My Scribbles On The Full Body Workout

I twist and turn with dumbbells, the stabilization necessary for dance, converts all the standing dumbbell exercises into a full body workout.

You perform all the standing dumbbell exercises in a circle, so that while you work on one muscle group all the others rest.

I stick vegetable cutting mats to the bottom of my shoes, using carpet tape, as that is the only thing that protects my ankles on rubber floors.

I do a safe little shuffle dance during my workout, to convert the standing dumbbell exercises, into full body fury.

Any kind of dancing that demands sliding your feet, will hurt you, if you attempt to slide rubber shoes, on a rubber mat.

You often find those covering the gym floors, both to protect equipment, and allow you to sneak up on people.

Dancing is pretty special, in a safe environment, you can enter a trance, if you just lift to the beats of your songs, one beat up, next beat down.

It is a focus management technique, but the gym, it needs to be a nice place, where you feel pretty comfy.

You will not be able to enter a dance trance in a toxic environment, and I don’t think you can have a good workout without dance trance.

I tried a few times, and rather than a continuous integrated workout, it becomes a series of overlapping patches – I would REALLY not recommend.

When you do focus and enter a dance trance, in what feels like 3 minutes, you get a one hour dance workout where nothing hurts.

You can repeat that easily up to three times, and a three hour dance with dumbbells will meaningfully transform your body.

It is very important that you understand, that we are meant to be like that, this is what we evolved for, and it is the body type that keeps us safe.

You slip but never fall, because your muscles put you right back up, and if you do fall on the stairs where your body can’t stop, you don’t get hurt.

If a full body workout captures your attention, because it sounds better than muscle isolation.

That is not even in the right universe, without a full body workout you live sick.

After transforming your body to where you want it to be, dancing with light dumbbells for 30 minutes is the easiest meaningful workout.

Swimming, is close, but most people don’t like swimming every day for fun, but dancing, requires nothing special beyond fresh songs.

And people don’t usually dance for a workout, dancing is fun and low maintenance on it own.

So here you can do something fun, that also keeps your body fit.

Going to a gym every day, is risky, you have to manage your days carefully, and you have to shower, drive there, high five all your friends, and dance.

At home, you just put on, your fuzzy socks, and bouncy music, and a show, while hanging onto your dumbbells for dear life.

Swimming, the most meaningful exercise, gets more dangerous as you age, dancing only gets better.

You see for an exercise to truly be a full body exercise, it must be one that is safe to perform for the duration of your life.

You must never put yourself in a position where you are too old, to perform your workout – because then your workout will stop working out.

With swimming being the most optimal exercise, and dancing being the safest, there one more that is the fiercest, maybe the wisest.

Power-walking with dumbbells, rain or shine, while listening to narrated books, unless you have company – in short we are waking machines.

And power walking with dumbbells pushes that into muscle building, and gently building up flexibility.

Any body type, at any age, is capable of a transformative workout, that is just as effective as the Olympic refined kind.

If you start hiking today, and make it more challenging as you go, you will begin cross country running, soon enough.

And later maybe switch to triathlons, or bicycling and jogging, or bodybuilding, or spend some years swimming and slow down, to dance with dumbbells.

But what you must avoid, is the non-full body workout, we aren’t meant for just a few muscles here and there.

We are meant to be a symphony orchestra of motion, so that no part of our musculature ever fails us.