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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 [...]
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 [...]
Home workouts are gaining in popularity
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009Sales of treadmills, elliptical machines, and other traditional home fitness equipment dropped 10.3% in 2008 from the year before. The Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association says this decline was caused by the lack of attention towards big-ticket items and a halt in home construction. Gym memberships, especially high end memberships have dropped because people are looking [...]
The Perfect Push Up and now the Perfect Pull Up
Friday, May 1st, 2009I don’t really understand the need for the devices that help us to perform push ups and pull ups. I just don’t think holding a handle that rotates to accommodate my shoulder or rotator cuff makes a difference overall. I do believe that changing the angles of exercises changes the way the muscle is worked [...]
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 [...]
Kettlebells can add intensity to your martial arts practice
Saturday, March 7th, 2009Martial arts incorporates endurance and strength as two key elements to achieving success. Kettlebell workouts are focused on endurance and strength as well as stability training so these two modalities can clearly work together to bring about improvement in general fitness as well as martial arts prowess. Additionally, here are more reasons why kettlebell training works so well with [...]
Pole Dancing is for Anyone Looking to Bring to Fun (and Creativity) to Their Workouts
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Anyone can do it, soccer moms, young adults, CEO’s, middle aged, anyone willing to try. Pole fitness gained notoriety when a couple of Supermodels promoted how much fun and effective it was as a form of exercise. A few of the exercises you will learn in a Pole Dance class are
The TRX sounds like a great new tool for your fitness “toolbox”
Monday, September 22nd, 2008I love to find new products that enhance my workouts or target different areas of my body. The TRX sounds like a versatile aid which allows the user to tailor it to their specific needs. An 8lb dumbbell cannot be adjusted, it is a 8lb dumbbell. We are all unique and as such our body’s are all [...]
Can anyone predict the future of fitness?
Friday, August 29th, 2008As you may know, I spend a lot of my time in search of… (remember that tv program?) the latest, greatest, hippest, most likely to bring about results workout or fitness gear on the market to keep me, as a professional, up to date on what’s happening in my field. The latest, greatest, self proclaimed [...]
We know what we should do, but that does not seem to be enough motivation
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Over the past decades fitness has seen an impressive rise in participation. From a baseline or starting point of nearly zero people exercising in the 50′s to the over 50 million frequent exercisers in the early 21st century, it would seem we could predict a fitness paradise by the year 2050 where everyone exercises and those who don’t [...]
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