Author: Chris Ritchie
Weighted Hula Hoops Offer a Fun Workout Hula hoops are probably best remembered as a popular children’s toy in the 1950’s. But hoops have recently made a comeback for people looking to shake up their exercise routines. What is Hooping? Hooping is a form of exercise and recreation in which users hula hoop, dance, and perform tricks with personalized hula hoops. Not just any old plastic hula hoop can be used for hooping. Customized hula hoops that are larger than traditional hula hoops are weighted with tape. The larger hoops move more slowly and easily around the body than traditional…
Efficient and Effective Workouts The website www.vibrationtraining.org claims the training method traces its’ roots back about 40 years to Russian cosmonauts. Scientists of the Soviet Space Program discovered that lack of gravity caused cosmonauts to experience significant losses in bone density and muscle mass. Russian scientists began incorporating vibration technology into their cosmonauts training and tracked an increase in bone density and muscle strength. After the success Russians experienced with the cosmonauts, Russian coaches began introducing vibration technology into the training regimens of various athletes and ballet dancers. After the fall of communism in the Soviet Union, NASA learned of…
A Yoga Student’s Opinion About the Swerve Studio Fitness Craze Physical trainers often recommend dance classes as a great way to change up your workout routine and still get your cardio in for the day. Dancing builds strength, endurance, balance and agility while you learn a few new moves. Ever-increasing in popularity, the Yoga Booty Ballet workout was featured on MTVnews with Lillix, and is the subject of several “as seen on TV” style infomercials. A workout video series produced by “Beachbody” and hosted by teachers Teigh McDonough and Gillian Marloth, the co-founders of the Los Angeles studio “Swerve”. Teigh…
Fitter For The Future With Methods Of The PastKettlebells are not a new invention. They have a history with the Russian Military and sports people of the past and present. Kettlebells are so old that no single nation can lay claim to inventing them. A kettlebell is like a cannon ball with a handle and can be found in a selection of weights – from 4kg-48kg. Karls Ernst, born in Berlin 1846, was one of the first kettlebell lifters known by name. During the 1870s as a strong man, he appeared throughout Germany, Estonia and Russia. He became a father-figure…
The only Exercise and Nutritional Program You NeedVisit the exercise/nutritional section of any bookstore or fitness related portal on the web and there will be a multitude of manuals, books, e-books, magazines, e-zines, video and audio items on the topic. Selecting a fitness systemSome programs are designed by experts and supported with scientific findings. Others are created by individuals with deep pockets who have organized their data through experiences. With all the claims floating around, some creditable and others deserving further debate, deciding which exercise/nutritional system to follow becomes confusing to many trainees. In addition to confusion, programs can become…
System for explosive new performance in your favorite sport Plyometrics is the method of training which enhances explosive physical reaction through powerful muscular contractions resulting from rapid eccentric contractions. These muscular contractions are achieved mainly through a variety of jumping, bounding and hopping exercises. This training relies on basic equipment such as steps, hurdles, medicine balls and jump ropes. Whatever plyometric exercise you utilize, the underlying mechanism becomes the sretch shortening cycle: in each exercise, the muscle is rapidly stretched (or “loaded”) before it is contracted. So plyometrics essentially builds elastic strength: a concentric contraction (muscle shortening) needs to occur…
Veteran Army trainer Guy Perreault of Seacoast Boot Camp Tells why Fitness boot camps are a phenomenon. Health clubs have pre-programmed machines with built-in heart monitors, yet old-school options like flipping tires or squat-thrusting at 6 AM has impacted our fitness-frenzied culture like a medicine ball slammed on a mat-another boot camp staple. For 20 years, Guy Perreault was Master Trainer of the First 179th FA Battalion of the US Army, responsible for the fitness of 400 soldiers. He brought the same techniques–straight from the Army’s Physical Fitness Field Manual-to Seacoast Boot Camp, which he launched in 2006 in Portsmouth,…
If you are looking to build muscle, lose fat or just feel a little better physically, it seems like a fairly obvious step to search on the internet for information. Unfortunately, this is where the problems occur. Differentiating between some of the best trainers in the world and the 140-pound “trainer” with a great publicist but no real training experience is not easy. Following advice from the former is a great way to get set for consistent progress for years, whilst the latter will lead to frustration and stagnation. Here are three coaches who can be relied upon for great…
Selenium Food Antioxidants are an important part of anyone’s diet if they have longevity and overall health in mind. It’s not fun reaching old age and then finding out that you can’t enjoy a lifetime of hard work because you are sick. The only way to stay younger and look better is to make sure that your diet includes at least one antioxidant mineral. A good way you can do this is to start taking supplements that have a specific antioxidant mineral like selenium. Taking a supplement will help you even more if your diet is already rich with antioxidants…
There are hundreds of different enzymes but to simplify things we are going to talk about three of them. Amylase This enzyme breaks down carbohydrates (sugars and starch in fruits, vegetables, wheat, dairy etc.) and converts them to sugars or glucose. Digestion with amylase begins in the mouth with saliva when you chew food. This is why you can hear the echo of mother in the back of your mind telling you to chew your food 27 times before swallowing. But she was right. The more you chew, the more amylase you have breaking down carbs for better absorption. Protease…