5 Essential Walking Exercise Tips
January 26, 2008
Walking exercise is one of the easiest ways to get in shape and burn fat. In fact, mile for mile, you can burn as many calories walking as you would jogging. It’s also one of the best stress relieving exercises that anyone can do, regardless of fitness level.
Want to start a walking exercise program? Here are 5 tips to help you get the most walking bang for your buck:
1) Get your arms pumping.
Bring your upper body into your workout by pumping your arms. This is an easy way to burn more calories while walking. If you want to tone up and use more arm muscle during your workout, try carrying 2 - 5 pound handweights.
Bonus Benefit: pumping your arms propels you forward and helps you move faster - which means more distance covered and more calories burned!
2) Build in incline intervals.
Walking on an incline is one of the fastest ways to drastically skyrocket your calorie burn. But you don’t have to spend your whole workout on an incline. Try building in 30 - 60 second intervals of incline walking on your treadmill every 5 to 10 minutes.
Golf Fitness DVD: Improve Your Game In Your Living Room
January 26, 2008
Plugging in a golf fitness dvd is a great alternative to relying on yourself for motivation and consistency. The dvd craze has caught on with golfers of all ages and abilities. Golf instruction dvds have been very popular, but now golf fitness dvds are coming into their own.
I have personally looked at all the golf fitness dvds. There are some okay ones and some not so okay ones.
What you would hope for in a golf fitness dvd is several things. 1. Very simple and easy demonstrations of every golf fitness exercise. This is separate from the workout component of the golf fitness dvd. 2. You would also want a user-friendly menu to be able to move around quickly and easily.
3. And what I think is the most important component is the golf fitness workout itself. I mean ‘plug-and-play’. You should be able to insert the golf fitness dvd and have the golf fitness trainer take you through the entire workout from start to finish. Just as if he were there with you.
Proform - The Highly Recognized Name in Treadmills
January 25, 2008
Proform is a highly recognized name in treadmills. Proform has been around for many years and is a subsidiary of the same company that manufactures Nordic Track and Reebok. Proform treadmills get varying reviews from users. Some people are very satisfied with the performance and quality of their Proform treadmill while others insist they lack in quality and longevity. The most common reason Proform is chosen over other brand names is the affordable price. Proform has introduced several new models recently that include a three year warranty and offer new features not previously found on Proform treadmills.
In general, Proform treadmills range in price from $500 to $1,300 dollars. With new treadmills being introduced by various manufacturers each day, Proform is not as competitive in regard to pricing as the company has been in the past. Online stores and the ability to purchase directly from the factory have created lower prices for consumers in purchasing high quality treadmills. Traditionally, Proform treadmills have included and inferior warranty and did not fare well in regard to longevity and dependability. The newer models are an improvement over Proform’s past equipment, however.
BMI Calculator Results
January 25, 2008
BMI, Body Mass Index, is the most popular and simple way that health professionals use to determine if you are a healthy weight. This article concerns how to interpret your results.
Summary
Body Mass Index:
25: Overweight
>30: Obese
Calculate Yourself
The calculation is simple, you can do it on a regular calculator. All you need to know is your height and weight. If you want to use metric measurements, take your weight in kilograms and divide it by your height in meters squared. If you use inches and pounds instead, you need to multiply the result by 703 to get an equivalent result. I am 6′ tall and I weigh 180 lbs. 180/(72 x 72) x 703 = 24.4
Underweight
If your BMI is 18 or less, you are considered underweight for your height. My work here is done. Just kidding.
Being underweight is a health problem, just as being overweight is. As Mr. Weightless, I am dedicated to helping those at the other end of the spectrum, but if you are underweight, here are a few tips to become healthier.
Don’t try to do the opposite of everything I say to lose weight. You should still be drinking plenty of water, for example.
How to Eliminate Your Golf Slice Quickly and Easily
January 24, 2008
Here’s a really good tip that may help you to get rid of your slice. Best of all, it’s really pretty simple once you get the hang of it, and understand why it’s being used.
Chances are that you have battled with a slice at some point in your golfing days. To be completely direct with you, dealing with a slice really sucks. It hurts your golf game in many more ways than one.
Luckily, it’s fairly easy to fix. I cannot claim that this small tip will completely cure your slice, but there’s a good chance that it will. I hope it does.
First off, please understand that when you come into the impact zone, there are really only 2 factors that can determine the “shape” of ball flight.
1. The angle of the club face at impact.
2. The Path the club is taking at impact.
So, here’s a few things you should concentrate on.
Try to keep your leading shoulder “down” on the ball through impact. This is called staying strong through impact. Many times the leading shoulder (left shoulder if right handed) flies up before impact. Now just for a minute, think about what that does to the club head when it’s in the impact zone.
Fight Simulator Theory for Reality Based Street Defense
January 24, 2008
This is such a powerful tool that it should leave no question unanswered for you and allow you to create an infinite number of techniques and drills. As this is a principle rather than a technique based system, here are the principles:
PRINCIPLE1: you get what you train for
PRINCIPLE2: if you want a specific answer, ask a specific question
What’s the problem with martial arts and artists? Why do they argue so much? Why cant we find one style that is the best? After all we all only have two eyes, two arms, two legs and one head. (Except if your from a “close community”). Never mind Dragon style, Tiger style, Twisted Badger, Irrational Donkey style… what about “human style”?
The problem is this:
you can’t just fight. It hurts. Bits of you will break. That’s why its called “fighting” not “hugging” or “tickling”. You’re trying to hurt each other. The only way to learn it is to do something dangerous and painful- its a double bind.
That is why one of streetfightsecrets.com ’s prime objectives is to get as close to reality as possible as safely as possible. How do you do that?
Recognize Your Motivation to Exercise
January 23, 2008
The positive effects of exercise have been documented and reported through every media outlet available. You can probably walk up to anyone on the street and ask them the positive benefits of exercise and they can most likely list them. If everyone knows why we need to exercise, why aren’t we? The answers are most likely more complex than we think.
This article will take a look at the five stages of behavioral change as created by a psychotherapist named Prochaska. Prochaska’s model, known as the Transtheoretical Model, says that people go through cycles in developing behavior change. Each cycle has different stages. To move through the stages, a change in behavior must occur. The five stages of change are as follows:
? Precontemplation
? Contemplation
? Preparation
? Action
? Maintenance
Let’s take a look at each stage and see how the average person might be running through this model as it relates to starting an exercise program.
Precontemplation ? people in this stage do not recognize that by not exercising they are negatively affecting their health. They are happy where they are and exercise is the farthest thing from their mind. Family or friends may voice concern about their health and encourage them to exercise, but it falls on deaf ears.
Aerobic Training
January 23, 2008
How to start your aerobic training program:
Consider first setting your goals for sometime in the future; make sure they are realistic. Start easy, be kind to yourself. Many of us start out joining a gym and telling ourselves that now we will train every day! Six out of ten people going to gyms drop out in the first month. That’s a staggering 60% of the people. The numbers are just as high for those that buy exercise equipment and don’t use it. So you need several ingredients, not necessarily in order of importance, but because you want to be successful in your training.
1. Desire or motivation that is from who you are, not to get something.
2. Energy: This means you need to start thinking about eating better. No matter where you are with nutrition you can always improve (see nutrition for details). You need nutrients as well. Vitamins, power foods, high technology nutrition is available; you just need to make the effort. Without good fuel it’s hard to get the energy to train.
3. Set your goals within yourself and make them realistic. Remember, there is no cause and effect so you can’t cause health; you can only live it.
Yoga: A Beneficial Exercising Regimen
January 22, 2008
Yoga is an ancient proven tradition that exists for thousands of years and also one of the most ancient cultural heritages in India. The word yoga means, “to unite”. But it does not only mean contemplation but also communion and yoking all powers of the body, mind and soul to God. It is a very ancient and efficient system of disciplines and controls designed to produce the integration of the body, mind and spirit. It also achieves higher states of awareness and self-realization by methodical efforts to attain perfection. Even at the workplace, yoga has become extremely popular in many companies, worldwide. Working eight hours a day, five to seven days a week is really stressing. And yoga can just be the answer to this. Yoga reduces stress. It improves flexibility and muscle tone, increases circulation, relieves chronic pain and alleviates anxiety-related disorders. Best of all, it cultivates physical awareness, refreshes your energy, and offers a little vacation from the everyday grind.
Perform Better Golf Right In Your Home
January 22, 2008
To perform better golf, you need to take a different approach. I have seen and heard time after time how much money golfers will spend in hopes to perform better golf. But according to statistics, the average USGA Handicap hasn’t gone down in over 30 years!
I have researched the golf improvement market for over a decade now and am very disappointed. There are major companies who are making a TON of money off desperate golfers.
The approach that has proven successful for the past 5 years (with my clients) is the ‘physical approach’ to perform better golf. What I mean by this is working on your physical limitations to perform better golf.
By training your BODY, not buying more equipment or taking more lessons you will play better. It is your BODY that plays the game, so focus on it and the sky is the limit.
I have said this many times before. I want you to think of yourself as an athlete. You probably were one at some point in your life. Did you ever do a workout for that sport you participated in? I’ll be the answer is yes.
