No One KNEE-ds a Blown Out ACL

   Women athletes in certain sports are at greater risk of blowing out their knees! 
Not politically correct you say. Go back to your anatomy and physiology textbook then.
There are physical differences between the genders. In the sports world this can lead to some significant injury observations.
   I just finished reading an interesting book called "Warrior Girls" by Michael Sokolove.
The author uses anecdotal and statistical evidence to suggest that there is actually an epidemic of severe knee injuries of elite young women in certain sports.   Sports with sudden stops and directional changes at top speed seem to pose the most risk. Soccer, basketball, and also rugby come to mind.
Teenage women on top notch competitive teams with year long league and tournament play are especially predisposed to become statistics.
   Often when these injuries occur they are noticeable with a dramatic leg plant and a loud popping noise. Sometimes it happens on an innocent looking movement. Either way leaves the casualty with pain and grief.

   The weak link in the knee is almost always the ACL  -the Anterior Cruciate Ligament!  This ligament runs at an angle across the front of the knee joint. The ACL prevents the femur bone of the upper leg from overpowering the two lower leg bones and sliding beyond the natural range of motion of the knee joint.  Once the ACL ruptures, a lifetime of trouble can ensue! Many surgically reconstructed ACL joints blow out again when the athlete returns to competition.
   Men blow out their knees too. They just do it at a lower rate. Recreational athletes are less at risk due to the slower speeds involved.  Maybe that's why I never got badly injured playing beer league hockey. I only thought that I was going fast.
Why are women at greater risk for ACL tears? There are many possible reasons:

• Hormones. Estrogen can make for more flexible joints. An overly flexible knee knee joint can be a disadvantage during a speed sport involving sudden deceleration and quick changes of direction.
• Weak core muscles such as abdominals, lower back and glutes (rear end). 
• Overspecialization in one sport at an early age. 
• Muscle imbalance in which the hamstring muscles are too weak to prevent the quadriceps muscles from dominating during running movements.
• Overly upright and erect running style. This is a cultural trait going back to the role of women carrying toddlers during the hunter/gatherer historic phase. (In Biblical time, this falls between the expulsion from Eden and the Great Flood.)
• Anatomy. The Q angle or quadriceps angle. This is a measurement of where the upper leg meets the kneecap. For childbearing reasons women often have a wider pelvis than men. This makes for a greater Q angle. The greater the Q angle, the less stable the knee. 
• More anatomy - knock knees. The opposite of being bowlegged. This can also be due to a wide Q angle. 
• Sedentary lifestyle. Many teenage athletes are inactive physically except when practicing or playing their sport. They don't develop other muscles. All of the wear and tear is on the same joints. Thank the modern tech toys for that!

Are there remedies for this epidemic of ACL injuries?  There are possible actions that may help:

• Strengthen the hamstring muscles so that they are not overpowered by the quadriceps.
• Strengthen the core muscles of the midsection including the abdominals, glutes and lower back.
• Improve running form. Athletes should learn to run with the butt low to the ground and relaxed hip and knee joints.
• Jumping drills emphasizing landing with bent knees to absorb shock.
• Play other sports or do other recreational activities to build a more balanced musculature.
• Work on balance. Balance drills train the body's proprioceptors which adjust during movement to keep in balance.
• Have a distinct off season from the sport.
• Take up a sport that doesn't require speed, deceleration or change of direction. You can also give up you favorite food and replace it with sprouts - but is this really an option?

   Wait a minute! I am always on the lookout for potential opportunities for Fitness Trainers. This is one of them. Women's soccer is very big in affluent suburbs and gentrified urban areas, Why not become go to person for knee injury prevention? Young women should be encouraged to be active and participate in sports. We also don't want them to get injured!
   You will have to ensure that your credentials and knowledge levels are up to date on current knee injury prevention science. This may require extra courses and constant educational updates on ACL prevention programs. Seek out such information and check out websites such as:

 PEP Program - SMSMF
 sportsmed.org
 sportsinjuries.org/acl-injury-prevention.aspx 
American Council on Exercise
National Strength and Conditioning Association
BioMechanics with Justin Price (I highly recommend checking out his courses)
or any other sites that you may find. Don't neglect the sports science periodicals either.
    

  If you want to specialize in working with post operative knee surgery clients tread carefully.

Knee surgery survivors would be considered a special client population. To work with special populations it would be wise to have an advanced accreditation that gives you the preferred knowledge and legal protection. Knees are too fragile a joint to risk to an under qualified Fitness Trainer going beyond their scope of practice. Do it right!

   There is a current controversy in the World Cup of Soccer for Women!
The 2015 games are to be held in Canada in stadiums with artificial turf. A number of women from other national teams have filed a suit against FIFA complaining that soccer at this level must be played on grass. One of the concerns is that turf has less give and elite athlete's knees will be exposed to dangerous conditions. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Then again, maybe they just fear going against the Canadian soccer women and arguably the best female athlete in the world - Christine Sinclair!

Top speed! Sudden foot plant for a kick!
A recipe for a blown out knee!

Until Next Time,.......Keep Fit

Little Bobby Strong
















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Top 10 Ways to NOT Operate a Fitness Center

   There can be certain red flags at a Fitness Center that can indicate a systemic malaise towards customer service. Recognize any? I certainly do! This is how not to run a Fitness Center:

1. Train your staff to exhibit great enthusiasm and assertiveness when trying to entice new customers to become paying members. Encourage same staff to exhibit obvious apathy and indifference if existing members approach them with concerns or complaints. Make sure the customer gets the message that their issues are 'not your problem' !
2. Employ at least one front counter person with an abrupt, unfriendly persona. It keeps members on their toes.
3. Recruit Fitness Trainers because they have buff bodies without regard for their actual qualifications or credentials.
4. Never acknowledge that there may be a problem with thievery in the change rooms. 
5. When an irate member has been ripped off in the change room,  brainwash your staff to inform them politely with a smile that the Fitness Center is not responsible for lost or stolen items.
6.  Have staff inform the same irate member that it is not your policy to phone the police. Irate member must do it themselves even though the irate member is ready to go ballistic and burst an artery in anger.
7. Permit juiced up members of an outlaw biker gang a free run of your Fitness Center and allow them the same behind the counter access as staff.  (Such an existing hard core muscle head hangout that I know of eventually went broke. Then the building burnt down. Surprise! Surprise! There may have been some insurance claim issues afterwards.)
8. Use your spa services such as the hot tub as leverage to entice new members. Install a discontinued hot tub model that keeps breaking down. Be very lackadaisical and tardy about fixing it.
9. On those rare occurrences where the hot tub is functioning,  ignore the line of accumulated filthy scum around the water line.  Think of it as a natural form of inoculation against Legionnaire's Disease. Cull off the weak and let those with stronger physical immunity live to fight another day!
10. When an exercise apparatus breaks, put an 'Out of Order' sign on it and forget about it. Then it's no longer something that you need to worry about!

   Believe it or not - I have seen every one of the above scenarios during my days in the Fitness world. Buyer beware!
   If you are a Fitness Center manager or employee, always remember that customer service must be a high priority.

Until next time, ..........Keep Fit

Little Bobby Strong
                                         

Soothe your muscles post workout with a hot tub !
It comes with your membership fee !
Oh no! Out of order again! Nice pool, too!

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Fitness Training : More is Not Always Better

   Fitness Trainers should already know this.

• Muscles don't grow when you work out!   
• Muscles grow when you sleep!
• Your cardiovascular system doesn't improve while you run, cycle or swim. 
• The cardiovascular system adapts to the imposed workload and improves in efficiency as you rest.  

   This of course is all in accordance with the good old S.A.I.D. principal -  Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands! The adaptation occurs during the rest, rejuvenation, and recovery phase. Positive adaptation doesn't occur if you keep hammering that bodily system.
   During my younger days as a weekend warrior and aspiring athlete, I often disregarded this basic principal. Being the work out fanatic that I was I wanted to believe in the workaholic's credo. More is better ! A hard hour or more of interval running would be immediately followed by a hard hour plus in the weight room. The next day might be a longer but less intense run followed by a hard hour or more in the weight room working on different muscle groups than the previous day.
   Day 1 may have been lower body resistance training while day 2 might have been upper body resistance training. My philosophy at the time was that since I was training different energy systems and different muscle groups every day I would survive to train another day. Even though my calf muscles would be so seized up that I could barely jog I failed to recognize the connection to lack of recovery time.
   What I should have known was that the Central Nervous System and the human body as a complete organism requires up to 48 hours or more to recover from intense overload!
 I was often flirting with illness, injury and fatigue. I was also missing out on the improvement that could have occurred with proper recovery time allowing me to increase the intensity the following workout. I was settling for the mediocrity that comes from over training.
  There is an economic  theory known as 'the Law of Diminishing Returns'. After a certain level any additional increase of one component may cause productivity to stagnate and possibly decrease. There can be a 'Law of Diminishing Returns' in exercise, as well. 
   For the record, I was not a complete fitness hard head. I did have the presence of mind to take two full days off before races, wrestling tournaments or beer league playoff hockey games. I usually had a surge of energy that I likely lacked during workout or practice time. I would have been well served to apply this tactic to my workout schedule. Maybe I could have been a contender - or at least the conqueror of the tier 2 division !
     
   As a Fitness Trainer you will likely have some clients at two opposite ends of the spectrum.

1. Clients who do the minimum. They will do only what you supervise them for during their paid sessions. Despite your cajoling and encouraging, they do little that is active between visits to the Fitness Trainer. Take comfort in the fact that what little exercise they get with you is still better than if they did nothing.
2. Clients who become exercise fanatics. These clients are the subject of this discussion. They may be less common than other types of people that seek your Fitness Training services. Make no mistake - these people do exist.They will do everything that you prescribe for them between sessions. On top of that they may pile on more cardiovascular work and extra weight training sessions. They become the classic example of those who over train.

     Over trainers become convinced that more is better! At first they may attain their fitness goals at an an astounding rate. They then start to believe that adding to your program will keep the fitness party going. However they will invariably hit a plateau and may even start to regress with their fitness gains. Opportunistic ailments such as head colds and flu bouts may become common as the over trainer's immune system gets suppressed by the lack of recovery time. Muscular and joint soreness become the norm. They may start quoting the famous phrase from German philosopher Neitzche "That which does not destroy me - strengthens me!" These are warning signs.
The fitness party can lead to a big time hangover!
 
These clients can be a major challenge. Your job is to convince them that sometimes less is better! Once a client is bitten by the exercise fanatic bug they become a hard sell for moderation!  They essentially become exercise addicts! You can't stop them from doing too much. You may feel like a Dr. Frankenstein that has lost control of the monster that you have created.
   There are some things that you can do to try tame the fitness beast:

• Educate your client. Give them literature to try and sway them from the 'more is better' exercise trap.
• Try and steer them towards off day activities with less impact and wear and tear on the body. If they refuse to slow down at least try and sell them on the merits of activities such as swimming, yoga, thai chi, walking, or recreational cycling.
• Paint them a hypothetical picture of their greater strength and fitness gains if they only stick to your exercise prescription. 
• Use my story as an example and ask if they wouldn't rather be a contender than the king of the consolation round.

   You may run into some super serious situations that could prove to fall beyond a Fitness Trainer's scope of practice. 

1. Anorexia Nervosa can be a dangerous disorder. A person with anorexia thinks that they are overweight even though they may be down to skin and bones. They may even eat and purge or eat hardly at all. Aerobic exercise may be taken far beyond the extreme. They may resort to amphetamine type drugs to keep losing weight. If your client gets to this point it is out of your hands. Refer to a medical professional. Trying to deal with this yourself is a good way to have a client die on you!
2. The opposite of anorexia is Muscle Dysmorphia. This is more common in men but not totally exclusive to them. Think Women's Ms. Olympia bodybuilders. Muscle Dysmorphia sufferers think that they are always too small and must add more muscle. They often live in the weight room and may resort to questionable substances to increase muscle size. Once again, if your client gets to this level you must refer to a medical expert. Otherwise danger lies ahead!
3. Workaholic athletes that believe 'More is Better' at the risk of compromised health and injury. Professional athletes usually have team doctors to keep them in line. Amateurs and weekend warriors may push far beyond their limits. You may be able to reach such clients. If you feel you are losing them.....REFER TO A MEDICAL EXPERT! 

   It may not be easy to sway clients from the path of doing to much. Fitness Training sometimes throws you major challenges. That's why you made this career choice, isn't it?

For the record - as you hit those significant age milestones your required recovery time after intense activity may increase to much more than 48 hours. Listen to this aging sage! I've been there!

Until next time,......keep fit!

Little Bobby Strong 
                                               

Your muscles grow when you rest!
Gadzooks! Look at those guns!
Obviously this aspiring muscle man doesn't miss much sleep.

Fitness Trainer Hall Of Shame : Pain and Gain with the The Sun Gym Gang!

It's brilliant!  Why didn't they teach this at college where I took my Fitness Training course.
This all went down in Miami, Florida, USA in 1994 and 1995. Daniel Lugo was a convicted health fraud embezzler. He managed a hard core weight room called the Sun Gym. He also fancied himself a Fitness Trainer. Back then any weight room muscle head could call themselves a Fitness Trainer. (Has anything really changed on that matter?)
   That's when Daniel Lugo hatched a less than conventional get rich quick scheme, It would require the help of a few of his pumped up and juiced up bodybuilding weight room cronies. This is what he proposed and they finally acted upon:

• You kidnap a wealthy client. They kept screwing up the abduction before they actually got it done.
• You torture the client for a full month and coerce him to sign over all of his wealth. 
• You then attempt to knock the victim off . 
• You blow it all on fast living. You actually occupy the victim's house until you basically trash the place.
• Repeat the procedure with another wealthy mark. This time you accidentally kill the victim. Your steroid fueled co-conspirator pumps the victim's girlfriend with animal tranquilizer in order to loosen her tongue and get a safe combination. Whoops! He gives an overdose and kills her. Since nothing was signed over and no information was passed on, the killings were for absolutely no financial gain.
• Buy a chainsaw to cut up the corpses to dispose of evidence. Return the bloody chainsaw for a more powerful one. 
• That chainsaw also breaks. Use hatchets. Put the body parts in buckets. 
• Ditch the buckets in the Florida wetlands known as the Everglades. Let the hungry alligators do the rest. Leave the dead couple's Lamborghini in the woods.
• Go back to life as usual and assume that you won't get caught.

  Doesn't that sound more exciting than trying to determine a client's body mass index for a modest fee. Believe it or not, this really happened. Well, something similar happened depending on which sources that you go by.  It was all very nasty!
   Daniel Lugo and his musclebound accomplices did not realize at first that they had left a loose link.
They had forced alcohol down the gullet of their first victim then tried to stage what appear to be a fiery, drunk driving fatality. The victim escaped from the car and tried to flee. The murderous muscle heads chased him with their car and ran him down. They assumed that they had finally killed him and fled the scene.
   Amazingly the victim, Marc Schiller, was one tough dude. He still wasn't dead!  He woke up in the hospital. He tried to tell the doctors and nurses about his ordeal. None of them paid it much heed. After all this guy had been totally inebriated and ran his car into a post. The police also seemed to disbelieve Schiller's tale.Schiller also had a past history of financial impropriety that shadowed his credibility.
   Schiller contacted a private investigator, Ed Du Bois. Du Bois was also skeptical of such an incredulous story. However he eventually began to uncover a paper trail of peculiar documents involving vast transfers of wealth and property. Unfortunately by the time the police became seriously involved, the second caper with the double homicide had already occurred. Both cases were linked to the Sun Gym Gang.
   A massive police raid ensued. Daniel Luca was arrested hiding in the Bahamas. Overwhelming evidence was found in the police raids. The ditched Lamborghini was discovered. Witnesses included:

• Marc Schiller. His testimony was riveting. Ironically, after testifying Schiller was arrested for his past financial impropriety. The victim and star witness served 2 years in prison even after all that he had been through.
• Sabina Petrescu - Daniel Lugo's girlfriend. The exotic dancer believed Luca when he told her he was a C.I.A. operative.
• Jorge Delgado. This member of the Sun Gym Gang turned rat and gave evidence against the gang.
• Neighbors of  Frank Griga and Krisztina Furton, the murdered couple. They had actually met the members of the gang who were posing as potential business partners. 

      Daniel Lugo and Noel Doorbal are now on penitentiary Death Row. Jorge Delgado got a 15 year sentence. Other Sun Gym members got prison terms ranging from 30 years to 8 years.

   Marc Schiller wrote a book about his ordeal. CBS 48 Hours did a documentary on the Sun Gym Gang. The documentary was a major reference for this blog.
    The movie 'Pain and Gain' was released in 2013 based on the Sun Gym Gang crime spree.
The movie was a black comedy starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne 'the Rock' Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Tony Shalhoub, and Ed Harris.  Marc Schiller and family and friends of victims Griga and Furton felt that the movie made light of what were heinous and gruesome crimes by evil sociopaths.

My final verdict is in on Daniel Lugo and the fast twitched muscle fibred fiends known as the Sun Gym Gang. They have moved to FRONT AND CENTER of the 
Fitness Trainer Hall of Shame! They are the worst examples that I've heard of - so far.
    Don't kidnap, extort and murder clients or other people. It gives Fitness Trainers a bad reputation! We have enough trouble being taken seriously.

Until Next Time,.......Keep Fit

Little Bobby Strong

Kidnap a rich client!    Coerce him to sign over his hard earned possessions !
Spend the rest of your years in prison and maybe even death row !
You also get a seat of honor in the Fitness Trainer Hall of Shame !

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Fitness Training: The Extreme Home Gym

   He didn't earn the nickname 'Mad Dog' by sticking to the status quo!
Jeremy Podlog is a married father of two, a competitive amateur wrestler, a digital media entrepreneur,  and an award winning documentary film maker. All of these titles require an extensive commitment of effort and time.
   Jeremy's 25 year plus wrestling career was capped with a Canadian Championship bronze medal and an appearance in the wrestling World Cup on the Canadian National team. His tenacity and attacking style led to the Mad Dog moniker. Many a wrestling tournament announcer lauded these legendary exploits with trembling, tongue-tied reverence.

 Jeremy still has the fire in his belly to keep on wrestling. He is addicted to the sport. In his own words "The wrestling mat is my crack pipe! I gotst to have it!"  

   Jeremy's dilemma is a familiar one to many a working person.

• His wife is a successful and busy career woman
• His children are getting involved in sports and arts
• His film making career is beginning to boom. He is well on his way to becoming Canada's answer to Michael Moore or Morgan Spurlock.

   This mushrooming success of family and vocation has left less available time for his avocation - wrestling. However for a think-out-of-the-box type of genius like Jeremy this is not a deterrent. It is just another challenge! Rather than take valuable time to travel to the wrestling venues to practice,  he has built his own wrestling room in his garage. With some mats and some constructive ingenuity the Mad Dog is back in business - big time!
    Jeremy is also fortunate to live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, a city with no shortage of current and former internationally and nationally experienced amateur wrestlers. He is able to entice these warriors over with promises of tea, muffins and post workout grog in exchange for an hour or two of combative exercise. In this way Jeremy can work around his hectic business and family schedule.
Since Calgary can experience the full wrath of a northern prairie winter, the garage can be heated.
   Jeremy also has a home gym in his basement to supplement his wrestling with weight training.
Occasionally he is able to slip away for CrossFit sessions at a nearby club where he also provides digital media consulting services.

   Jeremy's personal wrestling studio should not be confused with an infamous 'Professional Wrestling' institute known as the 'Hart Dungeon'. The Hart family are Pro Wrestling icons who ran a school for aspiring Pro Wrestlers out out the basement of their Calgary mansion. Rumors of the family patriarch, Stu Hart, physically torturing ex-football payers turned wannabe pro wrestlers are tales of horrific local legend. The Mad Dog's garage dungeon is more about competitive fitness and fun.

   Hopefully this home studio can keep one of amateur wrestling's most charismatic and colorful characters in the game for a few more years.  
   

Don't try this at home! Then again - he did!
Mad Dog Podlog and his garage wrestling studio.
Mess with him at your peril!

Until next time,..Keep Fit

Little Bobby Strong


                                   













P.S. Check out Jeremy Podlog's CrossFit website at www.rabbitview.com/rabbitview-crossfit

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Fitness Training and the Home Gym

   The home gym business is booming! There are many reasons for this:

• People today are busy and pressed for time!  Kid's soccer, gymnastics, hockey, or music lessons can eat away at the free moments in each day. Throw in work commutes, differing spousal schedules, social commitments, household duties, and other family obligations and the first thing to get dropped could be a fitness club membership. A home gym could appear to be be the answer.
• Fitness club memberships can be costly!  Home gyms can vary in price but once paid off there are no more monthly fees as with a club membership. 
• There are no parking expenses or other travel issues with a home gym.
• There are no periods of peak usage and wait times to get on certain apparatus or equipment.
• Some people feel uncomfortable working out in a public gym. They feel that they are being compared to fitter people and being judged negatively. This may be only a figment of their imagination but it can still be a powerful perception. 
• The home gym owner can work out when the mood strikes them. In theory there should be fewer excuses to prevent this from happening,

  Can we safely say that for a time challenged person the home gym is the answer? 
  This is not necessarily so. 

• Many home gyms collect dust and cobwebs, become indoor clothes lines, or get stashed in a neglected corner of the garage or basement, never to be used.  I have always believed that someone who will not take the time to actually go to a gym or fitness center to work out is more likely to give up on a program with a home gym. 
• Some home gyms will be junk that breaks easily and does not provide a full range of motion for the exercise.
• There can be distractions at home! Kids, computers, televisions, phone calls, pets, other family members, ringing doorbells and friendly neighbors bearing six-packs of craft beer can conspire against a successful home work-out.

How can someone who is serious about exercising at home insure that they are buying a suitable product? The best way is to stick to brand names such as LifeFitness, Nautilus, Bullworker or Livestrong. (There is the former Lance Armstrong cancer foundation Livestrong but there is also the business part of Livestrong that posts fitness information and makes fitness equipment.) For free weights the best choices are Weider or York. Television infomercial gadgets or home gyms from 
Walley Mart likely won't fit the bill!
   Since many people with home gyms give up the ghost rather quickly there will be bargains on E-bay, Kijiji, Craigslist or the want ads. 

The entrepreneurial Fitness Trainer will think outside of the box! Tap into the home gym demographic. Cultivate house call Fitness Training sessions with the home gym owners.
Some of the home gym buyers just may realize that they could use some expert help to reap the full benefit of their investment.
It may require some tips from Fitness Equipment dealers to track down recent buyers. The Fitness Trainer will have to network and establish such relationships.  It could prove fruitful.
Working out of a Fitness Center is not the only career option!

Until Next Time, ......Keep Fit

Little Bobby Strong
                               

No travel time!  No crowded weight room!
No sneers from boorish muscleheads!
Maybe even a potential client!

PS: Kudos to Germany at the soccer World Cup!
I tried to stay neutral but my Mom does have German blood.
Her maiden name was Schwabe.
Little Bobby Strong could have almost become
Little Bobby Schwabe! 








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Fitness Training and Late Night Infomercials

   Sometimes I get those nights. I can't sleep. It doesn't happen if I've spent that the day being active outside. However, on those other days it can occur. I can try thumbing through a muscle magazine from my old stack in the closet. I can try reading a chapter from my college exercise physiology textbook. If I can't read I can always turn on the tube and be entertained - or be bored.
   If I click to the right channel I can find it - that special channel showing the fitness equipment infomercial. Then I have an epiphany. This is it! This is the ultimate answer to finding the perfect exercise.
   Get super fit with the Titanic Toner! You don't have to leave the couch. You just sit there and put the Titantic Toner on your lap. Then you proceed to pull on the handles and perform crunching movements for 10 minutes. Repeat every day as you watch your favorite sit-com.  Observe as the pounds melt away. Gaze in amazement as your muscles become toned cables of sinewy steel in just a few short workouts. Observe as your abs transform from rolls of quivering jelly belly to looking like a farmer's plow ran over your midsection. There is no longer any need to hoist weights or cycle around a park or run like a rat on a treadmill. Stop wasting vast amounts of your valuable time by working out.
All you need is the Titanic Toner!
   The person on T.V. demonstrating the Titanic Toner is a super ripped model or even a former Olympic champion. Wow, do you think that that's how they got their world beating physique .It couldn't have been from hours in the weight room and countless intervals of hill runs, 400 meter repeats or numerous lengths in the swimming pool. No way! It was from performing the same movement on this innovative device for 10 minutes while never leaving the couch!
   Fitness Trainers will invariably get asked about the validity of such gimmicks by their clients. People like shortcuts. If these products actually worked, our profession could become obsolete like VHS tapes and Polaroid cameras. Don't worry. Fitness Training is safe, for now. Such infomercials make claims that can be quite misleading. There are some common issues that make the promise of these super gadgets very unlikely:

• The exercise movements are overly simple and repetitive
• There is usually no method of adjustment for increasing overload to make the exercise more difficult
• The equipment is often poorly constructed and easily broken
• The exercise movements are rarely specific to any functional range of motion required for sports or normal activity  

   These infomercials are targeting a specific type of person. This is not a hard and fast rule but it is a strong belief that I have. People that will not leave home to work out are probably not going to adhere to a workout commitment. Of course, there are always exceptions. However, the ones that will stick with it at home will buy a weight set or a treadmill or they will do yoga. They do not rely on the infomercial super exerciser.
   If you haven't pounded back too many brews in front of the tube, you may have noticed the disclaimer that reads  "The results shown may also depend on diet, extra exercise and other variables."  That is the equipment maker's legal out in the likely event that the buyer does not get ripped and fit by sitting on the sofa.
   Some exercise is better than no exercise!  However in most cases ,taking a walk, or going up a few flights of stairs, or house cleaning, or gardening will produce better results than a T.V. wonder gadget.
   There is a famous story about a legendary, medicated  insomniac taking his gun and blowing out the television screen one sleepless night. Maybe Elvis Presley was watching the Titanic Toner commercial when he pulled that trigger.

Until next time,...........keep fit!

Little Bobby Strong

Just squeeze the handles of the Titanic Toner together to attain 'total fitness' with just 10 minutes a day.
Hmmm. Maybe I'm not doing it right!  

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