exercise and fitness

At Home Exercises

January 24, 2012

There is no questioning the need to add resistance training to your workout regimen, but what at home exercises can you do without investing a lot of money in equipment? You might be surprised at what you can do with a few simple things you have around your house. To start with we need to [...]

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Walking – A Low Impact Entry in Exercise

January 11, 2012

I read an interesting article in the latest AARP Bulletin that said that walking is the “only exercise you will ever need.” Well, it’s free and somewhat easy (depending on your physical state) but I wouldn’t say it is the only exercise you will ever need. However, it is a fairly easy way to start [...]

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New Year’s Resolution – Starting to Exercise

December 27, 2011

So, have you made your New Year’s Resolution(s) yet? Maybe one of them is starting to exercise more, returning to exercising regularly or beginning an exercise routine. Welcome to the crowd! January and February are the biggest months in the fitness industry and more people sign up for gym memberships in those months than any [...]

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Fastest Way to Burn Fat

September 7, 2011

Everyone is looking for the fastest way to burn fat. Who can blame them? In our “on demand” society we want what we want NOW. Not five minutes from now or next week or twelve weeks from now, but RIGHT NOW! Maybe even five minutes ago. Now is even too late. Unfortunately burning fat takes [...]

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Strength Training and Life Long Health

August 25, 2011

I’ve heard every excuse to avoid strength training. it’s too hard on my joints I don’t want to have ‘muscles’ like that it’s too hard muscle will turn to fat if you stop lifting strength training is for men I don’t want to look stupid because I don’t know what I’m doing I look too [...]

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Cycling to Lose Weight?

August 22, 2011

One thing you might want to add to your fitness plan is a cycling regimen. A regular program of cycling can help you to lose weight, but the truth of the matter is that any sort of exercise is only going to be a component of a fat loss program. Did you get that? We [...]

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Crunches, Sit Ups and those Six Pack Abs

August 18, 2011

For many people the attainment of six pack abs is like a quest for the holy grail. I’m mostly talking about the fitness obsessed freaks you see at the gym all hours of the day and night, occasionally pulling up their shirt in front of the mirror for a quick pick at today’s progress. You [...]

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Walking On Sunshine

March 30, 2011

It’s getting to be that time of year where you are getting out of your house more often, because of the weather getting nicer, and hopefully some of that time out is for exercise. One of the oldest forms of exercise is walking, which obviously has been around since before it was even considered exercise [...]

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Simple Exercises Can Give Best Results

March 25, 2011

What simple exercises can you do to help you to lose weight? I guess the question doesn’t get any easier than that, and the possible answers are so varied it blows you away. Okay, maybe it only blows me away, I can’t speak for the general population really, can I? The simplest things have been [...]

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Spring Fitness and Wellness

March 14, 2011

Spring is just around the corner and it is certainly time to dust off those walking shoes and get outside and smell the roses. Well, OK, you can’t smell the roses literally, but your spring fitness and wellness routine should start now if it hasn’t started already. One comment I often hear is that people [...]

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