Workout Tips

Why Core Training Workouts Need More Than Ab Exercises

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In recent years core training workouts and abdominal training have become synonymous but core conditioning programs need more than just abdominal exercises. The “core” is the body’s center of gravity and origin of movement and actually consists of many different muscles that stabilize the trunk and hips, allowing efficient movement of the upper and lower [...]

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Core Strengthening Exercise For Hip And Knee Pain

Hip and knee pain are often the result of weakness in the abdominal and glute muscles. Your abdominals (a.k.a “core”) work to keep your upper body stable while your arms and legs move and your glutes extend your hip by bringing your leg back like when you walk or run. But, when your abs and [...]

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Golf Shoulder Exercises To Prevent Golf Swing Shoulder Pain

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Proper golf shoulder exercises can usually correct poor golf swing mechanics. I have identified 4 common reasons that contribute to golf shoulder pain: 1. Poor posture:  Having forward rounded shoulders and a slouched upper back limits shoulder motion and proper shoulder turn during your golf swing. As a result, shoulder turn during your golf swing [...]

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Get A Personal Trainer: In A Group, On The Phone Or On The Internet?

photo credit: jontunn When working out and trying to lose weight, one struggle that many often run into is that they aren’t able to get themselves properly motivated, and they just don’t have all the information they need.  You know you want to get fit, and you’re ok with exercising and eating right to make [...]

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Things To Avoid While Working Out So You Won’t Get Hurt

photo credit: Erik Charlton After having an injury in the summer of 2007 to my rotator cuff while involved in some strenuous exercise, I realized just how important it is to be careful when you’re working out so that you can avoid injury. If you don’t take precautionary steps, you can end up injuring yourself [...]

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Working Out When Sick: Is It A Good Idea?

photo credit: ? AnA oMeLeTe ? These last few months have been tough ones on my diet, and on my exercise regimen.  It seems like every time I get motivated and start working out, something will blindside me and I  get short circuited.   This year it has mostly been because I’ve been sick off and [...]

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What Time of Day Do You Exercise?

photo credit: James Jordan One thing I’ve been realizing lately is that sometimes it can be hard to find a convenient time to exercise.  We’ve been extremely busy at our house lately, and it always seems like one thing or another comes up to get in the way of my plans to exercise.  I plan [...]

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My Upper Body Weight Workout Routine

Tonight I’ll be doing my upper body weight workout. I recently signed up for a site that allows me to post video of different exercises on my blog, so I thought I’d use some of those exercise videos here to show you my routine that I’ll be doing tonight. How do I do the routine [...]

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Is Exercise Sometimes Not Worth the Time You Put In?

I’ll sometimes talk with people I know about their weight loss plans, and how they expect to lose weight. When I ask them what they’re doing they’ll give me a report of drastically reduced calories, and a workout plan that involves a few situps and walking once or twice a week.  In most cases I [...]

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Wii Fit – Good fitness tool, or just a fad?

photo credit: austinANOMIC I was over at a friend’s house the other night, and noticed that they had purchased the Wii Fit exercise program. I’m naturally a bit of a skeptic, so I tend to think that the exercise benefits you would get from working out with a video game would be minimal, but I [...]

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