Design your Workout like a “LUAU” for a workout experience worth celebrating
What’s a quick and effective workout routine for someone with limited time?
Howzabout a “LUAU”...?!?
In my book, "got Parkinson's?... are you sure?!?" I cover how to get started, restarted or even just jump-start yourself into a workout routine that is correctly safely and effectively designed for results regardless of a person's relative fitness and busy schedule.
Luau L...U ..A...U... Stands for LOWER, UPPER, ARMS and “UNION”.
Lower, upper and arms, are all pretty easy for most people to understand…. Lower meaning Thighs, hips, butt and calves.
Upper referencing Chest and Back, perhaps Shoulders…
And arms being your Biceps, Triceps, Forearms and grip strength.
Where most people are unfamiliar with the LUAU layout is the final letter U which means Union, which actually is far more accurate at describing what most people refer to as their “core”. Truth be told, I hate the term core because most people look at it as their abs or the muscles that they can see, even if they're incredibly lean and can see they're obliques, (aka those blue jean muscles on the outsides of our waist), but what you see on the outside is not really what is solely and ultimately responsible for making everything safe and happen from the inside, because it’s from the inside where everything is connected and supported, related to your spine getting your lower body and upper body to stabilize to help the other work… Whew, what a mouthful (or as some say, a “Word-salad”)
They all work together, more like a Union, where things come together for a common cause - so your abdominals, you're obliques, your spinal erectors, your hip flexors, your transverse abdominus, you're intercostals and serratus, I refer to these as your Union, and train your Union last (in a full body LUAU layout) because you need it to support all the other areas so that they can perform safely & effectively, to get you your best results.
So legs first lower, upper next chest and back, transition to the arms and shoulders as well, Then finally the muscles and activities you want to target in your Union/Center are (aka “core” I guess).
