Enter any Health Club in America and you will observe the majority of its members participating in cardio-type activities such as: Treadmills Stair climbers Stationary bikes Indoor running/walking tracks Cardio Kick Boxing Aerobic Dance Classes The members these Health Clubs spend hours during the week on the equipment or in aerobic classes wearing themselves and ...…
I consider myself very lucky to have been involved with Arthur Jones both as a customer and an employee of Nautilus Sports/Medical Industries and MedX. Our friendship lasted from our first meeting in 1971 until Arthur’s death in August 2007. Arthur Jones was self-educated in a wide variety of fields such as: …
Each and every week without fail, someone will ask me “What do you do for cardio fitness?” I have different replies but usually I name the activities I don’t do such as: * I don’t jog * I don’t live on a treadmill * I don’t use a stair climber * I don’t “spin” or use a recumbent bike Since I covered most of the usual forms of cardio they usually ask me again “Then what do you do for cardio?” I reply “I proper strength train in a total body workout once a week for less than 30 minutes”. My strength training workouts are performed at a high intensity level using proper form to prevent injury and that is how I get the cardio effect-during my high intensity workout.…
When I was a child I watched a popular cartoon show called “Popeye the Sailor Man” whose famous saying was “I am what I am and that’s all that I am.” Popeye had huge forearms that would increase when he ate a can of spinach. He stands out in my mind because he had well developed arms (for a cartoon character). …
In today’s exercise field the majority of participants have been grossly misled to believe that the more time put in the gym will produce greater strength training results. That is not true and is especially not true when it come to building muscular strength and size. …
When I met the inventor and founder of Nautilus Sports/Medical Industries in the Spring of 1971, I had already been strength training for nearly three years at Milo’s Gym in Orlando, Florida. At Milo’s Gym we trained with barbells, dumbbells, squat racks, and assorted benches, and chin & dip bars. I strength trained faithfully three times per week and at the time “I thought I was working out hard!” It was not until I met Arthur Jones that I would actually learn what a really hard workout was!…
Each year millions of teenagers jump on the weight training bandwagon seeking the secrets to building bigger muscles fast! They buy into the muscle magazines articles with pictures of Mr. Universe and Mr. America (both past and present) pertaining to what it takes to be a champion body builder not understanding that the goal of the article is to sell more magazines, supplements, books, DVD’s, etc. Then after they receive the products they soon become disenchanted with the course because after many attempts they just can’t achieve those over-exaggerated quick goals to look like the champions.…
