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MedleyCane said:
What is your take on Kettlebell training? I've been doing total body work three times a week since my stroke in 2023 and it's helped me greatly, I think. But looking to do kettlebell work at home on my "off days". Nothing fancy but swings, lunges, clean and snatches. Also started playing with some resistance bands. I found those useful during post-stroke PT.
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Honestly whatever resistance training you enjoy and can stick with is good

Kettlebells are awesome because they’re versatile and it keeps people interested. You can get good quick workouts etc

I talk about diet a lot and my “diet” is a little similar to how kettlebells work for exercise. I do sort of an intermittent fasting approach but mostly because I don’t like to meal prep and eat all day. It’s easier for me to control my macros. There’s no inherent health advantages to fasting (despite what the internet leads us to believe) but it helps me control overall macros and enjoy healthy eating instead of force feeding myself

So for me lifting I genuinely love being at the gym and it’s more mental these days than physical. For people that don’t want to be at the gym for 90 minutes every day and still want to get the benefits then those types of kettlebell workouts are great for them

If that makes sense

Like people come to me and ask the perfect sets, reps, exercises, diet etc etc before they ever set foot in the gym and they’re already exhausted and overwhelmed trying to be perfect

I just tell them if you enjoy doing bicep curls then do that every day for a few months if you have to just to build that healthy habit. Worry about “perfect” down the road
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Wasn't there also a painted mural on a building at around 79th Street? Where southbound I-95 curves towards the left. It was about 20 stories high, as I recall.
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JHallCanes said:
Honestly whatever resistance training you enjoy and can stick with is good

Kettlebells are awesome because they’re versatile and it keeps people interested. You can get good quick workouts etc

I talk about diet a lot and my “diet” is a little similar to how kettlebells work for exercise. I do sort of an intermittent fasting approach but mostly because I don’t like to meal prep and eat all day. It’s easier for me to control my macros. There’s no inherent health advantages to fasting (despite what the internet leads us to believe) but it helps me control overall macros and enjoy healthy eating instead of force feeding myself

So for me lifting I genuinely love being at the gym and it’s more mental these days than physical. For people that don’t want to be at the gym for 90 minutes every day and still want to get the benefits then those types of kettlebell workouts are great for them

If that makes sense

Like people come to me and ask the perfect sets, reps, exercises, diet etc etc before they ever set foot in the gym and they’re already exhausted and overwhelmed trying to be perfect

I just tell them if you enjoy doing bicep curls then do that every day for a few months if you have to just to build that healthy habit. Worry about “perfect” down the road
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What you say holds true about sticking with something over time, preferably something you like. I love going to my gym.
In fact, when I'm in a grumpy mood, my wife tells me to run to the gym....lol!
I've bought several kettlebells over time ranging from 25 to 55 lbs, but right now they are serving as garage ornaments. There is a guy on YouTube who is a big kettlebell guy named Chandler Marchman ("Coach Mandler") who espouses brief but intense workouts. No more than 10-15 minutes combining foundational exercises like swings, windmill, carries, squats, snatches, presses and cleans. No circus kettlebell juggling.
But you're correct, it is important to have a plan where your body is moving every day.
The beauty of this is there are countless ways to do this.
But I love going to the gym.
It's home.
 
MedleyCane said:
What you say holds true about sticking with something over time, preferably something you like. I love going to my gym.
In fact, when I'm in a grumpy mood, my wife tells me to run to the gym....lol!
I've bought several kettlebells over time ranging from 25 to 55 lbs, but right now they are serving as garage ornaments. There is a guy on YouTube who is a big kettlebell guy named Chandler Marchman ("Coach Mandler") who espouses brief but intense workouts. No more than 10-15 minutes combining foundational exercises like swings, windmill, carries, squats, snatches, presses and cleans. No circus kettlebell juggling.
But you're correct, it is important to have a plan where your body is moving every day.
The beauty of this is there are countless ways to do this.
But I love going to the gym.
It's home.
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That’s the tough part about being someone new trying to find the answers right now

Everyone preaches they have the “optimal” route when really all they’ve done is figured out what’s optimal for them. I can’t really tell someone else to do what I do because I’m not sure if we have the same goals or ability

So people get overwhelmed and give up part of it is not knowing what to believe

Like the fasting thing people will ask how can I build muscle that way? I just have to eat more in a smaller window. People are like do you do it for the autophagy? I’m like no I’m just not hungry in the morning so I don’t eat 🤣

Nothing has changed in the 30 years I’ve been working out but don’t tell that to the content creators that rely on selling people something new and revolutionary every day
 
MedleyCane said:
What you say holds true about sticking with something over time, preferably something you like. I love going to my gym.
In fact, when I'm in a grumpy mood, my wife tells me to run to the gym....lol!
I've bought several kettlebells over time ranging from 25 to 55 lbs, but right now they are serving as garage ornaments. There is a guy on YouTube who is a big kettlebell guy named Chandler Marchman ("Coach Mandler") who espouses brief but intense workouts. No more than 10-15 minutes combining foundational exercises like swings, windmill, carries, squats, snatches, presses and cleans. No circus kettlebell juggling.
But you're correct, it is important to have a plan where your body is moving every day.
The beauty of this is there are countless ways to do this.
But I love going to the gym.
It's home.
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It's definitely a mood enhancer! I go to a local gym in the Columbia SC area and get there right around 4:45 am Monday-Friday. So consistently the owner has given me keys to the front door and the office. I open the place and get the radio, tv's, etc every morning so the dude lets me pay only $50 every 3 months. Anyway, I'm there early and then show up to my office around 7:00 on cloud nine. I'm cracking jokes and am as cheerful as can be. Every one is always asking me "why are you like this? So **** happy in the mornings." I keep telling them it's the gym but they shrug it off like I'm full of it
 
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Sumcane said:
It's definitely a mood enhancer! I go to a local gym in the Columbia SC area and get there right around 4:45 am Monday-Friday. So consistently the owner has given me keys to the front door and the office. I open the place and get the radio, tv's, etc every morning so the dude lets me pay only $50 every 3 months. Anyway, I'm there early and then show up to my office around 7:00 on cloud nine. I'm cracking jokes and am as cheerful as can be. Every one is always asking me "why are you like this? So **** happy in the mornings." I keep telling them it's the gym but they shrug it off like I'm full of it
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It must be the endorphins being released, no?
 
JHallCanes said:
That’s the tough part about being someone new trying to find the answers right now

Everyone preaches they have the “optimal” route when really all they’ve done is figured out what’s optimal for them. I can’t really tell someone else to do what I do because I’m not sure if we have the same goals or ability

So people get overwhelmed and give up part of it is not knowing what to believe

Like the fasting thing people will ask how can I build muscle that way? I just have to eat more in a smaller window. People are like do you do it for the autophagy? I’m like no I’m just not hungry in the morning so I don’t eat 🤣

Nothing has changed in the 30 years I’ve been working out but don’t tell that to the content creators that rely on selling people something new and revolutionary every day
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This!
Additionally, many of the trainers I see at the gyms don't know what they're doing, and if there, they
are collecting a paycheck.
They don't teach the clients proper, if not realistic, exercises for them to do.
Worse, they are not teaching good technique and how, what, and why they are doing the different exercises.
Clients be on a machine chatting, etc.
After a few weeks they quit because they don't see or feel any gains.
Duh!
 
MedleyCane said:
Yes!
I think there was a Howard Johnson hotel/restaurant behind the mural.
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For @JD08 and those others who don't remember as well, there was a huge building on 81st Street, and per Google Maps the building has been torn down. Just past all of the hotel buildings, southbound I-95 jogs over to the left before straightening out again and heading due south.


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TheOriginalCane said:
For @JD08 and those others who don't remember as well, there was a huge building on 81st Street, and per Google Maps the building has been torn down. Just past all of the hotel buildings, southbound I-95 jogs over to the left before straightening out again and heading due south.


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I remember the beaches at 81st street.
During the early 1980s it was a hotspot before soBeach blew up.
 
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