Exercise Tips - Getting Fit - Running to Swissball to Pilates! Stop Being Fat!
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Make Exercise a Priority in 2007
If you have put off exercising another year, make it a goal to be certain to exercise in 2007. It's important to your health.
Adding aerobic exercise 4 - 5 times a week and strength training 2 - 3 times a week will make a world of difference in the way you feel and look.
I'm going to start adding a lot of useful information here to help you get in shape but, to get you started right away, I want you to visit my website at http://www.tudefitness.com
This site originally started about 10 years ago and there is a lot of useful exercise and fitness info there.
Workouts to Shape You Up!
Blast Your Muscles - Use a Swissball - More!
Pilates on the Swissball
1. Lie face up with legs extended and heels on Sissel Exercise ball. Inhale. Exhale, drawing bellybutton to spine and chin to chest. 2. At the same time, lift torso off floor until you are balanced on your sitting bones and arms are extended to ceiling.
3. Extend spine in neutral position. Inhale as you balance on sitting bones and exhale as you roll down to starting position.
7 Minute Muscles?
"Is It Actually Possible to Gain Muscle And Burn Fat At The Same Time?"You Can Do It...If You Apply 3 Tips!
By Jon Benson
Bestselling Author of 7 Minute Muscle
There are three key steps in order to trick the body into doing two seemingly opposite things at the same time; burn fat and build muscle.
First, you have to stimulate the body to increase its muscle mass. You do this through weight training.
However, train TOO LONG and all that extra energy from your stored bodyfat will go to keeping your central nervous system from crashing. Your body will shift all of that energy and then some into the metabolic processes we call "survival mode" faster than you can snap your fingers.
It will try and make sure your metabolism stays high enough to survive. That's one reason diets fail-the metabolism crashes because calories are too low AND because you are exercising too much.
Brief but brutal training is the key and it is thoroughly covered in 7 Minute Muscle
Exercising the Abdomainals
Lifting weights doesn't appeal to everyone. Bodyweight exercises can accomplish basically the same thing. Do your body weight exercises on a swiss ball and your potential to increase your muscle tone and fitness level explodes. Exercise Digest
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Core Exercise
1. Sit in an upright position on a stability ball with your feet flat on the floor.
2. Hold your arms out to the side and slowly rotate your shoulders and trunk to the left side and then back to the right.
3. Your trunk and shoulders should stay together as one unit. Repeat.
Baby Lunges
1. Hold your baby close to your chest and stand in a split squat stance.
2. Proceed to lunge down until your knee almost touches the floor.
3. Stand back up to the starting position and repeat for the prescribed reps.
4. Complete the same reps with the opposite leg.
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tudefit wrote...
in reply to Mike Orme Thanks Mike. I also have a swiss ball exercise lens. Tried to click on the link to your site but it did not work?
Posted January 17, 2009
Mike Orme wrote
Love the little animations and the baby lunge cracked me up. The ultimate in progressive resistance as they grow, bit like Milo did isn't it? Nice Lens.
Check out my Swiss ball exercises blog it's early days but I'm adding to it all the time.
Posted January 12, 2009
cdreyer03 wrote...
I really like the abdominal exercises you have here. I ranked your lense 5 stars! Check out my Lose a Double Chin lense and rank me too.
Posted November 01, 2007
FitnessGeek wrote...
Great Lens Tudefit. I especially like the exercise gifs. 5 stars How to Lose Belly Fat Naturally
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Exercise Tips Blog
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Many think of interval training as an advanced form of training. In this case, we are discussing running.Not so. Anyone can begin to do interval training, although it is highly recommended you first get a doctor's ok.
In it's simplest form, you simply incorporate short periods of runs into your walking program. You simply run until you begin breathing hard, then walk.
Intervals at it's best allows you to have a more intense workout and actually shorten your workout time. Referred to by many as HIT - High Intensity Training, you warm up, then sprint for a period of time, say 20 seconds, followed by jogging slowly or walking to recover. The recovery is short, in this case maybe twice the sprint duration.
Repeat about 8 times and cool down and your workout is done.
This is highly effective but you obviously would need to build up to this intensity level.
I'll get into this a little more in later posts.
Really? No Time to Exercise?
Do you really not have time to exercise?Well here's some good news. There is more and more evidence that says break it down into two to three exercise routines a day. But brisk exercise routines.
You get up in the morning before work and hit the treadmill. OK. 20 or 30 minutes might sound daunting.
How about a 10 minute run? That doesn't sound too bad, does it? And if you can throw in two or three mild sprints during that time, that much the better.
Get home from work. Another 10 minutes. Again, one of the keys is to make it brisk with some periods of higher intensity. You just got in 20 minutes today. Nice job.
Actually there is aerobic training now that can get you in excellent condition in a twenty minute session, but that's beyond today's tip and is more for advanced exercisers.
While I still recommend the 30 minutes 4 days a week, this is a lot better than nothing and you will reap benefits from it.
However, a word of caution here - you still need to warm up before each session.
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The Perfect Pushup
I just started testing this and my initial reaction is - Wow!. There is a stretch you obtain, particularly with the wide grip, that goes beyond what you get from a regular push up.I haven't been able to do a 180 degree rotation yet. 90 degrees is tough. But maybe after a bit more training with it I can give it a go.
Now, I don't feel the abs get as good of a workout using this as when doing abs on a exercise ball. The ball requires more stability so I imagine that is why.
Would I recommend this? I want to further test this over at least a period of a month, but I have to say I can't see why I wouldn't recommend it. They call it the Perfect Pushup and I am tending to agree.
Perfect Push up vs Push up on an Exercise Ball
I have both. I've done a comparison here at Exercise Digest but let me basically tell you this.You cannot go wrong with either of these. Doing push ups on both brings more muscle into play than a regular push up. Listen, I was in the army and push-ups are a stable of their workout program. And their workout program works! Anybody who was ever in the army can attest to this.
So, while there is maybe one advantage I have found to one of these, if you do push ups using either of these, you will get results.
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My exercise and fitness website located at http://www.tudefitness.com, has been a popular site for home exercisers since 1998.
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