Lift, Train, Fitness

I am a quite firm believer in not being able to target specific areas for fat loss, but this study I found interesting with a contradictory view Effects of Weighted Hula-Hooping Compared to Walking on Abdominal Fat, Trunk Muscularity, and Metabolic Parameters in Overweight Subjects: A Randomized Controlled Study

but it does mostly match with an older study A six-week trial of hula hooping using a weighted hoop: effects on skinfold, girths, weight, and torso muscle endurance. - PubMed - NCBI

So for those who may not like a lot of exercise, spending some quality time with a Hula Hoop may be beneficial
 
Which goes to show that you have an open mind.
 
Reassembling my weighted hoop as we speak :) Will have to start out slowly as it´s kind of hard on the subcutaneous tissue at first.
 
Most of the PT's I know in the US actively shy away from anything resembling power lifting, unlessthey are also involved in strength sports or body building. I think there's this idea that it is an inherently dangerous way to lift and a lot of the people who would hire a basic PT here are really intimidated by barbells.

It makes it frustrating to me sometimes. I'm not licensed in anything, but I know a decent amount about form, methodology behind strength building, and effective ways to train based on your goals. I see PTs here give straight up bad advice on the regular.
 
-Cory- said:
It makes it frustrating to me sometimes. I'm not licensed in anything, but I know a decent amount about form, methodology behind strength building, and effective ways to train based on your goals. I see PTs here give straight up bad advice on the regular.
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The way PTs are trained is quite different between Australia and the US

In Australia we have a government education framework for qualifications from Certificate I and Up. A Cert III is required to be a fitness trainer for things like group classes and working in a gym, a Cert IV and above is needed to be a personal trainer and to be able to work with people 1:1 and all education providers are supposed to meet specific curriculum requirements, in reality the teaching standards can be poor as some places rush student through and don't spend enough time on some areas. No certification = No insurance. A fitness Cert III usually takes 6 months to complete.

It is out of scope of practice for PTs to give nutritional advice to clients other than pointing them towards national guidelines.

Most industries are part of the certification system, for example son 3 has a Cert II in kitchen operations which he was able to complete at TAFE while he was still in high school, He now works as a Brewer, making craft beer. Another son has a hospitality Cert (he works front of house) and son 2 has Cert 3 in office administration, after he struggled at Uni with his ASD

I am not sure about other states but in Queensland, there is a Cert 3 Guarantee where school leavers can study a cert III with the cost covered by the government,

Unlike the US it is not possible to become a certified PT in a weekend.
 
It has been a bit of a circus around here, son 3 has been having fun with his new bow, he set up the bales for his butt however he and his dad thought it would be a good idea to set it all up in one end of our long farm shed (they didn't want to get wet outside lol) then they found an old newspaper as a target, that newspaper however had a photo of me on the front page. I was unaware of all of this until son 3 returned to the house and told me they had put holes in the shed wall and the pair of them used the excuse that it was ok because I had put holes in the wall too (I drilled holes to put up hangers for garden tools) it was then I found out about their chosen target when son 3 was very happy to tell me he hit their target once and got me in the tit, It is a good thing I have a sense of humour lol, I can just picture them standing behind the bonnet of son 3s car, and struggling to literally hit the side of a barn.

Yesterday a body was pulled from the river after they had tried to kayak in flood water, hubby is not sure if it is a member of his rural fire station, because his mate likes to do that sort of thing.
 
Life would never be dull in the Tru household. Cheeky buggers!
How sad about the kayaker. I hope it's not hubby's mate.
 
That's a great story about the bow practice session! :D

Sad about the kayaker - I can see why it would be so tempting, but I really wish people wouldn't push it in flood waters (cars crossing fords etc as well).
 
It has been a tough couple of weeks, I got some bites on both feet (ants ?) I then reacted to whatever bit me causing a massive inflamed rash, then it started to ooze, Doc took a swab last week, got the results today, I have a staph infection, Doc it hitting it hard with antibiotics designed for resistant infections combined with prednesone and some cream which I have to mix with cream and spread all over my feet, feeling miserable.
 
I'm glad the doctor's not mucking around - infections in a tropical climate can just take off. Sorry you must be feeling really hobbled with cream on your feet, and that hampering your normally very active life. :( Best wishes for the infection to shrink back to nothing, soon.
 
Oh, Tru, you poor thing! I have been reading about jack jumper bites in a gardening page I subscribe to & have ant dust on my shopping list. I'll make sure I get some & do the nests near our house. I see so many nests on my walks. Hope your feet get better quickly!
 
We don't have the jack jumper here, but we do have others in the genus, with the rain we have had ants are everywhere with new nests.

Myrmecia stings are very potent, and the venom from these ants are among the most toxic in the insect world. In Tasmania, 3% of the human population are allergic to the venom of M. pilosula and can suffer life-threatening anaphylactic reactions if stung; at least 3 Human deaths
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I can understand why you have ant sand on your shopping list.


We have had bad luck with the peafowl, we lost our pied hens, one broke her neck, we think she panicked when a Goanna tried to get into the enclosure and we had the eggs which were under a broody chook eaten by a 2 metre lace monitor (not including the tail), he opened the latch on the brooder box. Our white boy was looking completely miserable, so we managed to get a white girl for him from a friend dad. He will source some more peahens form his uncle out west on his next trip. (the uncle eats his birds, apparently they taste like turkey) we have a padlock on the shopping list, Goannas are clever buggers
 
That's amazing, about the goanna - both the length and the cunning. I guess he was an old one, to grow so big, and had learnt many cunning dodges along the way.
 
Glad your feet are starting to get better. Feet do so much work, all the time. I think they must be the hardest-working, most often neglected part of the body. Anyway - good wishes for their continued healing.
And good wishes, too, for the resumption of uni work.
 
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