Fitness Friday

WebFit Tip March 30, 2007

Looking to change up your routine while maintaining your cardiovascular fitness? Then consider an indoor cycling workout. Indoor cycling is fantastic cardiovascular exercise. And it's a calorie incinerator. Indoor cycling is a great way to maintain healthy weight or lose weight because you burn a lot of calories in one spinning class.

Another bonus? It's non-impact so it's not joint jarring. And then there's the great-looking legs side-effect. With spinning you're doing thousands of revolutions per class so it's not going to make legs bulk up.

Not only will your stamina increase as you burn calories, but regular spinners sport toned, sexy legs as well!

How To Stay Fit While Working From Home

Despite what many may think, working from home takes a lot of time and a lot of work. I'm sure you've heard someone say, "They don't really have a job, they just work from home." That statement couldn't be farther from the truth! Running a home business takes almost all of your time. Therefore, many other things drop down on your priority list. Probably one of the first ones to drop is fitness.

When you have a never-ending to-do list, a house that never seems to get clean and family and/or friends who demand attention, it's understandable that exercise can take a back seat. But, it shouldn't.

WebFit Tip March 23, 3007

Exercise is not enough. You must also include healthy eating habits.

Don't waste your calories on drinks. Drink low-calorie or no calorie drinks instead (preferably water).

Consume at least 64 ounces of water per day, plus an additional 16 ounces for every hour of moderate-intensity exercise.

How To Handle “Love Handles”

Love handles are defined as a layer of fat around a person’s
torso visible on the sides. These love handles are found more
commonly in males because the torso is the first area of the
body where fat is stored. As a person grows older, love handles
are more prevalent because of a decrease in physical activity.

Love handles are difficult to remove without losing fat in
other areas of the body as well. It is difficult to remove fat
from just one location of the body. It would be best to tone or
“muscle up” the fat around the torso, thus generating a firmed
appearance and not the flabby appearance.

WebFit Tip Mar 16, 2007

March Madness has now begun. In college hoops, superior conditioning is often the difference between equally talented teams. The NCAA doesn't only crown the best team, but weeds out the weak, allowing the fit to rise.

How does one train for superior conditioning? By taking strength training as seriously as cardio training. Work with your trainer or create your own plan that develops strength and power combined with flexibility. When selecting exercises for your strength routine, it’s important to choose at least one exercise for each major muscle group. This prevents muscle imbalances that can lead to injury. It's very important to work the entire body at a demanding pace, just like competitive basketball players, and you will soon be burning that excess belly fat.

Traveling for business? Work in a workout

If your job keeps you on the road, you know how
challenging it can be to maintain your fitness program. Hours of travel and back-to-back meetings may leave little room in your schedule for exercise. But it's not a lost cause. A little dedication and planning can help you stay in shape when you're traveling.

Pack for fitness

Before your trip, call your hotel and ask about on-site or nearby fitness facilities — such as treadmills, weight machines, running tracks, pools, tennis courts and outdoor trails. Then pack accordingly. You might want to bring:

- Athletic shoes

- Exercise clothing

- Swimsuit

- Jump-rope

- Resistance bands

- Tennis racket

- Personal radio, tape or CD player

- Exercise video or DVD

If you prefer a quicker pace, ask the hotel staff about renting in-line skates or a bicycle. 

WebFit Tip March 9, 2007

Work out early

Exercise has a well-known residual feel-good effect, probably due to endorphins that may linger in the system. The duration will differ for each person and each workout, although you can generally count on four to six hours of leftover effect, after which the endorphins will taper off. During unusually stressful times, an early morning workout might help get you through the tough day. But don't push it if you're not a morning person. A lunchtime workout would be fine.

Omega 3 Fish Oil Benefits The Heart And Much More

Researchers in the early 1980’s noticed cultures that consumed
a lot of deep cold water fish had very little occurrence of
heart disease despite their high fat diet. After much research
it was discovered that fish are rich in omega-3 polyunsaturated
fatty acids. (1,2) In this article, we will discuss how fish
oil is can fight heart disease and how it can help strengthen
the heart. Furthermore, we will discuss other benefits of
omega 3 fish oil may have on the body and how you can obtain
Omega 3 with out eating fish. Also, determine weather the brand
of fish oil you are consuming contains toxins or not.

Most of us think that all fats are bad for your health, but in
fact there are actually good fats out there. All natural fats
are mixed with various kinds of fatty acids. These fatty acids
are made up of both short and long chain carbon atoms. These
short and long chain atoms look like arms reaching out. If the
carbon atoms are bound with hydrogen the fatty acid is
considered saturated. (3,4) Long carbon chains that are double
bonded to other carbon atom chains are considered unsaturated.
Fatty acid chains have at least two or more double bonds are
called polyunsaturated. Polyunsaturated fatty acids are
classified as linoleic acid when there is a double bond at the
sixth carbon atom from the omega end. When this happens the
polyunsaturated fatty acid is called an omega-6 fatty acid.
(4,5) Linolenic acid has a double bond at the third carbon
atom from the omega end and this is called omega 3 fatty acid.
Both linoleic and linolenic acid are needed to sustain life.
Even though some fatty acids can be manufactured by the body,
omega 3 and omega 6 can not be manufactured and must be
consumed in our diets.

WebFit Tip March 2, 2007

#1

Make it a daily challenge to find ways to move your body. Climb stairs if given a choice. Walk your dog; chase your kids; mow the lawn for those in warmer climates. Anything that moves your limbs is not only a fitness tool, it's a stress buster. Think 'move' in small increments of time. The goal is to move more.

#2

Don't deny yourself favorite foods. Be sensible, enjoy all foods in the appropriate amount and you'll be more likely to make lasting changes in your diet.

Lose The Weight And Build The Muscle

You may have goals in mind of what you would like to achieve
with a training routine. Most of the time, people who train hit
plateaus because people rarely change their training variables
over time. All people who train and work out will eventually
hit a plateau, you need to work through this and keep training.
Sometimes when working out you start to feel that it is not
working anymore and you feel stale, well there is a way to
start making progress on your workouts again, it is called
unilateral training and it is the perfect way to help to build
muscle and increase your workout training. No supplement will
help you if you are not training and dieting correctly.

Weight training is of great importance in this context, which
enables the body to absorb more nutrients from the food by
increasing the amount of hormones your body receives and
increasing the mass of the muscles. To gain weight, just follow
this simple formula, by eating more calories than you burn you
will gain weight.