Category: Fitness
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Walking Health – Fitness Assessment
If you’re going to walk, then you need an evaluation that will take activity and walking into consideration too. It provides an assessment more specific to walking. It takes a look at your health history and your fitness background and level. In each of the 10 areas, choose the number that best describes you, then…
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Evaluating Your Health and Walking Fitness
Before you start a new activity program, even one as seemingly simple as walking, it’s important to determine not only how healthy and fit you are in general but also how fit you are in the specific activity you want to begin. For example, if you are a very fit cyclist, you might not have…
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Walking’s Fitness Benefits
I doubt I need to convince you that walking can benefit your health. Thanks to research in the last decade, most people understand the benefits of walking. Researchers have done substantial amounts of work on the topic of walking for fitness (not just performance or biomechanics). And as the buzz grew louder, what walkers have…
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Home Workout Level 2: Dumbbell Routine
Home Workout Level Two: High Intensity Dumbbell Routine Equipment Needed: Dumbbells, Treadmill, or Elliptical Machine (optional) Number of Exercises: 9 Total Workout Time: 90 seconds Bodyparts Worked: Total Body Frequency: 3 times per week At level two, we will kick it up a notch by adding dumbbells to the routine. Remember that anytime you increase…
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Home Workout Level One: Bodyweight Exercises
The High Intensity Home workouts will serve two purposes. It will be for those with no desire to go to the gym and act as a backup workout for those who travel. My favorite High Intensity technique for home workouts is static contractions. “Statics,” as we refer to them, involve no movement. You simply get…
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Home Workout Challenge – Get Your Baseline
So workout-wise, how do we get started? How can I possibly give you a workout routine without knowing what your current situation and strength level is? Easy. If you just spend the first week gathering vital information about yourself, we will have the tools to make these workouts effective right from the first session. The…
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Getting Started with Your Exercise Programm
Believe it or not, a great way to start your exercise program is with a garbage bag and your wallet. Let’s face it, your old habits are not working for you. So we have to start with a clean slate. That means getting rid of everything that is holding you back. Clean Out Your Refrigerator…
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10 Reasons Why Short Workouts Are Better
10. Less Time Who has time these days? I know I don’t. What if I was your money manager and you gave me your life savings to invest for you? A year goes by and I give you my annual report and you have exactly the same amount of money as you did last year…
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Understanding Heart Rate Assessments
Measuring and recording heart rate data is essential to the HZE program. In fact, without accurate data, developing a training plan is not possible. Students may use a number of different assessments to develop their training plans, each of which is valuable in and of itself. When combined and compared with others, these assessments can…
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Determining Training Load
In the past, a crucial piece of data was missing in cardiovascular training. Before the b of heart rate monitors and the data they provide, teachers were unable to determine accurately the intensity of students’ exercise; this left them with only two components, frequency and time, from which to determine students’ total training load. We…