What is Circuit Training?

Some exercises are meant to help your cardiovascular system. Other exercises work on strength. However if you are looking for a fitness routine that does both then you might want to try circuit training. Circuit training uses different types of weight machines. You do a series of exercises without stopping in between. This is typically done in a 10 or 15 minute time period. It may not sound like much but once you have worked your muscles for that period of time with no rest, you will feel it. It doesn’t stop there however. After your first set you take … Continue reading →

How to Make the Most of Your Fitness Time

If you are like most people your day is buzzing with numerous chores and activities. The average American has to not only work a job, but tend to many other responsibilities as well. We are trying to be more health conscious by eating healthier and exercising more, but our other commitments do not leave us much time to do this. The bottom line is, we must make the time or we will never do it. Even if it means sacrificing something else, for instance our evening television show, a few nights a week, it has to be done. Try to … Continue reading →

Burning Up the Calories with Boot Camp Fitness

If you think that you need to spend mega bucks getting in shape with a fancy gym membership, think again. A gym membership is a great luxury with all those great machines at your fingertips, but most of us do not have the extra dollars that it takes to maintain a gym membership. A fantastic way to burn up those calories in a hurry is simple, yet effective. Boot camp fitness. Boot camp fitness is just what it says. These are the exercises that have been used for years that give us the results that we want without spending a … Continue reading →

Parcourses – Where have they gone?

Do you know what a parcourse is? Funnily enough, when I came across one a few weeks ago around the edges of a college campus, I thought how neat. Then I followed the course around and wondered why we didn’t have more of them. So I did some research and here’s what I found out: The parcourse is a running course with exercise stations. They were the brain child of a Swiss architect named Erwin Weckemann. He designe dan exercise course with 20 wood and metal exercise stations scattered at varying intervals along a dirt jogging trail. The idea was … Continue reading →

Transformation Fitness: Get Fit Workout Plan

Looking for a great workout that will not only fit into your schedule, but get you fit on a schedule? If the answer is yes, then you are not alone. Many of us are looking for a workout that works for us and doesn’t leave us running in place, going no where fast. The following workout combines the idea of cardio and strength training in a circuit. If it sounds similar to the Curves program, then you may be familiar with the resistance and cardio training available at the Curves for Women facilities. These programs are a great way to … Continue reading →

Men’s Only Fitness Center

Have you ever heard of Cuts Fitness for Men? It’s the answer for men looking to discover the success that women attending Curves for Women have discovered. Women who use Curves for Women have long since discovered that the ladies only gym provides both a circle of support as well as losing weight and toning up with the circuit training that you need only perform 30 minutes a day 3 to 4 times per week. The equipment at Curves for Women is designed specifically for women, to help them tone and shape. The theory is sound, but for men looking … Continue reading →

A Gym Isn’t a Singles Bar

Rolling Stone magazine tossed out the baby with the bathwater in 1983 when they listed that health clubs were the daytime nightclub in their cover story: Looking for Mr. Goodbody. They were a great place for people in their early 20s to hook up with other people in their 20s. Men and women alike went to gyms to meet other men and women. They met them, they dated them and they really enjoyed themselves. Gyms were also repositories for hard bodies looking for other hard bodies. Olivia Newton-John glorified this image in her song and subsequent video Physical. This is … Continue reading →