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November 12, 2009

You Need Home Exercise More Than You Realize

Category: Exercise, Fitness – Denise Austin Fan 6:01 am
For a healthy body and mind you need to incorporate exercise into your daily routine. You can always join a gym but many people are too pressed for time to go to the gym every day. If this sounds like you then you definitely need to design a home exercise routine that will give you the exercise you need.

If you want to start an exercise program at home you may want to consider home gym exercise equipment to get you on your way to great physical fitness.

When you design a home gym exercise routine for yourself, you must start with considering your present level of physical fitness. If you’re very unfit you want to start with a light routine that slowly works up in intensity as your body adjusts to the exercise regimen.

The next step in finding a suitable home fitness routine is to look at home gym exercises that you will enjoy and that will produce the results that you desire.

You can consider elliptical machines, treadmills, and exercise bikes for the purposes of endurance and cardio workouts and you can look at free weight equipment for building and toning the upper, mid and lower body.

There are many brands of exercise equipment available. You can get all in one machines or you can buy equipment that concentrate on specific areas of your body.

An exercise DVD can be very useful for instruction on your home gym exercises, and you can find a multitude of good books that will be very helpful as well.

Don’t forget to exercise when you are traveling. One gets smaller exercise equipment that can conveniently fit in a bag or in the trunk of your car so you can still maintain your exercise regime whether you travel on business or visit family.

It is always an excellent idea to keep a workout log where you keep track of your daily home gym exercises as well as your results.

If you are unsure about how to design your home exercise routine, then it is a good idea to obtain the services of a personal trainer to help you design exercises that are appropriate for your body type and will put you on the right track to attain your goals.

If exercise is your goal then it makes sense to start out exercising at home since many people feel too awkward to join a gym and sweat in public. Once you are into the swing of things you can then consider joining a gym because then it will at least look as if you know what you’re doing.

October 31, 2009

You Need to Quit your Home Exercise Weight Loss Program

Category: Exercise, Fitness – Denise Austin Fan 7:46 am
Home exercise weight loss oriented programs are a cheap alternative for hiring a personal trainer to lose weight. However, this is not necessarily the best approach towards exercise to shred extra pounds. In fact, who said that exercise is the best method for losing weight to begin with?

You might think that the last sentence was somewhat controversial. In order to clarify any misunderstanding let’s discover the root of unhealthy weight gain: poor metabolism. NOTE: some of you may have a condition (such as hypothyroidism) that may require more than the methods I will list here, but for the most part, poor metabolism for the rest of us is caused by two factors (no, one of them is NOT genetics): poor activity and poor eating habits.

To correct this type of weight gain you can either embark on a home exercise weight loss program, or change your diet, or both. Now I know this may seem like I am contradicting myself from what I said earlier regarding the exercise component. Of course I never said that exercise is ineffective. I implied that exercise is not the BEST method to lose weight.

The reason is simple, and is based on the amount of calories required for you to lose weight. The exercise that you would have to do in order to accomplish this is VERY intense. Not all folks can handle this. Basically you would have to be in shape in order to be in shape in order to exercises that will in turn help you do some more brutally intense exercises to help you lose weight.

Do some TV shows where overweight people exercise to death freak you out? It should. Why? Because they’re too hard, that’s why! You would need the help of fitness trainer for that. This is not why you visited this page, unless you wanted to hire a fitness to train in your own home, which I doubt is why you come here also.

Now how about changing your eating habits? Well anyone can do that effectively and cheaply. You just have to be informed of the right way to do it and, most importantly, ACT on it.

If you are unsure of the best way to go about this, you can gain access to information on how without a home exercise weight loss program here. You will discover that, thankfully, no fads, no hocus pocus, no unsafe or unhealthy forms of weight loss are needed. Also, no “special” recipes or shakes are needed to lose weight. So what is?

In a nutshell, to effectively lose weight you would have to eliminate the bad foods from your diet and start eating good foods. I know this sounds cliché-ic but it is true. You don’t have to eliminate carbs or fats or proteins from your diet, or resort to certain cleanses (Candida, colon, etc.) to accomplish this. You just have to learn to select, make and eat the right types of foods that are body-friendly.

With that being said, the rest of us have lost weight or can lose weight using this method. Wish you the best of luck doing it – cause you CAN do it!

September 2, 2009

Components of Physical Fitness

Category: Fitness – Denise Austin Fan 12:51 pm
1. Speed: Speed is the ability of a person to execute motor movements with high speed in the shortest period of time. It is equal to the distance covered per unit of time. the element of speed is involved in most of the athletic skills such as in sprint running, some skills of soccer, basketball, etc.

2.Strength: Strength is the ability of a muscle to expert or release force by contraction enabling a person to overcome resistance or to act against resistance.

3. Power: Power is the ability of muscle to release maximum force in the shortest period of time. It is equal to force multiplied by speed. It is the combination of strength and speed. Speed and force must be combined for effective performance in activities like baseball throw, jumps for height, football kick, boxing punch,etc.

4. Endurance :Endurance is the ability of the person to perform movement of moderate (Sub-maximum) contractions over prolonged period of time under conditions of fatigue or tiredness. It is the product of all psychic and physical energy of human body.

5. Flexibility : Flexibility is the ability of a muscle to perform movements with large range of motion.

6. Agility : Agility is the ability of a person to change positions in space or to change directions quickly and effectively e.g. football player quickly changes direction or giving dodge to opponent, hurdle crossing over the barrier or hurdles, zig-zag running, etc.

7. Balance : Balance is the ability of a person to control human body or to maintain equilibrium under static and dynamic conditions e.g. hand stand, skating, skiing, catching a fly in baseball, etc.