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278: How much water should I be drinking after and during an exercise routine? 0

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Jun 21, 2017

Enthuzed but Confused - How much water should I be drinking after and during an exercise routine? Especially a very intense one where I’m sweating a lot.

No Free Time - I’ve been exercising for about 4 months, 3 days a week. Now, I have less time than I used to, and I need to cut back on how much exercising I’m doing. Should I keep to 3 days and exercise for less time, or cut back to one intense day?

Mom Problems - My kids spend a lot of time on the computer, and I want to get them more interested in being active. How can I get their attention?

277: Why Every Exercise Program Should Include Hill Training 0

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Jun 19, 2017

As some of you know I played hockey while I was growing up and continued to play men’s league or beer league hockey until a few years ago when I had to give it up, because the games are too late and I’ve been devoting most of my time to growing Fitness For Freedom and my family. Playing late night hockey was starting to wear me down and burn me out. So I hadn’t played for a few years when I recently got the call to fill in, ‘Hey, Jonny we have an 8:30 game this Thursday, you think you could make it?’ to which I responded, ‘Gordo, that is the only day and time that is even possible, so I’ll do it.’

It was only a couple days away which didn’t give me much time to train, if you’ve ever played hockey after an extended absence you know that it doesn’t matter how many leg exercises you do, hockey makes your legs a different kind of sore no matter what and my Friday morning squash game was already feeling it. So on the Wednesday night instead of doing a race pace run on a flat surface like I usually do, I ran to the quarry by my house and did interval wind sprints up and down the hill, 10 times at which point I almost vomited and decided to call it a night. The next day when I hit the ice I felt like a million bucks, I could skate well and my legs were only mildly sore at the end of the game, which for me is unheard of after such a long time off, and I attribute it to the hills I ran the day before and it also got me thinking. Hardly anyone does hill training which is unfortunate because there are so many benefits than just not being sore after your hockey game the next day, so day we have the Top 3 reasons everybody she incorporate hills into their training program no matter what.

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276: What’s a good quick exercise I can do to help with my posture? 0

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Jun 14, 2017

Fitness With Friends - I’ve been exercising with a friend for a few months now; but now she keeps skipping out on me. I don’t really like going alone, but I do want to keep exercising, and I don’t have many other people to reach out to. How can I keep my friend interested?

Too Young For This - I sit forward a lot, and I have really bad posture that I want to fix. What’s a good quick exercise I can do to help with my posture? I want something effective that will actually last, but won’t take too long each day.

Foodstuff - If my goal is just to lose weight, is it necessary to exercise, or would it be enough if I only eat healthy?

275: Why Do You Change in Some Ways But Not Others? 0

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Jun 12, 2017

About 10 years ago when we first started our in-home personal training company, one of my co-workers from my previous job hired me to design his exercise program. He was having some kind of an early 20’s crisis and decided he needed to quit smoking, stop drinking, eat healthfully, start exercising, go to bed earlier and lose weight all in one shot. He was pumped, promised himself this time was going to be different and he basically turned his life upside down. We did a few sessions together until we were both comfortable with how well he was doing the exercises and that he understood everything, why the program was structured the way it was, intensities etc. and we were supposed to get back together about 4 weeks later to update his program. Unfortunately I never heard from him again, until two years ago when I bumped into him at a conference centre here in town. He had put on about 50 pounds since I had last seen him and he’ed started smoking again, possibly he never legitimately stopped. I was disappointed, not in him, but in the fact I know he wants to change, but here is something inside of him that is preventing that from happening.

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274: Are push-ups a good pre-workout exercise before lifting weights? 0

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Jun 7, 2017

Janice4Tennis - A year ago I had been stretching for about 3 months, using a variety of stretches and techniques (sometimes with a partner), but I stopped, and lost about all of my flexibility. I stretch mainly for tennis. I want to get it back if I can, where do I start?

Fit Frank - Are push-ups a good pre-workout exercise before lifting weights?

Lethargy Sucks - I work at an office, and when I’m home spend a lot of time on the computer. I do exercise, but sometimes I have a hard time stopping if I’m on a roll with my personal projects. What are some quick and easy exercises I can do so I can keep my mind focused?

273: The Tradeoff Between Performance and Injury Prevention 0

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Jun 5, 2017

Welcome and thanks for stopping by, we appreciate that you’ve taken time out of your busy day to listen and hope that in return you get some valuable information or insight that you can apply into your everyday life to be the healthiest and most active version of yourself.

In my last year of University I separated my shoulder in a snowboarding accident, I was hurt bad enough that I was unable to lift weights for several months, but after about 1 month I was able to run again, so I dedicated myself to that and started running 5 days a week. It’s probably the only point in my life where I considered myself a legitimate runner and by my standards I was getting very fast running between 5 and 8km, until I started getting pain in the arch of my foot. At the time I wasn’t sure how to deal with it, but by happenstance I read an article in Men’s Health where they were interviewing Ray Zahab for running tips, for those of you that don’t know Ray is an ultra marathoner that at the time was running 6000 miles across the Sahara desert. In this article he said the best way to run injury free was to keep your pelvis inline to in front of your chest, so I started doing that and interestingly enough the pain in the arch of my foot subsided immediately and I was able to continue running, but initially I slowed down until I got used to this new running stride and adapted for it.