02 Is Recreation Exercise?

The InForm Fitness Podcast

The purpose of exercise is to build muscle as quickly and as safely as possible so you can live the life you want. So, does performing the physical activities you enjoy like hiking, cycling, playing basketball, golfing or gardening count as legitimate exercise?

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Intro:

You’re listening to the InForm Fitness podcast, 20 minutes with New York Times, best-selling author, Adam Zickerman and friends. Brought to you by InForm Fitness, life changing personal training with several locations across the US. Reboot your metabolism and experience the revolutionary Power of 10, the high intensity, slow motion, strength training system that’s so effective, you’d get a week’s worth of exercise in just one 20-minute session, which by no coincidence is about the length of this podcast. So, get ready InForm Nation, your 20 minutes of high intensity strength training information begins in 3, 2, 1.

Alright. Welcome into episode two of the InForm Nation podcast with Adam Zickerman. If you stumbled across this episode in iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher Radio or YouTube and have not yet had a chance to listen to our first episode, we invite you to go back, give it a listen because in that episode you’ll hear some important foundational information to help you understand the mission of this podcast and be formally introduced to all the members of the podcast team but we’ll quickly run through the room here and reintroduce everybody.

I’ll start. My name’s Tim Edwards. I’m the founder of the Inbound Podcasting Network and have been training with the Power of 10 system at the Toluca lake location in Southern California. Joining me here in the Los Angeles area, just a few freeways away from the Inbound Podcasting studio, is one of my trainers at InForm Fitness, Sheila Melody. Hey, Sheila.

Hi, Tim. How ya doing? I’m coming here from sunny Southern California. It’s a beautiful day. It’s perfect today. Maybe not -- [laughs] Yeah. I’m just going to rub that in to our -- [laughs] Well --

To our New York cohorts here.

Yeah. As we record this through Skype we can see our other cohorts here wearing sweaters and jackets. So, probably a little chilly over there across the country on the East side of New York City. We’ll start with the GM of the Manhattan InForm Fitness location, Mike Rogers. What’s up, Mike?

Hey, what’s up? Yeah, it’s like an arctic 50 degrees here right now. It’s hell. [laughs] No, it’s actually not so bad. I just came back from Vegas over the weekend. So --

Nice.

You know, I’m ready to sort of recharge, restart and -- And recoup. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but I’m excited about the podcast today.

[laughs] And of course, the reason we’re all here, the founder of InForm Fitness and author of New York Times Best Seller, Power of 10: The Once-a-Week Slow Motion Fitness Revolution, Adam Zickerman. How you doing, Adam?

Hey guys. Looking forward to this.

We got one under our belt and here we go with number two but before we drill down into today’s topic, the definition of exercise, Exercise vs Recreation, let’s quickly recap what we discussed in the first episode. Adam, if you don’t mind for our listeners who have not yet listened to that show, what is the Power of 10?

Well, it’s the name of my book, Power of 10. There wasn’t a Power of 10 until the book came out actually. It was just Inform Fitness. The premise of InForm Fitness and then the book was to understand and put exercise in its proper perspective and what we should expect from exercise. Ultimately, the premise is that the sole purpose of exercise is to build muscle, to maintain muscle mass as we get older. That to me is the number one priority and the exercise plan. The whole book Power of 10 and the whole technique starts there.

The technique, of course, enters into intensity and safety considerations as well as balancing exercise, with proper nutrition and rest. There you have the Power of 10, balancing exercise, rest and nutrition, the three pillars we call it. On there that’s the foundation. Then there all your recreational pursuits, the life that you want to life, sits right on top of that. If you want to life the kind of life you want to live, an active life, a happy life, a pain free life, it starts with exercise, rest nutrition and everything else follows from there.

Adam always says like, you know, the mission of InForm Fitness is to provide people with the exercise they need to give them the life that they want, you know, so --

I could have just said that. [laughs]

Could have said that but --

We need a little more [laughter], a little more detail. Of course InForm Fitness -- Sheila, why don’t you chime in on that? If you don’t mind, why InForm Fitness?

I always say there’s a couple reasons for that. One is that we want to inform our clients always. We’re all informed. We’re informing them about why you’re doing this exercise, what it, you know, even to the point of what muscles are working at that particular time. Then we also are real sticklers on performing the exercise in proper form. So, I might find, you know, myself saying, “Okay. Stay in form.” Then I’ll go, “Oh, yeah. That’s our name.” [laughs]

It’s perfect. That is -- we are calling our community, that we’re building here through the InForm Fitness podcast, to InForm Nation because that’s what we’re trying to do. If you’re listening to this podcast and you’re enjoying what you hear and you’re becoming educated, becoming informed, we invite you to join InForm Nation. We’ll have more details on how you can do that at the conclusion of the show.

Now, this show is geared towards those who are looking to build muscle, lose fat, maintain cardiovascular health and maybe even improve whatever it is that you love to do which really ties nicely into today’s topic, Exercise vs Recreation. Briefly, let’s go around the room and discus, what are some of the physical activities we all enjoy that might be confused with exercise. Let’s start with you, Sheila.

What I really love to do, around LA especially, is hiking. Lots of hiking, lots of canyon hiking and tennis and yoga. Those are things I actually enjoy doing.

So, when you’re hiking do you ever go up to Runyon Canyon? Is that right? Up there off of Mulholland Drive and see some celebrities.

Yes. [laughs] I’ve gone up there. It’s definitely a very busy hiking area actually. It is.

I prefer to kind of be out here in Malibu Canyon area because it’s way more wide open. That’s kind of the city hiking area but there are plenty of places here in Southern California to hike. As I’m sure there’s plenty of places in New York and the Upstate New York and surrounding areas too.

Are you a hiker, Mike, or...