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[blunder1983]

Currently I'm on a big health kick. Been pretty good of late and over the past two months I've gone from walking up a hill for 20mins and 10mins of skiing to a full hour of alternating between running and hill walking with 5/10mins of heavy skiing.

Now I'm turning to building up stamina and starting on weights. On the machines i'm able to do a paltry 30kg or so (the ones where u are pushing the bar over your head) and wanna build it up a bit, but my problem is I have no idea where to start. I dunno about stretching or anything and my trainer cant speak englishee!

I'm really enjoying running and would be keen on doing a half marathon next spring, do they do anything like that in seoul?

Oh and finally what are the human belt sanders for? Never seen them anywhere else in the world!

[rawiri]

Re weights- Get someone you know who knows what there talking about to guide you through a complete routine. Try to stay away from korean trainers who can't speak english but if it's a last resort then use them. You should only be doing weights twice a week initially if you are new, maybe on monday then again on thursday, your body needs time to heal and rest, this is the time that muscle growth occurs and is just as important as the actual working out.

If your new then you should try to start with a routine that trains your whole body. 2 sets of 15 repetitions of each body part is enough. The main thing to remember is that form is everything. It's not how much you can lift but how you are doing it that counts. I've worked out for about 10 years on and off and today the trainer showed me something i was doing wrong, he was right and i was grateful to him for showing me. The reason this is important is because the best results come from isolating the particular muscle group you are working on, even a minor variance from correct form will lessen the effect on the muscle group.

Maybe 50% of people who start working out quit after 3 or 4 months so the key is perseverance. good luck.

The human belt sander is an integral part of the ajumma training style, it's a machine to jiggle away the fat.

Ajumma training,

Belt sander- 15 minutes

Hula Hoop- 5 minutes

Walking forwards on the treadmill at 4 km per hour- 10 minutes

Walking backwards on the treadmill at 2km per hour- 5 minutes

lounging in the sauna gasbagging with your cronies- upwards of an hour.

[joe_doufu]

Don't slam the hula hoop man. Those ajummas can hula hoop like a sunafabich. They can even read magazines while hula hooping. It can be mesmerizing to watch. In my version of "The Man Show", Girls on Trampolines would be preceded by Asian Chicks Hula Hooping Absent-Mindedly.