Welcome to Straight to the Bar
If you’ve just joined us, welcome. Here you’ll find everything that grunts, groans and ticks in the world of strength training. In short, this site is the home of all things strength.
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To help get you started, here are a few of our most recent posts. And if you want to dive in to a particular area. check out the ‘Start Here‘ page above. Enjoy.
Looking At : Dec 17 2023
This Week On Straight To The Bar…
Fitness Reading/Listening For The Week : ‘Low Impact and Gentle Chair Exercises for Seniors’ (by Diana Igram)
We all have a friend or family member who’d really benefit from something like this. Perhaps their knees or hips are just not co-operating, but they’d really like to be doing something.
Diana Igram’s ‘Low Impact and Gentle Chair Exercises for Seniors’ is a wonderful look at the various types of chair-based, low-impact exercises possible. It’s a great starting point when the alternative is ‘as little as possible’, and it’s always possible to make the exercises a little more challenging if desired.
Well worth checking out.
FootRester 3-in-1 Under Desk Foot Relief (Adjustable Footrest & Footstool with Massage Rollers)
The FootRester is an under desk footrest/footstool/massager, in a compact package.
The Science of Cold Plunging: How It Changes the Body (Institute of Human Anatomy)
Good fun (sort of), with some wonderful benefits.
Looking At : Dec 10 2023
This Week On Straight To The Bar…
Fitness Reading/Listening For The Week : ‘The Epigenetics Revolution’ (by Nessa Carey)
Nessa Carey’s ‘The Epigenetics Revolution’ is a fascinating look at this relatively recent (in terms of discovery, anyway) area of biology. What everything is, and how it all works.
Dive in.
IMbody (Home Gym & Smart Coach)
The IMbody is a smart mirror / home gym setup. Nice and compact.
30 Days Of Vagus Nerve Stimulation (pigmie)
Very interesting approach. Tried it yourself? Thoughts?
Looking At : Dec 3 2023
This Week On Straight To The Bar…
Fitness Reading/Listening For The Week : ‘Looks Like We’re Running: An Amateur’s Companion to Becoming a Marathoner’ (by Dustin Riedesel)
Dustin Riedesel’s ‘Looks Like We’re Running: An Amateur’s Companion to Becoming a Marathoner’ is a wonderful guide to the basic process of running a marathon. As an amateur, that is.
Enjoy.