Category Archives: Exercising

Fitness and Exercise-Finding the Right Program for You

Fitness and Exercise-Finding the Right Program for You

Fitness and exercise are gaining popularity in our culture for many reasons. Reactions against the sedentary lifestyles Americans have lived for decades, a rash of type two diabetes with people engaging in fitness and exercise to improve their conditions, parents encouraging youngsters Continue reading


 

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Folding vs Non-Folding Treadmills – The Real Story

Folding vs Non-Folding Treadmills – The Real Story

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Health Pointers for the Fitness Babes

Health Pointers for the Fitness Babes

Aside from these, exercise also works for strengthening the bones and keeps people looking good and feeling good about themselves. Exercise also gives people the stamina to enable them to keep up with the pace of their lifestyles. Unfortunately, not many people chose to do what is good Continue reading


 

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How to avoid injuries

How to avoid injuries

Warm ups: Warm ups are essential…this cannot be stressed on enough. Starting an exercise routine without warm ups can be very damaging to your body. It is always advisable to do some relatively gentle exercise to warm up your muscles, so that they'll be less susceptible to damage Continue reading


 

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It’s All About The Basics

It’s All About The Basics

I once interviewed 13 great martial artists. The thing that struck me was that every one of them talked about how their earliest instructor was a traditionalist and had them study the basics. In other words, what made them great was the fact that they spent time on the fundamentals.< Continue reading


 

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Making Exercise More Enjoyable and Fun

Making Exercise More Enjoyable and Fun

So then just how can you get the motivation to maintain an exercise program on a regular basis? What can you do to make exercise something to look forward to everyday and not feel like a chore, like something you feel like you have to make yourself do each time? Well, here are some ide Continue reading


 

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Replacing Fat With Lean Muscle By Exercising – How To Increase Your Muscle Mass

Replacing Fat With Lean Muscle By Exercising – How To Increase Your Muscle Mass

First, make sure that you are eating correctly. You need to put the proper "building blocks" in place for muscle development to occur. What this means is that you should find out how many calories are healthy for somebody of your body type to eat every day, and try to stick as Continue reading


 

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Steps to Avoiding Gym Rage

Steps to Avoiding Gym Rage

All this builds up stress especially between the months of January and April when the newcomers hit the gyms and fitness centres in an attempt to lose the weight gained over the Christmas and New Year period. In trying to realise their New Years resolutions they overcrowd the aerobics Continue reading


 

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The History of NordicTrack – The Famed Fitness Giant

The History of NordicTrack – The Famed Fitness Giant

In 1986, after careful management from Ed Pauls and a national fitness craze, the family run business had an annual revenue of $15 Million a year. At this time Pails was either going to grow larger, or sell. When Charles M. Leighton, of the CML Group, Inc. offered him $24 Million for Continue reading


 

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Too Much of a Good Thing?

Too Much of a Good Thing?

If you have been weight/resistance training, you will understand how great it is to see your body change so dramatically and how easy it would be to increase training intensity and frequency too quickly. Of course, rationally we all know this is a mistake. But, the desire for an even Continue reading


 

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