Exercise
Best Shoulder Exercises for Women
Sculpt and Define Your Shoulders with the Best Shoulder Exercises for Women A set of sculpted shoulders is a beautiful finish to a toned upper body. Increasing the stability and strength of your shoulder muscles will also enhance your functional movements while preventing injury. Ladies, you need to understand that strength training isn’t just for [...]
Best Butt Exercises for Women
Build Strong, Sculpted Glutes with the Best Butt Exercises for Women I have always thought that a pair of well-developed glutes is the best accessory for any outfit. A curvy derriere will draw gazes ranging from admiring to envious wherever you go. And of course, strong glutes are absolutely essential for functional movement and for [...]
Best Oblique Exercises for Women
Best Oblique Exercises for Women Twist Your Way to a Firm, Strong Waist with Oblique Exercises for Women Abdominal exercises targeting the obliques, or side abdominal muscles, are an often-overlooked yet vital part of any core workout. Strengthening and toning your obliques helps greatly in developing functional strength, balancing the other core muscles, and of [...]
Upper Body Stretching Exercises
Why it’s Crucial to Stretch the Upper Body Upper Body Stretching Exercises: Introduction Since weight training the upper body can tighten muscles, it is very important to stretch the upper body to maintain the proper length of the muscles. During upper body weight training exercises, the muscles contract repeatedly. After a workout, the muscles will [...]
Best Stretching and Strengthening Exercises for the Peroneal Muscles
Strengthening and Stretching the Peroneal Muscles Introduction In all the hubbub in the world of leg exercises surrounding the quads, hamstrings, and calves, you may have never heard of the peroneals! These three little guys are often overlooked in favor of the more glamorous, showy leg muscles, but if you’re serious about health and fitness, [...]
Top 5 Benefits of Bodyweight Training Exercises
Avoid Fitness Gimmicks: Bodyweight Training Exercises are Still the Best Way to Get Strong and Lean You may not know much about bodyweight exercises. This is due to the fact that, unlike all the trendy fitness equipment out there, bodyweight exercises have no marketing department. Since bodyweight training exercises require no equipment beyond the resistance [...]
Nutrition
Essential Criteria for Effective Diets and Workouts for Fat Loss
Essential Criteria for Effective Diets and Workouts for Fat Loss In order to lose fat, it’s crucial that your diet and workout routine are working in concert. If these two aren’t tuned to fat loss and to each other, you can just end up spining your wheels, getting nowhere. Here are critical aspects of both [...]
Supplements Reviews
Reviews of the Best Dietary Supplements Supplements Reviews Overview Supplements are called supplements for a reason. They are to be used as supplements to your food intake. The primary use of dietary supplements should be to fill the void left by any nutrient deficiency which may exist in your diet. Keep in mind that proper [...]
Caffeine and Exercise
Caffeine and Exercise The most widely used stimulant in the world, caffeine is found in a variety of plants as well as commonly consumed foods and drinks such as tea, chocolate, cocoa, cola, and of course, coffee. Caffeine is becoming increasingly popular among athletes, available as energy drinks, sports gels, supplements, and even injections. Additionally, [...]
Top 5 Ways to Eat Healthier
Top 5 Simplest Ways to Keep Your Eating on Track 5 Ways to Eat Healthier: Introduction The most powerful determining factor in transforming your body inside and out will not be your exercise program, but rather what you’re putting into your body. If you want to get and continue on a healthy path, you need [...]
Best Post Workout Foods for Women
Best Post Workout Foods for Women Best Post Workout Foods for Women: Introduction Want to burn fat, increase energy, and build muscle while you eat? Your workout doesn’t have to end when you step off the treadmill. There’s a way for hardworking women to continue getting results, even after they’ve cooled down. For the first [...]
5 Things You Didn’t Know: Good Nutrition Defined
Five Things You Didn’t Know About Nutrition: Good Nutrition Defined By Vince Del Monte Carbohydrate back loading, intermittent fasting, low fat, high fat, low carbohydrate, high carbohydrate, high protein, vegetarian, vegan….confused yet? You aren’t alone. Heck, even the experts can’t seem to come to a consensus. Everyone has a different idea of “good nutrition” but [...]
Supplements
Supplements Reviews
Reviews of the Best Dietary Supplements Supplements Reviews Overview Supplements are called supplements for a reason. They are to be used as supplements to your food intake. The primary use of dietary supplements should be to fill the void left by any nutrient deficiency which may exist in your diet. Keep in mind that proper [...]
Supplements vs Whole Foods
Supplements vs Whole Foods By Vince Del Monte How do dietary supplements stack up against whole food nutrition? Should you be getting your food in a pill or from a plate? The use of dietary supplements to provide nutrition has increased substantially in the past few decades with people spending more on supplements with the [...]
Complimentary Bodybuilding Supplements
Complimentary Bodybuilding Supplements As a natural bodybuilder, I know first-hand there’s no substitute for a good diet and exercise training program. However, properly supplementing your diet and exercise program can without a doubt help you improve your results. In no particular order, here are my favorite bodybuilding supplements. Protein Lifting weights stresses and breaks down [...]
Health Supplements for Women
4 Important Supplements for Women The Key Word about Supplements: Supplement Wondering which health supplements for women you should be purchasing? There’s no question that getting a proper diet in line is going to be one of the most important things that you must do if you want to have success with your workout program. [...]
Best Natural Vitamin Supplement
Why you NEED to Take the Best Natural Vitamin Supplement Everybody can Benefit from the Best Natural Vitamin Supplement Multiple vitamins are most important for active individuals but even sedentary people can benefit from taking a good multiple vitamin. In order to get the nutrients supplied by one good multivitamin you would probably have to [...]
Best Protein Supplement
Learn How You Can Benefit From Taking the Best Protein Supplements Most Everyone Benefits from Taking Protein Supplements Alongside carbohydrates and fats, proteins are one of the three primary macronutrients we consume in our daily diet. A macronutrient is a nutrient of which our bodies need a large quantity. Protein supplements are simply different forms [...]
Womens Fitness
Best Shoulder Exercises for Women
Sculpt and Define Your Shoulders with the Best Shoulder Exercises for Women A set of sculpted shoulders is a beautiful finish to a toned upper body. Increasing the stability and strength of your shoulder muscles will also enhance your functional movements while preventing injury. Ladies, you need to understand that strength training isn’t just for [...]
Weight Training for Weight Loss for Women
Women’s Fitness: Weight Training for Weight Loss You’ve probably heard it said before that building and maintaining muscle mass is one of the vital parts of a healthy body, and that it should be a goal in any well-rounded fitness program. But have you ever wondered why? What’s so important about building muscle, and why [...]
Best Butt Exercises for Women
Build Strong, Sculpted Glutes with the Best Butt Exercises for Women I have always thought that a pair of well-developed glutes is the best accessory for any outfit. A curvy derriere will draw gazes ranging from admiring to envious wherever you go. And of course, strong glutes are absolutely essential for functional movement and for [...]
4 Self-Tests to Measure Your Fitness Progress
Measuring Your Fitness Progress Measuring your fitness in inches or pounds is only one way to gauge your success. Instead, look for areas that need some extra work and go for it! Try the following self-tests and repeat them every four to eight weeks to measure your fitness progress. 4 Self-Tests to Measure Your Fitness [...]
Best Back Exercises for Women
Best Back Exercises for Women Sculpt and Strengthen Your Back with the Best Back Exercises for Women Back muscles have many functions, acting on the arms, spine, and shoulder blades. Building a strong, beautiful back will not only help you look your best, it will help you with a great many functional movements while improving [...]
Best Calf Exercises for Women
Build Strong, Sexy Calves! Best Calf Exercises for Women Are you paying enough attention to your calves in your exercise routine? Many women focus on typical “problem areas” such as the belly, butt, and thighs while neglecting the lower leg. It’s a mistake to neglect the calves, as they play a large role in posture [...]
Personal Training
5 Keys to Being a Successful Personal Trainer
How to Be a Successful Personal Trainer In the fitness industry, trainers come and trainers go, but it isn’t always because they aren’t knowledgeable or good trainers. Being a personal trainer is easy, but being successful with your training business and services can be a difficult feat to accomplish. During my 5 years of experience [...]
Personal Trainer Forms and Charts
Are you starting out or working as an independent Personal Trainer? Personal Trainer Forms and Charts can Make Life Easier Personal trainer forms allow you to get all the necessary information from your prospective clients to help create a comprehensive fitness program. Easily convey concepts and ideas which [...]
Personal Trainer Books
Select a Book Category CPT Certification Prep | Certification Study Guides | Knowledge Building | Old School | Business of Personal Training -or- Select a Certification Type What are Personal Trainer Books For? The Only Way to get that Shiny New Personal Trainer Certification is through Studying Since there are no laws or regulations for determining [...]
Key Tips for Pricing Your Personal Training Services
7 Fee Structure Considerations for Personal Trainers By Melissa Rodriguez, MBA, NASM-CPT, NSCA-CSCS Pricing Your Personal Training Services: Introduction According to the IHRSA Health Club Consumer Report, 6.4 million Americans use personal training. Although it may be a small percentage of all Americans, about 10% of health club members are personal training users. Our profession [...]
The Free Online Personal Trainer
Free Online Personal Trainer A-Z Personal Trainer Guide Where You Don’t Have to Spend a Dime! The Free Online Personal Trainer Can Help You With Your Fitness Goals AskTheTrainer.com has over 1,000 pages of exercise information, videos, images and an interactive discussion forum with personal trainers which can help you achieve your goals. There is [...]
Personal Trainer – Fitness Training Career Description
Learn What Personal Fitness Training is all About A Personal Fitness Trainer is a Professional who Helps People Achieve Their Physical Fitness Goals A personal fitness trainer is a mentor and motivator who guides people one on one through workout routines consistent with the client’s goals. Personal trainer is synonymous with personal fitness trainer, fitness [...]
Fitness Equipment
GSP RUSHFIT Review
Georges St-Pierre RUSHFIT Review Introduction Get ready for an unparalleled home fitness experience with Georges St. Pierre’s RUSHFIT. Tough MMA-style conditioning will reshape your body, helping you build lean, powerful muscle, cut fat, and get in great cardiovascular shape. RUSHFIT can be modified for different fitness levels, accessible to motivated beginners while still challenging to [...]
Total Gym Review
Is the Total Gym an Effective Exercise Machine? Talk about a great workout! Skepticism is natural as with all “as seen on TV” products. The Total Gym should be no exception. With slick celebrity marketing with Chuck Norris and Christy Brinkley on numerous advertisements, the Total Gym may push the “too good to be true” [...]
Freestyler Review
Freestyler Review Freestyler Review: Introduction The Freestyler is a compact, lightweight, portable workout system that utilizes resistance tubes to provide you with an effective functional movement workout. The Freestyler is especially ideal for women but many men will find it to be a fantastic workout system as well. The Freestyler system is ideal for beginner [...]
CrossRope Review
CrossRope Review Does the CrossRope Revolutionize Jump Roping? More than Just a Jump Rope A jump rope is a length of rope with two handles used for jumping by swinging it over the head and under the feet. From boxers and mixed martial arts fighters to kids on the playground, many people use the jump [...]
Gazelle Edge Review
Gazelle Edge Review 2012 The Gazelle Edge was developed by former Junior National Bodybuilding champion and certified personal trainer Tony Little. In 1983, while training for the Mr. America Bodybuilding Championship, Tony Little was in a near-fatal car accident; afterwards he suffered from depression, and became addicted to pain medication and gained significant weight. He [...]
Gazelle Freestyle Review
Tony Little is at it Again! Introduction The Gazelle Freestyle was developed by former Junior National Bodybuilding champion and certified personal trainer Tony Little. In 1983, while training for the Mr. America Bodybuilding Championship, Tony Little was in a near-fatal car accident; afterwards he suffered from depression, and became addicted to pain medication and gained [...]
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Four Key Components of the Fitness Lifestyle
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Best Shoulder Exercises for Women
Sculpt and Define Your Shoulders with the Best Shoulder Exercises for Women A set of sculpted shoulders is a beautiful finish to a toned upper body. Increasing the stability and strength of your shoulder muscles will also enhance your functional movements while preventing injury. Ladies, you need to understand that strength training isn’t just for [...]
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Weight Training for Weight Loss for Women
Women’s Fitness: Weight Training for Weight Loss You’ve probably heard it said before that building and maintaining muscle mass is one of the vital parts of a healthy body, and that it should be a goal in any well-rounded fitness program. But have you ever wondered why? What’s so important about building muscle, and why [...]
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