Fitness - Defeating Back Pain Forever
By: Jim O'Connor - The Fitness Promoter August 21, 2005(c) Jim O'Connor / Wellness Word, LLC - All Rights ReservedBack pain, one of the most common physical, and debilitating ailments today, affects 70% - 80% of us at one time or another in our lives. Howev... |
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Fitness - Diamonds In The Ruff - How To Find A Good Personal Trainer
The question of how to find a good personal trainer is as old as the industry itself. In fact, it usually gets transformed into an even bigger question - should you even HIRE a personal trainer? Conveniently enough, the answer to one of those questions will dictate the answer to the other one - every time!The short and simple truth of the matter is that you should only hire a personal trainer if you can find an effective one that is right for you. Here are several things to consider before you decide!ProfessionalismThe term professionalism should co... |
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Fitness - Diet And Fitness, Winning Tactics For Weight Loss
Tell me, does this describe you? 'I tried a zillion diets infits and starts and was never successful.' Just going on a dietwill not give you a complete healthy persona. I finally paidattention to what everybody was saying, but I was too lazy todo. I added exercise and fitness to the equation. We also need tostay fit as well as diet to lose weight. Our true wealth is ourhealth. Isn't it worth your time bring it into peak conditionand maintain it? Diet fitness is all about an accurate mix ofdiet and an appropriate fitness program. This basically includes three levels of consideration: 1. Balance-A balanced diet must contain carbohydrate, protein,fat, vitamin, mineral... |
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Fitness - Discover The Latest Rave To Hit Fitness Centers
You may have seen them in the gym: half of a large rubber ballthat’s flat on one side. They’re often blue in color and looklike a gigantic outtie belly button. “What are those things?”you wonder. Well they’re BOSU balls (or balance trainers). It’sthe latest rave to hit fitness centers across America. BOSU is an acronym... |
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Fitness - Do You Want A Sexy Perky Butt?
How to build sexy perky butts and buns? Do you know that whether you are a guy or a gal, one of your anatomies that are constantly being scrutinized is your butt? Many do say that a perky butt is one of the most attractive part of a human body. And don't you think it is? Certainly so! Take a look at your own buns right now. Is it tight perky and strong or is it saggy and lumpy? Worse, is it without any tone and just hangs ther... |
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Fitness - Double Calories Burned With Five Minutes Of Exercise!
Recent studies have shown that if you perform just five minutes of reasonably intense exercise in the morning you can potentially burn up to twice as many calories you normally would during the day! What this means is that for those people who often claim “I don’t have time!” th... |
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Fitness - Easy Steps To Avoiding Gym Rage
Have you heard about this recently? Many of us go through this at our local gym or fitness centre on a regular basis and are become increasingly frustrated. It usually starts as a group of trainees chat away their experiences of the day on a bench or at a piece of equipment for fifteen minutes while you are waiting to use it. Or someone is standing directly in front of the barbell rack doing tiny lateral raises when you want to get at the really big weights. Or casuals using equipment favoured by the regulars and often looked at like pieces of personal furniture for their own use. 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 per... |
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Fitness - Eating The Australian Way
Australians are often divided into the haves, and the have-nots. But they're not always talking about money. These days, it's often the haves (too much body fat), versus the... |
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Fitness - Eight Amazing Benefits Of Teaching Yoga
Every challenging occupation yields some sort of satisfaction, but the fitness professionals industry had an amazing 85% job satisfaction rate according to an Idea Health & Fitness survey.Job SatisfactionIn the same survey, 98% of those interviewed felt that "My work gives me a feeling of personal accomplishment." Lack of personal satisfaction is the most frequent reason why people leave a job. These statistics make it obvious that this is an extremely harmonious atmosphere to work in.For many of us who worked in the ... |
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Fitness - Elliptical Trainers - Are They The Perfect Workout?
Elliptical trainers are the hottest of the hot in fitness equipment. They are easy to use, and provide a great workout. Using an elliptical machine will give you a great cardio workout, similar to that of running, and will tone your lower body as we... |
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Fitness - Enjoy The Holidays Without Gaining Weight
The holiday season is undoubtedly a time for rejoicing. Unfortunately, the average adult does a little too much celebrating during this time of year, which leads to extra baggage when t... |
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Fitness - Exercise And Your Anaerobic Threshold
If you’re like most people you’re looking to get the most out of a workout that you possibly can. However exercising to build endurance requires a different approach than exercising to lose weight. To get the most out of your workout you need to know what your Anaerobic Threshold or AT is. Your AT rate is an individual number that varies from person to person, and can even change as your body becomes stronger over time. To better understand AT we need to take a look at your heart rate. Your heart is ... |
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Fitness - Exercise Equipments That Suit Your Fitness Goals
Health-buffs that have been using exercise equipments are surely no neophytes on this matter. But newbies on exercise equipment won't have a hard time on knowing which to use. It's just a matter of getting armed with the right info and sufficient determination to be at... |
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Fitness - Exercise For A Healthy Heart
Do you exercise every day? If you want to live a long, healthy life, maybe you should. A recent study by Timothy Wessel, a physician at the University of Florida, indicates one of the strongest risk factors for developing heart disease is inactivity – even more so than being overweight. During the four-year study of 906 women, Dr. Wessel documented those who were moderately active were less likely to develop heart disease than sedentary women, no matter how much they weighed. The study concluded: “These results suggest that fitness may be more important than overweight or obesity for cardiovascular risk in women.” In January, the updated U.S. Dietary Guidelines strongly urged that every... |
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Fitness - Exercise & Motivation, Part 2: Overcoming Inertia & Getting Started
Copyright 2005 Tanja GardnerIn the first article in this series (http://tinyurl.com/8ztbo), we gave you an overview of the stages of change in Prochaska’s Transtheoretical model. The firs... |
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Fitness - Exercise & Motivation, Part 3: Keeping It Going
Copyright 2005 Tanja GardnerNote: This is Part 3 of a 4-part article series. You can find Parts 1 and 2 at http://optimumlife.co.nz/Fitness_Articles.htmTHE NEXT STAGE: ACTIONThe next stage of Prochaska’s Transtheoretical model - ‘Action’ - kicks in once you’ve started taking (you guessed it) action.If you’re in this stage, you’re ready to make changes – and now. In the Action stage, you know where yo... |
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Fitness - Exercise & Motivation, Part 4: Maintenance & Relapse
Copyright 2005 Tanja GardnerWHAT ARE THE MAINTENANCE AND RELAPSE STAGES?In the maintenance stage, you’ve been exercising regularly for long enough that it’s become a habit. You’ve created a routine that works for you, and (if you’re doing it right), you’ve ... |
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Fitness - Exercise Smarter Not Harder – 10 Ways To Make Consistent Progress All The Time In Your Exercise Plan!
My name is Greg Ryan. I am a fitness expert, professional bodybuilder personal, trainer to movie stars, and former employee of Kathy Smith. For twenty years I have been able to keep my body fat levels lower than most, and consistently exercise five days a week, and having fun in the mean time. Not because I am anything special, bu... |
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Fitness - Exercise: Why You Should Do It
Hundreds of Thousands of Americans spend millions of dollars each year on diet pills, "magical" exercise devices, and misrepresented health and fitness products, when in all actuality a good set of dumbbells and a brisk walk may be all you need to get in better shape than you've ever been in. What can you do with nothing but a set of dumbbells, you ask? Provide resistance to your body's movements - also known as weight lifting. That's all weight lifting is - resistance. The terms "weight lifting" and "resistance training" have become one in the same because they are describing the same activity - moving your body under more resistance than it normally has to handle. In fact, you've just stumbled upon the basic secret of exercise in general! Whether you are... |
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Fitness - Fast Weight Loss Programs – The Importance Of Low Body-fat Levels!
My name is Greg Ryan and I am a high profile fitness expert. In twenty years of being a personal trainer and health club consultant, I am frightened at how fast the health of Americans is deteriorating. You are being eaten alive from the inside out by diabetes, heart disease and obesity. And the scary thing is either you do not know it YET, or you are in denial of the problem.You have a choice to make and you better make it soon, before it’s too late. Is this a scare tactic? You bet it is! I am very tired of patting people on the back who walk into my clinics and want something for nothing. I’m frustrated with listening to people make excuses for not... |
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Fitness - Finding A Cheap Home Gym -
The committed and perseverant bargain hunter will be able to find cheap home gyms. Discounted home gyms, home gyms on sale, ... |
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Fitness - Fit For What?
Copyright 2005 Tanja GardnerUnless we’re talking about our bodies, and the amount of exercise they can do, we usually talk about being fit in relation to something. An object is ‘fit for use’, clothing is ‘fit to be worn at work’, and food is ‘fit to be eaten’. My parents used to have a running joke that they were fit – fit to drop! Everything else is fit 'for something'. So why do we insist on describing our... |
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Fitness - Fitness And Weight Loss Pointers
Who among us can truly say that they are as lean and toned as they ever want to be? Most people, even the fitness buffs, are in a constant fluctuation between their ideal body and a body that is not quite ideal. So how do we sway this struggle in our favor? Quite often the difference between the body that you have today and the body that you wish you had is made up of simple daily decisions. Read on for simple fitness and weight loss pointers that could very well turn the body you have today into a master... |
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Fitness - Fitness Goal Secrets Revealed Here For The First Time
Lets talk a little about achieving your fitness goal.Everybody finds it hard to arrange time to do various day to day chores or tasks, including your muscle and fitness training.Just follow these steps to help you get more out of each day in your workout routine, or any other part of your life for that matter. These steps will help you achieve your muscle and fitness goal.I have found that the more I struggle with my daily life the harder it is to get anything out of what I do. In other words, if I have certain things that need doing throughout each day, and I also want to ... |
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Fitness - Fitness Wars: Revenge Of The Girth
As of the writing of this article, May 16, 2005, we are all almost 5 months into our New Year's Resolutions.Are you skinny yet?Did you find your six-pack?Does your butt look like you wanted it to in those jeans?For a lot of you, the answers to these questions are going to be "No, No, and, I took the jeans back to the store".Why? You are a victim of the Fitness Wars, that's why. Your Girth is winning out over your Resolution, and you are probably more frustrated now than you were when you started!Is there some master conspiracy that is keeping you from getting in shape? Do the rules of energy in vs. energy out not apply to you? Are you in a fat-loss vacuum where the normal laws... |
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Fitness - Five Ways To Fit Fitness Into Your Life
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Fitness - Free Weights Vs. Exercise Machines
Anyone who has ever been in a gym before is familiar with the gleaming banks of shiny exercise mach... |
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Fitness - Get A Great Workout At Home (even On A Small Budget)
Many people think that creating a home workout gym is either too intimidating or too costly. So, often they inste... |
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Fitness - Get Fit No Matter What You Weigh
In today's appearance-conscious society, it seems we are bombarded with information on weight, weight problems and weight loss. But it's important to remember that how much you weigh is not necessarily a good indicator of how fit you are. Obviously your weight has an effect, particularly if you are obese, but this effect isn't the be all and end all that some people would lead you to believe it is.In reality the only real way to tell how fit you are is to see how much exercise you can do. You will find ... |
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Fitness - Get In Shape For The Festive Season. What You Have To Do Right Now.
Soon, it will be that time of the year. Thanksgiving through Christmas Season. The time of family gatherings, followed by major partying, is coming faster than you think.Don't you just hate it when in front of everyone at a party, aunt goes up to you and loudly congratulates you for finally getting pregnant.. when you are not. Wouldn't it better instead if she had commented that she could barely recognize you as you have lost so much weight.That tummy sticking out can be a major cause of embarassment. So can the extra pounds that insidiously creep up on you as you layer on warmer clothing. You know how the cold can make you hungrier.Just because ... |
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Fitness - Get Out And Play: Top 7 Outdoor Exercises
Do you remember when our parents used to yell at us to go outside and play? They would get so tired of us running around the house munching junk food and fighting with our siblings that they would practically kick us out of the house! Well, we may not have the same child-like activities lined up to get outside for anymore, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't still get out and enjoy the world! Exercising outdoors has many benefits, and they include the fol... |
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Fitness - Getting F.i.t.t. Is Easy
For most people the hardest part of exercising is just getting started. Hectic schedules and lack of time certainly contribute to the excuses. But for many people, lack of basic workout knowledge intimidates them and prevents them from even getting started.It’s easy to understand why some feel overwhelmed about beginning a new fitness routine. Virtually every day the media is bombarding the public with the latest “diet research” often times contradicting what may have been reported just weeks earlier. And infomercials swear that 20 minutes of this or 15 minutes of that is all that is required to look like a Hollywood star. With so much information (and misinformation), it can be hard to decipher what fitness regimen will really deliver results. But truthfully, it’s not difficult at all t... |
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Fitness - Give The Gift Of Health And Fitness This Winter
(ARA) - In many parts of the country, when the temperature drops, so does our activity level. When the snow falls it is often hard to participate i... |
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Fitness - Guide To Home Fitness Equipments
Are you bugged of waking up early in chilly mornings? Have you been tired of roaming around in the very monotonous park? Are brisk walks and jogging entailing no reduction in your weight? Are you finding it hard to burn the desired amount of calories? If yes, then its time to think about a prudent substitute that can complement all your desires. An ideal alternate is to bring home exercise equipments. Besides numerous other benefits, the most conspicuous lure of the fitness equipments is freedom from getting up early morning. These exercise machines that come in varying shapes and sizes are devised in a fashion to provide al... |
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Fitness - Health Is Your Greatest Asset?
If you are like many people who take the entrepreneurial plunge, you do so most successfully when you are approaching or entering into middle age. Your middle-aged years are also ironically around the time many people start to suffer problems with eroding health and weight problems. Wouldn't it be nice if we could have the best of both worlds: financial freedom and optimal health?I once heard Dr. Dennis Kimbro http://www.denniskimbro.com say on a television interview that most millionaires fail a... |
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Fitness - Heart Rate Exercise Training
is the zone which helps you to get strong and fit, while keeping a control over your Heart Rate. In the Heart Rate Training Zones, calculations are made by taking into consideration your Maximum Heart Rate and your Resting Heart Rate. Within each training zone subtle physiological effects take place to enhance your fitness.Exercising at the right intensity during Heart Rate Exercise Training Zone is a key to meet your fitness goals. Some Heart Rate Exercise Training Zones are more effective for burning fa... |
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Fitness - Home Exercise Equipment – Choosing The Proper Equipment For Your Workout Routine
The fitness industry has become big business as more and more people work out to get in shape. Many companies have gotten onboard the bandwagon, and the number of different types and brands of home exercise equipment available is amazing. While it is great to have options, trying to figure out which piece of home fitness equipment is right for you can be an overwhelming process. One way to help manage all this information is to identify what type of exercise or training you plan t... |
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