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Originally Posted by Evermont  Started with 12 heads today, stragglers brought it up to 15. DD is going to miss every Tuesday due to ballet past 10pm every Monday.
I'll post here again if anything interesting happens but this is becoming so routine that there seems little point to posting daily.
DS mentioned one thing though that may be worth passing on here. He says that perfecting technique on these exercises presents a lot of opportunity to increase the difficulty level, and the payoff for doing them. It's entirely too easy to cheat. To squat less deeply than you should, to lunge half way, to jump less high, to fail to get full extension on the stretches, etc. This is a good take-away for me. I'll try to maintain or improve technique long-term. |
Yeah, it's often good to work on doing everything with proper form. There can be exceptions in some situations, but by and large, proper form is important.
I think bodyweight calisthentics are an excellent way for people to learn form and start strength training. If you think about it, the most basic necessary form of strength and fitness is being able to manuever your own body and its weight in space. I think starting there with bodyweight training is ideal for beginning the nervous system training of strength, not many people are aware the nervous system is hugely important in getting strong, the nervous system needs to learn how to coordinate the available muscle fiber to accomplish the task. So there's a lot of good happening when a person uses bodyweight exercises that involve the person becoming aware of how the body is coordinated in space and movement -- something that is lacking in many machine exercises and other isolation type of work.
That's my way of saying push ups beat the unliving crud out of a bowflex bench press.
