Health and Fitness – Fitness Made Easy

Five kilometres  rounds out to about 3.1 miles.It’s the shortest of the distance races, but it’s long enough to give people, especially beginners, a good challenge.

Making running a 5K your goal can be an excellent motivational tool. The eight weeks leading up to the 5K is the best time to train your body to be able to perform well on race day. While many runners sign-up for 5K’s to compete for first place, a lot of people do it just for fun. It is a group fitness event that can provide people with the incentives they need to stay healthy and workout regularly.  Read more...

Just thought I would share this must watch mountain biking video for extreme biking enthusiasts.

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Easy Fitness – Cross-TrDespite its scientific pedigree, cross- training is just a spiffy word for mixing up your exercises. The best way to achieve solid weight loss and sound fitness while remaining a grip on your sanity.

If you want to gain all the benefits of exercise, and there are lots of them: strength, endurance, health, a lean look, you’ll have a much better chance of covering all the bases by doing different activities.  Read more...

The hardest part of exercise is just getting started. Once you’ve began it gets easier and easier.

Everyone of us has a collection of habits. Who we are and how we look are in many ways a product of those habits.

The only way to redefine yourself , to start achieving leanness rather than merely worrying about overweight, is to acquire a new set of habits. How do you do that? By doing things over and over again until they become your new habits.  Read more...

Many people regard a bowl of cereal with milk and sliced banana and a glass of orange juice as the ultimate breakfast. Believe it or not, this breakfast contains 325 to 500 calories, with only 10 grams of protein.  Read more...

No doubt, cycling is a fat burner. A 165-pound man cycling down the road fan an hour at a fairly leisurely 13 miles an hour will burn about 690 calories.

Stationary bikes aren’t bad either. But for many people, traditional riding – either in a gym or on the streets – is about as dry as these statistics.  Read more...

Crunches, sit-ups and other stomach exercises won’t necessarily guarantee that you’ll achieve stomach fat loss. It doesn’t hurt, but just because you do a thousand crunches a day, doesn’t mean that you’ll lose all of the fat around your midsection, and nowhere else.  Read more...

If you have heard about race walking, you probably imagine overweight athletes waddling like ducks, taking mincing little steps and not making much progress.

You would be wrong. For starters race walkers don’t waddle; the hips move forward and back, not side to side. Second, it provides an excellent exercise option. If you’re serious about walking, fitness, and calorie burn, race walking is the way to go.  Read more...

The vast majority of adults are standing or walking incorrectly to the extent that they could be creating muscle trouble for themselves without knowing it. Too much slouching, shoulders hunched, chest inwards are all too obvious as people are unaware of the benefits of good posture.

If a person’s body is in good balance it can maintain good posture with minimal effort whereby all the muscles are working in harmony to support alignment. In comparison, a body out of balance will find it tires quickly when working to strengthen weaker muscles.

Strong women really do stay young…with strength training.

Women build up their muscles in response to weight training, but it is usually seen in the form of firmness and muscle definition. Very few women can build huge, bulging muscles through a weight training routine, even if they want to.

They don’t have the right hormones. But they’ll increase their health and fitness levels, and look younger!  Read more...

Experts say there is no magic to exercise You get out of it what you put in. That doesn’t mean you have to work out for hours each day. It just means you need to work smart.

That said, experts agree that not all exercises are created equal. Some are simply more efficient than others, whether they target multiple muscle groups, are suitable for a wide variety of fitness levels, or help you burn calories more effectively.  Read more...

Experts say there is no magic to exercise You get out of it what you put in. That doesn’t mean you have to work out for hours each day. It just means you need to work smart.

That said, experts agree that not all exercises are created equal. Some are simply more efficient than others, whether they target multiple muscle groups, are suitable for a wide variety of fitness levels, or help you burn calories more effectively.  Read more...

Experts say there is no magic to exercise You get out of it what you put in. That doesn’t mean you have to work out for hours each day. It just means you need to work smart.

That said, experts agree that not all exercises are created equal. Some are simply more efficient than others, whether they target multiple muscle groups, are suitable for a wide variety of fitness levels, or help you burn calories more effectively.  Read more...

Experts say there is no magic to exercise You get out of it what you put in. That doesn’t mean you have to work out for hours each day. It just means you need to work smart.

That said, experts agree that not all exercises are created equal. Some are simply more efficient than others, whether they target multiple muscle groups, are suitable for a wide variety of fitness levels, or help you burn calories more effectively.  Read more...

Experts say there is no magic to exercise You get out of it what you put in. That doesn’t mean you have to work out for hours each day. It just means you need to work smart.

That said, experts agree that not all exercises are created equal. Some are simply more efficient than others, whether they target multiple muscle groups, are suitable for a wide variety of fitness levels, or help you burn calories more effectively.  Read more...