Exercise Articles

1. How to Find a Gym and Start Exercising By Michael Brooks
   There is hardly a week that passes without an article or study touting the benefits of exercise. Exercise to cure cancer, exercise to lose weight, feel better, livelonger, and stop dementia, the list appears endless. The benefits of exercise sound fantastic but there is just one problem. You have to exercise to gain the benefits! For many, this is a big problem.So, what can you do to get yourself motivated to join the wonderful world of exercising? A great solution is to join a gym where …



2. Wise Up and Invest in Your Workout Success - Six Top Fitness Faux Pas By Karen Cohen
   Already dedicated exercisers make small but costly mistakes regularly in their workouts, and one tiny change can have a huge impact on their results. Time is valuable, and for each precious moment invested you want to ensure the best possible return. If your body is not yet as lean or toned as you would like, it is likely that you are committing some key training mistakes. These errors can sabotage the efforts of even veteran exercisers. By learning about the most common fitness faux pa…



3. The Ten Most Common Walking Mistakes By John Higgins
   Mistake #1: OverstridingWalking the right way can give you better health, fitness, and attitude. It can help you walk faster and more smoothly. Walking the incorrect way can lead to wasted effort or even injury. Overstriding - When walkers try to walk faster, a natural inclination is to lengthen your stride in front, reaching out further with your foward foot. This leads to a clumsy, ungainly gait, striking hard with the feet. Your shins ache and you really don't get any faster.The cure - …



4. Get Fit From Home-part 4: Partner Resisted Exercises By Wesley Norris
   It’s time for Part 4 of your mini-course: Get Fit From Home!!---------------------- Partner Assisted Exercises ----------------------If you have someone who wants to join you in getting a good at-home workout, all you need is each other!You can perform all of the exercises listed in Part 1 of the mini-course with the resistance of your partner.For example, if you wanted to perform bicep curls, you would stand face-to-face with your partner.With your arms hanging by your sides and your palms fa…



5. Exercise Relapse- When Missing One Day of Exercise Turns Into Two Months By Meri Raffetto
   We’ve all been there before. You miss one day of exercise which then turns into a week and then into a month. Missing one day of exercise is not the end of the world, but it is crucial to pay attention to the following week. Once you miss an entire week, you will likely spiral into exercise relapse. It is important to get a firm handle on continuously missing your exercise.Follow these three steps to get you back on track quickly when exercise relapse is looming around the corner.1. Excuses, E…



6. A Fitness Mothers Time By Raymond Burton
   So you've been a mother for a while. Good for you, mothers are important. I know I have one! But you know what? I've seen my mother get so tied up from taking care of Dad, me and the house that she had very little time to take care of her fitness. Boy, the things you see in retrospect. Anyway, my mother used to be a beanpole; fitness came from all kinds of activity. I've seen the wedding photos so I know it to be so! I can also remember my mother putting on weight over the years. I'm sure my …



7. How to Choose a Good Jogging Stroller By Grant Marwick
   If you lead an active lifestyle and you want to include your new family additions in your outdoor activity then you need to consider getting yourself a good jogging stroller.Choosing a jogging stroller can be like trying to decide on what car to buy. There are so many things to consider when making a decision. A good jogger can set you back anywhere from $79 to about $400. This is a lot of money but you get what you pay for.There a several brands on the market and if you have been doing your r…



8. Weight Training Programs Versus Cardiovascular Exercise By Candee Stark
   All exercisers, whether beginners or old hands, will ask themselves at some point if they should switch to an all-cardio or all-weight training programs. Trainers are asked this question every day in gyms across America and more curious folks write in to fitness columns to pose the query. Does it really matter if you do all-weight lifting programs or all-cardio exercise? The short answer to this question is yes, it does matter.Cardiovascular exercise primarily focuses on developing and strengt…



9. Diet and Exercise – Without Going to the Gym By Robb Ksiazek
   Exercising and dieting are tasks that are very difficult for many of us, but usually just the thought of it that makes us queasy. There are some simple ways to get out and get fit, and you just might enjoy yourself too.Some people like to get up and head to the gym every morning, before most of us are even out of bed. We all know that even a little exercise will be good for us, but we just don’t have the time or the motivation. Gym memberships can be a very expensive cost.Find ways to get f…



10. Is Dolphin Assisted Therapy Research The Answer? By Kevin Leochko
    Dolphin assisted therapy research is a therapeutic method used mostly with special needs people. This type of therapy is using both professional help as well as well trained dolphins. This is a mix between occupational therapy, physiotherapy and animal therapy. This type of therapy is also used to feed results to research as to discover both benefits and inconvenient to using this style of therapy and if the benefits outweighing the inconvenient or not. This way, researchers will be able event…



11. Why Working-Out is Crucial When You Work from Home By Augustine Covert
    When working from home you will find yourself often "tied" to a desk, sitting on your "rump" for hours at a time. Not the most physical activity I'd say.In order to make certain that you always maintain a peek level of productivity, it's vital that you get some sort of exercise. It's so important in order to stay focused and moreover, just to maintain a good level of physical fitness.Remember this is YOUR business, there are NO sick days allowed. Now more than ever, it's vital that you get …



12. Exercise and Diet – For Your Waistline By Robb Ksiazek
    Caring for your body is the most important thing you can do in your life. You only get one body, and it needs attention. Too often in society, we let things get out of control and then we try to find the easy way out. In weight loss, this means crash diets and diet pills. These are not the best for our bodies, as they suck out the energy and don’t provide enough nutrition.It really isn’t that hard to eat well and get some exercise. You don’t have to start running in the mornings, and you …



13. Free Exercise Tips: Learn Do's and Dont's Of Exercising! By Jasdeep Singh
    Just working out is not enough. One has to be careful while exercising. There are some common mistakes that can easily be avoided. Here are a few of these common mistakes that most people make.Some Do's and Dont's while Exercising.Not StretchingIt is very important that you stretch your body, both before and after exercising.Get someone to show you how to warm up and stretch properly. A goo trainer is sine qua non while exercising. Work on all the big muscle groups.OverdoingRemember that your …



14. Thirty Minutes of Exercise a Day Keeps the Doctor Away By Matt Ream
    “Exercise is good for you!” If you had a dollar for every time you heard this statement uttered, you’d be rich by now, right? Well, proponents of everyday physical activity aren’t just blowing smoke when they repeat this mantra. Medical research has uncovered resounding evidence to back up this “good for you” claim. In fact, the U.S. Surgeon General, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the National Centers for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion all recommend the sam…



15. Bodybuilding and Exercise – The Ten Commandments in Making of a Champion! By Greg Ryan
    1. Fill your life up with different hobbies! – Bodybuilding Champions realize working out is not everything there is in life. Your life does not center on the gym. Experience other activities. Get a hobby; join a group; do outdoor activities in order to stay mentally strong. One day you will realize, your identity is not built on the sport of bodybuilding.2. Leave your ego at the door! – Bodybuilding Champions focus on the process and not on themselves. Your life should not center on you …



16. Train To Get Into 'The Zone' By Roy Palmer
    Many studies have researched athlete's experiences in The Zone. Regardless of their sport they have found many similarities in the words they use to describe their experience. Can we use their findings to give us some idea of how we can open the door a little wider to enter into it?A review of these studies to date identifies seven common characteristics of a Zone experience. Athletes reported they ...were totally absorbed in the activityexperienced an inner clarityhad a sense of ecstasy and b…



17. Benefit of Pilates By Gary Gresham
    One of the main benefits of Pilates is it refreshes your physical and mental well-being. Pilates is a series of controlled movements that unite the body and mind and creates a direct connection to the muscles.The benefit of Pilates is it helps condition your body without punishing it. It is designed to stretch and strengthen muscle without adding bulk.The Pilates abdominal exercises require mental concentration along with coordinated breathing beginning in the body's core (abdomen, back and …



18. How To Get Started With Exercise: The Magic Pill Of Your Weight Loss Program By Jimmie Newell
    In a previous article, I mentioned the weight loss mantra of "Eat Less... Move More" and I wrote about how to choose the diet plan that could help you eat less. In this article I will discuss the "move more" part of the equation.Starting and maintaining an adequate exercise program really is the "magic pill' which will jump start your weight loss program and make it easy to maintain your new weight after you reach your goal.If you are not exercising on a regular basis, check with your Doctor f…



19. The Importance Of An Active Lifestyle By Ron Swerdfiger
    Over the past 15 years or so, we have been told that a healthy lifestyle is important. Scientists recommend we should be accumulating on average 60 minutes of exercises a day in order to maintain healthy levels. What exactly does that number mean? Over the course of a regular day, we should be doing some sort of physical activity that adds up to approximately 60 minutes. Whether it is in the gym on the treadmill or just in the garden for the afternoon, adding physical activity is vital.First w…



20. Top 10 Benefits of Strength Training for Women By Lynn VanDyke
    "Women are finally warming up to free weights, and it is a beautiful thing!" states Lynn VanDyke, owner of http://strength-training-woman.com. It's true that women are recognizing strength training as a major player in the battle against fat loss. Here are the top 10 benefits women receive from strength training:1) Increased Metabolic Rate- adding muscle increases our metabolism naturally.2) Increasing and Restoring Bone Density- prevent and fight osteoporosis by building strong bones.3) Inc…



21. 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…



22. Is Your Child’s Exercise Program Stunting Their Growth? By Ray Kelly
    With childhood obesity on the rise, the benefits of a healthy lifestyle need to be instilled in our children at an early age. Studies have shown that children that are active throughout their teenage years have a greater chance of being healthy adults.However, if done incorrectly an exercise program can cause long-term injuries. From birth to early adulthood your child’s bones are constantly growing in length and thickness. If too much pressure is placed on these bones it could lead to a crack…



23. 5 Ways to Fit Fitness In By Marjorie Geiser
    Five points to consider when you want to fit fitness into a hectic lifeWhen I tell people what I do for a living, many will tell me they wish they had the time to exercise, but just can’t seem to fit it in. This is one of the biggest excuses people give for not making exercise a part of their life. However, we all have time for the things we feel are important enough. Many people actually have more time than they think. Research now supports breaking increased activity into 10-minute blocks, w…



24. How to Become a Bodybuilding Champion – The Art of Goal Setting! By Greg Ryan
    "Goals change- decisions don’t!" This has always been a motto of mine. Once you make a decision to set a certain goal, do not turn around. Not sure where this comes from, but I don’t have it in me to turn around. This behavior really makes me take serious looks at my yearly and monthly goal setting.My personal opinion is to have one major goal or competition a year, and no more. Sure you may have a competition that leads up to a major show, but don’t expect to be in peak form in both contests.…



25. Exercises You Probably Don't Do But Should! By Bob Blick
    This is going to be kinda short and sweet. . . . Maybe not too sweet.Here's 3 exercises to throw into your routine that will shake it up a little. A little unorthodox but these will give you a workout in itself.Knee Lift CrunchLie on your back, cross your hands across your body, and lift up into a crunch position. Stay in this position throughout this exercise. You will probably start shaking some when you near the end of this exercise.Now lift your feet off the ground. Again, they stay here t…



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