I confess to being a Luddite, I have a dumb phone, it only makes phone calls. In my house a tablet is a stack of paper joined in a manner which allows me to remove one sheet at a time. A reader is what I am when I am enjoying the printed word. I am even a Luddite when it comes to fitness using such archaic technology as bodyweight exercises, resistance bands, Indian clubs and kettle bells.
The history of bodyweight exercises are lost in the mists of time being featured in frescoes of Greek and Roman origin (to see a killer bodyweight circuit Google Hindu strength training videos). Resistance bands were the first use of India rubber in the mid 19th Century for rehabilitation exercises and all the strongmen of the later 19th Century and early 20th Century used some version of an expandable band or springs. There were event competitions involving them. The oldest manual I have in my library on training with Indian clubs was has a copyright date of1866.Kettle bells were common in gyms of the late 19th Century and existed long before having originated in Scotland in the 18th Century. My cardio programmes include walking, running (barefoot) cycling (multispeed bicycles were first seen in the late 19th Century) and skipping rope.
The word bible comes from the Greek biblia "the books". Therefore biblia in Greek and Late Latin is neuter plural (gen. bibliorum) and not a single book. Using this plural I will suggest a home bible of fitness books.
In no order of priority the titles I recommend are:
1. The New Rules of Lifting for Women/Men Schuler et al
2. Body for Life Bill Phillips
3. Fitness for Dummies Schlosberg et al
4. You Are your own Gym Mark Lauren
5. No Excuses! Fitness Workout Harvey Walden IV
6. Ten Minutes’ Exercise for Busy Men; A Complete Course in Physical Education: Five Separate Courses, Free Work, Chest Weights, Dumb Bells, Wands Indian Clubs (Copyright 1902)
7. Anatomy for Women for Strength and Fitness Mark Vella
8. Power to the People Pavel Tsatsouline
9. From Russia with Tough Love Pavel Tsatsouline
10.Cycling for Health, Fitness and Well-Being James C.
McCullagn
When you purchase a fitness DVD you purchase a fish, when you purchase a fitness book, read it and use it you learn how to fish.
It is called WORK-ing out for a reason.
I said getting fit was simple, I did not say it was easy.
Cardio burns calories, strength work burns fat.
Eat well to lose weight, exercise to get fit
You can not build a six pack using twelve packs
Often when we seek a magic bullet for fitness we end up shooting ourselves in the foot.
"I think calories are little germs in food that all moms are afraid of" Dennis the Menace
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