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Author :: Rachel Holmes  |
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| Article Title :: How Pole Dancing Thrust Itself into the Mainstream to Become One of the Hottest Fitness Trends |
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| New trends in society today are so often celebrity led or media endorsed, the media hooks onto a product, or a beauty secret, diet or fitness regime that maybe said to be used or practised by the "in" celeb of the moment.Before you know it the public are demanding that product or service. In the fitness industry so many trends are media inspired. For example Madonna's toned and flexible body helped re-launch Yoga to the masses. Once seen as a hippy dippy way to keep fit and supple suddenly becomes hip and trendy and the demand for Yoga classes and qualified Yoga teachers intensifies. Every celebrity from Demi Moore to Geri Hellawell is said to practice Yoga. The demand for trainin (read full article) |
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Author :: Waldo Pienaar |
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| Article Title :: Hill Training: Why All Runners Should Do It |
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| I used to hate running hills. They just mess up your pace statistics, and can be a real source of agony when showing up unexpected in a race. But through experience I soon learned that proper hill training can make the hills much easier to deal with on race day. Hill training has many other benefits too. Even if you live in a completely flat area, I give some alternatives too.WHY SHOULD I DO HILL WORKOUTS?* It is a very good cardiovascular workout. Just check your pulse right after running up a hill.* Hill training is a very effective form of strength training for runners, because it gives the runners a strength workout while they are actually in the motion of ru (read full article) |
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Author :: Daniel Remon |
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| Article Title :: Aerobic Exercise and the FITT Principle |
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| Cardiorespiratory fitness best describes the health and function of the heart, lungs and circulatory system. Cardiorespiratory fitness also describes the capacity of the lungs to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide with the blood, and the transportation of nutrients and waste products to and from the body's active tissues. Other terms used and applied to the exercise environment are cardiovascular fitness, aerobic endurance and aerobic capacity. These terms are synonymous.Cardiorespiratory exercise has proved to have many benefits, such as reducing cardiovascular disease by increasing fat utilization and therefore reducing obesity, and the reduction and management of hypertension an (read full article) |
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Author :: Shelley Costello |
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| Article Title :: Why Women's Walking Shoes are the Best Shoes You can Ever Own |
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| Women's walking shoes have to be one of the best pairs of shoes to own.This has nothing to do with the colour, how they look or even how they fit; this has to do with you, your health and more importantly your life span.An 8 year study of 13,000 people showed that those who walked for 30 minutes every day had a lower risk of premature death than those who rarely exercised.The fad of two legged walking began around 4 million years BC. Womens walking shoes were probably not as readily available then as they are now!1860-1903 saw The Pedestrian Age when walking became the leading sport across Europe and the United States.In 1877 Mary Marshall walked 50 mile (read full article) |
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Author :: Allison Preston |
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| Article Title :: Exercise and Your Anaerobic Threshold |
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| If you’re like most people you’re looking to get the most out of a workout that you possibly can. However exercising to build endurance requires a different approach than exercising to lose weight. To get the most out of your workout you need to know what your Anaerobic Threshold or AT is.Your AT rate is an individual number that varies from person to person, and can even change as your body becomes stronger over time. To better understand AT we need to take a look at your heart rate. Your heart is expressed in beats per minute, the maximum rate at which your heart can safely operate is known as your Maximum Heart Rate or MHR and is an average value taken over a few minutes. Or (read full article) |
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Author :: Frederic Patenaude |
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| Article Title :: Exercises to Improve Your Health, Energy, Digestion, and Your Love of Life! |
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| Did the title of this article catch your attention? I hope so. Most of us don't mind finding out new ways to feel better and have more energy. Yet, I'm afraid I'm not going to teach you anything that you don't already know.Some people talk about the “benefits” of exercising, such as increasing blood flow
to your brain and major organs, improving digestion, reducing stress, increasing
alertness, and boosting your immune system. That's a way to look at it.Another way is that since our bodies are meant to move everyday, so it's not that
exercises brings us any “benefits” - this should be our natural state - but it's more
that not exercising actually has negative (read full article) |
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Author :: Jane Thurnell-Read |
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| Article Title :: Tips For A Healthy Heart |
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| Keeping our hearts healthy is important, but how do we do it? Fortunately the answers to this are very clear.Being overweight, particularly if you carry the weight around your waist, puts unnecessary strain on the heart. To find out if you have a problem you need to know your height to weight ratio (WHR). To work this out measure round your waist in centimetres and divide it by your hip circumference. The measurements need to be in centimetres, so if your measuring tape is in inches, multiply each measurement by 2.5 before dividing one by the other. If the figure you end up with is greater than 0.9 for men and 0.8 for women then your fat distribution is likely to be associated with (read full article) |
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| Category :: Aerobics Cardio Articles |
Author :: Phyllis Benton |
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| Article Title :: Jogging - All Around Benefits |
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| After working each day, I would run up and down the long drive where I lived several times. In a few weeks I saw an improvement and the weight was coming off. I was now more encouraged and started jogging on the main road and any place that I could. After a few months time, I was almost back to my normal weight. I felt good about myself and what I had accomplished. The jogging gave me more energy than I had ever had before.Jogging has its advantages and disadvantages. Time is a big factor to most of us. We don’t have the time to spend hours in an exercise program each day or even every other day. Jogging takes less time to burn calories and to achieve cardiovascular fitness. A he (read full article) |
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Author :: Mark Vurnum |
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| Article Title :: Hydration in Bodybuilding |
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| So many people don’t realize how important it is to keep your body hydrated, especially during work out. Also most of them will work out too much adding to the negative effect dehydration can have. What is really concerning is that in bad conditions like extreme warmth and an excessively long work out with lack of water several incidents like strokes can happen. This should be avoided and it helps more than you’d imagine if you drink enough water.Water is a big part of our body (55 to 75% of our body weight) and also think about the fact that blood is 90% formed of water. Now just think about it! What can happen if your blood does not have enough water? It’s very simple, it w (read full article) |
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Author :: Karen Sessions |
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| Article Title :: Cardio Queen Syndrome |
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| By now you are well aware that increased activity burns calories and fat. Exercise is essential to your health and well being, but could you be taking part in too much of a good thing? The old adage, more is not always better, is a good rule to live by.When it comes to fat loss, you need to be in tune with your body and learn how to listen to it. The idea behind fat loss is to manipulate the body often. As long as you are a step ahead of your body's actions, you will be on top of the fat loss game.What exactly does that mean? How do you stay a step ahead of your body? Let's explore this concept a little further.Megan is an e-client of mine. When she began her fat loss (read full article) |
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