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126. Exercise: How To Keep Your Kids Moovin' and Groovin' By Harriet Hodgson
     One out of five American kids is obese and the numbers keep going up. Lack of exercise is one reason for the obesity epidemic and it's a true epidemic that threatens health. In fact, this may be the first generation of kids in history not to outlive their parents because of obesity.Kids can play outside when the weather is good. What can they do when the weather is bad? Exercise is one way to combat the obesity epidemic and these indoor activities wll keep your kids moovin' and groovin'. …



127. Different Exercises Schedule to Combat Diabetes, Arthritis, and Obesity! By Jasdeep Singh
     Different Health Problems generally do not allow us to do traditional exercises. Above all, one type of exercise cant be effective to each group facing different challenges. But despite all these different challenges, the general rule applies to all: Extra Effort and Persistence.Exercise Tips to fight Arthritis: . Water Exercises: They are most important. They are gentle on the joints, allow full range of motion and increase strength, thus relieving overall muscle stress.. Moderate strength tr…



128. What is the Right Home Exercise Program for You? By Fern Kuhn
     What do you want to get out of the exercise program?What you want to achieve as a whole fitness program has to do with the kind of program that will work for you in the long run. You may want to ask yourself what you want to accomplish, do you want to lose weight, do you want to stay in shape.Maybe you just want to reduce some of the stress in your life. Maybe you want to improve your overall health or increase your muscle strength.If your goal is to lose weight, then start with a low impact…



129. 5 Secrets For Sexy Arms By Raphael Calzadilla
     Just about every woman I've ever trained focuses a lot of attention on getting smaller hips, butt, abs and legs. Sound familiar? In truth, a symmetrical body is one of the sexiest looks you can strive for.By symmetrical, I'm referring to an overall body fat reduction and a complete workout program that doesn't neglect any muscle group. A 'magical" end result will happen from a workout that makes the shoulders as important as the glutes, the chest as important as the hips -- and, yes -- the arm…



130. Lance Armstrong's Training Tactics: #1 Rule - Greatness Needs NO Explanation! By Greg Ryan
     Great endurance racers will tell you “Leave your egos at the starting gates.” One of the hardest things in any race, especially the Tour De France that you will never notice is one's ability to tame the ego. Lance is a self proclaimed “data junkie” when it comes to his training tactics. Even though the Tour is over 2300 miles and takes three weeks to ride, every hill, every mile and every rotation of his pedals are calculated ahead of time. But, what happens during the race if not discipl…



131. When Exercising Right Looks Wrong III (Back) By Bryan Fass
     Hopefully, if you read my last article I got you thinking. Thinking about different ways to train, not necessarily using machines, but using your entire body with each exercise. We talked about the changes exercise science has brought about and the risks of continuing to train the way we currently do. Our bodies, as I alluded to, were not designed to be cramped into a one size fits all machine and forced to move in a specific pattern. That pattern unfortunately is single jointed, and those…



132. Abdominal Training - ''Abs'' By Robert DiMaggio
     You can work your abs until hell freezes over, but if you still have a layer of fat, or in some cases even a beer belly, you will never be able to see the muscle. So, from a visual sense you must use proper diet & nutrition to actually be able to see your abs, and that is an entirely different article and beyond the scope of this one. We all have abs, the technical name is Rectus Abdominis. It’s basically the “core” of your body and you could not really function without this muscle. Did I sa…



133. Struggling To Keep Your Workout Schedule? So am I! By Gordon Black
     Sometimes following a fitness program or workout schedule is not quite as do-able as the folks writing the advice make it sound. I suppose the idea is to tell you what you should be doing to achieve your fitness or weight-loss targets, but you know sometimes life gets a bit in the way of all these plans, and there is just no way you can follow your intended program.I know, because I am in exactly that position myself right now, and it is very easy to get derailed or discouraged and start to wo…



134. Integrating Core Stabilization into Your Workouts By David Radin
     Stabilization is a hot topic in the fitness industry over the past few years. But what is stabilization? Stabilization can be defined as the body’s muscular systems ability to support (stabilize) the body during movement.For most fitness enthusiasts, core training is a foreign topic. Exercises designed to build strength in the chest, back, shoulders, legs and arms are typically chosen over exercises designed to improve the strength of the core. The “core” is defined as the muscles surroundin…



135. Starting a Workout: Getting Your Body to Move By Kevin Gianni
     (Part 5 of a 5 Part Series on Body Awareness)I want to tell you how easy it is to workout every day.But before I begin, I want you to do one thing. I want you to grab your car keys and go out to your garage, carport, or driveway and get into your car.Put the keys in the ignition and turn. If your car normally works, there should be no surprises here. Your car will start.Now here's the important part.While the car is running, I want you to think about all the possible places you could go to at …



136. How To Gain An Avalanche Of Energy! By Tim Webb
     For many people out there trying to become more energised and active they are terrified of committing to daily activity. It is so engrained in their minds that they might over train that they literally shy away from daily physical training and instead follow the herd and train two or three times per week.If you really want to create energy, enthusiasm, and positive forward momentum in your life then start to move your body and breathe deeply each day with focus and you will begin to discover t…



137. The Truth About Lactate and Exercise By David Petersen
     For years exercise scientists and physiologists have preached that lactate/lactic acid build-up in the muscle is the direct cause of muscle fatigue and a decrease in performance. It is proposed that lactate builds up in the muscle cells during intense exercise and literally “poisons” them, essentially shutting down activity biochemically by reducing the pH or increasing the acidity level. Lactate has therefore been dubbed a metabolic by-product or dead end and as the enemy of human exercise an…



138. Exercise & Motivation, Part 4: Maintenance & Relapse By Tanja Gardner
     WHAT 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 started seeing the benefits you originally wanted in your life. There are still a few traps that can derail you, though. When this happens, and you find yourself no longer exercising, you’re in Prochaska’s ‘Relapse’ stage. Most ‘traps’ will either involve a change in…



139. Amount of Exercise Is More Important Than Its Intensity By Valerian D.
     Sedentary people gain 3 to 4 pounds a year, so exercise is really important for weight and health maintenance. You should be surprised to learn that amount of exercise may be more important than its intensity, but the truth is moderate exercise regimen, such as 12 miles of brisk walking each week, can provide significant improvements in fitness levels. May be you will not lose weight, but you will gain other important benefits by exercising: improvement of your fitness level, diminution of …



140. Easy Steps To Avoiding Gym Rage By Gary Matthews
     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 …



141. How to Prevent Osteoporosis Through Fun Fitness By Bonnie Murphy
     You are a 40 year old female and you’ve just had a routine bone-density test and your doctor is telling you that your bones are as frail as that of a 75 year old. What do you do? How do you reverse that? You’ve been taking the calcium supplement that was recommended by your physician. What now?As you are leaving the doctor’s office you are handed a pamphlet that is titled “How to reverse the onset of Osteoporosis.” You clutch it in your hand and can’t wait to get home to read it. It talk…



142. How to Avoid Using Your Home Gym as a Clothes Rack By John Phung
     So here’s the situation…You have a home gym, treadmill, elliptical trainer, or some other piece of home fitness equipment. But it’s sitting in the corner of the room being used as a clothes rack. You haven’t gotten any use out of it for months, and you might be thinking of selling it off.There’s a reason why you initially bought this piece of equipment, and I can bet that it wasn’t meant to hang your clothes on (there are much cheaper alternatives than that).It was probably along the lines o…



143. Athletics and Winning By Lance Winslow
     Athletics are pretty cut and dry in one regard; the goal to win. Having been in competitive athletics in a prior life I can certainly attest to that. Often however I see something that does not make a lot of sense, the need for society to treat everyone equal and to somehow over do or condemn the competitive aspect. For instance; I question an article I read in Sports Illustrated Women in February of this year about the “Agony of Defeat”. The article discussed public humiliation, financial di…



144. Health Tips For Busy People: Healthy Diet & Exercise In the Office By Ian Mason
     Many women’s lifestyle magazines frustrate us by providing exercise regimens for work and then adding: “You can do this exercise in your office!” What about those of us who work in a cube or other small space (with no floor space for Pilates-style stretches) that’s not very private (do you really want your boss to wander by right when you’re doing jumping jacks?). Even if you are cube-confined, you can maintain your health in a cube.Make A "Health" DrawerYour filing spaces are your friends. Mo…



145. A New Paradigm for Aging By Phyllis Rogers
     I believe that we need to create a new attitude toward aging in the United States. We do not do senior citizens a favor by attempting to make life easier for them. Many of the health and mobility problems experienced as we age are caused from immobility and in our society we make it easy to be immobile. The idea of taking it easy as we get older should be discarded and replaced with a new outlook. I spoke recently with a 30-year-old acquaintance and told her that I taught resistance tra…



146. Working Out - It's Good For You By Mia LeCron
     When we think about the life in the country, there is always something rosy about it. What is it that the people in the country have that we do not? When you ponder about it you find that those lucky souls eat good food, they work really hard, by work I mean real physical work and they have good night’s sleep. Of course they do not have all the amenities and facilities that the city life has to offer.But the city life comes with a lot of strings attached. People in the cities are generally les…



147. Why You Should Learn Tai Chi By Stephen Todd
     Learning Tai ChiTai Chi combines movement, meditation and breathing, to enhance the flow of vital energy in the body, to increase both physical and mental well-being.Tai Chi is one of the most broadly applicable systems of self-care in the world and is suitable for both young and old alike.In China, it is estimated that 300 million people alone practice Tai Chi.Tai Chi however is not just practised in China, in the 20th century it spread throughout the world and as we enter the 21st cent…



148. The Degradation of Fitness Science By Brian Johnston
     The world and our selves evolve and exist in a cyclic fashion; good times and bad… ups and downs… we experience changes that seem to repeat, including everyday cycles of sleep-wake and cell regeneration. History is a broad example of cycles, whereby we enter the "dark ages" followed by an "age of enlightenment." We now are in an irrational dark age of fitness. Irrational is an ideal term to describe a method of exercise considered dangerous, impractical, unproved (yet implemented wh…



149. Pilates Exercise and the 7 Benefits By Jason Katzenback
     Creating an exercise routine that works both the mind and the body is missing from many gyms through out America. We seem to intensely focus on workouts that laser focus specific muscle groups or problem areas. Lately however, a revival has started with more and more focus being put on a way to synchronize our physical with the mental health.Pilates Exercise is leading the way on this. Pilates exercise consists of over 500 specific exercises that performed with a handful of specially designed …



150. How to Become a Bodybuilding Champion – The Art of Bodybuilding! By Greg Ryan
     Yes, bodybuilding is an art! As the Potter molds the clay, so does the individual sculpt the body and mind. To the naked eye, most only see the exterior finish, to the champion; the art is in their history and in Rome.The sport of bodybuilding dates back to the Roman days of the gladiator. While what may seem as meaningless posing and superficial gazing to some, to others who participate and understand reaches far deeper into the roots of tradition.Bodybuilding is unique in that it combines th…






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