My wife and a couple of her friends recently hired a personnal trainer. The workouts he puts them on consist almost entirely of body weight exercises and exercises using an exercise ball. Since they started this, none of them want to do any heavy weight lifting.
Their goal right now is weight loss and their diets are pretty good. They go to yoga several times a week and run stairs for half an hour every Sunday. Now they added more body weight exercises to help build strength. I just thought with what they were doing already, lifting heavy would be more beneficial to them...
Also on that note, I see the exercises this trainer has them on. They are mostly exercises on an exercise ball... you know the ones that would work a lot of core muscles. I have never really done these types of exercises. I have been focusing on lifting heavy with exercises like squats, bench presses, seated rows, etc (not a lot of isolation work). I have pretty much been ignoring exercises that specifically target my core (with the idea that the core will develop also because of the compound movements I do).... Is this a mistake? Should I be doing targetted core work? (I also do Kung Fu 4-5 times a weeks and play hockey twice a week)
Their goal right now is weight loss and their diets are pretty good. They go to yoga several times a week and run stairs for half an hour every Sunday. Now they added more body weight exercises to help build strength. I just thought with what they were doing already, lifting heavy would be more beneficial to them...
Also on that note, I see the exercises this trainer has them on. They are mostly exercises on an exercise ball... you know the ones that would work a lot of core muscles. I have never really done these types of exercises. I have been focusing on lifting heavy with exercises like squats, bench presses, seated rows, etc (not a lot of isolation work). I have pretty much been ignoring exercises that specifically target my core (with the idea that the core will develop also because of the compound movements I do).... Is this a mistake? Should I be doing targetted core work? (I also do Kung Fu 4-5 times a weeks and play hockey twice a week)