Manage Your Wires While Working Out
Posted by admin in Exercise on 03 10th, 2010 | No Comments
Music is often an essential for a good workout, but managing those wiley wires from iPod to earbuds can be a pain. Many companies are brainstorming some creative solutions to manage your gadgets while you get your heart rate up. Gracie Gear , one fitness gear innovator, recently sent me a Short Top...
Cardio Workout: Elliptical Intervals Shrinking Recovery
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By now, we all hopefully know that interval training rocks . Whether you’re running, rowing, or swimming, playing with speed has multiple benefits. One way to push the interval envelope is to decrease the amount of rest time between your bouts of sprinting. By shortening your recovery time, you’re...
Treadmill Tip: Adjust the Grade
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To keep things exciting on a treadmill, you have to mix it up, and one way to do so is to play with the incline. For folks with troublesome ankles and knees, going faster can make cranky joints even crankier. By adjusting the grade you can increase the difficulty of your workout without compromising...
Get Lifted: Swinging Kettlebell Squat Lunge
Posted by admin in Exercise on 03 9th, 2010 | No Comments
I’m all jazzed about kettlebells lately, and if you’re looking for an exercise to use this unique piece of equipment, here’s one to try. It’s sure to tone your thighs and tush and give you sculpted shoulders. For tips on how to do this move keep reading.
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Keep Your Vitamins Out of the Bathroom
If you down your vitamins with a little bit of tap water, chances are high you store them in your bathroom or kitchen. Unfortunately, a new study indicates that the watery elements of those two rooms make them the worst places to keep these pills. High humidity and high temperatures, often found in...
Food Review: Dark Chocolate Quinoa Midnight Crunch
Posted by admin in Exercise on 03 9th, 2010 | No Comments
Quinoa in chocolate? That’s what I said, but if you’re a fan of Nestle Crunch, you might want to give Dark Chocolate Quinoa Midnight Crunch chocolate bar ($5) a try. It contains rice-quinoa crisps from Bolivia. It’s vegan, GMO-free, soy-free, gluten-free, and certified organic. Not...
Virtual Active Video Treadmill Is Cool!
Posted by admin in Exercise on 03 8th, 2010 | No Comments
I have never been one to watch TV while working out. I use exercise to escape my reality, not read the ticker on CNN. When the guys at Virtual Active asked me if I wanted to take a virtual hike through Lake Tahoe on their Matrix treadmill, however, I said yes without hesitation. Lucky for me the fitness...
Are You Destined to Have Your Mother’s Body?
Like mother, like daughter, right? When I look at old photos of my mom at my age, we look exactly alike. Some children resemble their parents so closely that there’s no doubt in your mind that they’re related. So does that mean a woman is destined to grow up to look like her mom, and inherit...
Are Weekends Days to Exercise or Rest?
Posted by admin in Exercise on 03 7th, 2010 | No Comments
I’m one of those people who likes to exercise consistently through the week. I don’t push myself Monday through Friday just so I can rest on the weekends, because I actually love working out on Saturday and Sunday. Since I’m not in a rush to get to work, I can take my time and plan...
Fit Tip: Drop and Give Me 10
When it comes to working out, I used to believe that it was all or nothing. I either had to fully commit to an hour at the gym or skip it altogether. Sometimes I’m busy, and to break it down to you, I don’t always have an hour chunk in my day to work out. My guess is that it’s probably...
Tips For Tackling Your First Marathon
Posted by admin in Exercise on 03 5th, 2010 | No Comments
Back in January, many of you wrote that running in longer races was one of your fitness goals in our Get Fit For 2010 community group and contest . Hopefully you signed up for a race, and are steadily training and staying injury free. The magazine Outside shared some training tips for newbie marathoners,...
Diabetes
- Achieving Healthy Pregnancy Despite DiabetesAmong diabetic pregnant women, the most common problem when it comes to their baby’s health is the condition called “macrosomia” or having a baby with large body. This is because the blood of the mother with diabetes is interchanged with that of the baby inside the womb. As a result, the baby will produce insulin to be able to glucose and t […]
- Are You Suffering From Diabetes?People who are prone to diabetes—especially those who have the disease in their family’s history—should consider that there is a great possibility that they or their kids might inherit the illness. So, the best way to go about it is become very informed about the condition. The following are some the things that people who are prone to diabetes mus […]
- An Explanation of DiabetesIf you think that you are prone to diabetes, the first thing that you need to know is to understand what is the illness all about. Experts say that diabetes is a chronic disease, which develop among people who have the inability to utilize the glucose in their food to be used as energy. The illness develops when the accumulated glucose stays in the person […]