TMHS 714: 4 Overlooked Exercises That Will Make You Fitter, Healthier, & More Resilient
Aug 21, 2023
auto_awesome
Discover overlooked exercises that can improve fitness and resilience. Jumping rope improves bone health, coordination, and muscle power. Utilizing ketone IQ enhances performance and cognitive function. Climbing stairs improves cardiovascular health. Offset training improves core strength and engages neglected muscles.
Jumping rope is an often overlooked exercise that improves metabolic health, muscle power, and bone density.
Stair climbing offers significant benefits for cardiovascular fitness, balance, coordination, and longevity.
Deep dives
Jumping Rope: The Overlooked Exercise with Incredible Benefits
Jumping rope is an often overlooked exercise that provides numerous benefits for both physical and bone health. Backed by scientific studies, it improves metabolic health, balance, coordination, explosive power, and even bone density. Jumping rope can target various muscle groups, including the core, glutes, hamstrings, quads, and calves. It is a safe and effective exercise for individuals of all ages, including older adults, and can aid in body composition changes. Additionally, jumping rope is relatively inexpensive, compact, and offers a range of creative exercise options.
Stair Climbing: A Surprisingly Effective and Versatile Exercise
Climbing stairs is an often overlooked exercise that offers significant benefits for cardiovascular fitness and coordination. It is a superior exercise for training stabilizer muscles and improving balance. Research has shown that stair climbing improves VO2 max, enhances heart health, and reduces the risk of falls. Furthermore, the speed at which a person can climb stairs is directly correlated with longevity. Stair climbing exercises can range from simple climbs to sprints and can be performed in various ways, such as using single or double stairs, alternating legs, and incorporating different pace changes.
Offset Training: Unilateral Exercises for Core Strength and Functionality
Offset training, also known as unilateral exercises, involves strength training movements that require one limb or one side of the body to work independently or with different resistance levels. These exercises target stabilizer muscles, improving core strength, balance, coordination, and overall function. Offset exercises mimic real-life movements, such as carrying asymmetrical loads, and can reduce the risk of injuries. Examples include single-hand farmers walks, offset squats, and offset dumbbell presses. Offset training can be performed using different tools, such as steel clubs, maces, and kettlebells.
Cart and Sled Pushing: A Timeless Exercise with Remarkable Benefits
Pushing or pulling heavy objects over longer distances, such as carts and sleds, is a highly beneficial exercise that humans have been doing for thousands of years. This form of exercise improves explosive power, full-body strength, and cardiovascular fitness. Research has shown that sled pushing, with or without resistance, enhances sprint performance. This exercise also mimics real-life movements, as our ancestors used to push or drag objects for various purposes. Cart and sled pushing can be performed in different ways, such as pushing forward, pulling backward, side stepping, or utilizing different grips and positions.
“If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.”
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
Almost everyone struggles on some level with incorporating exercise into their routine. Exercise is super important for your total body health, so implementing a routine can help improve your lifespan, boost your metabolism, decrease your BMI, and help you lose weight. Exercise can get you fitter, healthier, and more resilient - and there are quick and easy exercises that are often overlooked that can help you transform your body.
In today’s episode, you’ll learn exercises that are easy to implement and that you could do anywhere - and you’ll discover easy tools to help you add these exercises to your routine and build up to a level you’re comfortable with. I also share some of my favorite tips and aids that will bring your workouts to the next level.
No more excuses - it’s time to tune in, and master ways to build a better body and better health!
In this episode, you’ll discover:
Exercises to improve your metabolic health and target your muscles
How our bone health affects our lifespan
Why Jumping rope can improve bone density and increase muscle power
The importance of easing into exercise while training
A faster way to lower your BMI than conventional "cardio."
The quickest way to improve coordination and motor skills
What are “fast-twitch muscle fibers” and how does it change with age?
The best pre-workout supplements to help improve your performance
Why ketones are essential to your workouts
Benefits of stair climbing and how it can be used as an easy exercise
What is your VO2 max and how it can impact your cardiovascular health
How just 2-10 minutes per day of stair climbing can drastically improve your health
The best ways to work on cardio no matter what level or pace you’re at
4 different exercises you can do on any staircase
The best intra-workout electrolytes and how they improve your brain function during workouts
What are offset training and unilateral workouts and how do they impact your “stabilizer muscles”
How everyday actions can actually help target specific muscle groups
7+ easy offset exercises that will improve your muscle function
Different training techniques and methods to build resistance