With the weather a bit up and down, or mostly down this time of year, you have may have been faced with inside options most of the time this winter!!!
This is not always a bad thing and it will help hammer home the importance of strength training, using resistance works full stop for a million and one reasons.
I was dealing with an individual today who has had a snowboarding accident and badly damaged his shoulder.
You may think that strength training is out of the question in this case, but its never been more important for him.
We can still work the legs very hard, and this often helps bring a weak area up for most people because you can give it much more of a concentrated effort.
The shoulder has calmed down a lot now, so i have introduced some fantastic shoulder exercises. This gentleman can normally use 30 pound dumbbells for his shoulder work, i have stripped it down now right to 5 pound dumbbells! This allows me to concentrate on building up the strength of the tendons and ligaments around the shoulder, and very gradually build his strength up again.
You can never be over cautious in this type of situation, but its imperitive to get back the strength and integrity of that shoulder joint!
Contrast this with an elderly lady i train who is looking at the same five pound dumbbells, but using them in a lot of different exercises to develop her strength, and she is well into here 70’s. She is getting tremendous benefits in every area of her life now from being fitter, stronger and healthier!!!
I am not going to put an exclamation mark after that because i find these days my clients in the 70’s are usually stronger than most 40 year old’s i know, and thats no exaggeration!!!
I try to treat each and every person on their individual abilities, and not discriminate against anyone on their age in particular!!!
Whatever their age, strength training will remain paramount in my plans for them!!!
