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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Among elite athletes, conditioning programs have always been based on functional training. This type of athletic based training works because it specifically prepares your body to perform at your maximum level for the sport you are training for. This makes sense when you think about it. If your goal is to improve your basketball game, [...]
Ramp up Your Resistance Training
Monday, August 17th, 2009If you are ready to take your resistance training to a new level of intensity, add travel to your exercises. Incorporating movement into exercises you ordinarily do in one place is an excellent way to elevate your heart rate and fatigue your muscles faster. For example, push-ups are one of my all-time favorite exercises to [...]
Exercising Outdoors May Leave You More Than Just Sweaty
Thursday, August 13th, 2009High school football started this week and kids are weathering brutal temperatures during “two a day” practices in full gear. Heat exhaustion, dehydration, and heat stroke are very serious problems that these athletes are facing that are potentially fatal. According to the Annual Survey of Football Injury Research, heat stroke kills youth and professional football [...]
Glide Your Way To A Strong Core
Saturday, August 8th, 2009Gliders are one of my favorite exercise toys that are affordable, portable, and challenge the entire body. If you are not familiar with them, they look like frisbees that you place under your feet or under your hands and glide in a multitude of exercises. Many personal trainers and group exercise instructors over the years [...]
Speed or Distance: What’s More Important?
Sunday, July 26th, 2009Whether training for a marathon or just running as part of your training, it is important to include all types of running into your overall workout program. I get asked often if it is better to run fast for shorter distances or run more miles at a slower pace? The answer is simple. It depends [...]
Training For a Race is a Lot More Than a Jog in the Park
Thursday, July 16th, 2009For someone like me that does not fancy myself a runner, there have been a few developments in the past weeks to challenge this notion. First, I signed up for a half-marathon in November which I thought was a crazy enough idea considering that I haven’t run long distance like that in years. Then, yesterday [...]
Push-ups are the Perfect Exercise Even Without Investing in the Perfect Pushup
Sunday, July 12th, 2009One of the most common excuses given for not exercising, hands down, is lack of time to exercise. Everybody wants six-pack abs and a bikini body for summer, but not everybody is willing to do what it takes to get there. I had a client say to me recently that if only she had unlimited [...]
Best Ab Exercises Part II
Thursday, June 25th, 2009Perhaps a year ago I wrote on the best ab exercises and because there is always new research or new exercises being thought of I decided to write another Best Ab Exercises blog. Thankfully, these exercises are completely different from the ones I found before however what is puzzling about that is how can there be [...]
Abdominal Exercises Sure to Flatten Your Belly
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009I love titles like this one, don’t you? Nothing guarantees a flat belly in fact, most people will never see a flat belly because although they may do the exercise I am listing below, they don’t change their eating habits and as long as you are eating 3000 more calories a day than you burn, [...]
My opinion on the P90X
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009Today I received my P90X DVD set. I have been seeing the infomercial for quite some time and have thought about buying this for myself mainly just for the ideas that I will get from the gagillion DVD set (I think it’s 8.) I was so excited to try the plyometrics DVD that I called [...]
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