Want to know five fun exercises you can do outdoors? When you’re outdoors, it makes it more fun to exercise since you can focus your mind on other things instead of how much your legs burn.

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Baby Boomers are becoming more aware of the need to maintain a fit body but many of them aren’t aware of the benefits of strength training. For some their fitness routine involves a brisk walk every other day while maintaining a healthy diet. While this is excellent, most don’t know that including a few strength training routines into their fitness program will pay great dividends later on.

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We all could use a boost to the old self-image every now and then. When you look good, you feel good. A confident person is noticed by others. One way to achieve this “new attitude” is through training with weights. Weight training is essential for every man and woman to maintain good health well into later life. And, weight training is not necessarily about bulk but tone/strength. Not everybody wants to be Mr. or Ms. Olympia — most people just want a well-proportioned figure that they can be proud of.

But not only can weight training make you look good: the challenges of weight training help to improve the mind’s ability to focus! To perform the exercises properly takes concentration. You have to visualize each part of the movement. See what the muscle is doing when the weight is raised and when the weight is lowered.

Here are three ways that weight training is good for your mind:

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Just to let you know, I’ve just put up a Bodybuilding and Weight Training section on the site!

You’ll find articles from experts like Tom Venuto, Craig Ballantyne and Holly Rigsby.

The articles cover various aspects of nutrition, training, cardio… and motivation/mindset! I’ll be adding more articles as time goes on.

Check it out: Bodybuilding and Weight Training

QUESTION: “Tom, on your www.burnthefat.com website, you wrote: ‘Who better to model than bodybuilders and fitness competitors? No athletes in the world get as lean as quickly as bodybuilders and fitness competitors. The transformations they undergo in 12 weeks prior to competition would boggle your mind! Only ultra-endurance athletes come close in terms of low body fat levels, but endurance athletes like triathletes and marathoners often get lean at the expense of chewing up all their muscle. Some of them are nothing but skin and bone.’”

“There seems to be a contradiction unless I’m missing something. Why do bodybuilders and fitness competitors have to go through a 12 week ‘transformation’ prior to every event instead of staying ‘lean and mean’ all the time? If they practice the secrets exposed in your book, they should be staying in shape all the time instead of having to work at losing fat prior to every competitive event, correct?”

ANSWER: There’s a logical explanation for why bodybuilders and other physique athletes (fitness and figure competitors), don’t remain completely ripped all year round, and it’s the very reason they are able to get so ripped on the day of a contest…

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