Fit Tip Friday #51

💪The Home Gym Under Your Bed

Welcome to this week's Fit Tip Friday!Fitness is a function of stewardship, skills, and strength.

• Stewardship recognizes that our bodies to do not belong to us, but they belong to the Lord, and we manage them with a motivation to His glory and His name. 

• Skills include all of the various activities and movements we learn to allow us to steward our bodies (running, weight training, programming, etc...). 

• Strength is the habitual application of both stewardship and skills over time. You will become strong by stewarding your body and steadily applying skills over seasons. 

Skills and strength become easier to understand and take action on when you have a simple tool and a simple plan. And that's where the Kettlebell comes in. The Kettlebell is perhaps the most versatile piece of home gym equipment you can invest in to steward your body, learn skills, and build serious strength. This iron piece of versatility does it all, and it can fit right under your bed. It's the ultimate minimalist approach to body stewardship. My new post covers 7 benefits of kettlebell training. Click the link below to read the article. 🔗 The Home Gym Under Your Bed: 7 Benefits of Kettlebells 

 💡New Instructional Videos 

The Layman's Fitness website now has kettlebell instructional videos and posts available on the "Videos" page.The LF video page provides instruction on kettlebell and bodyweight movements, with over 30 videos/posts you can use for guidance on form, ideas on progression (making movements harder), regression (making movements easier), and tips for application. More kettlebell videos & posts will be uploaded over the next several weeks, but I started with the big six kettlebell movements:1. The Kettlebell Swing2. The Turkish Get-Up3. The Kettlebell Clean4. The Kettlebell Press5. The Goblet Squat6. The Kettlebell Snatch

📃Resources

Here are some of my favorite resources from the last few weeks. 

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Cold Showers - Are they good for you?

Wim Hof ('The Iceman') popularized cold exposure. If you've heard of cold exposure, cold therapy, and people taking cold showers by choice, it's probably because of this guy. This article slices through the fads of cold exposure with cited research to give a balanced look at cold showers. My take? You never know until you try one!

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Strength Aerobics: A Powerful Alternative to HIIT (2 workouts)

Try the kettlebell workout; I did for it 20 minutes and experienced what's called "Strength Aerobics". This methodology uses the alactacid pathway with aerobic recovery, which is a fancy way to say that you exercise for 10-20 seconds followed by a break long enough to catch your breath. 

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Taking Responsibility for Your Life

In this podcast, Michael Foster talks through taking responsibility for your life from the view of the sluggard in the book of Proverbs.