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fitness matters
by Jason Blough, Anytime Fitness Club Manager/Certified Personal Trainer
Expert Answers to Your Health and Wellness Questions
Question: Question:
I’m training for a marathon How do I determine how much
and want to clean up my eating— weight I should be lifting?
off and on the road. Are there
any healthy alternatives to the Answer:
convenient energy gels and chews?
Finding the correct weight
Answer: for any exercise can take a bit of
trial and error. The general rule
While gels and chews are of thumb is to choose a weight
convenient and provide a quick that is challenging, but a weight
shot of energy for endurance that allows you to lift with good
workouts, many of these form for the suggested number
contain artificial ingredients and of reps. Your exercise goal will
preservatives. If you’re set on also help determine how much
the convenience of energy gels weight you should be lifting. If
and chews, start by reading the you wish to build strength and
ingredients. Look for the ones gain mass, choose a heavy load
that have the least number of that you can lift for eight reps
artificial ingredients. If you are or fewer. Moderate weight that
willing to try whole-food options, you can lift for eight to twelve
try homemade fruit leather or repetitions is the most common
energy bars made of dried fruit, recommendation for building
oats, honey, and molasses, as strength and increasing lean
these ingredients can provide a muscle mass. To help you build
similar boost of electrolytes and endurance, choose lighter weights
carbohydrates that the commercial where you can perform fifteen or
gels and chews provide. more reps.
About the author: Jason Blough is the Club Manager/Certified Personal Trainer
at Anytime Fitness in Thurmont. To submit a question for future articles, please
contact the author at [email protected].
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fitness matters
by Jason Blough, Anytime Fitness Club Manager/Certified Personal Trainer
Expert Answers to Your Health and Wellness Questions
Question: Question:
I’m training for a marathon How do I determine how much
and want to clean up my eating— weight I should be lifting?
off and on the road. Are there
any healthy alternatives to the Answer:
convenient energy gels and chews?
Finding the correct weight
Answer: for any exercise can take a bit of
trial and error. The general rule
While gels and chews are of thumb is to choose a weight
convenient and provide a quick that is challenging, but a weight
shot of energy for endurance that allows you to lift with good
workouts, many of these form for the suggested number
contain artificial ingredients and of reps. Your exercise goal will
preservatives. If you’re set on also help determine how much
the convenience of energy gels weight you should be lifting. If
and chews, start by reading the you wish to build strength and
ingredients. Look for the ones gain mass, choose a heavy load
that have the least number of that you can lift for eight reps
artificial ingredients. If you are or fewer. Moderate weight that
willing to try whole-food options, you can lift for eight to twelve
try homemade fruit leather or repetitions is the most common
energy bars made of dried fruit, recommendation for building
oats, honey, and molasses, as strength and increasing lean
these ingredients can provide a muscle mass. To help you build
similar boost of electrolytes and endurance, choose lighter weights
carbohydrates that the commercial where you can perform fifteen or
gels and chews provide. more reps.
About the author: Jason Blough is the Club Manager/Certified Personal Trainer
at Anytime Fitness in Thurmont. To submit a question for future articles, please
contact the author at [email protected].
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