Search Google images for recent, shirtless images of Arnold Schwarzenegger and you can find a sad, depressing image of the greatest bodybuilder in world history.
Maybe it's simply the stress of governing the state of California, no small task.
Maybe it's the after-effects of the steroids that he supposedly has admitted to taking.
Maybe he is simply eating too much and no longer working out two hours a day as he used to claim.
Yet no longer how you spin it, the Arnold Schwarzenegger of 2009 is no advertisement for the long term health and fitness benefits of weight lifting.
Compare today's Terminator to the author of this book, who's just five years younger.
Which one would you rather look like when you're their age? Now that you should be convinced that bodyweight exercises can keep you looking young and strong, Peterson has written a book full of plenty of ways to build your muscles with his Transformetrics Training System.
The author contracted polio at the age of 4 and was left with broken legs that forced him to use crutches.
After an encounter with a bully at age 10, his grandfather and a friend introduced him to the courses of Charles Atlas and Earle Leiderman.
He hasn't stopped since.
He starts out by listing the 7 Attributes of Dynamic Functional Fitness: Strength, Flexibility, Endurance, Speed, Balance, Coordination and Aesthetics.
There're twelve lessons, and he prescribes a ten week program which starts with Lessons One and Two.
However, Lesson One includes some extremely advanced pushups that are not for beginners.
I for one was not clear on exactly what exercises to start with.
Although he says to workout for 30 minutes at a time, doing even the warmups from Lesson One would take longer than that.
Plus, that lesson includes what he calls the three most important - Hindu (or Furey) Pushups, Hindu (or Furey) Squats and the Atlas Pushup.
This is a problem I've noticed in other exercise books.
They give you the exercises, say what each is for, make suggestions about doing them - but it's still up to you to devise the schedule that's best for you, depending up on the condition you're in and the time you have available.
The final section of the book illustrates the problem.
It promises that no matter how weak you are now, in six weeks or less you can be doing 500 pushups per day.
Not necessarily all at once, but 500 total.
And he tells several success stories.
Then he provides photographs illustrating 13 pushup variations.
Then just says to do as many variations as possible every day.
That's it? Should I continue running? How about other exercises? Maybe, like the serviceman who went from 50 pounds overweight to stud in only one month just from doing pushups, that is enough.
Worth a try.
Maybe it's simply the stress of governing the state of California, no small task.
Maybe it's the after-effects of the steroids that he supposedly has admitted to taking.
Maybe he is simply eating too much and no longer working out two hours a day as he used to claim.
Yet no longer how you spin it, the Arnold Schwarzenegger of 2009 is no advertisement for the long term health and fitness benefits of weight lifting.
Compare today's Terminator to the author of this book, who's just five years younger.
Which one would you rather look like when you're their age? Now that you should be convinced that bodyweight exercises can keep you looking young and strong, Peterson has written a book full of plenty of ways to build your muscles with his Transformetrics Training System.
The author contracted polio at the age of 4 and was left with broken legs that forced him to use crutches.
After an encounter with a bully at age 10, his grandfather and a friend introduced him to the courses of Charles Atlas and Earle Leiderman.
He hasn't stopped since.
He starts out by listing the 7 Attributes of Dynamic Functional Fitness: Strength, Flexibility, Endurance, Speed, Balance, Coordination and Aesthetics.
There're twelve lessons, and he prescribes a ten week program which starts with Lessons One and Two.
However, Lesson One includes some extremely advanced pushups that are not for beginners.
I for one was not clear on exactly what exercises to start with.
Although he says to workout for 30 minutes at a time, doing even the warmups from Lesson One would take longer than that.
Plus, that lesson includes what he calls the three most important - Hindu (or Furey) Pushups, Hindu (or Furey) Squats and the Atlas Pushup.
This is a problem I've noticed in other exercise books.
They give you the exercises, say what each is for, make suggestions about doing them - but it's still up to you to devise the schedule that's best for you, depending up on the condition you're in and the time you have available.
The final section of the book illustrates the problem.
It promises that no matter how weak you are now, in six weeks or less you can be doing 500 pushups per day.
Not necessarily all at once, but 500 total.
And he tells several success stories.
Then he provides photographs illustrating 13 pushup variations.
Then just says to do as many variations as possible every day.
That's it? Should I continue running? How about other exercises? Maybe, like the serviceman who went from 50 pounds overweight to stud in only one month just from doing pushups, that is enough.
Worth a try.
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