It is common to hear fitness professionals and medical doctors prescribe low to moderate intensity aerobic training (cardio) to people who are trying to prevent heart disease or lose weight. Most often, the recommendations constitute something along the lines of “perform 30-60 minutes of steady pace cardio 3-5 times per week maintaining your heart rate at a moderate level”. Before you just...

As plyometric workouts become more and more popular, many people are considering making their own plyometric boxes to aid their workouts. Plyometric boxes come in many shapes and sizes so before starting out to make one, you probably want to try out several different styles. You can do this at any gym that specializes in this type of workout. You will find that the exercises use equipment that you...

I’m sure by now you’ve heard all about the amazing health benefits of antioxidant rich foods in your diet. Not only do these free-radical fighting antioxidants help you look and feel younger by slowing down the aging process, but they also help to prevent cancer, heart disease, and loads of other degenerative diseases. But that’s not all. Antioxidants also help you to recover better from exercise…and...

Hula hoop exercises are a modern phenomenon. The hula hoop was invented in the 1950s and in those days when weight and fitness were not such big issues in the western world, it was seen as a piece of play equipment for kids and young teens. Girls would whirl them around their hips in the school yard. Then the hula hoop fell out of fashion, until it was rediscovered in recent years as a great way to...

Every guy wants bigger arms and bicep workouts can be great for building them, but some exercises will not get the results that you were hoping for. We look at upper arm exercises that should take care of that and build the bulging biceps that make a guy look big and powerful more than any other part of the musculature. Sitting Biceps Curl Due to the fact that you are sitting for this exercise, you...