Lifestyle Fitness Ii: All Good

By Robert Neeves

Filled with common-sense advice to help the mainstream, average person improve and enjoy all aspects of life, Lifestyle Fitness II, by author Robert Neeves explains how to achieve remarkable health benefits with little inconvenience or distress. Its a simple matter of eating less and moving more.
The second in a series, Neeves demonstrates how regular, moderate, consistent exercise; common-sense eating habits; and a strong, positive, and motivated mind are the most beneficial to your well-being and a positive quality of life. Lifestyle Fitness II covers enjoyable exercises and offers food options to tone your body and have you looking and feeling great.

Based on his work as a personal trainer and his own life experiences, Neeves presents information, encouragement, and motivation as you take action to improve the quality of your life. He encourages you to not stay trapped in an overweight, uncomfortable, and unhealthy body. Free yourself with painless, sustainable lifestyle changes for a better and healthier you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Apr 6, 2017
• ISBN: 9781504307550

Robert Neeves

Robert Neeves is a seventy-two-year-old registered personal trainer, who, despite having medical complication at a young age, is still extremely active. Three years ago, he climbed Mr. Kilimanjaro and reached the summit. Neeves has four children and ten grandchildren and lives in Australia. This is his second book.

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Balboa Press rev. date: 04/03/2017

No pain, no gain—rubbish!

This book, Lifestyle Fitness Number Two: All Good, is all about motivating you to develop a fit and natural-looking body so you can enjoy a full life and fulfil your dreams and expectations. You will not find any crazy, radical diets, which are not only unsustainable but can do more harm than good. You will not find any extreme exercise routines, which only suit a small percentage of the population. Rather, you will find common-sense advice that will help the mainstream, average person to improve and enjoy all aspects of life.

Work, rest, and play: I want you to enjoy the journey as well as the results.

Contents

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Introduction

Chapter 1: No Pain No Gain? Rubbish!

Chapter 2: Why We Need to Move

Chapter 3: Procrastination

Chapter 4: Posture

Chapter 5: Maximising the Benefits of Your Exercise Time

Chapter 6: My Version of High-Intensity Interval Training

Chapter 7: Boxing Format

Chapter 8: Kettlebells Explained

Chapter 9: Your Body Can Be Your Gym

Chapter 10: Back Muscles: the Forgotten Group

Chapter 11: What Size Weights Should You Use?

Chapter 12: Eating Habits

Chapter 13: Think Before You Eat

Chapter 14: Recovery Session after a Hard Day at Work

Chapter 15: If You Take Nothing Else from My Book, Remember This:

Chapter 16: Incidental Exercise

Chapter 17: Conclusion

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank my wife, Trish, for sitting at the computer as she did with my last book, for many hours turning my handwritten scribble into the finished work. I would also like to thank my son, John, and my daughter, Nicole, for assisting with the exercise images.

About the Author

I am an active seventy-two-year-young male. I still enjoy a hard game of squash, and I exercise most days of the week. I am a personal trainer who qualified at the age of sixty-seven in a class of much younger trainees. At the same time, I am not a fitness fanatic. I do not run marathons or participate in triathlons. The human body, I do believe, was not designed for these extreme events; indeed, I believe that they punish our bodies too much. I am not a vegetarian; occasionally I do eat red meat, although my preference is for poultry and seafood. I have nothing against red meat; I simply gave up eating it thirty years ago when the cuts of red meat were not the lean cuts we get today, and I simply never regained my taste for red meat again. I regularly enjoy several beers, which I find give me the relaxation I need, as I tend to be a little over active at times, but I am not suggesting you should start drinking alcohol—far from it. I should possibly replace beer with red wine as research has shown it to be better for you in small amounts. I guess my message is this: everything in moderation. Included in this message is moderate exercise at regular intervals. You do not have to be a gym junkie. The benefit of regular activity requiring lots of movement can be enormous and possibly life changing.

Regular, moderate, consistent exercise; sensible, common-sense eating habits; and a strong, positive, motivated mind are, I believe, most beneficial to our well-being and a positive quality of life. And these things increase in importance as we age. I do not set limits on what I can achieve based on my age. I do think age should not be a barrier to achieving your goal, although I believe a healthy body is vital because it is the vehicle that will carry you as you reach for your dreams and expectations. Without it, are you really getting the most out of life and enjoying it to the fullest?

Two years ago I flew to Africa and went trekking in Tanzania. I successfully reached the highest peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. I was twenty-five years older than the next oldest person in our group, but I was always treated as an equal and never felt outside my comfort zone. One group member complimented me when he said, I only hope I can do what you are doing when I reach your age. And that is exactly what this book is all about. Not all of those in the group had the fitness capabilities or mindset to keep going and achieve their goals. Okay, so it was not Mount Everest, but it was my Mount Everest. I guess everyone has a Mount Everest—a challenge that encourages you to push yourself a little harder, even to your limits. When you achieve the goal, the satisfaction can last the rest of your life. I, like most people, go through life regretting things I have done which I cannot change. I try not to dwell or linger over my thoughts for long, as life is too short. The worst regret for me would be not doing something I wanted to do, should have done, would have done, could have done—but did not.

At the age of nineteen, I was rejected by doctors as being unfit for National Service in the army due to a heart murmur. If I had been passed as fit to serve, I most likely would have been sent to serve in the Vietnam War. I was fully prepared to do my duty as this particular war, in the early stages, was considered to be the right thing, and the dangers were unknown. In hindsight, I realise that my childhood misfortune of