Workout Tips

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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My preferred indoor workout routine – “The Biggest Loser Workout”

Indoor workout routines During the winter, and when the weather is nasty outside I have to find a way to exercise indoors. Usually for me that means one of a couple of choices. My first choice is usually running on our new fuel treadmill. It has a high intensity interval training (HIIT) setting where I [...]

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Download the 100 pushups challenge for your Ipod!

When I started the 100 pushups workout I found that I wasn’t always near a computer on the days I needed to do my workout.  It was a small issue, but a pain nonetheless.   It would have been nice to have the entire workout in my hands so that I could just reference it when [...]

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Soreness after a workout: Burn and recover

Last night I did my pushups for week 2, day 1 of the hundred pushups challenge.  Afterwards I went running for about 1.5-2 miles.  It feels good to get back into the swing of things, and once you get going you can feel that your body enjoys getting the exercise (mine does at least).  Your [...]

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Building a basic home gym doesn’t have to be expensive!

photo credit: mrflip A few years ago I decided that I wanted to build a home gym in one of our extra bedrooms, so that I could stop paying my high monthly fees to the gym we belonged to, and just start working out at home. I wasn’t sure how expensive it was going to [...]

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