The Fitness Journal

There appears to be more and more research coming out supporting the concept of genetic factors being a part of the obesity problem. In the past, when people were much more physically active and didn’t have easy access to the variety of “fast” and “snack” foods available today, these genetic factors probably didn’t have a impact impact but unfortunately today that has changed.

Does this mean that if you have these genetic factors, you throw your hands up in the air and blame it all on genetics? No, it means that you have to do what you ancestors did and be physically active (resistance and cardiovascular/interval training ) and eat a healthy diet (one not relying on fast foods.) Genetics is not an excuse unless you make it one.

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Some recent research has indicated that your social network can affect whether you put on or take off weight. It is possible that your social networks influence what you see as normal, and can therefore have a positive or negative impact on your weight. It also appears that we are more influenced by relationships (friendship etc) with members of the same sex than with members of the opposite sex. This could be because we see our image in relation to members of the same sex.

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One of my favourite ways of splitting the body for the purposes of weight training is the push-pull split. The general idea of this split is to base your workout on synergistic muscles. Your upper body push muscles are your chest, delts (except rear delts) and triceps and your pull muscles are your back, biceps and rear delts. You can add your quads and calves into your push workout or you can put them into a leg workout or into a quad dominant workout. Likewise you can put your hamstrings into your pull workout or put them into a leg workout or into a hip dominant workout.

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Wayne

Recently I started coaching boxing at a local gym. Although most people are training for fitness and for fat loss, there are a few people that want to go into the ring. Boxing is a great workout that trains cardiovascular fitness, muscular endurance, power, balance and co-ordination. Because you train in rounds (e.g 2 minute rounds with a break between rounds,) boxing is a form of interval training.

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Grip strength is important in a number of sports (e.g combat sports like wrestling) and in day to day life (e.g. opening screw top bottles) and so should be trained - try farmer’s walks, thick grip bar work, reverse curls, wrist rollers etc.

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Wayne