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TITULADO SUPERIOR DE ACTIVIDADES TECNICAS Y PROFESIONALES
Any comfortable place in your house can be used to perform step aerobics.
You can listen to music while you exercise both for entertainment and to set a pace for your step exercises. Exercising on a carpet is always a good idea. This will lessen the impact on your feet.
And provide a more comfortable setting for you, in case you wish to do setups or pushups.
The only real exercise equipment you might need is a small platform, only a few inches above the floor. Any large book will do. But you can purchase an attractive aerobics platform from most large stores.
For any exercise routines you should always wear loose comfortable clothing. These can be purchased from any large Store as well, After all you are in an aerobics studio and not at a movie premier.
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Gadget and fad exercise
No exercise guide would be complete without a section devoted to fad exercises, or downright medical fakery. We’re going to examine one of the most common devices currently making the modern rounds of today! This is the stretching exercises, commonly called the flex-o-ciser in common advertising circles.
This is usually a plastic tube and a large rubber band; Devices like these have been around since the mid 1930’s
These rubber band devices got their start in depression era America when hucksters purchased commercial Radio airtime in Mexico, far out of reach of the American authorities.
They would have popular singers usually country and western fare. This is because the entertainers themselves Lived in Texas and Arizona, and crossed into Mexico for their show and returned home when they were finished. Sometimes they would have a country preacher sermonizing on the airwaves.
And during the program they would pause for a commercial break and advertise religious trinkets Sometimes there were crucifix’s blessed by father so and so. Sometimes there were just pocket bibles. Usually they would sell these items through the mail for a dollar a piece.
To check the advertisers ratings for each entertainer or program was simple enough to do. Each product they sold in the great depression was only a dollar each.
And say the preacher or the singer would be judged on the products sold on their program. This whole process was called a dollar a holler!
The paid entertainer that brought in the most dollars each week generally stayed on the air.
Or until his or her sales went down, then they replaced them with other more highly rated entertainers. Always the products were only a dollar each and sold through the mail.
They sold many products like hair restoring potions and of course the Flexercisor or the Abdominator.
These things were usually only a thick rubber cord wrapped around a wooden stick, sometimes metal or plastic. The idea was to pull on the cords like an accordion player to develop huge incredible muscles like a bodybuilder. The advertisement stated the exercise was fun and easy to do.
First lets discuss the Flexociser or the Abdominator.
The idea of the flexociser and all other rubber band exercising devices is universally that when you constantly pull On the rubber bands you are exercising the muscles in your arms. While that may be technically true.
If you want to exercise your arms you can’t beat the old fashioned push-up for building up your arms. Well, number two! lets consider the quality of the exercise involved here.
On a pulling exercise like a rubber band you are only developing a few muscles in your forearms, and that’s all. And I don’t think you would exactly get the same amount of exercise as a body builder you would see in a magazine. You would get much better exercise simply by ordinary calisthenics. And callisthenic exercise is entirely free. And number three! lets consider the quality of the exercise equipment involved with these devices.
A rubber band will stretch for a while but sooner or later will eventually break or wear out.
And for the price of a dollar, even during the depression era the quality couldn’t possibly be very good. So all things considered these devices are not really worth it. Whatever the price you pay.
The modern incarnation of these depression era devices are these stomach exerciser machines you see on late night TV. These things are now made entirely of plastic and go by catchy names like Gut Buster, Fat Blaster or the type.
The idea is that they provide forced resistance during stomach crunching exercises.
And as far as I remember from school! you can do stomach crunches without buying any equipment whatsoever. I the author have seen these devices before! Generally they sell during the summer months.
Then the next year you see a similar product for sale. A different catchy name, it’s shaped differently but it’s the same. You may use them for a while. But like a child with a toy! You will eventually get tired of them.
And then go out and purchase a different one. This is my advice to you! Don’t’ purchase them.
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