Representing Mike Hu, District 21 (Waikiki-Kapahulu)

  Understanding Conditioning 2024 The most important exercise, is to understand what one is doing — and why they are doing it. The way exercise is usually taught, is just to do this and...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2024/10/understanding-conditioning-2024.html

 The Giant Swing In the mid-80s, I ran across a very thin volume in which a doctor from the early 20th century, advised doing the Giant Swing — as a remedy for virtually every major human il...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-giant-swing.html

 If you work out intensely, then it won’t be possible to work out oftener than once a week. That is the general rule — or observation, because that all-out effort can only be done infrequent...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2024/09/once-week-intense-gym-workouts.html

 The calves, forearms and neck muscles are similar in that they are the muscles at the extremities of the body — that respond most to range of motion — rather than resistance. Added resistan...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2024/08/beyond-resistance-training.html

 Proper and effective exercise can be achieved with just the understanding of the human body — and how it evolved to work and maintain itself — and failing to do so accounts for a lot of the...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2024/07/exercising-made-easy.html

 Many people think that “progressive weight training” is simply using more weight — rather than considering all the variables. Number one is considering range of motion. The early bodybuil...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2024/06/is-one-set-enough.html

 Sitting or lying does not preclude being able to exercise. It can be done anywhere, at any time, under any conditions. ‘The prerequisite for beneficial exercise, is knowing what exercise is �...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2024/05/any-time-any-where.html

There is no lack of "teachers" who can make any subject difficult, complicated and impossible to understand -- and therefore master.  Promoting that, ensures their own lifelong job security -- u...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2024/05/making-exercise-easy-and-possible.html

 The question is not whether exercise works and is good for you, but what does one prioritize in a world of limited time, energy and resources? We see that in older people, what breaks down ar...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-holy-grail-of-health.html

 The most significant contribution of Arthur Jones in developing the Nautilus principles and machines was not variable resistance through the full range of movement around one axis — but actua...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2024/03/risks-and-rewards.html

 In order of descending importance, the organs which one would most want to improve, are the head, hands and feet — which conventional exercises pay very little attention to and frequently reg...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-future-of-exercise.html

 People are shocked to learn that with proper weight-training, they can see results immediately — but with improper weight-training, they might not see results ever — and so the key differen...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2024/02/manifesting-reality.html

 There’s nothing magical about weights and equipment; the magic is in understanding how the body works — and not unceasingly more effort with the wrong understanding — in the thinking that...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2024/02/understanding-flow.html

 Back in the innocent days of weightraining in the 1950s and 1960s, the publishers of the leading magazines on these activities, Bob Hoffman (Strength & Health), and Perry Rader (Iron Man), both...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2024/01/manifesting-results.html

 No amount of the wrong thing, will give the results of a proper amount of the right thing.  Many think that just doing anything, will give them the results they desire, when in fact, only the ...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-new-paradigm-for-exercise.html

 You can’t train to failure with heavy weights; you can only train to failure with light weights. Failure is just that — the momentary inability to lift even the most minimal weight. Drop se...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2023/12/training-to-failure.html

 Exercise doesn’t require one to be standing, walking, running or jumping — but can be done sitting, lying, or floating. When one considers what they cannot do — because of illness or inju...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2023/11/exercise-is-not-enemy.html

Just about everybody knows by now that when the heart stops pumping (contracting), one can manually get it working by compressing the chest that houses the heart and lungs -- because the alternat...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2023/11/exercise-is-like-cpr-for-rest-of-body.html

 Building forearms and grip strength is a good proxy for understanding the muscular system and how it is designed to ensure one’s health and fitness — but are essentially ignored and neglect...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2023/10/building-hand-and-grip-strength.html

There is no rule that prohibits useful activity -- so while one is just breathing and pumping blood -- there is no requirement that one make the heart alone work harder, while all the other muscl...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2023/10/designing-better-treadmill.html

 The mistake most make in prescribing exercise for the senior, disabled and terminal, is not that the exercises are not hard enough, but that they are impossible to do at all -- and the proper w...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2023/10/making-it-possible-not-harder.html

 The more relevant question is whether light weights can build health — which includes better functioning as well as muscular development. And once one knows what they are doing, they can even...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2023/10/is-it-better-to-do-more-repetitions.html

 For unfortunately many people today, what they want to believe, is good enough for them -- because they only live in their virtual reality rather than the actual reality.  The actual reality ...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2023/09/a-connection-to-reality.html

 As one who was diagnosed as having childhood arthritis — with the prognosis that it would inevitably get worse until I was crippled in adulthood —at which point they could “operate,” I ...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2023/08/is-50-squats-enough.html

 The presumption most people make in considering “bodyweight” exercises is to think that it means “zero” weight — rather than in most cases, being way too much weight for them to do a ...

http://repmikehu.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-most-important-consideration.html