the best way to get strong
What is the best way to get strong?
We can strength train. And while strength training may not erase wrinkles or prevent gray hair, it can help us, it can help us experience a significantly improved quality of life.
Why barbells?
Barbells are unique in that they let us load the body while focusing on natural human movement patterns rather than isolating individual muscles, joints, or muscle groups. They are also highly adjustable to fit different needs and abilities.
By emphasizing movement patterns over muscles, barbells enable comprehensive training of the entire musculoskeletal system. With just four key exercises, we can enhance strength, mobility, and balance, counter muscle and bone loss, and address the physical challenges that come with aging.
Why we like barbells:
- Barbells are scalable: They come in many sizes and can be modified as needed for the trainee.
- Barbells are comprehensive.
- Barbells are specific to our training.
- Barbells are simple and efficient and safe.
- Barbells also help us stay mobile and flexible by allowing us to work through full range of motion.
- Barbells help us with our balance. When we are stronger, our balance improves. We may still trip, but we don’t fall.
- Barbells help us build more muscle and stronger bones.
Barbell exercises train
normal human movements
The exercises we use are simple movements. Most importantly, they are movement patterns that we do every single day:
Sit Down / Stand Up
Reach Overhead
Push / Pull Something
Carry Something
Pick something up
from the floor
What are the Four Barbell Lifts we teach?
Squat
Bench Press
Press
Deadlift
How often do you need to train?
- Barbells help us build more muscle and stronger bones.
- For some trainees, we may only do two lifts each training session due to time restrictions.
- We want to have at least 1- 2 days in between training sessions so we can recover from our workouts and prepare our bodies for the next session.
Why is strength training important
as we age?
- Strength training can help us prevent the sick aging phenotype: Diabetes, low bone density, unhealthy lifestyle, falls, hip fractures, etc.
- Strength training is safe.
- Strength training with barbells helps make daily human movements easier and stronger
- Barbells are “doseable.” We can use broomsticks, light bars, boxes, bumper plates, to help modify these exercises.
- Barbells help us build muscle, build stronger, denser bones, help us move better, help us with balance and fall prevention, help our endurance/stamina, help us live a better quality of life.
- Barbells are simple and they are efficient in helping us get stronger faster.
Most importantly, strength training is important for ALL ages and barbells can be used by EVERYONE.
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