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07-27-19, 07:17 AM | |
Join Date: Feb 2002
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For anyone it depends on what you mean by "results" and what your goals are. What I currently find important is staying "fit" as I age while maintaining/even gaining strength and improving flexibility. For me doing, less intense workouts can achieve this. "Less intense" for me meant incorporating more Jessica Smith and yoga and doing less Cathe RWH. However, my strength has been declining, my muscles haven't felt as firm. I am now incorporating more Cathe strength as I feel I can go a bit heavier and I am seeing "results" with that. It's all about having goals and tweaking as you go along. Rewind 10 years and my goal was to run a 5K faster so the workouts I am doing now would not having given me "results".
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07-27-19, 12:53 PM | |
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: NYC
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For me I would say it depends on the style of working out. There is hardcore Pilates, athletic yoga practices, heavy weight, hiit, killer barre, and more and then there are lighter forms of working out that don’t get results, lighter forms of working out that have gotten better results for me and heavier workouts that are counterproductive. The best results aesthetically for me has been working with the Pilates reformer..traditional exercises, not a lot of effort but the payoff was extraordinary, next would be Callanetics also kundalini yoga and Essentrics added into whatever strength program I’m working with, strength is always better for me with bands at less effort than weights. TA has gotten me equal results to the best above but the exertion is not worth the effort as many of her exercises are done on hands and knees. It’s all about experimenting to find what’s right for you.
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07-27-19, 01:37 PM | |
Join Date: Nov 2008
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I have had some success recently after years of struggling to figure out what to do.
At the moment, walking on a treadmill for about 30 minutes a day (with a rest day about once a week) and gentle yoga fairly often (not every day) seems to be just what I need. I'd been having trouble figuring out what on earth to do because I kept winding up with minor problems that could have turned more serious if I'd kept trying to push through the discomfort. For example, my shoulders were bothering me, so I remembered that in the CS pain relief workouts, they remind you to work within the limits of whatever you can do that does not hurt. Movement is the key, not necessarily intensity. After some time getting exercise in ways that don't hurt at all, I've built up some strength and have increased the intensity and gradually increased my range of motion in the movements. So much better!
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07-27-19, 03:12 PM | |
Join Date: Jun 2009
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Depends on individual factors like age, body type, lifestyle (how much movement and what kinds of movement do you get outside of “workouts”), and goals.
If the goal is to be stronger, or even to maintain strength over a certain age, moving to only walking and no weight workouts is probably not going to be successful. If the goal is mainly to lose weight, various things could work if the food is right. If the goal is long lean muscles, well, maybe look at redefining the goal. I can’t believe in this day and age that fitness methods still get away with promising silly things like that. My focus in my forties is about 30-40/60-70 aesthetics vs healthy aging, meaning maintaining strength, maintaining or growing bone, doing good things for my heart and vessels, keeping balance and staying functional. When I back off on intense workouts for more than a couple of weeks, my cardio capacity and strength decrease somewhat. Though what is intense for me wouldn’t be for a twenty year old male, lol, so it’s relative. And intense doesn’t mean pushing well past my limit or regularly injuring myself. I have done intense rotations where I take more rest or light days than the schedule calls for. |
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lower intensity workouts, yoga only |
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