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February 19th, 2010

Make Time Work for You

Does your workout look something like this…”3 sets of chest presses, 8-12 reps each, 3 sets of bent-over rows, 8-12 reps each, 2 sets of crunches, 20 reps each…”?
Most of you probably perform a specific number of sets and reps of an exercise at any given workout. Not that there is anything wrong with [...]

February 15th, 2010

Listen to Your Gut

Sometimes I wonder how many women head to the gym with a workout plan. I should do a survey, but I don’t belong to a gym. Oh well.
Anyway, when you go to workout, do you have your workout already designed? Do you know what exercises you are going to do and in [...]

February 1st, 2010

Fitness, fun, and roller skates

This weekend, I went to a Texas Roller Derby bout.  If you have never seen a roller derby, you have to check it out!  It’s a little hard to explain how the game works.  The bout takes place on a banked track and the girls wear the old time 4-wheeled skates.  Basically, one girl from [...]

January 22nd, 2010

Another expert, another gimmick

In my last post, I talked about fitness industry lies and how even some of the most reliable sources of information can often be misleading.  In that instance, I was referring to an article which stated that training with kettlebells will give you “twice the results in half the time”.  Part of that is true, [...]

January 16th, 2010

Fitness Lies Exposed

There was an article in January/February issue of Fitness Matters about kettlebells.
Fitness Matters is an industry publication for personal trainers.
The article is about the benefits of kettlebell training. It’s entitled ‘Kettlebells: Twice the Results in Half the Time?”
The results were very favorable for kettlebells. The subjects in the test burned over 20 calories [...]