Articles tagged with Fitness
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How Quality Gym Facilities Help You Stick To Your Routine
For some people, a gym membership is the best way for them to start, and maintain, a regular fitness routine. And as we all know, healthy living is all about routine! Today’s guest blogger, James Harper, explains why it’s important to look for quality, when joining a gym. I’m not referring to a gym that [...]
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Exercise of the Week; the Seated Row
The seated row is also an exercise that targets the muscles of the upper back. I like to incorporate two movements (please see my post dated October 10th) for the upper back because these muscles are often neglected and weak in most clients that I see. Weak upper back muscles not only lead to posture [...]
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Shape and Tone Your Glutes for Summer
To be effective, glutes should be trained with cardio and strength training. The American Council on Exercise (ACE) research found that the top cardio exercises for shaping your glutes (and legs) are: lunges, walking uphill, stair climbing, jogging and running. No big surprises here and no gimmicks! Just hard work! And [...]
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Everyone has the Perseverance to Lose Weight and Feel Better!
“In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.” Mao Tse-Tung (Chinese stateman, the key figure in China, 20th century, 1893-1976) We learn a lot from fitness and doing something for the longer range goal. Although not the first reason [...]
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My Workout Routine
I work out in a public gym: nothing fancy but it’s got all the essentials for an effective workout. All you need is your bodyweight, free weights, pull-up bar, and a stability ball and you can create a great workout. Anyway, I was stretching after my workout a few days ago and observed some other people exercising. [...]
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Following A Workout Program
You should never go into the gym without a plan. Most people enter the gym and wing it. This usually leads to wasted time, trying to figure out what exercises to do. Before you know it, all your motivation is gone and your training session is a wash-out. This is by far one of the biggest mistakes [...]
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Sticking with Exercise is the Key!
We’ve all started a fitness program at one time in our lives but did we stick with it? That’s the hardest part. We might find a reason to stop and as you know, the reasons are plentiful! But how about some reasons to keep going and reach your fitness goal? Here are the [...]
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3 Ways To Improve Your Life With A Home Fitness Routine
These days, we all have a hectic schedule. A lot of us are taking second jobs or helping out loved ones and there just isn’t enough time in the day to hit the gym on a regular basis. So what do we do?
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Unique Abdominal Exercise
It’s that time of the year for every fitness gym to be flooded with people trying to start their New Year's Resolution. You can always tell who these people are because they either just exercise on a piece of cardio equipment for an hour or do hundreds of painfully looking crunches. Doing crunches will not pull your abdomen [...]
