Easiest Possible Meaningful Workout
The meaningful workouts are very fair, they begin with walking and hiking with dumbbells.
But as you get to the gym, ignore what others are doing.
Never sit, never lay, never stop, a workout is a workout: you work out.
You see a real workout in 1980’s aerobic videos, what you don’t see, is that music drives them.
If you turned off the music, you would collapse the workout.
There is no workout, without fresh music, and you have to like it, and want to move to it.
It has to drive your motion, to stop you from stopping.
A meaningful workout is 30 minutes long, you have to be so serious about it…
That you have your water before you start, so that you don’t have to stop.
Fundamentally, to work out means to lift light, for a long time, so that your body adapts to lift more.
That means dancing, while performing standing dumbbell exercises.
There are only three or four, and the dance converts them to a full body exercise.
But this may not mean much to you, so let me show you this way.
It has to be at least as hard of an exercise, as an old lady walking home with heavy groceries.
If she gets a better workout than you, then your workout is in trouble.
But, that is the bottom line, with the upper-line being a 1980s aerobics workout.
The daily average workout, is more like dancing at the night club, while waiving your arms, and wearing wrist and leg weights.
The first thing that comes to peoples minds, when you have a meaningful workout.
Is whether or not you should be allowed to do this at the gym, is this what the gym is for, and then whether or not you have shame.
But we have no choice but to wiggle to interesting music, with just heavy enough, but not too heavy dumbbells.
A 30 minutes of hitting every beat as you lift dumbbells to music, keeps your body from aging.
And if you continue adding more dumbbell weight, as your body adapts, you grow bigger muscle, that’s bodybuilding.
Do not lift too heavy, do not crush yourself, I have seen with my own eyes results of muscle isolation.
Having biceps without having upper back, or shoulders, is extremely unfair, the person is cheated into working on 4 muscles.
And it is a slow growth, because a person lifting heavy is by definition cornered, they can’t lift for longer or heavier, then their very minimum of 20 seconds.
20 seconds of lifting heavy is not enough, you need two hours of lifting whatever you can handle.
Again, not so light that you can lift more, and never so heavy, that you are forced to stop.
Staying within that corridor for a prolonged duration, of weeks, is what makes your body adapt.
It is that adaption that makes muscles grow stronger and larger, that grants us endurance, youth, and presence.
And in its strange fairness, for all the hard work, it gives you more than you need, and you use that to train heavier and longer.