Strength Training / Weight-lifting - A Discussion
Does anyone engage in strength training exercises? How did you get started? What types of strength training exercises, do you regularly engage in?
For me, I worked with a personal trainer at a gym, in the past. I used the leg press machine, the bicep curl machine, the quadracep machine, the hamstrings machine, and the overhead press machine. At home, I used to perform activities like squats, bicep & tricep curls using small hand-weights, lunges, sit-ups, push-ups, and overhead arm exercises.
In the New Year, a personal resolution of mine, is to keep a regular schedule, devoting one day to strength-building activities.
Very rarely do I use a machine, and that's been consistent regardless of where I was at in dealing with my health.
Lately it's been mostly TRX exercises, with my body weight. Since being in a long term recovery phase, I have also done more free body weight exercises, used resistance bands, handweights, kettle balls (although nothing like a typical kettle ball class), an elastic mesh frame thing, velcro weights for wrists and ankles and a TRX thing on a bungy cord, forget what that is called.
