Machines vs. Free Weights, HIIT, and Functional Movement – Ep. 210
This week is an extra special episode! We’ve been getting a TON of questions from our Open Sky Fitness Podcast Group on Facebook about fitness and exercise. The questions people wrote need such in-depth answers from us that rather than replying to them in the group, we’re answering them this week in our podcast episode.
Specifically, we’ll be answering questions about:
- Interval training
- HIIT
- Tabata
- Turbulence Training
- One-Minute Method
- Cardio vs. Interval Training
- Functional training
- The 7 Primal Movements
- Eccentric vs concentric vs isometric movements
- Using machines vs. free weights
- Intermittent fasting and nutrition
- How to do a pull-up
- Proper gym etiquette
- How to begin lifting heavier weights
Whether you work out a lot or are just getting started at the gym, this is a great episode to learn more about different types of workouts.
What You’ll Hear on This Episode
00:00 Open Sky Fitness Introduction
1:15 Opening comments with Rob and Devon
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7:00 About today’s episode: Answering big questions from our Open Sky Fitness Podcast Group on Facebook
9:00 Interval Training – What are the different options as far as speed and what’s good for the best fat burning? Can you do interval training while intermittent fasting?
11:30 Chest bands vs. Fitbits and wearables for monitoring your heart rate.
13:40 How to get warmed up for a HIIT training workout.
15:30 Various types of HIIT training including cardio and body weight training.
16:40 Tabata – What it is and the various benefits.
18:40 The Little Method by Dr. Jonathan Little and Dr. Martin Gibala
20:50 Turbulence Training created by Craig Ballantyne
21:40 Final decision – what HIIT method is best for you?
23:00 What foods should you be eating depending on if you do a HIIT or cardio workout that day?
23:55 Functional Training – How can we build up our pull-ups?
24:20 What Functional Training is and how it’s beneficial.
26:30 The 7 Primal Movements we used as babies and how we can incorporate them into our workouts and daily lives as adults.
30:00 The benefits of working with a barbell to get in form before isolating specific movements, weight amount, and other variables.
35:30 Scaling pull-ups and how to do one.
38:30 How to use bands, machines, or boxes in assisting you with your pull-ups.
45:30 Concentric, eccentric, and isometric movements.
55:40 Time Under Tension eccentric workouts that incorporate and trigger adaptation.
53:30 Periodization workouts and how to incorporate movement into it.
54:40 Why Concentric movements are so great for athletes or focusing on specific skills.
55:30 Isometric movements like yoga and the benefits.
59:00 Lifting with machines vs. free weights.
1:01:00 Why weight lifting machines were even created in the first place.
1:03:00 How to stabilize your muscles through lifting weights over using a machine.
1:11:00 Final comments with Rob and Devon.
1:12:00 Continue the conversation and ask us more questions in The Open Sky Fitness Podcast Group on Facebook
1:13:55 Open Sky Fitness Closing
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- Find out more behind the history and method of the Tabata workout
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- You might be interested in these other podcast episodes:
- OSF 091 Craig Ballantyne: Create A Perfect Day
- OSF 098 Kristen Mancinelli: How To Get To Ketosis
- OSF 184 Periodization: Creating A Strategy For Your Next Fitness Challenge
- OSF 190 Time Under Tension: How to Speed Up Muscle Growth
- OSF 204 – Cardio Vs. Weightlifting: Which Is More Important As We Age?
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