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Strengthen Your Core and Stomach with the Core Fitness App

Core FitnessThere are many benefits to having strong core muscles. Not only are these muscles important for balance and stability, but they also support the movements of the leg and arms while preventing injury.

Core Fitness is a new iPhone app that can help you strengthen this area. It uses a 40-minutes workout comprised of yoga stretches and resistance training exercised that work your upper legs, hips, buttocks, back, abs and shoulders. The creators of the app promise that you can see results by doing this workout just three or four times per week.

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Posted on January 10, 2024 by Health Buzz

Gaiam’s Wake Up Workout on the OWN Network

Tune in every morning this week to Oprah’s OWN Network and get a energizing jump to the day with Gaiam’s Wake Up Workout.

Every weekday morning at 6 a.m. and at 6:30 a.m. Gaiam, the lifestyle media company that creates and sells scores of yoga and fitness workout DVDs, will feature a 30-minute workout that will kickstart your day in an invigorating and restorative way.

From Rodney Yee’s Ulimate Power Yoga to Patricia Moreno’s Cardio Burn Yoga, each 30-minute session allows you to start your day with a cardio boost and an arsenal of mind-body techniques that will prepare you for the day’s stresses that lie ahead of you.

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Posted on January 10, 2024 by heather

Free Workouts with LiveFit Revolution and Trainer Alysia Gadson

I have had several trainers over the past year, all of which have been instrumental in my journey. One of them has been so inspired that she has begun to train other people who are struggling with their weight and she is doing it for free. She broadcasts these workouts online so that she can help as many people as possible. It is an amazing program that uses a nutrition plan, kettlebells, cardio and support to help people achieve their goals.

Watch now as I introduce Alysia Gadson and LiveFit Revolution.

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Posted on September 3, 2023 by Shay

Venus Williams’ Workout

Venus Williams StrechingJust in time for the US Open, Venus Williams reveals her workout secrets. Of course, the tennis star spends two to three hours training on the courts, but it takes a lot more to stay in top-performance shape. “It’s kind of a nine to five thing with a full day of working out,” she told FitSugar. “I do anything like ride the bike, the elliptical, swimming, or sprinting—things like that.”

Venus loves to swim: “Swimming is my favorite cardiovascular activity. Lately I have been swimming in the ocean too. The water has been real calm in Florida this summer and it’s real flat.” But the tennis player confesses that she hates doing elbow planks, also know as prone holds, that work the core muscles. “I don’t like planks,” says Venus. “I don’t like slow and tedious exercise. Ones that you have to do on both sides. Those really get me down.”

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Posted on August 30, 2023 by Health Buzz

Jersey Shore’s Sammi Sweetheart Stops Eating Pasta

Jersey Shore's Sammi diet and workoutLest she be left off the Jersey Shore‘s diet party bus, Sammi “Sweetheart” has revealed her diet and weight loss strategy. Unlike her female co-stars, Sammi chose to lose weight by relatively conventional means. Snooki reached her weight loss on Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet and J-WOWW is taking the controversial pregnancy hormone, hCG.

How did Sammi Sweetheart drop 15 pounds? She stopped eating pasta, which just might be as sacrilegious for the guidette as cookie meal-replacements or hawking hormones. She confessed that giving up noodles had been hard. “I miss it like crazy, but I don’t eat pasta anymore. I eat my vegetables and try to stay healthy,” she said.
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Posted on August 2, 2023 by Health Buzz

Jersey Shore Beach Workouts

The popular reality TV series “Jersey Shore” on MTV has become quite the phenomenon. Eight housemates are followed by camera crews as they hit the beach, gym, and clubs. The first season took place in New Jersey. The new season, which premieres July 29, takes place in Miami, Florida. The boys of “Jersey Shore” love to work out and the following list of exercises are what consumes their beach workouts.

Walk the Boardwalk Workout

  • Guido Tip Toe – Walk on your toes to isolate the calves (two minutes)
  • Seeking Squats – Squat and stand at a lean (alternate sides: left and right) to seek out hotties (three sets of 25 reps)
  • Hottie with a Body Lunges – Forward alternating lunges (three sets of 20 reps)
  • False Alarm Lunges – Reverse alternating lunges to get away from the “ugly chicks” (three sets of 20 reps) (more…)
Posted on July 30, 2023 by Matt

10 Tips to Sneak a Workout into Your Day

Here are 10 great tips to sneak a little more workout time into a busy schedule.Ten ways to sneak in a workout

1. Swap your chair for a balance ball. If this one won’t go over well at work, at least try it while watching TV or paying the bills at the kitchen table. Sitting on a balance ball with two feet on the ground not only improves your equilibrium, but also works your core.

2. Take the stairs. Whenever you can, avoid the elevator and take the stairs for a quick workout for your legs.

3. Leave your car at the far end of the parking lot. You will burn calories by walking farther, and even more if you have groceries to carry. Plus, your car will be less likely to get scratched.

4. Do something active when you go out with friends. This weekend, instead of sitting at the bar drinking a high-calorie cocktail, go dancing, bowling, skating or roller skating. Or maybe just take a walk in the park.

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Posted on July 16, 2023 by Margaret

Sony’s One-Piece Music Player Review

If you’re like most people, music is a huge part of working out. I could certainly not last as long as I do on the treadmill or elliptical if I didn’t have tunes pumping me up.

The music players I typically use have two parts: earphones and the actual device. Companies are now working to improve the way we listen to music while working out, and one recently released device is the Sony W series Walkman MP3 player.

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Posted on May 22, 2023 by Amy

Refresh Your Workouts with the 40-Day Challenge

Are your workout routines boring and monotonous? Do you need a new goal or something to train for? How about taking the “40-Day Challenge!” The 40-Day Challenge consists of eight weeks of hard core training for five days a week. Each week’s main goal is two pounds of steady weight loss. I understand that 40 days seems like an eternity, but it is only eight weeks and five workouts per week.

Each workout is an hour-and-a-half and consists of an hour of cardiovascular training and a thirty minute circuit training session. Each cardiovascular series should get your heart rate up to at least 85% of your heart rate max for most of the hour. To get this number you need to subtract your age from 220 and then multiply that number by .85 (85%). (more…)

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Matt

Terrell Owens’ In-Season Workout

terrell owensWhat do NFL superstars do for their in-season workouts? Do they lift hard or do they skip workouts during the season? Well, Terrell Owens, a wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, is a firm believer in discipline and making working out a priority in his life regardless of whether his team is in-season or not. Terrell was traded to Dallas from the Philadelphia Eagles a few years ago and has made a significant impact on the team’s success.

Terrell believes that success all comes down to three things: eating right, sleeping right, and maintaining healthy workouts. Low carb, high protein meals and six to eight hours of sleep each night are a few of the keys to his success. (more…)

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Matt

Swimming 101: The Fitness Benefits

Swimming is an excellent total body exercise and offers no joint impact or any such stress on the body like many other types of activities. Swimming workouts are perfect for any kind of rehab, muscle endurance, burning unwanted calories, controlling breathing, and a good way to switch up the workouts in general.

swimming

There are six types of strokes, all of which work almost every muscle in the body:

The Free-style stroke (with flutter kick) mainly works the deltoids, hips, quads, and hamstrings.

The Butterfly Stroke (with Dolphin kick) focuses on the complete lower body, deltoids, and chest muscles.

The Side Stroke (with scissor kick) mainly works the triceps, hips, quads, and hamstrings.

The Back Crawl (with flutter kick) emphasizes the deltoids, back, hips, quads, and hamstrings.

The Breast stroke (with “frog kick”) mainly targets the chest, triceps, and complete lower body.

The Elementary Back Stroke focuses on the deltoids and complete lower body. I have put together a list of exercises to help with your swimming and recommend doing three sets of twenty repetitions of each movement. Congratulations to Michael Phelps for his great accomplishment.

8 Exercises To Target Each Major Muscle Group

External Cable Rotation (Deltoid)

Internal Cable Rotation (Deltoid)

Cable Chest Press (Chest)

Leg Raise (Hips)

Leg Curl (Hamstrings)

Leg Extension (Quads)

Hip Adduction (Inner Thigh)

Hip Abduction (Outer Thigh)

Posted on August 23, 2023 by Matt