When you make exercise choices at the gym, are you thinking about what you enjoy the rest of the week? Whether your weekend involves a round of golf with your friends, a long ride on your road bike or social yet competitive tennis match,
Read moreYour exercise choices should improve what you do outside the gym
Exercise and weight loss are frequently discussed on message boards. I occasionally venture into these fitness forums and answer questions.
Q: I recently began a workout routine and have been doing my cardio mostly on the elliptical machine.
Read moreExercise and weight loss questions and answers part 1
And a workout with them will strengthen you in ways nothing else can. If you were to purchase one piece of home gym equipment, I’d choose kettlebells. A kettlebell workout is a total body workout, it’s strengthening, it increases core strength and increases your ability to generate power. For such a really simple piece of equipment, it can have dramatic impact on your physical fitness.
Read moreKettlebells develop strength and power and are alot of fun.
All too often when I’m at a gym, whether watching a person work out on their own or watching a trainer use kettlebells with their client, the very root of the kettlebell swing motion is done incorrectly. To easily explain the reason one motion is correct and the other is not
Read moreA kettlebell swing is based on a deadlift, not a squat.
It seems most people see the obvious when they are at the gym, that they are working on strengthening their muscles (and hopefully stretching them out as well). But one not so noticed aspect of everything you do at the gym is your workout posture. Every exercise you do is training your body
Read moreYour workout posture affects how you look and feel outside the gym.
One of the things you’ll hear every GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® instructor speak about is that GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® training moves all your joints through all their ranges of motion. This is especially important for the spine. In our modern world of long commutes and sitting at computers
Read moreThe six spinal ranges of motion. Use ’em or lose ’em!
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There are an untold number of sources you can find with advice about fitness and exercise. And that’s good. Bodies are different and goals are different which makes the “one size fits all” approach a hindrance.
Between the dozens of health and fitness magazines and the nearly infinite number of websites
