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You also get advance viewing on this, longer video, that covers three fitness traps we all fall into that significantly undermine our long-term fitness goals:

This exercise snack is not publicly available yet. You all get to see it here, first.

To add a little scientific context to @TopNotch's words. When we read, either fiction or non-fiction but especially fiction our brain is busy running "what-if" scenarios that help it better understand the world. It's like running simulations where we play-act situations and imagine our actions...

Ah, @graoumia this is something I've long considered in relation to my own science training. Aging is a physical process of degradation so, truly it is a thermodynamic process governed, like every other thermodynamic process in the universe, by entropy. This basically means that leaving our body...

The latest longish video is a "How-To" and deals with extended arms push-ups for all of you who want to get better at them.

@broli here you go:

Our latest exercise snack.

Yes and no and ... it depends. :LOL: I am sorry, this is less than clear. So, first "yes and no" the same muscles are mostly recruited but the joint angle changes which means the force being applied is different and that affects the result. IF you can almost do it, yes it will work but if you...

You and I both, we could probably start a club measuring whose pile is highest! :cool: :LOL:

No, that changes the dynamic of the forces applied. Thanks to your question we put a video together just today on how to best train for this so it should go up on YouTube on Sunday, I think, and I will also post it here for you then to help you out.

Well, by far the easiest way to improve is to do normal push ups at less than half speed, as slow as possible actually. That recruits exactly the muscle groups you need to be able to then perform an extended push up. I hope this helps.

@Lady Celerity this is such an excellent question! To better answer it I will fill-in the framework around it. As we age one of the most marked changes in our bodies that often goes unseen until it is almost too late is bone mass loss. The National Council on Aging states on its website: "Our...

@broli it's an extended arms push-up variation that places your hands in a diamond shape ahead of you instead of just extending them. It activates: Triceps Serratus anterior muscle Biceps Deltoids Pectoralis major Shoulders Core Rectus abdominis Quite the list for such a 'little' exercise...

Not in the least confused @graoumia how we age and how healthy we remain has a genetic factor (we can't do anything about that one,, really), a physiological one (our exercise routines) and a neurobiological/psychological one (our lifestyle and lifestyle choices). We train to be strong so we can...

@graoumia your question raises such an important point. Glutes are often overlooked when it comes to mobility and posture and spine stability. On their own the gluteal muscles are not directly involved in supporting the spine or the lower back but they are directly involved in hip mobility and...

@graoumia that's a great question and thank you for the video suggestion. I've put it on the list of videos we need to shoot. In the meantime, you're right the back, as a whole is problematic, funnily enough for the same reason the abs are: It's relatively flat in action. It doesn't move in a...

We all have bad health habits. This is how to identify what's causing them and how to change them:

Our latest exercise snack for improved lower body strength and hip mobility.

@graoumia you're right memory cannot be relied upon when it comes to fitness, plus our own sense of what we can do changes over time and all we feel is the effort required. There are different, established, ways like the Cooper test that measures how far a person can run in 12 minutes and checks...

@Deadoks This is a really good question. There are a lot of myths regarding strength training and body development in young people and a lot of these are anecdotal and not supported by scientific evidence. The American Academy of Pediatrics on its website specifically says: "Well-designed...