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How Do You Work Out? by Sue
How do you work out?I have always done a warm up for a few minutes, then some form of cardio (I don't always do cardio separately, sometimes I combine it with strength training) and once I've done ...
Fitness for The People in China. by Sue
This is from the Guardian via Smarter Fitter Every morning, shortly after sunrise, this former factory worker and up to two thousand mostly retired Chinese descend on Ditan Park in the city's ...
NEPA (NON Exercise Physical Activity) by Sue
A Little while ago I wrote a post called Mama and Baby exercise about how you can exercise while you baby is in a carrier, which is pretty much the way I spent the first months with my babies... ...
Are Fitness Rules Forever? by Sue
Every now and then we should stop and take time to check our belief systems and the paradigms we live by. Maybe, we will find out that they are not necessarily true, and that there is an alternate ...
Mama and Baby Exercises by Sue
A great take on the boring on squat is to jazz it up a bit with various feet positions, thus strengthening different muscles as you go. Jamie Atlas (who has a really interesting and diverse fitness ...
On Magazines and Dry Fruit by Sue
Stephanie from Back in Skinny Jeans wrote a post about Women's magazines content, but from an unusual view point. I agree with ever word - its about time that women magazines took a better and more ...
Do You Walk by Sue
I have been feeling really bad about not liking to run. I don't like to run. Never have. But there is something so romantic about thinking about running, and I like to imagine myself running, and ...
Two For The Price Of One by Sue
So we all like bargains and two for one is my personal favorite, but I never thought to translate it to fitness, Maybe because I don't hate working out, in fact, I like it.I do find this bargain ...
Why Water, and How To Increase Your Water Intake. by Sue
Life is one challenge after the next, and just when we have achieved on goal, we are met with the next one. Health and fitness being part of life, hopefully, are no different.In this world of ...
Knee Injuries by Sue
Since knee injuries are very common in all sports, i thought that i would be a good idea To bring this fact sheet to your attention. The knee is a complex joint, and though one can sustain several ...
What is Fitness? by Sue
We are all very involved in getting fit. We blog about it, talk about it and think about it, but what is it exactly that we mean when we talk about fitness?Wikopedia says : Fitness may mean: The ...
Facing Obesity Head On. by Sue
We all know that the killer disease of the 21 century is Obesity, and unfortunately, due to several elementsthis obesity plague is starting at younger and younger ages.There are several reasons for ...
Workout, Recycle and Accessories Your Home With One Great Idea by Sue
Loosing weight and keeping fit should be a regular normal part of our daily life, not something that we do in spurts and fits here and there.I prefer using the term "new life style" than diet - ...
The Impossible is Possible. by Sue
I have already mentioned obesity as one of the 21st century new killer diseases, and for someone who is obese (and you don't have to be huge to be defined obese) loosing weight is more often than not ...
5 Time Olympian - Dara Torres, Inspirational Athlete. by Sue
For those of you who are Unfamiliar with the Name Dara Torres is a 41 year old Olympic swimmer, and the 2008 games are her 5th time representing the USA in the Olympics. Her career spans 26 years ...
The Core of Your Energy and Strength. by Sue
The core Muscles, which are the Six Major muscles in the centre of your body are really the centre of your strength and support, or as Spin Diva says: These muscles make up your power house. ...
Do You Dress For Your Workouts? by Sue
creative commons license pescatello How particular are you about what you were for working out? I am not very particular at all. A lot of my workouts I do at home, so it certainly not about ...
3 Reasons For Women To Train With Weights by Sue
Many people today are aware of the need to both eat a healthy diet and exercise in order to stay in shape. Both men and women frequent the gym often.Woman who work out regularly and eat well cant ...
Forget About the 6 Pack Abs by Sue
I have a serious quarrel with the quest for the 6 pack abs.Not that I don't thing having a strong abdomen is important. I do. Not that I wouldn't be happy to have a tightly packed tummy again. I ...
Making Space And Time For Yourself by Sue
I have written quite a lot here about fixing your work out into your day, and making it happen even if you are extremely busy or have kids, even if that means multi tasking it into your day. As ...
Make Your Fitness Plan Work for You by Sue
I have been thinking alot about what I wrote about in my last post - namely ones fitness schedule and it fitting into our life in general. When one tries to gain a new dicipline, often there will ...
Basic Ab Workout by Sue
All you need for ab work is your body and a little bit of time. 1. Start out with basic crunches. 2. Once you're able to do sets of 20 basic crunches, add some difficulty by doing knee to chest ...
Can You Do Planks? by Sue
Great variations on the plank. I have never done pilates, I am more of a yoga person, but it seems to me, from what I know, that if you are a yoga person, chances are you will enjoy ...
Climb Aboard the Elliptical Trainer by Sue
Personally, if I have a choice of a treadmill and an elliptical trainer, I would much rather get on the trainer than on the treadmill. The movement is more interesting and there is a possibility ...
Core Exercises For the Fit by Sue
I have slipped a disk in my back again, which I am sure, anyone who has ever experienced this can tell you it sucks. I have been looking for good exercises to ease into slowly and so some serious ...
Richard Simmons Our Fitness Advocate by Sue
Richard Simmons, Fitness Expert and Advocate, testified before the Committee on Education and Labor at a hearing concerning childhood obesity and physical health and education on July 24, ...
Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009 by Sue
What do you think about this? Personally, I think it is fantastic, kinda like the combination of treadmill and TV... work out while you are sure you are really busy doing something else - ...
Body Weight Art by Sue
I am not writing as much as I used to, nor am I exercising all that much right now due to my lower back pain. I have discovered that I only have 4 vertebrae in my lower back in stead of five, which ...
Structured Exercise For Toddlers - Yes or No? by Sue
When I think of the need to be fit for health reasons, I always think of my husband and myself, on how we are reaching that certain age, on how our bodies are not as resilient as they were when we ...
Avoiding Plataeu's by Sue
Fitness Fixation posted an interesting post about leaving your comfort zone while exercising and daring yourself and challenging yourself to more, always pushing a bit further and a bit harder ...
Listening To Your Body During Workout, Here's How by copper
If you too use the entire time of your workout session to listen to music or to think about other things that would distract your mind from what you're doing then you're probably like the rest of ...
Stretches For Lower Back Pain by Sue
I haven't written a whole lot lately, due to my back being out, the only thing that has been interesting me as far as fitness goes is getting back to a point where I can move freely, stop seizing up ...
Do You Have a Hidden 6 Pack? by Sue
Back on the six pack track again, This time with a completely new (to me) theory that claims that everyone has a six pack, and in order for it to be visible one needs to deal with the excess tummy ...
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