Keeping Fit is A Daily Battle

You don’t want to spend long hours at the gym, but you want to get stronger, fitter, leaner, and just plain look good. It’s possible that you’re not getting the most out of your workout time. It’s possible to get a super-effective workout in 30 minutes, and only do a few workouts a week, if you maximize your workouts.

Zenhabits’ 16 tips are true. I particularly like the tip of lifting heavier weight.

” When you’re starting out, it’s best to start with lower weights so you can focus on good form. But once you’ve gotten your form down, it’s best to lift the heaviest weights you can lift while still keeping good form. Don’t sacrifice form for heavy weights — that is ineffective. But heavy weights, with good form, can give you better results in a shorter amount of time. Heavy weights are not just for those who want to bulk up — that’s a common misconception. “

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Your eyes benefit from strength training! From previous post, where we knew that there are sexual benefits for strength training, now another benefit is that it saves you from suffering glaucoma. Researchers at Mississippi State University report that you can reduce your risk of glaucoma with bench presses.

Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness, affecting more than 67 million people worldwide. It affects the optic nerve, the connection between the eyeball and the brain. It’s caused by an abnormally high internal eyeball pressure and requires lifelong treatment and monitoring.

In the study by MSU, 30 people who performed three sets of bench presses reduced the pressure within their eyes, called intraocular pressure (IOP), by 15 percent.”Anything that lowers IOP reduces the pressure on the optic nerve, thus reducing the likelihood of nerve damage and glaucoma,” says Joseph Chromiak, Ph.D., the lead study author. Exercises that recruit a lot of muscle mass, such as bench presses or squats, reduce pressure best, Chromiak says.

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A major new study suggests that regular exercise and a healthy diet may be an effective remedy for erectile dysfunction (or commonly known as impotence) and the heart disease that often accompanies it. This is according to researchers at John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

Although this is not a surprising news, it’s good addition to the number of benefits of exercising. With a physically fit body, being muscular and with good cardiovascular health, normal sexual function naturally follows.

I remember when I was fat and my belly is actually covering my “thing”, I literally have to stoop down to see it, it brings down my confidence level to perform sexually. But now, being flat on the stomach, and with excellent cardio health, I can say that my confidence level shoots up and this helps me combat my own thinking of being “not able to”. As you may know, ED is almost always 50% psychological, you have to defeat your own self saying your too old or getting old. Of course, it has to do also with physical health, when your exercising or building muscle, your testosterone level normally goes up and this hormone is needed too for improved sexual performance. But for me, the way that exercising helps is mostly psychological - it gives me superior confidence that I can do it and do it longer