Bodyweight Exercises

This is not an article on blood pressure. There are a lot of those everywhere. Actually, to learn the most about blood pressure - ask your doctor the next time you have a checkup. Unless your doctor looks at the numbers and decides to tell you first.

Regular exercise can help reduce blood pressure. Pick routines that focus on strengthening your heart, not just getting your pulse rate up. For example, I can guarantee you that almost any Beyonce video will get my pulse racing, but it doesn't do much for lowering my blood pressure!

Nutrition is an important part of managing your blood pressure. A good weight loss eating plan may not address blood pressure management. There's a lot of research that shows that lowering your salt and sodium intake can significantly affect your blood pressure. Also, changing your eating habits does not have the side effects of blood pressure medications. Talk to your doctor, especially about the side effects of blood pressure meds.

Some people will, by virtue of their genetics, always have low or high blood pressure. But exercising - strengthening the heart and the muscles that help pump the blood - and taking a long hard look at your eating habits, will help almost everyone with keeping their blood pressure at healthy limits.

So it makes sense that you should include exercises targetting blood pressure in your fitness routine. But they shouldn't be your only routines. Because that would be boring.

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As your career advances and as you get older, you have more responsibilities. As your kids get older, you have more responsibilities. As you acquire a house, cars, electronic gizmos and hoo-hahs - you have more responsibilities. And with more responsibilities comes more stress. And your fitness routine probably isn't designed to handle stress.

Stress can be good. You know - "what doesn't kill me makes me stronger." Stress in that Hemingway's-man-in-the-arena kind of way. Stress can be good.

And stress can be a pain in the - well, almost everywhere. It drives up your blood pressure, makes you lose sleep, makes you cranky to your spouse and kids, and makes your hair fall out. The only god news is that you can design or pick up a fitness routine to handle stress.

There are fitness routines - including yoga, Pilates, and bodyweight exercises - that work miracles with handling the stress you are under every day. You can rotate them, mix and match them, or select the one routine that fits today's stress level.

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Each one of us wants to pretend we have unlimited energy. We never show fatigue at work, in front of the family, at church, or with friends. Because low energy is associated with weakness.

But your energy level goes up and down throughout the day. This is why there are "morning people" - high energy in the morning. For some people (like me), the energy level increases throughout the day and peaks right before you go to sleep.

And, not only does your body go through its energy cycle during the day, but life in general is tapping your energy all the time. That stessful meeting. That boring meeting. That endless phone call with that energy-sucking client. All of these things conspire to drain your energy.

What if you had a fitness routine - or a range of fitness routines - that you could match to your energy level? Maybe a super-charged energy routine to pull you out of a low energy slump. Or maybe a routine to help you burn off an excess of energy.

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Boredom can kill your fitness routine. Seriously. How interesting can "kick-punch-punch-WHOO!" be after you've done it 9,000 times?? Or how about carrots, lettuce, and granola at every meal? Your weight loss eating plan needs a menu, not just a list of foods. Human beings require change, and that includes your fitness routine.

Now, this wasn't a problem for you when you were involved in organized sports, because every practice and every game was brand new. Sometimes too new, for many of us! Or it wasn't a problem when you were starting out in a routine, because it's always new while you are learning something.

But now - your needs are changing. Maybe right now it's weight loss. Maybe in 2 or 3 months, it will be stamina. Or stretching. Or maybe today your focus is good and your energy is high and you hit a mixed martial arts circuit. But 2 or 3 days from now - after a busy week - your focus is off and a good Pilates routine is really all you can handle.

So what's the solution? For many people, the solution will be to have a range or catalogue of routines to pull down when you need change. And to have them right at your finger tips, not wait until you can search and find something new.

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Experts tell us we should exercise 30 minutes a day, for either 3 or 4 or 5 days a week. Some experts say the 30 minutes should be all in one workout routine. Other ones say it can be broken up (1 20-minute period, 1 10 minute period). You know what exercises fit this best? Bodyweight exercises and gardening!

This is actually pretty good for us. If your average day is anything like mine - there is no average day! Just this week, for example: Monday I had to drive 2 hours (one way) to a 3-1/2 hour hearing; Tuesday was a trial that lasted from 9:0 a.m until 4:30 p.m.; Wednesday was another hearing (this time 2-1/2 hours and only 1 hour away); Thursday was 4 2-hour meetings with clients; and Friday was an office meeting. Now, next week....

All that driving, all that time in court or in meetings, really puts a crimp in my ability to exercise. It also cramps sticking to a consistent weight loss eating plan. But next week is not so much time commitment, so I can get 30 minutes in probably every morning.

Having a fitness routine that can vary from 8 minutes to 60 minutes allows me to take maximum advantage of the time available. This week, for example: Monday was a 30 minute morning routine and Tuesday was a 15 minute yoga routine after work.

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The popular theory or idea right now is that your fitness and health problems are caused by your emotional problems.  You overeat, for example, because food is "comfort" for emotional pains you've got.  Or you can't follow through on a workout regimen because you have a "fear of commitment."  And, for a lot of people, this is absolutely TRUE.

So, if you ARE one of those people, then it makes sense that your fitness, nutrition, and stretching routines should fit in with this BIG change you are working on.  Because you don't want the routines - which are defeated by your problems - to be defeated again by fighting against changing your change!

Also, as you are changing inside, you need to keep modifying your routines to keep up with your internal changes.  You also want to do this quickly, to maintain the momentum and keep the changes going in a positive direction.

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One thing that my kids love to do is when we have breakfast for supper. You know what I mean: bacon and eggs, toast and oatmeal, at night. They love the novelty, the breaking-the-routine part of it.

Well, just like you are not limited to eating certain foods at specific times of day, you are not limited to exercising at specific times of day. Does today permit you to workout at lunch? Or maybe tomorrow, the perfect time is morning, before everyone else gets up. What about this weekend, when your afternoon is free and just begging for a long drenching workout?

Having a fitness routine that is flexible enough to be used at any time of day will let you exercise as many days as possible. Having a routine that can be changed, depending on what you ate - or when you ate - or whether you are sleepy or wide-awake - gives you maximum advantage.

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One huge problem with maintaining a fitness routine is finding a routine that fits in and around the rest of your schedule. It is really impossible to imagine that one routine can fit, especially as much as your time is in demand.

One huge problem is how other people's schedules affect your schedule. Your kids need to get up extra early for a field trip, and you still need to get to work on time. Boom! There goes THAT day's workout. Your unreliable coworker fails to deliver part of the project on time, so you need to stay late to meet the deadline. Boom! There goes ANOTHER day for working out.

Now, what if you had a fitness routine that coordinated itself with your schedule? Imagine a routine that could be used whether you had 10 or 25 or 42-1/2 minutes. Imagine a routine that can be done in the morning, at lunch, after work, or with your kids in the park on a Saturday.

Actually, one answer is have a catalog or library of routines that you can pick from. Don't be frustrated because your only routine takes 45 minutes, and you've only got 23 minutes. Have a 23 minute routine right there - to be used when you need it.

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Getting fit takes time. I don't mean 6 months or 2 years or 5 years kind of time. I mean 30 minutes every day kind of time. And THAT kind of time is the hardest and most precious.

Our life in general is getting more pressed for time. There's the time demanded from work: do more in less time OR stay longer to get it done. There's the time demanded from our families: our kids' activities, ours and our spouse's community activities and church activities. And every new addition comes OUT of that 30 minutes a day.

So you need to take control of your time. You need to look your day square in the face and say "Day! I am MAKING time for my fitness!"

One way to do this is to have the ability to select a fitness routine that fits in the time demands of your day. Got 15 minutes in the morning? Do your 15 minute routine. Oh - lunch appointment cancelled and now you have 1-1/2 hours? Do your 45 minute workout and a short yoga sequence (and a shower, dude! Please!).

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