makes all the resistance demanding enough to produce optimal physical change.

However, many other physical activities people do for the name of "exercise" are fundamentally different from effective power workout, and as such are not helpful to categorize as "exercise". For example, stepping on the StairMaster machine is an activity which does involve muscular loading but the muscular loading encountered on the StairMaster is haphazard, inefficient, relatively low intensity, and may even be dangerous in the long run. It does not take into account the muscle and joint functions of the body, doesn't modulate the resistance appropriately for any strength curves on the muscles, doesn't include slower movement speed to protect the safety of the body, and doesn't involve making the resistance demanding enough to motivate best physical changes. It is not a purposeful technique for loading the muscles efficiently and safely.

In Ken Hutchins- SuperSlow Technical Manual, he categorized a useful (although technical) definition for "exercise": "Exercise is a process whereby the body performs work of the demanding nature, according to muscle and joint function, within a clinically-controlled environment, in the constraints of safety, meaningfully loading the muscular structures to inroad their potency levels to stimulate a growth mechanism within minimum time."

What exactly are some dangers of not having a good definition for "exercise" like Ken has given above? As an example, not owning a useful definition for "exercise", in the past the US Surgeon General's office wrote a report recommending several "exercise" activities to Americans which explicitly included such things as typing, shuffling papers, walking from your desk to the copier, and doing other light office work. If you're typing and thinking you're pursuing meaningful exercise, that's analogous to trying to drive your houseplant to function because you think it's a "car". It really doesn't work very well.

Another example of the danger of a bad definition for "exercise" is that over time low-intensity "cardio" or "aerobic" activities (which many pursue as "exercise", yet don't qualify Ken's definition above) often achieve the complete opposite of the intended goal of exercise (that is improved fitness and health of the body). For example, quite a few lengthy joggers end up wearing away the cartilage on their knees as a result of the overuse and high-force trauma from jogging and in those cases what results is agonizing chronic osteoarthritis on the knees or even knee replacements. Workout is meant to improve the body physically, not ruin it. I've made those same mistakes in the past and unfortunately have the prematurely worn out arthritic knees to prove it.

As a personal trainer San Diego, I'm not suggesting that all activity other than power training is bad and should not be performed. As a http://theperfectworkout.com/, these are definitely my tips.