{"id":41166,"date":"2018-12-01T13:29:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T18:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41166"},"modified":"2018-12-01T13:29:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T18:29:55","slug":"basics-of-exercise-and-staying-in-shape-over-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41166","title":{"rendered":"Basics of Exercise and Staying in Shape Over the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Basics of Exercise and Staying in Shape Over the Holidays<\/a><\/h3>\n

\"If<\/center>Now is a good time to reassess yourself in terms of physical fitness and where you are. You have about a month and a half to get into good habits (if you haven\u2019t already done so) before the usual load of body-emulsifying fats of the holidays are pumped in your direction.<\/p>\n

If you are just beginning and can begin at least a three-day program for yourself during the week, all the better. Let\u2019s start with the basics: What do you want for yourself? Are you looking to trim fat, or is that not a problem? Do you want size and muscle mass<\/a>? Do you want to be toned and lean?<\/p>\n

Endurance Training and Strength Training<\/a><\/h3>\n
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  1. Aerobic\/Endurance Training:<\/strong> This type of exercise is meant to develop the cardiovascular (heart), respiratory (lungs), and metabolic (digestion, absorption, and excretion) systems. Aerobic training helps you to control weight. The following (non-exhaustive) list outlines aerobic training activities: walking, jogging, running, swimming, bicycling, and aerobics (in the form of exercises, dance, or a combination). Sports that are aerobic in nature that develop endurance of those three systems mentioned are tennis, basketball, long-distance races\/competitions, and triathlons, the latter being the pinnacle of endurance tests.<\/li>\n
  2. Strength Training:<\/strong> This is also called Resistance training<\/strong>, and it amounts to weight training or lifting weights. Now, the AMA (American Medical Association) standard for Resistance Training is to find out your 1RM (one rep maximum) for a weightlifting exercise. Then take \u00bd of this and attempt to perform the exercise for 10 repetitions. Sounds pretty canned, and it is: keep in mind it is a basic<\/em> concept that you can use as a starting point.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Basics of Exercise and Staying in Shape Over the Holidays Now is a good time to reassess yourself in terms of physical fitness and where you are. You have about a month and a half to get into good habits (if you haven\u2019t already done so) before the usual load of body-emulsifying fats of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23301,23299,18478,395,12881,23298,6787,23300],"class_list":["post-41166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-aerobic-exercise","tag-endurance-training","tag-exercise","tag-health","tag-jeremiah-johnson","tag-physical-training","tag-ready-nutrition","tag-strength-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41167,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41166\/revisions\/41167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}