Kozushi
Level 7 Valued Member
I get the impression we arbitrarily choose a goal for very light reasons and then pursue it to the death. I'm challenging everyone to review their goals and decide if they are worthy or not.
My fitness goals:
My fitness goals:
- long life - a worthy goal as survival is important
- practical everyday strength - worthy as it's useful to living comfortably
- aesthetics - important for practical reasons for enjoyment of life
- judo strength - judo mostly takes care of this itself, but S&S etc can help with parts of judo strength like grip strength, pushing and pulling strength, general endurance etc. Why judo? It satisfies the other 3 points to some extent plus it has social benefits and self-defence utility.
- long life - a mixture of cardio and strength training. Thus S&S is okay, or barbells and walking, but not just barbell slow lifts, for instance.
- practical everyday strength - being able to move myself around (bodyweight) and objects (free weights) generally speaking in an upright posture as this is the most usual one for everyday work and life. So, chinups, dips, swings, deadlifts, presses, even curls... Also, endurance matters, so suitcase carries etc fit the bill or at least things that resemble this (swings will do). Some variation from the upright posture like TGUs don't deviate much from "everyday strength" and we do need to get out of bed in the morning, TGU-like, right?
- aesthetics - this is different. Need to pull in the belly, broaden the shoulders, exercise the whole body, so this involves moves that are not "practical" strength - so, pushups, bridges, L-sits, squats, TGUs of course, swings, chinups, ring moves, plyometrics even (like in judo) like rolls, cartwheels etc, levers...
- judo strength - all the above of course, basically strength in all planes with grip strength being particularly important of course, and violent pushes and pulls like swings, endurance-strength etc...