Exercise Ideas
Yoga's Sneaky Fat Loss Benefit
Yoga has become mainstream now, and it seems like everyone I know has tried it. Many people do yoga for the fitness aspect of it while others continue to think of yoga more traditionally as a way to reflect upon...
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7 Rules For Hiring a Personal Trainer
A personal trainer can be a fantastic way to help guide you towards your fitness and/or weight loss goals. The problem is that there are hundreds to choose from in some places. Here are some things to look for when...
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Simple Home Full Body Fat Burning Workout
Peter Carvell from sixpackfactory.com shares a simple yet effective full body fat burning workout you can do at home. It was designed to help you burn the most amount of calories in a very short time by incorporate a lot...
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Which Exercise is Supreme by Activating the Most Muscles?
I get this question often. It's usually followed by "...for getting rid of my belly/thighs/butt/tricep fat"... etc. Regardless of what you are looking to accomplish, that question in its current form is unanswerable....
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5 Simple Fitness Tips For Losing Weight
Many people at the beginning of their weight loss journey, want to find easy to implement fitness tips that will help them get started on the right foot. If that's where you're at, there a few things that you need...
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Cheap and Effective Workout Plan For a Small Apartment
If you live in a big city, you're most likely cramped, like a rat in a cage, inside a tiny studio apartment. Eek! So unless your coffee table can double as a Bowflex, you probably don't much have room for...
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Piloxing: A Fun Way to Workout
Flickr: aktivioslo If you love hybrid words, you'll love "Piloxing." And no, it doesn't involve punching your cat, whilst doing the dreaded Pilates Hundred... thankfully! It's a fun combination of Pilates and Boxing, created by Swedish celebrity trainer, Viveca Jensen....
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3 Goofy Fitness Gadgets Every Woman Needs?
I admire entrepreneurs, yet at the same time I grimace at some of the intriguing products that come to market. Fitness and weight loss attract more than their fair share of gimmicks. Here are three fitness products that gave me...
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How to Exercise For Fat Loss
sxc.hu: Wizard909 Truth be told, if you are currently active, exercise is ALREADY WORKING FOR YOU. You are improving your health in a way that no other intervention can match. If you exercise regularly, this should be the number...
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Shake Off Your Weight With a Vibration Plate Machine
Obesity PanaceaYou've seen the old school cartoons with some big fat bald guy strapped to a contraption and gyrating his way to thinness. We're no better now, with our electric pro-wrestling-sized abdominal workout belts. Editor's note:Whole Body Vibration Training does...
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6 Strange New Fitness Machines to Try
IHRSA (International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association) held their annual conference this month - a monster of an affair which draws the who's who of fitness equipment manufacturers, club owners and enthusiasts in general. Not surprisingly, computer-based fitness games...
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Learn the Lingo: Health and Fitness Slang
Finding myself on the wrong side of 30, it's tough to keep up with the vernacular of today's young health and fitness enthusiasts. From legitimate health or medical conditions to trendy lexicon and pejorative slang, here is a partial...
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5 Ways to Break Out of a Workout Slump
The Art of Doing What You Can Here's my confession... I've been in a workout slump - a particularly long workout slump. I have been settling for sporadic and often half-hearted attempts at lifting, sports, etc. And boy do I...
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Wii Sports vs. Real Sports: Which Burns More Calories?
There continues to be a trend towards the convergence of 2 activities once considered diametrically opposed to one another: Playing video games and playing sports. Since the inception of the Nintendo Wii and more recently Wii Fit, much has been...
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Is Body Electric: Workouts for Women Effective?
The cover of this book features a fit-looking, 40-something lady who looks like she takes fitness seriously and wants you to do the same. Start reading the book and you'll be amazed to find out she's actually in her...
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Maintaining Weight Loss: How Much Exercise is Required?
So you've lost some of those extra pounds you've been carrying around since you started college/your career/a family/addiction to reality TV... Congratulations! Now get on that treadmill.. for an hour! A new (and not terribly surprising) study has shown that...
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The Trek Desk
Treadmill Desks appear to be growing popularity. The TrekDesk takes it one step further with the addition of an exercise ball. At first I thought these things seemed rather gimmicky. However I'm beginning to notice more aches and pains...
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What's the Latest in Fitness Equipment?
The International Health Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) held their annual convention and tradeshow earlier this month in San Diego. This event is the "superbowl" of the fitness and health tradeshows. Alas, I did not attend - however I...
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10 Ways to Burn Calories Without Noticing
If you can burn an extra three hundred calories, six days a week, that's enough to lose an extra twenty five pounds in a year. There are lots of ways to sneak in exercise without it taking any extra...
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The Mighty Foam Roller
"The $20 Massage Therapist", "The pool-toy-looking-thingy", "The foam of profanity". Whatever you want to call it, the foam roller is an effective, inexpensive and vastly underused gym accessory. For about $20-30, you can improve mobility, relieve muscle stiffness, improve brain-muscle...
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