01/31/2008 :: Exercises for the Lower Back

Lower back pain or tightness is fairly common. Lower back exercises can help to strengthen this part of the body

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01/31/2008 :: Cramping in the Legs and Feet

Cramps are a sudden, involuntary, painful muscular contraction. It is a sudden pain that you get when the muscles in a particular part of the body tighten, usually by cold or too much of exercise.

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01/31/2008 :: Dizziness and nausea during workouts

How can I reduce dizziness and nausea during workouts?

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12/19/2007 :: Top 10 Gym Mistakes

For someone who just started exercising, the right guidance is critical. If you are a newcomer, the first thing you want to do is exercise in a safe and effective fashion. Many individuals avoid the gym due to the fear of making a mistake in public. For the weight room rookie, there is nothing more demoralizing than the disheartening smirks of veteran trainees. Mistakes start to happen, and these prevent you from getting optimal results. In fact, it increases the chances of injury!

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12/19/2007 :: Hydration Of The Body

How many liter of water do you drink a day? Everyone should drink at least 2 liter of water per day, and if you exercise or are overweight, even more. Your body is made up of mostly of water. Approximately 85% of your brain, 80% of your blood and 70% of your muscle is water. Every cell in your body needs water to live.

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12/19/2007 :: Q & A: Fat Free Foods

Fat Free Foods Do Not Necessarily Mean Fat Free Body

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11/16/2007 :: Turn Back the Aging Clock

Is fatigue and joint discomfort the inevitable result of growing older?
by Deborah L. Mullen, CSCS Simple Fitness Solutions

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11/16/2007 :: Learn How to Save your Back at Work

Two of the most common complaints you hear at work on any given day are probably for back and neck pain.

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11/16/2007 :: 5 steps to safe bodybuilding

Here are 5 essential techniques from the gym to protect your body. Bodybuilding takes hard work and the discipline is enormous. Building your body will require you to work around very heavy weights and irons.

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09/18/2007 :: Making the right choice for you.

In today's fast paced world, people are turning more and more to using exercise machines to maintain their bodies. Some go to gyms where they have access to a wide variety of machines and experienced instructors while still others opt to look for something at home so that they won't have to be confined to the gym club hours. Whatever your choice is, you should first look at your goals, and design your workout around them. Whether you are looking to loose weight, tone up, build strength and muscl

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09/18/2007 :: 10 Reasons To Own A Treadmill

A home treadmill may give your body just the boost it needs to banish the battle of the bulge forever. While your diet and nutrition plan is important, exercise gets your metabolism revved up and into an optimal fat-burning state. Years of yo-yo dieting can cause your metabolism to go into near-hibernation. Without activity, you have virtually no chance to trim down to your goal body size. With a home treadmill, all your exercise excuses fly out of the window! So, get moving for all the right re

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08/15/2007 :: Choosing a Great Cross Trainer

Elliptical cross training, at its best, empowers you to feel exhilarated, rejuvenated and satisfied with every workout. Unlike running or cycling, you'll feel your workout in your glutes, quads and calves rather than your knees, hips and feet, because elliptical cross training offers a cardio-efficient, non-impact motion that also involves upper body movement.

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08/15/2007 :: Designing an Exercise Program

When designing an aerobic or strength training exercise program, fitness professionals, such as personal trainers and gym instructors, invariably use the F.I.T.T. principle as their starting point. The good news is that with a little bit of knowledge anyone can use this principle in designing an exercise program that will help them to become progressively fitter and stronger, and help them lose or control their weight.

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07/16/2007 :: Warm-Up Before You Tee-Off

A proper warm-up consists of exercises to increase blood circulation in the golfing muscles with optional stretches. (Pre-game stretching alone won't increase body temperature.) Since cold muscles and tendons are more prone to injury than properly warmed-up ones, stretching should follow 5 minutes of light exercise.

by Deborah L. Mullen, CSCS Simple Fitness Solutions

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07/16/2007 :: Strengthen your Golf Swing

Strengthen your Golf Swing Your golf game can be improved by following a strength-training and flexibility program. Although it was once believed that strength training would develop bulky, tight muscles that would hinder the golf swing, research and the large number of pros who strength train have dispelled this myth.

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06/14/2007 :: Healthy Ways To Cook Vegetables

Vegetables are part of our lives, as every human being somehow and somewhere has to eat them. Everything that God has created has its benefits and it is up to us to learn how prepare and eat them for a good and healthy life. Cooked vegetables lose vitamins, minerals, colors and flavors if not cooked properly. Here are some fast and healthy ways to cook vegetables.<

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06/14/2007 :: Circuit Training at Home

The quick pace and constant changing nature of circuit training places a unique type of stress on the body, which differs from normal exercise activities, like weight training and aerobics. The demands of circuit training tend to prepare the body in a very even, all-round manner. Circuit Training is an exceptional form of exercise to aid in the prevention of injury. But you don;t have to join a gym to get the benefits of Circuit Training. Learn how to build a completely custom circuit training r

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06/14/2007 :: Benefits of Strength and Cardio Training Combined

For complete health and fitness benefits, it is vital to have a well-rounded training program that includes both Cardio and Strength. The benefits of Cardio Training have long been established, but it is only part of the picture.

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05/10/2007 :: Building Your Six Pack - How To Get Great Abs Fast?

Most of us spend a lot of time wishing we had a set of six pack abs. Abdominal muscles are not only nice to look at, but they are also important because they support your body structure. They have come to define what it means to be healthy and strong. Furthermore, having a strong midsection will reduce your chances of suffering from lower back pain. The problem lies in that it is not that easy to create a set of hard ripped ab muscles without a lot of work and dedication.

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05/01/2006 :: Bottom out Squats: (Glutes, Quads, Hamstrings)

Build strength “out of the hole” with this unique squatting technique that takes negates the elastic component of the lift and relies on pure leg and lower back strength to get the weight up.

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04/01/2006 :: Cable Rotations: (Core)

Talk about core training! This one will have you wowing them on the driving range, or at the company softball game with your awesome rotational power.

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03/01/2006 :: Continuous Dumbbell Bench Press: (Chest, Shoulders, Triceps)

Here’s an exercise that will give your chest a killer pump

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02/01/2006 :: Negative Leg Curls (Hanstrings)

This tough variation on this classic hamstring exercise works under the premise that we’re capable of lowering more weight than we can lift.

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01/01/2006 :: Reverse Push-up: (Upper Back and Biceps)

This simple, yet brutally effective upper back builder allows for lots of variation to accommodate lifters of different strength levels.

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