Jumping Jack
This unique approach to jumping jacks from a plank position targets your body all over, giving you a quick and effective workout.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
How To Strengthen Your Back with Pilates
Pilates: How To Strengthen Your Back
Achieve a well-defined, beautiful back by following this Pilates workout four times a week. In just a month you will begin to notice a difference in how you look and feel. Get rid of those back aches and pains forever with the help of Pilates!
Tone Up! Best of Butt Exercises
Here are Diet.com's best exercises for your butt. Tone up and get a firm sexy backside. Of course results will be much more noticeable when combined with a regular cardio workout.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
How to Tone Your Legs with Pilates
Get the long, lean legs you've always dreamed of by following this body-friendly, Pilates workout.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Sexy Flat Abs
Free online exercise and fitness video to Get a Flat stomach with the exercise routine. You will have a six pack in no time with this fitness ball workout from Diet.com Total Body Workout!
Lose Weight, Gain Health -- with 5 Dahn Yoga Exercises
Data gathered by Centers for Disease Control show that 65% of Americans are overweight and 31% are obese -- and both rates have doubled in the past 25 years.
According to Ilchi Lee (http://www.ilchi.com), president of the University of Brain Education (South Korea), "Our stressful lives and poor diets have been bad for our digestive system and therefore for our health. People are experiencing a build up of waste in their intestines, which negatively affects all our vital functions -- including the brain -- and has an unfavorable mental-emotional impact. One common result is putting on weight. Once this happens, a lack of proper exercise often keeps the weight on."
Dahn Yoga (http://www.dahnyoga.com) was founded by Lee to provide people in the U.S. and around the world with the tools to regain and maintain their body-mind fitness. Based in the principles of several thousand years of Asian health practices and modern brain research, Dahn Yoga classes (stretching, breathing and meditation) and individual healing sessions are ideal for weight and health management.When asked why Dahn Yoga works, Lee explains, "When practiced diligently, this approach increases the circulation of fresh, oxygenated blood to your internal organs and throughout your entire body, allowing it to burn fat more effectively from the inside. This eliminates your accumulated toxins, especially in the digestive tract, caused by stress and tension." It also restores the body's sense of what foods it needs and how much is right for each person. The outcome is losing weight naturally and learning what is required to keep it off.
What can people expect from doing the full range of Dahn Yoga exercises? Many testimonials report these results: Pounds melt away as strength and flexibility increase. People improve their digestion and normalize their elimination. Their abdomens and thighs became tighter and firmer. They feel lighter, breathe easier, and look healthier and more attractive, which in turn builds confidence and self-esteem.
Lee recommends five exercises that have the specific benefit of decreasing weight and improving general health:
1. Abdomen Tapping. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, with the knees slightly bent. Lengthen and relax your spine, shoulders, neck and arms. With your palms, tap your abdomen in a rhythmic, striking motion, focusing on the feeling of inner vibration it creates. Do it at least 100 times a session, 2-3 sessions a day.
2. Intestinal Exercise. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, with the knees slightly bent. Lengthen and relax your spine, and relax your shoulders, neck and arms. Place your hands comfortably on your abdomen, with your two thumbs pointing toward the navel and your two index fingers touching each other to form a triangle. In a rhythmic pace, push your abdomen out as you inhale, and pull it toward your back as if you want it to touch your spine. Breathe comfortably. If your feel any pain in your intestines, stop and with your palms gently rub your abdomen in a clockwise circular motion. Start with 100 times a day, working up to 500 times.3. Rocking the Spine. Sit on the floor, pulling your knees to your chest, feet together. Clasp your hands and lock your fingers around your shins. Keeping your chin tucked at all times, roll back on your spine and extend your legs toward the floor behind you. Start with 30 a day, working up to 100 times. Afterwards, pull your knees to your chest and rock from side to side to massage your spine.
4. Fish Exercise. Lie on the floor, with your arms and legs extended. Lace your fingers and stretch your arms up, while relaxing your neck and shoulders. Keeping your feet together, sweep your upper body and lower body in the same direction, toward the right and then the left, feeling your torso being stretched and stimulated. Do 30 repetitions, 3 times a day.
5. Shaking the Extremities. Lie on your back, and lift your arms and legs straight up from the body. Relax your entire body. Rapidly shake your extremities so that your entire body vibrates. Keep breathing slowly in and out of your abdomen. Do this exercise for 2 minutes, 3 times a day.
Lee points out, "Besides exercising regularly, it is important that you do two other things: First, modify your diet to ease the burden on your digestive system and absorb maximum nutrition and energy. And second, release the emotions that contributed to the weight gain, and access the inner resources needed to support the emergence of the new, thinner you."
For January 2008, certain Dahn Yoga Centers in the U.S. are offering free, open classes in weight loss and health gain. Find out their locations and schedules (http://www.dahnyoga.com/general/news_view.asp?id=445).Source: PRWeb
Monday, January 14, 2008
Flatten Your Pot Belly Workout
A Free online exercise video from diet.com. This Physio Ball Leg Lifts workout will give you flat abs using a physio ball and workout bench. It also requires stability, working your entire core muscles. This fitness routine is advanced. Get your best abs now! Of course, the first step to getting a great stomach is increasing your cardio so don't forget to go for a run before hand.
Side Exercise
This is a great video to work our sides and butt. It requires some stability so it will also work your stomach and arms.
Yoga for Beginners with Tara Stiles
Tara Stiles demonstrates a basic yoga routine for anyone interested in getting started. Remember, breathing is important.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Twisting Stretch
This stretch will loosen up your back and hips. It's great for increasing flexibility and helping to prevent injury.
Restorative Yoga with Tara Stiles
Tara Stiles is back to demonstrate restorative yoga poses that are comfortable and can be held a long time to bring the body back into balance.
Quarter Squat Exercise
In this video, learn how to use the "quarter squat" to supersize lagging quads.
How Do I Stretch My Forearms?
This one-minute video will show how to properly stretch your forearms before working out. Check with a doctor before starting any health or fitness program.
Suunto T1 Heart Rate Monitor and Fitness Trainer Watch
Suunto t1 Wristop Computer, Black Essential, accurate and easy to use The Suunto t1 tempers science with style for a sophisticated heart rate monitor that's powerful yet decidedly simple. Aiming for weight loss, cardiovascular improvement or rigorous conditioning Working from your personal fitness profile, the Suunto t1 keeps you on-task. The Suunto t1 hides advanced technology behind an interfacethat's friendly and easy to use. Because results matter more than features, the Suunto t1 focuses on the essentials -heart rate, calories burned and zone training- with accuracy and simplicity. With minimal instruction, walkers, runners, spinners and cyclists can confidently use the Suunto t1 to achieve health and fitness goals. Working from your personal fitness profile, the Suunto t1 displaysreal-time average heart rate and real-time calories burned with excellent accuracy. When the Suuntot1 says you've burned 238 calories, it's not a rough estimate, but rather, a number you can trust. The Suunto t1 also excels in zone training. Resembling a speedometer, the zone training dial helpsyou match your workout intensity with your fitness goals. Zone 1 is ideal for burning fat and improving cardiovascular health; Zone 2 ups the ante with increased calorie-burning and cardiovascular benefits; while Zone 3 is ideal for serious endurance training. As a sports instrument, the Suunto t1 features a stopwatch with lap/split. As a timepiece, it's ready for travel with dual time, date and alarm.
Features:
- Real-time calories burned
- Current heart rate, average heart rate and maximum heart rate
- Three-tier zone training system with alarms
- HR limit with alarm
- Dual time, date and alarm
- Log memory for 1 workout
- Workout totals for current week, previous week, current month and previous month (counts, calories burned, training time, and time in and outside of each zone)
- Stopwatch with 30 laps
- User-replaceab
Available at Amazon.com.
Ski & Snowboard Winter Workout
Before you hit the slopes, get in shape to prevent injury and day after sore muscles. Personal Trainer Katrina gives you the best moves to do to get in the best shape this winter sports season.
Learn How to Properly Stretch your Torso
Learn how to properly stretch your torso before and after working out to ease tension and prevent injury.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Pilates Abs
A free online exercise and fitness pilates total abs workout video you can do in under five minutes!
Complete Ab Workout
A free online exercise video from diet.com. This workout strengthens both lower and upper abs using a physio ball. It also works the inner thigh muscles. This fitness routine can be done at home or at the gym. Get your best abs now!
Yoga for Home with Tara Stiles
Tara Stiles has developed a yoga routine that can be done at home that takes between 60-90 minutes. Get a mat and get to it!
Rotator Cuff Exercise
Strengthen your rotator cuff muscles, protect against injury and improve your posture.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Men's Health Muscle Chow
Achieving your best body ever requires that two elements merge as one: solid training and good nutrition. This book provides the nutritional component of that muscle-bulding equation, offering the Men's Health take on food for fitness. Men's Health Muscle Chow gives you more than 150 simple recipes for delicious meals ranging from workout protein shakes to healthy dinners the whole family will enjoy. Inside, you'll find: Eight easy-to-remember dietary strategies to keep your eating habits in line Filling breakfasts like Banana Protein Pancakes; energizing entres including Muscle-Bound Chili and Mahi Fish Wraps; hunger-killing snacks such as Malted Almond Bombs; even desserts like Key Lime Pie-all designed to help burn fat and build muscle A shopping list that makes it easy to stock up on essential ingredients and kitchen tools A troubleshooting guide for guys with more experience at the gym than in the kitchen Insider strategies, tips, tricks of the trade And Men's Health Muscle Chow is much more than just a cookbook. It offers a solid foundation for understanding meal timing and the effects nutrients have on your body. Author Gregg Avedon also outlines his program of 2-month diet cycles that help you set and reach your fitness goals.
Available at Amazon.com.
Women... Boost Your Chest
eDiets Chief Fitness Pro Raphael Calzadilla demonstrates the perfect form for the dumbbell chest press -- an easy-to-do exercise that will get your chest in super shape.
Complete Pregnancy Fitness with Erin O'Brien
An efficient, supportive training program for the big day and your new life
Whether you re a regular exerciser who wants to stay fit or newly committed to exercise for your health and your baby s, Hollywood trainer Erin O Brien offers you safe and effective workouts that can take you every step of the way.
This box set includes both of these programs (also sold separately):
PRENATAL FITNESS FIX
While seven months pregnant with her second child, Erin leads you in a 40-minute blend of fat-burning cardio, muscle toning, strength training, and tension-relieving stretches. Also includes a 20-minute partner workout, which Erin demonstrates with her husband, actor James Denton (Desperate Housewives). "This is the one that will make you sweat. It's also amusing and entertaining" Chicago Tribune.
POSTNATAL RESCUE
Ease back into exercise with Erin s 3 invigorating progressions. In just 15 minutes a day, rehabilitate your back, abdominals, buttocks, inner thighs, and hips. With a bonus section of gentle first stretches, Erin guides you from the very beginning of your recovery up to one year postpartum.
Erin O Brien has 10 years of experience as a pre/postnatal exercise specialist working in elite fitness clubs in New York City and Los Angeles. She holds several certifications, including one in pre/postnatal training from the Esquerre Fitness Group.
Consult your doctor before attempting these routines or any other fitness program.
Available at Amazon.com.
What's the Deal with Whole Wheat?
If you're confused by brown rice and whole-wheat breads and pasta, let eDiets explain why you should ditch the white and get down with the brown.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Total Body Cardio Toning
No muscle will feel left out of this high-energy cardio workout. Fusing the best of yoga, Pilates and aerobic conditioning, Tanja Djelevic leads you through an intense but effective series of cardio and strength-building moves that target the entire body. Burn calories and melt fat while also achieving better posture, stability, core strength and overall toning. And best of all - it's FUN! With the mountains fo beautiful Sundance, Utah in the background, this workout not only invigorates the body, but elevates the spirit as well.
Available at Amazon.com.
Pregnancy exercise: Wall Pushup
Learn how to do a wall pushup, a safe and effective prenatal fitness exercise.
Quick Fix for Legs
Take advantage of a nearby staircase to build your lower body with this quick fix for legs routine.
Tired of Fatigue? Try 6 Dahn Yoga Exercises for Vibrant Energy
Fatigue, the persistent lack of physical or mental energy and motivation, is increasingly common in our stress-filled world. It is often accompanied by muscle aches, apathy, lethargy and drowsiness. Fatigue is a normal response to high emotional stress, physical exertion, boredom and inadequate sleep. However, it may be a sign of more serious physical and psychological problems, such as depression, under active thyroid, sleep disorder and allergy.
According to Ilchi Lee (http://www.ilchi.com), president of the University of Brain Education (South Korea), "Overcoming physical and emotional fatigue requires a balanced approach of good nutrition, sound sleep, and the energy-related practices of regular exercise, deep relaxation and stress-managing strategies."
As the founder of Dahn Yoga (http://www.dahnyoga.com), modern integrated body-mind fitness training with roots in ancient Korean health practices, he adds, "In terms of oriental health principles, yoga is well suited to counter fatigue and restore energy because the human body is an 'energy-circulating system,' of meridian channels and with acupressure points. Excessive stress and tension block the energy flows, depriving the brain and the rest of the body of their natural vitality."
Lee explains, "Dahn Yoga combines stretching, breathing and meditation exercises to improve how the brain and body generate the vibrant energy needed by people to live well." He describes six Dahn Yoga exercises to revitalize their lives.
1. Take a Bow. When you sit for long periods, this posture is effective for stimulating the spine and nervous system. It stretches the inner thighs, chest, abdomen and waist. Lock your fingers behind your neck. Inhale. With feet together and stationary, turn your body to the left. Bend from the waist and bring your head toward your left knee. Hold this position for 5 seconds. Move your head and trunk toward your right knee. Hold for 5 seconds. Exhale as you slowly return to a standing position. Repeat the exercise twice, alternating both sides.2. Let's Swing. Invigorate your body and increase your circulation with this graceful swinging posture. Place your feet parallel, shoulder-width apart. Relax your knees. Extend one arm forward, slightly raised with relaxed elbows, and the other behind you. Imagine that you are gracefully dancing. Slowly bounce while moving your head toward the arm behind you. Repeat this motion in the opposite direction.
3. Happy Giraffe. Reward yourself with a massage to get rid of neck tension. Rapidly rub your hands together to warm them. Massage the back of your neck with your fingertip pads. Slowly rotate your neck in a circular motion to the right (clockwise) and then to the left (counterclockwise). Massage your trapezius muscles (below the neck and along the spine) and then the length of your arms. Do for up to 5 minutes
4. Pedal Pusher. This exercise relieves lower extremity fatigue and enhances your stamina. Lie on your back and raise your legs straight up, keeping the knees relaxed. Support the back of your waist with both hands. As if you are riding a bicycle, move your legs, making a big motion. Be sure that your neck and shoulders are relaxed. Do for up to 5 minutes.
5. Awakened Brain. This simple outdoor practice will awaken your brain, stimulate your body's energy, and give you precious time alone with your self. Season permitting, go outdoors to get more in touch with your senses. Without shoes, walk slowly on grass or soak your feet in warm water. This activates your feet's many acupressure points. Next, stand still. Close your eyes and focus on the air and smells around you, on the sounds and the sensation of grass or water on your bare feet. Do this exercise for up to 5 minutes each day.
As Lee concludes, "You are the master of your life, or 'your fatigue is yours, not you.'" For more information on Dahn Yoga, visit http://www.dahnyoga.com, or phone 1-877-HSP-YOGA.Source: PRWeb
Butt Workout with Kim Strother
It's time to workout off that holiday meal and Kim Strother has a workout that is butt good.
Pilates For Beginners
From the Editors of Body + Soul Magazine comes a new line of DVDs designed to excite, inform, inspire and encourage your quest toward a balanced and healthy whole life.
PILATES FOR BEGINNERS is the perfect way to be introduced to Pilates and it helps you to explore and experience the numerous benefits of pilates. There are over 12 routines to help build strength, increase flexibility, improve your health and vitality and transform how you look and feel.
Routines are led by renowned instructor Maggie Rhoades who expertly leads you through tailored workouts ranging from 10 to 35 minutes. PILATES FOR BEGINNERS was filmed on location at one of the most beautiful, tranquil beaches in the world, Half-Moon Bay, Antigua.
Available at Amazon.com.
How to Do an Abdominal Crunch
Tired of that spare tire around your waist? Are even your "love handles" too big to hold on to? Trim down by eating well, exercising regularly and working your abdominal muscles - starting with a crunch.
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Benefits of Prenatal Exercise
Learn how exercising during pregnancy can help you maintain a healthy pregnancy weight.
Yoga Balancing Act with Tara Stiles
Are you listing? Off kilter? Try Tara Stiles yoga poses for balance and restore your equilibrium.
The Secret to a Sexy Butt & Legs
Get sexy and shapely with this simple lunge exercise. Let eDiets Chief Fitness Pro walk you through the way to a perfect butt and lean, tone legs!
Seated Single-Arm External Rotation
Do 10 to 12 repetitions with each hand, then rest 60 seconds. Repeat one time, for a total of two sets.
The Abs Diet for Women
The New York Times bestseller now adapted specifically for women, shows how to achieve a flat stomach and great shape in just 6 weeks, and stay lean and healthy for life.Drawing on revolutionary new weight-loss research, David Zinczenko, a leading health and fitness authority, developed The Abs Diet, the national bestseller that has been helping hundreds of thousands to lose pounds quickly and dramatically re-shape their bodies while maintaining the principles of a safe, healthy, and nutritionally balanced diet. Now the Abs Diet has been tailored specifically for women's unique needs. Packed with information developed exclusively for women, The Abs Diet for Women includes:-the Abs Diet osteoporosis prevention plan-tips on managing menopausal symptoms without hormone replacement therapy-information on how the Abs Diet can prevent joint pain-details on how the Abs Diet can improve female sexual response-a postpartum workout for new moms-a bonus stress-busting workout chapter that builds a fit body and a calm mind.
Available at Amazon.com.