Fitness Tip of the Week #27 Try a Local Run
If you’re looking for a great way to get motivated towards some tangible goal, and have fun while supporting a cause, then sign up for a local run and train for it, even get a group of your friends to run it with you. People spend a lot of time by themselves just going out for a jog or hitting the gym. Why not participate in something like a local run? You would be surprised to find how many there are in your area if you look for them. Go to the running shoe store in your area and there will be all sorts of runs and races ranging from 5k to half marathons. You will be surprised to find that if you do sign up for one, suddenly you reach a new level of motivation as the excitement and anticipation of the run approaches.
Fitness Tip of the Week #26 Portion Sizes
Welcome back to fitness tip of the week for a great nutritional tip! This week we are looking at a tip to help out your health and fitness from a nutritional standpoint, and it is something that you can do every time you walk into a grocery store to buy food or sit down to eat something out of a package.
Fitness Tip of the Week #25 Jam While You Work Out
Hey train2move fans and welcome back for another great fitness tip!
Lots of times when we work out, we need that extra motivation to get us excited and pumped to really get after it. Music can be that simple addition to any workout that just gives you the mental edge to push yourself a little farther than you think you can go. I find that sometimes I easily get distracted by surroundings when I am doing a tough workout, and the easiest way to really block out those distractions is to pop in some earphones and an ipod, turn on my favorite workout playlist, and rock out while working out.
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Fitness Tip of the Week #24 Happy New Year, Now get Moving
Hey everybody and Happy New Year! Hard to believe it’s 2010! The tip for this week is one I am basing off of some personal experience from this past week. I hope you find this simple tip as practical as I did.
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Fitness Tip of the Week #22
Welcome back everyone to fitness tip of the week. This is the last fitness tip for the entire year, and hopefully up to this point, you have been able to apply some of these weekly tips into your fitness plans and goals.
The tip for this week is one that is not necessarily the easiest to put into practice. Lots of trainers will give the advice, “Do what works for you.” To just about everyone, this means to do the fitness activities that you enjoy. While this is important, many times we, as humans, enjoy the things that are easy, or are our strengths. It is important to remember that while fitness should be fun and enjoyable, it also can and should be hard. Getting in great shape and taking good care of your body is not easy. It takes work, and sometimes that work can be frustrating.
Fitness Tip of the Week #21 How to best do a Pull-up
I read a statistic that said most Americans can’t do a complete, correct pull-up. Maybe you are one of those people, and if you are, it’s ok. A correct, fully unassisted pull-up takes a lot of strength. It is a great move that all strength training routines should take advantage of. But, if you can’t even do a pull-up, or can only get maybe one or two, what should you do? Many people don’t know where to begin when training for pull-ups. Well, here are several different techniques that you can implement into your strength training routines that will begin to develop the strength and power needed to do pull-ups.
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Fitness Tip of the Week #20 How to Make your Running Workouts a Little More Efficient During the Holidays
Holiday Survival Tip – treadmill supplement exercises
It’s getting to be the time for the Holidays again. And that means parties, presents, family, and food. Lots of food. And little time for exercise. That can only mean one thing: weight gain. Yes, there are worse things that can happen, but who wants to go into a New Year discouraged about the couple extra pounds they put on over 2 weeks? Also, it can be too cold outside to get in a good run, or the ground might be icy and unsafe to run on.
Instead, what you might need to do is an old-fashioned treadmill run. Treadmills are safer than icy roads, and more enjoyable than freezing temperatures, if you happen to live in the Pacific Northwest. One thing you should be sure to do though when using a treadmill is to stop every ten minutes or so a do a couple quick moves to help out the efficiency of your hips. On a treadmill, your body is not actually moving forward, as opposed to running. Therefore, the impact on your legs can increase significantly. Stopping to do a couple different exercises every few minutes can drastically help out your lower legs as well as your upper body. Try doing these 5 moves at least every 10 minutes you run on a treadmill this winter.
Fitness Tip of the Week #19; Stretch Before You Sleep
Here are 5 great moves you can do before going to bed.
We have already covered some good stretches you should do right after you wake up in the morning to help activate your muscular system. What about before going to bed? Throughout the day we all develop tightness and stress in different areas of our body. These areas often include our neck, upper and lower backs, hip flexors and hamstrings. Most of these can be attributed to the lack of stimulus to our muscular system throughout the day to take our joints through their full range of motion, as well as the seated position our bodies cast to over a period of time.
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Fitness Tip of the Week #18 Breakfast of Champions
Get a good breakfast!
A simple tip this week, yet it is very important. Breakfast is the most often skipped meal of the day. Unfortunately, I miss breakfast occasionally due to a busy schedule, but especially if your goal is to lose weight, breakfast is not the meal you want to cut out of your diet. First off, you shouldn’t be skipping meals in order to lose weight, but never skip breakfast if the goal is weight loss.
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Fitness Tip of the Week #17 Are You Changing Your Cardio Workouts?
How often do you change up your cardio workouts? Every other workout? Every week maybe? Once a year? Here are a couple of great tips on how to change up the cardio routines you do to get the greatest benefit for your body.
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