Author: Balance Guy Training
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The 3-Day Strength Blueprint
At 55, living in an over-55 community, I see the effects of losing strength every day. But it’s not just me hobbling around after leg day. It’s people who need assistance with walking and those who find it very challenging to navigate stairs. The long, slow loss of strength doesn’t show up right away. Inactivity…
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Failure Is Only Feedback
Failure doesn’t conjure good thoughts. It means you’ve fallen flat on your face, stopped in your tracks, lost money, or missed that game-winning field goal as time expired. When you have witnesses, it’s double the fun. Michael Jordan said, “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times,…
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The Hidden Benefits Of Strength Training
Strength training doesn’t tickle. You only need to look around in public to see that not everyone does it. I’ve been picking things up and putting them down for over 30 years, and staying on it through all my seasons of life is challenging. Like many guys who walk through the gym doors for the…
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Set Your Own Standards
What springs to mind when you see and hear the word standards? Is it A level of quality Things used as a measure Something accepted as typical or average Or is it none of those? The above are definitions of standard. There are standards we set for ourselves, societal norms, and standards we have to…
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6-Week New Year’s Workout To Kickstart Your Year
Sometimes, we need a kickstart, something to get us moving in a positive direction. Regarding exercise, we know we need to do it, but figuring out where to start is challenging. I’ll try to solve that with my 6-week New Year’s Workout. It’s 18 workouts to get you moving and grooving toward a buff direction.…
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How To Spot Truth in a Sea of Misinformation
Information comes at us thick and fast. Some of it is good, but a lot of it is B.S. Estimates indicate that we generate approximately 402.74 million terabytes of information per day. One thousand gigabytes make up a terabyte. Experts estimate that a single terabyte could hold 1,000 copies of the Encyclopedia Britannica. 10 terabytes…
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5 Ways To Keep Getting Back Up
If someone falls down and then gets back up, it’s a comedy. If someone falls and doesn’t get up, it’s a tragedy. Life is a mix of both, but wouldn’t you prefer your life to be a comedy, not a tragedy? Ponder this for a moment. We all fall; someone or something knocks us down,…
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3 Ways To Empty Your Stress Bucket
People get the wrong idea about stress because of the negativity surrounding it, which happens when you have too much of it. If you’ve read this far, it’s likely that at some point your stress bucket overflowed. Flipping the coin, if not enough stress is applied, you will stagnate and decline. If you don’t move…
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How to Make Exercise Harder—or Easier
Making exercise harder seems like a silly idea. Isn’t it already hard? You need to make time for it, endure the discomfort, and sometimes wake up the next morning and find it difficult to get out of bed. Yes, Shane, it’s a fantastic idea —go for it. Here’s the thing: as difficult as exercise is,…
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Do Less of This And More Of That
Do less of this and more of that could refer to anything. It could be eating less candy and more fiber, but it’s not. Who really wants to eat less candy? The headline refers to an abstract idea, similar to something Dr. Phil might say, but more on that later. Navigating life and the world…