Health and Fitness – Fitness Made Easy

Walking has never been accorded much respect. Traditionally, it has been considered useful locomotion but infective exercise. Worse, it is decidedly lacking in glamour. People shaped like bowling balls walk.

This is many peoples attitude to walking.

People who walk 3 miles a day, 5 days a week, at a 5-mile-an-hour pace produce the same cardiovascular gains as joggers running at an 8 to 9 miles-an-hour pace. Indeed, jogging at a moderate pace will burn 400 calories an hour; race walking will burn about 600. The fact is, walking is much better exercise than most people believe.  Read more...

Let’s deal with the weight loss issue right off, because if we don’t, you might bypass one of the best exercises around.

Swimming, tradition has it, is not a good way to lose weight – an enduring piece of misinformation that admittedly isn’t dispelled by newspaper photos of Hindenburg-size marathon swimmers stumbling from some frigid ocean.  Read more...

Many people have tried Running, and many people have hated it. The roots of this displeasure can be traced to the running boom of the 1970’s, when running proponents, caught up in a near orgiastic buzz, loudly pronounced that the best approach to running was longer, faster, and harder, and they did exactly that – until succumbed to debilitating injuries.  Read more...

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...

Roberto Garcia (Health & Fitness Specialist) 
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Just thought I would share this must watch mountain biking video for extreme biking enthusiasts.

Roberto Garcia (Health & Fitness Specialist) 
http://www.newhealthandfitnessdvds.co.uk

Specialist provider of Health and Fitness information and products including Fitness DVDs, Health & Fitness Books and Specialist Health & Fitness Supplements.

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...

Easy Fitness – Top 40 Foods

Top 10 Vegetables

There are no bad vegetables, but there are some that are pretty lame. Unfortunately, the lame ones tend to be the ones we eat the most.

Your average fast-food salad entombed in its plastic casket, for example, usually consists of a wad of iceberg lettuce, a couple slices of cucumber, a bloodless tomato, and maybe a dusting of carrot shavings. They aren’t worthless, but you can do a lot better.  Read more...

If people only ate when they were truly hungry.

Except for the tiny fraction of us who actually have glandular problems, we would all be as slim as whippets. Unfortunately, for us and our bellies, we eat for all sorts of reasons that have nothing whatsoever to do with hunger.

We eat because we are happy, sad, angry, lonely, worried, nervous, frustrated, tired and bored.  Read more...

What you eat affects how you look and feel.

While we are supposed to be eating 5 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables a day, we’re eating closer to 3 servings. And when you get women out of the picture (they tend to eat more of the good stuff than men), only about one in five of us are eating as many servings as we should.  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...