“Ask Brian” XXIV
Hangout w/Coach Brian
What You’ll Learn:
- GM Check-In: Latest coaching tips to help you live The Gabriel Method Way.
- Musculoskeletal System: What is it and how to keep it healthy
- Work In: 30 minutes of fitness everyone can do
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Brian, I think it’s such a great idea to do the workout in the beginning so it’s easy to find when we come back for it. I did the workout with you. I’ve been struggling to get back into exercise after a break of a few months. Somehow I stopped exercising and then my eating started going downhill but I’ve been able to get started again the last week. Usually, once I exercise for 2 weeks or so, I’m back on the exercise wagon and do it faithfully. It’s getting started once I fall off the wagon that is the hardest for me.
Hi Helen, good to hear from you.
Let me know how you’re going. I’m hoping well. 🙂
And thanks for ‘hanging out’ with me.
Brian
I am 49, with 5 children and am about 50 lbs overweight. I stopped eating sugar 4 years ago. I then started following Dr. Fuhrman’s nutritarian eating method 2 years ago, and following you and Jon here. I still was not losing weight and called Jon on his call in program and he said I needed to block time for myself each day to relax and rest… he also recommended I get advice from Tiffany Nightingale, which I did. She recommended I stop all dairy and wheat. The weight was slowly coming off and I was exercising 5 days a week or so, then my Dad died last April and I slowly stopped my times alone and music, then exercise and I occasionally had foods that don’t agree with my body, like dairy and wheat, and I am up 10 lbs from last April. I am trying to establish those good things in my day again, the time to myself, the music, the exercise, the good foods, but with 4 teenagers and a 6 year old, my days are hard to schedule and the habits are hard to establish. For example, on Tuesday morning our main computer died. I took it apart and vacuumed it well and put it back together but it is dead for good, then I went online to search for a new computer… it took up a lot of my time and I homeschool the kids as well, so my new habits went out the window and I have not returned to them since. So, that is my story. Thank you for asking. Also, I resist going into my nice bedroom to listen to a visualization/ read my Bible/ do some yoga/ play the guitar/ make some jewelry…. those are things that are helpful to me but I seem to prefer to watch something on Netflix while I tidy the kitchen, make meals and snack. Well, hope you are having a nice Thursday.
Love,
Helen
Hi Helen,
wow you’re busy.
Do you have Jon’s book?
I want to refer you to some pages in that will really help you.
Let me know and we can go from there.
Thanks
Yes. Thank you. I would love to read/watch what you have for me.
Thanks.
Helen
I really enjoyed this work in! It is good to know what alternatives to use if you don’t have weights. Can you maybe write down the order and reps of the movements?
Hi Tracy,
the reps doesn’t matter. Aim for a burning feeling in the muscle used instead. This is a good indication you’ve added enough positive stress for an improvement.
Aim to do one exercise for each body part. Watch the video again and work out with me. Follow my form and it’ll be like you’re training with me. 🙂
Let me know how you go !
Please let me know how many times per week we should do a formal exercise; strength training and yoga? I do once a week yoga and once a week strength training with a trainer and twice a week cardio on elliptical. Is this enough? Each session is one hour.
Personally I’d like to do strength training 2 to 3 x per week. Yoga 1 x per week sounds great and I’d encourage some daily practice too. Cardio is good but for weight loss its best done with spurts of high intensity. look at doing spurts of 30 seconds fast up to 8 x during your cardio session.
Hope that helps,
Brian
Really enjoyed this workout
thank you RC