Topic: Aerobic Weight Training
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Chansonette
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01/05/2006 Total Posts: 315
4.3 Years Ago
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anybody here do Firm workouts? Or any other "aerobic weight training" things? How do you record it? It's not weight training and it's not aerobics, it's a combination -- I have a heart monitor so I can get my calories logged semi-accurately, but the actual workout doesn't fit the standard categories. Kinda frustrating. I'd really like to be able to log these as what they are. Anyway, anybody else out there trying to log this? How do you work around the limitations re categories?
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Re: Aerobic Weight Training
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Beverly
MO
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05/31/2005 Total Posts: 1313
4.3 Years Ago
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I participate in a Boot Camp program 2x/week and have similar issues. I try to break it down by core, track running, weights, aerobic and stretch. My other choice, if I don't feel like detail, is calling it aerobics and not sweating it since it's movement. A while back I put in a request for something to cover a class like these but I don't really know how one could ever accurately track it since each one is so different. Perhaps could be lower body focused and upper body focused? Your thoughts? B |
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Re: Re: Aerobic Weight Training
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Chansonette
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Member Since:
01/05/2006 Total Posts: 315
4.3 Years Ago
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yeah, I hear ya. I think it would hard to track too. I've been adding it as aerobics but that's only half accurate -- I think I'm getting a little obsessive about the tracking -- I'm focusing on cross-training and I'm wanting to see a piece of my pie being weight training :). Re upper and lower body, that could work. Thing about Firm tapes is that each one targets slightly differently, but the aerobic sections are ALWAYS with weights -- light ones but you can build up to pretty heavy (for such fast movement). So it's somewhere in between aerobics and gym-style weight training but with lighter weight. (and for me, more fun :).
Good for you for doing boot camp! Hats off!!!
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Re: Re: Re: Aerobic Weight Training
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Beverly
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05/31/2005 Total Posts: 1313
4.3 Years Ago
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Funny how that ol' obsessive vibe enters in, huh? I'm trying to learn moderation, which tends not to obsess!!!! Is the Firm a disc for home? I've never been good at those, I commend you! B |
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Chansonette
CA
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01/05/2006 Total Posts: 315
4.3 Years Ago
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re moderation, oh yeah, me too. Sigh. I get all into it and then go too hard or too fast at whatever and boom, injury. Welcome to Middle Age, I guess :). Or boom obsession about how the tracking has to be...you know...PERFECT. Not. Really trying to learn to let go of that!
The Firm is a video (I guess cds now too!) series that started way back in the 80s and it's just one of the best, most fun, and most effective all around workouts I've ever used. It does take a LOT of ... discipline isn't quite the right word...determination, I guess, to come home from work and plug one in, but once you've been doing it for a while it starts to become the part of the day you look forward to. I used to do all my working out mid-day, which I love, but I gave up my gym membership after it got really obvious that I had to wait for the RSI to heal and then scale way back on what I do. My goal is to be able to do weight training and swim training again. Some day.
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Re: Aerobic Weight Training
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Larry
CA
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10/15/2006 Total Posts: 1
3.9 Years Ago
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Hi...ok, being new here I'm not quite sure you'll even get this. But what you're doing with that type of workout program is muscle endurance. Now, I professionally do not consider that a aerobic workout. Reason being you have to stop, especially id you are doing this for a minimum of an hour, which I assume with the breaks you are going to need, it should take. One of ur replies hit it on the head, it's really crosstraining.
It's something that I have athletes do to get them out of the gym and put to work those muscles we have been building. If done correctly this program should really be about explosiveness not aerobic, although you will receive aerobic benefits, depending on rest periods or lack thereof. But the focus should be on muscular endurance, thus listing it hear as strength training. I would have to look at the program to really critique it correctly though. |
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