"Glorify God in your body"
treadmill, weight loss, pushups, bench presses
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"Know you not your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's."
- 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
A story moved on the wire today about Mark Brown, a football player turned pastor who has written a book called "Coming Alive at 55."
In the interview, Rev. Brown tells how he got himself back in shape after being injured in an auto accident a few years ago and letting his weight get out of control. He believes strongly that physical and spiritual health go hand in hand.
Rev. Brown's website (www.drmdb.com) includes a feature called "Word and the Workout," in which he reads Bible passages while running on the treadmill. He cites the above quote from 1 Corinthians as his favorite Bible verse.
Memo to Fitster Kettlebell: What a great example of how promoting fitness can be doing God's work!
Here's a link to the Cleveland Plain Dealer's interview with Rev. Brown:
http://www.cleveland.com/living/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/living-0/1213432344262990.xml&coll=2&thispage=2
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on 6/17/2008
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Free at last, free at last
freeweights, bench presses, nautilus, cybex, circuit training
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About 25 years ago, I made my first foray into weight training when the Y I belonged to opened a Nautilus center. At the time I was doing a lot of swimming and bicycling, and I wanted to add some strength training to my regimen, but those barbells and dumbbells seemed just a little extreme. Nautilus seemed like a good first step.
About that time my bike club had a guest speaker on Nautilus. I was feeling pretty proud of myself because he seemed to validate my choice of Nautilus. To my dismay, one of our club members, a serious weightlifting, challenged him on his whole premise, arguing that freeweights were far better for building strength and endurance. I don't remember all the technical points he and our speaker raised to back up their points of view, but I do remember the speaker pointing out that the cam mechanism was safer. In any case, I continued to work out with Nautilus.
A quarter century later, I would come around to my fellow club member's point of view.
Over the intervening two decades, as the demands of marriage, fatherhood and my career forced me to put my training on the back burner, I continued to work out sporadically with weight machines. When midlife crisis finally hit and I returned to the gym this last time, my trainer gave me your basic circuit training program using Cybex machines. And I did begin to get results in terms of weight loss.
However, the more research I did, the more I wanted to give freeweights a try. I read several articles that maintained that freeweights built more lean muscle, which would in turn burn fat 24/7. I also read that while weight machines tend to isolate single muscles, freeweights worked more muscle groups at once. My curiosity aroused, I asked a trainer to give me a little coaching on freeweight exercises. I started incorporating barbell bench presses and a few other upper body exercises into my routine, but I was looking for a more organized approach.
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on 3/10/2008
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