Fitness Articles

Fitness | By Phoenix Delray @ Saturday, 7th June 2008 @ 4:02 PM

For decades only the rich and famous had time (and more importantly money) to commit to looking their fittest and maintaining an exercise program that involved a coach. Now, accessing San Diego Personal Training is just a call or click away. Every client is unique in their goals for utilizing a personal fitness coach, however, your trainer should have a general philosophy on exercise training. Getting to know your trainer and how they assist their clients in training, setting goals, assessing... more...

Fitness | By Phoenix Delray @ Thursday, 5th June 2008 @ 11:08 PM

Whether your goal is to lose weight or just to tone up and get healthy, a San Diego Personal Trainer can recommend a program that teaches you the most effective way to accomplish your goal. Before paying a trainer, you should inquire about your trainers qualifications such as education, certifications such as ACSM, ACE or NSCA, and possibly any feature clients to assure you are working with a competent professional. Your trainers job is to guide you to achieving your fitness level, show you te... more...

Fitness | By Phoenix Delray @ Thursday, 5th June 2008 @ 10:47 PM

No matter if you are looking to lose weight or shape up, a number of San Diego personal training programs are available to you. Consulting with a trainer is important to achieve your best results. Many exercises for body shaping isolate one muscle group and focus on muscle building. Exercises such as dumbbell curls and leg extensions are just a couple of sample activities. In order to build stamina, youll need compound exercises such as squats, bench press and rowing actions. These mo... more...

Fitness | By Olga Savcuk @ Thursday, 5th June 2008 @ 8:44 AM

Fitness and exercises play a very important role in our lives. Usually we think that exercises are only needed to improve our health or lose weight. But if you are not overweight and feel healthy, should you exercise? Of course you should exercise, as in addition to health improvement and weight loss, exercising has the following benefits: Improved mood, relieved stress Exercises improve our mood and relieve stress we experience in everyday life. Regular physical activity boosts op... more...

Fitness | By Chris Chew @ Tuesday, 3rd June 2008 @ 10:38 PM

This article applies to people who want to put on weight as well as those who want to lose weight. I will use the example of someone who wants to put on weight first. Yes, thin people (hardgainer) can gain and put on weight. Although you may be genetically programmed to be skinny and have a higher metabolic rate, I can assure you that you can gain weight. Only problem is are you sabotaging yourself? As a professional fitness instructor, I am always amazed by the skepticism of my sk... more...

Fitness | By Jerry Leung @ Tuesday, 3rd June 2008 @ 5:45 AM

As you may probably know, obesity can pose real threat to our health. As a result, you should try to prevent yourself from developing the problem of obesity. To this end you will need to know the causes of this problem. In fact, obesity is usually caused by unhealthy eating combined with sustained lack of activity. When the amount of calories intake is larger than the amount you need for your daily activities, it will be stored as fat in your body. And the problem of obesity will graduall... more...

Fitness | By Michael Greeves @ Monday, 2nd June 2008 @ 12:47 AM

Traveling is a major diet pitfall for most people. The convenience and ease of fast food is quite tempting, but as we all know, eating fast food comes at a cost! People who go on frequent business trips are often the most challenged when it comes to sticking with a diet. Most airlines do not offer meals, and the ones that do have high calorie meals. The allure of the expense account can derail dieters because they can eat on the company's money, so all of a sudden that 12 oz filet migno... more...

Fitness | By Tom Parker @ Sunday, 1st June 2008 @ 4:59 PM

Once you have been going to the gym for some time you will start to realise that there are certain things there which annoy you. Some are just minor distractions whilst others can become quite frustrating. In this article I am going to discuss four of the things that annoy me most at the gym. 1) Cell Phoners:- These are the people who chat away on their phones in the middle of their workout. The actual chatting does not annoy me if people chat on the phone without taking up valuable equip... more...

Fitness | By Tom Parker @ Saturday, 31st May 2008 @ 10:45 AM

There are a lot of times when you do not feel like exercising. Maybe you have had a bad day and just want to get home and relax. Perhaps you are feeling a little unwell and cannot stomach the thought of the gym. However, some of the excuses people make are absolutely hilarious. In this article I outline three of the funniest excuses I have ever heard. 1) I Get My Exercise by Walking to the Donut Shop Each Day:- 1 plain donut contains around 185 calories and adding icing takes that fig... more...

Fitness | By Ant Onaf @ Saturday, 31st May 2008 @ 8:05 AM

There are many reasons why someone will want to learn how to dance. One of the great things about learning to dance is you will get an invigorating exercise workout. If learning to dance does nothing else for you, it will get your heart pumping and may help you get into shape. If your goal is to get in shape then this mean a simple one week dance class will not do the trick. You should have at least 3 months or more dance lessons which take place 3 times a week or more for at least 1 hour or... more...

Fitness | By Me-Shell Mijangos @ Friday, 30th May 2008 @ 10:53 PM

Surfing is one of the most enjoyable water sports. There is nothing more exhilarating for a surfer than to ride the biggest waves for the longest time. However, people who want to learn how to surf, draw back from the sports even before trying a session because of fear of sharks. Indeed, sharks are seen as hostile predators of the sea. They are large, strong, have saw-like teeth and are fierce looking to some. In fact, of all the world's sea predators, sharks are the most feared. Bu... more...

Fitness | By Daniel Millions @ Thursday, 29th May 2008 @ 11:29 PM

Dieting and weight loss are the #1 topics of conversation any time two or more people are in a room together. It doesn't matter whether the group is male or female, dieting and chatter about food is the conversation of choice. The #2 topic most often is the latest super-fast way to get rid of extra pounds. We live in a world where fast solutions are a necessity. The good news is there are ways to quickly drop extra pounds in as little as 5 -10 days. Even better news is this can be do... more...

Fitness | By Daniel Millions @ Tuesday, 27th May 2008 @ 9:25 AM

How do we know which weight loss program is the one magic bullet for us? I am sure you have heard about such diets as Slimfast, Jenny Craig, Nutri-system, the Green Tea diet and Weight Watchers just to name a few. We have a crisis here in America. It is called obesity! This is the fastest-growing cause of death and disease in America. The sad thing is that it is completely preventable. Did you know that nearly 2/3 of Americans are overweight or obese In America, 1/8 of all of the d... more...

Fitness | By Robert Kokoska @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 9:39 AM

Many people will give excuse after excuse for not exercising during the day. While the number one excuse is not having enough time, the second excuse used most often is not having enough energy. Energy will remain low as long as the mind is in the avoidance mode. Once you convince yourself that exercise is fun and you WANT to do it, the exercise will return, like MAGIC! In order to jump start those energy levels, exercise breathing can help. Exercise breathing is like a warm up for the l... more...

Fitness | By Robert Kokoska @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 2:02 AM

The creators of the female only circuit training fitness clubs had a great business idea. They created something for the fitness market that was fantastic for people who did not particularly fit in with the gym crowd, yet wanted to better themselves both physically and mentally. Unfortunately, the crowd drawn to these clubs and the staff working with them is often a bit less driven than a fitness program needs to be. Not that the clubs do not work, but starting the same style of circuit at home ... more...

Fitness | By Robert Kokoska @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 1:22 AM

The age of the baby boomer is upon us and this feisty group of retirees are more active than any other retired generation. The key to keeping them active and happy is to offer fitness tips that are worth their time and fun to accomplish. Here are the top 6 fitness tips for baby boomers: 1. Listen to your body. As the body ages, it tends to take longer to recover. The key to keeping active well into your aging years is to listen to what your body is telling you. Some activities of your you... more...

Fitness | By Robert Kokoska @ Sunday, 25th May 2008 @ 8:45 PM

Exercise is the number one suggestion made by doctors as the path to weight loss. For the extremely overweight, this option may be out of the question. Our world is not focused on gradual, we are focused on fast! Everything needs to be at our fingertips, and thus, the exercise world focuses on those they are most apt to control, the thin and athletic. The extremely overweight are the sector of people who need to most attention because they are the ones that can be hurt the most from improper exe... more...

Fitness | By Matt Shuebrook @ Sunday, 25th May 2008 @ 1:41 PM

How many times have you bought a diet book only to find out the meals inside the book are so expensive that you can? Only afford to diet for 2 days out of the week? With that being said I thought I'd take a little time today offering ideas for eating healthy on a tight budget. Sure it won't filet mignon every day but I promise you one thing. I will give you several healthy food combinations that you can use for losing weight. There are really hundreds of healthy meal plans out ... more...

Fitness | By Daniel Millions @ Saturday, 24th May 2008 @ 4:06 PM

I have recently lost about thirty five pounds in about four months and many people have asked me how. I have decided to tell my story as a way to inspire others. This is a step by step, day in and day out on how to loss roughly thirty pounds in just a few months. Let's start off with the basics so you can understand completely what I went through. My daily routine used to begin at seven o'clock before I got serious about loosing weight. Now my day begins an hour earlier at six. ... more...

Fitness | By Gordon Warre @ Saturday, 24th May 2008 @ 3:58 PM

Cycling is the use of bicycles, unicycles, tricycles, quadricycles and other similar wheeled human powered vehicles (HPVs) as a means of transport, a form of recreation or a sport. Cycling time triallists gain a significant performance advantage if, on the day before competition, they train at exactly the same time as the competition is scheduled to start. As a sport, cycling is governed internationally by the Union Cycliste Internationale in Switzerland (for upright bicycles) and by the... more...