Did you ever think about maintaining an exercise journal? Keeping tabs of what exercises you are doing is the very key to your fitness success. How else will you know if what you’re doing is working? Maybe you are doing too many reps of one exercise and not enough of…
Many workout and fitness plans get derailed by some common mistakes and bad habits. Be careful to avoid the following mistakes. Working out without a battle plan — Some people walk into the gym and wing it — with no sense of how well they’re working out all their muscles,…
If winter has you singing the blues because you have to set aside some of your workout routine due to the bad weather, don’t look so glum. Here are some ideas for workouts you can do in the winter — both indoors and outdoors. The main objective with any workout…
While some workout gadgets are worth their weight in gold, others are a complete waste of time and effort. Using workout tools correctly should lead to positive results, and each item should be affordable. These five effective gadgets deliver in both departments: Stability Ball Whether called a fitness ball, yoga…
By Tom Dahne With hundreds of weight loss programs out there, it can get difficult to choose one that will actually give you results. So if you are tired of looking around here and there to find the perfect solution for your weight loss problem, it’s time you go for…
If you’re a certain age, you remember doing endless leg lifts in your best Jane Fonda costume to terrible 80s pop music. Fast forward a bit, and it’s sweaty spinning classes that attract the masses. Whatever the year, there has always been one hot workout trend that everyone is offering…
There is no secret in the fact that exercise is good for strengthening your muscles and for weight loss, but it is also essential for bone health, as well. Weight-bearing and strength training exercises are imperative for strong healthy bones. While bone strengthening exercise is a necessity, it is also…
Ask any professional body builder what they do when they’re not working out, and you’ll quickly find out it has nothing to do with exercise. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Fitness buffs use their downtime to relax — as in, their muscles. The reason for this is that the…
Have you lost your motivation to work out? Getting stuck in a fitness rut is a common cause of the exercise doldrums that might cause you to skip your workout routine completely and fall back into unhealthy habits. Still, there are dozens of ways to freshen up your workout routine…
By Kim Droze, MyDailyMoment.com Managing Editor For many women (and men), time isn’t on their sides. At least to hear them tell it. A Normal Barinteractive survey took a look at why people do not exercise on a regular basis. More than 30 percent of the 22,000 people questioned identified…