fitness equipment

When Should You Start to Exercise?

If not now, when? When I hang out with my friends I needle them sometimes if I feel they are too out of shape, lazy or just too damn fat. Some of them just tell me they hate exercising and ask me to stop being annoying, but most of them just say that it just isn't the right time. Well why not? People frequently tell me that they have too much work or that they are in the midst of constructing a comprehensive, well thought out exercise routine and that the current moment just isn't the time to get started. What is it about the present moment that scares people so much? Why are people so quick to say that they will workout in the future, or that they used to workout all the time but had to stop for some reason? Using the past or future as an excuse to justify not exercising will not do you any good. Keep it real. Live in the moment and don't make excuses.

KINGS OF CARDIO'S 7 SECRET EASY WEIGHT LOSS TIPS

1) Mind over Matter Consistent exercise, and maintaining a healthy, balanced diet, are all fundamental necessities, if one wishes to optimize their health and level of physical fitness. However, people often forget that the everyday battle we fight versus obesity and lethargy, is won upstairs with our brain. Our research, done through interviewing physical fitness trainers and psychologists, is that although the human brain does so many great things, it can also play tricks on our bodies and deter us from exercising at times. For example, you may think that you feel tired or sore, and that your body is better off resting for a couple of days, but in reality, your body is willing and able to exercise, free of overwhelming fatigue and muscle cramping.  You may try and rationalize not working out by convincing yourself that you don’t have the time, energy, or that you will go the next day, so on and so forth. Do not let these so

Commercial vs. Residential Fitness Equipment

The Life Fitness 95Xi is one of the most used elliptical machines ever manufactured. You can find this awesome, gym quality elliptical trainer, at almost any health club in the nation. Typically, this Life Fitness elliptical would be a rare find in someones home. For the most part, people have lighter and more portable fitness equipment in their home, whereas gyms must have heavy-duty, long lasting exercise gear. With that said, some people just want to have real gym equipment at home and that is perfectly understandable. If you have the cash to pay for the best exercise equipment, there's no reason not to. But for the rest of us, let's figure out if buying commercial gym equipment for our home really makes sense. In order for fitness equipment to be "club quality", there are several features that it most possess. First of all, the fitness equipment must be safe and effective. If exercise equipment is not safe and effective, then there is no reason to use it. Next, the fitness equipme

A Home Gym, Treadmill and a Scale Walk into a Bar...

If you want to take your life from hell to heaven, from a health standpoint that is, buy three pieces of home fitness equipment. The first piece of exercise gear you should buy should be a multi-station home gym. Make sure the home gym has more than one or two stations and also make sure that it has the ability to work out the lower half of your body. A leg press, leg extension, or leg curl machine will do. Additionally, you should also make sure that the weight stack for your home gym is broken down into 10 pound increments to make it easier for you to change the intensity level of your workout. Equally as important, is the ability of this multi-station home gym, to replicate the natural lifting motions of the top quality exercise machines that you would use at a commercial fitness center or gym. Next, buy a treadmill. Do some homework on what kind of treadmill is best for you and buy it. It's not a house, don't over-think it. Buy a treadmill and use it. Lastly, get yourse