Exercise and Calories: Reality Check
WebMD has a nice little online feature: the Fit-O-Meter, which calculates the calories burned for 600 different activities. You pick the activity, plug in your weight and the duration, and voila: you get an estimate of the number of calories you’ve burned. There are a few caveats, of course…for one thing, this sort of calculator can’t account for the metabolic benefits of exercise (such as improvements in insulin...
Exercising at Home – TRX Edition
Will Brink – the gent I work with/for over on the “Bodybuilding Revealed” and “Fat Loss Revealed” forums – put together a YouTube vid on his home workout program using the TRX Suspension Trainer. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad6jWKYjHms] I have one of these, and think it’s a great tool. I don’t normally do home workouts, but there are times when I have; and have also taken...
Exercising At Home, Prt II
Yesterday I started a new series on exercising at home. Let’s get started with a few more of my “do-at-home” favorites… Leg Lifts: These have to be one of my favorites for strengthening and toning the thighs, hips and buttocks. Lying on your side, align your top leg over the bottom one. Make sure you have a just a soft (barely noticeable) bend in your knee. Contract your glutes (buttocks) and raise your leg...
Exercising At Home… A New Series!
A few days ago, Paul and I were discussing the merit of a series of articles based on “exercises you can do at home.” After all, we’re in a recession and times are tough. People are cutting back on all sorts of things, including gym memberships. But even so, it remains critical that you stay in shape – keeping your muscles toned and your heart and lungs working in prime form. So we decided it would be a great...
Bench Day – Update VII
Normally we do this on Saturday, but there was a powerlifting tournament at the gym yesterday. The bench we typically use is close to a “traffic lane” – and I figured it’d be distracting to try and bench with a lot of people walking back and forth. Pity though – as it turned out, it probably would have been better if we’d done it yesterday. We went out to dinner last night to celebrate Number One...
(W)hooping It Up
Most of y’all know I’m a desk jockey – I’m here at my computer most of the day, every day. Sure, I work out – hard – on a regular basis, but I don’t believe in spending hours at the gym. I go there to get strong, not burn calories… thus, when my performance begins to deteriorate, it’s time to hang it up, go home and eat. All told, I don’t spend more than an hour/day...
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