Blog Entry 1 (February 11th, 2025)
“I have no time.”
I’ve spent the last 10 years of my life developping my knowledge of fitness and wellness. I’ve worked as a functional fitness coach leading group classes in a gym, I’ve adopted a balanced diet as well as a consistent workout schedule, and I’ve tried my best to motivate the people around me to keep exercising and working hard to also maintain a relatively healthy lifestyle.
When talking to people about working out or when trying to get people to start working out, the response I get most often is, “I want to, I just don’t have time.”
This is my response:
There is a misconception that working out requires loads of time. This is false. To get massive biceps and legs of steel requires hours of working out, but this isn’t what most people need. Most people want to feel better. Most people want to feel accomplished. Most people want to go up some flights of stairs and not be reminded of their poor cardio. To meet these goals requires 10 minutes. You don’t need loads of time to start feeling good and happy with yourself. You need 10 minutes, four times per week. Thus, the motivation behind this website.
Blog Entry 2 (February 27th, 2025)
Functionality VS Esthetics
Most people want to workout to look good. I’ll admit that when I started my fitness journey, this was my initial goal. However, I’ve come to realize that exercise shouldn’t only be about looking good, it should also be about feeling good and moving well.
We need a healthy heart, strong lungs, functional strength, and mobility. This means that we require cardio exercises, strength training, and stretching. However, it’s not enough to simply train these different areas, you need to move well and do movements that can be used in every day life: squats, deadlifts, shoulder press, weighted carries, walking, running, burpees. Each of these exercises will make you stronger and improve cardiovascular function and will also improve longevity.
A problem that most of our elderly community experiences (or even people who reach the age of 30 might say they experience) is difficulty sitting down and getting up (squats), picking up objects (deadlifts), lifting things (presses), carrying stuff, like grocery bags (weighted carries), getting from Point A to Point B (walking/jogging/running), and needing to get up, either in the event of an unfortunate fall or simply getting out of bed (burpees).
The problem is that when we’re young, we tend to look at the smaller picture (I’m young and I want to look good) and it’s hard to see the big picture: moving well is more important than looking good and feeling good is more important than looking good. So we do bicep curls and heavy bench press to have nice arms and a big chest (because life typically requires us to curl objects and lift giant boulders off our chest). Obviously, any workout is beneficial and you shouldn’t always stick to the same movements. Variety is also key in moving well and boosting your chances of a long and healthy life. However, if you want to keep a healthy body for a long time, focus a bit more on fuctionality.
When you start working out to move well and feel good, a funny thing starts to happen: you start looking good too.