The foot is a precision piece of machinery which is fundamental for our movement and daily activities. The average person walks over 115,000 miles during their lifetime. Feet are living shock absorbers. Consider when walking, each step puts up to 1.5 - 2 times your body weight on your feet. Running exerts even more, 3 [...]
Anytime I am designing a program for someone based on their home-gym equipment, the first thing I do is assess their equipment status. I look at everything they have available and try to involve a little bit of everything to keep things interesting and fun.Once I know what we are working with, I would then [...]
The fitness industry is saturated these days with machines that you can buy and use at home to get fit with “limited” work involved. There are so many infomercials on TV advertising some new type of contraption to store under your bed and help you exercise to get in shape in 3 “easy” payments. The [...]
In my opinion, exercise is critical for anyone, regardless of personal goals and aspirations relating to health. Exercise is not just for sports people or individuals striving to drop weight or gain muscle, it is vital for everyone. If you feel that you do not need to exercise because you look OK as you are [...]
When economic times are tough it’s hard your priorities shift and the luxury items like a gym membership or personal training sessions are usually the first to go. But what if you could hold onto those sessions, and they didn’t cost you a penny?In these hard times, sometimes the new yoga pants or new heart [...]
Did you know that by skipping meals you could be starving yourself to fatness?Do you miss breakfast and your morning snack, then have a small lunch but raid the kitchen at night? Can this really make you FAT? Sound CRAZY?? It’s not! Here’s why.Your body is designed to store food in case of times of [...]
Many men and women are interested in getting into a fitness program. But many of these same people end up not embarking on a fitness program for a number of reasons. For example, they may not have the time to head off to the gym to exercise.Others simply may be living on a tight budget [...]
If you are lucky enough to have an Olympic Barbell in your home gym, you can also do this workout without ever leaving your house.This is primarily a fat loss workout as it elevates your heart rate while supersetting exercises using your bodies major muscles.But by using your major muscles you are building strength and [...]
Cardio is the best type of exercise to strip the fat off your body. However it usually takes a long time to get to your goals through regular cardio. In this article I am going to show you the best type of cardio that you can do to lose fat quickly and give you an [...]
Most people realize that excess fat is unhealthy, but the key is where the fat is distributed. People with apple-shaped bodies (fattest in the abdomen) have a greater risk of heart disease and diabetes than those with pear shapes (fattest in the hips, buttocks, and thighs).There are two main types of fat in the stomach [...]