There's no shortage of "challenges" to choose from these days. A 28-day Squat Challenge, 30-day Plank Challenge, 30-day Triceps Dips Challenge (seriously?). The allure is pretty obvious: it's just 30 days and you're done. Not to mention the often ludicrous claims associated with some of them. (Planking to lose inches from your waist? Gah!)
Challenges of this sort can be useful, if used properly. But there are, as always, caveats.
Jumping on boxes has become rather popular in some fitness circles. Jumping for fitness has been around for a long time. Jumping onto extremely high boxes or platforms has only recently become a fitness fad of sorts. Unfortunately, it's also led to a number of unpleasant consequences.
But you don't need a really high box to get the benefits of box jumps.
Almost everyone who is interested in changing the way they eat is motivated by fat loss. There's nothing wrong with this, and given the state of the country (and much of the world), it's an appropriate motivation.
Changing your diet (as opposed to going on a diet) to facilitate fat loss really comes down to just three simple things:
That's it! You don't have to do all three (although it usually helps). Some people even increase their meal frequency, but with a reduction in quantity and usually and increase in quality.
Let's take a closer look at each of these changes.
Last time, we wrapped up the movements of the Walking Wapping Warm-up:
(By the way, the picture above doesn't have anything to do with the warm-up, although it was used in the Knees post. It's just a neat picture.)
Now, just to get some closure, here's a brief wrap-up about putting it all together.
We're on the last movement of our Walking Wapping Warm-up series. Oh, the sadness! For handy dandy reference purposes, here's how we got this far:
As you know, the second half of the warm-up focuses on the lower body. And this one follows suit. It's the mythical, legendary...outside knee!
The Walking Wapping Warm-up is getting close to the end. As usual, here's a recap of what we've covered so far.
Our lower body focus continues here, this time out to the side.
The Walking Wapping Warm-up continues. For reference purposes, here's a recap of what we've covered so far.
We now focus on the lower body for the rest of the way.
