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Tag: Exercise advice

Learn why and how to exercise here. We share research into the best ways to exercise to meet specific goals.

Which exercise machine is best
Fitness

Which Exercise Machine Is Best For You?

If you can only use one piece of cardio equipment, which should it be – cross trainer, bike, treadmill or rower?

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Fitness

MetCon – The Way To Get Fitter Faster

Metabolic Conditioning (often shortened to MetCon) is actually very simple. It refers to physical exercise that increases your body’s ability to transport oxygen from the lungs to your cells and then use this to generate the energy needed to move your muscles.

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Weight Loss

What is the Best Exercise to Help Lose Weight?

Do you do long cardio sessions of running, swimming, cycling or rowing? Do you lift light weights many times or heavy weights few times? Which is best?

What is the Best Exercise to Help Lose Weight? Read More
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Fitness

Should We Do Cardio or Weight Training First?

One of the most common questions asked is whether you should do your cardio workout or weight training workout first. If your goals are to lose fat, get fitter and …

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Fitness

The Health Benefits Of Running and Jogging

Jogging is an easy way to get fit and lose weight. You only need a pair or running shoes and some lose fit clothing.

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Weight Loss

Exercise, Hormones, Fat Tissue and Appetite Examined

Lifestyle affects diet, and likewise, diet affects lifestyle. Learn how regular exercise reduces hunger, and how this affects weight loss.

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Weight Loss

Why Your Exercise Workouts Are Not Working

Learn why you are not losing weight. There is more to weight loss that exercise alone – you need to look at diet too.

Why Your Exercise Workouts Are Not Working Read More
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Fitness

The 10 Commandments of attaining your ideal body

Follow these 10 simple rules and you will get the body of your dreams.

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Health News

Starting exercise in your 60s has health benefits

If you are concerned about the possibility of ill-health in later years but feel it is too late to start getting fit, don’t worry. New health research has shown that …

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Questions

Can I exercise with a broken leg?

Question Got question, don’t know if this is right spot but here it goes. I broke my leg 2 months ago, no weight bearing at all and I’ve noticed I’m …

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Health News

Exercise by the sea for a more intensive workout

According to health scientists the sound of the sea will make you workout harder. So for better fitness, exercise by the coast.

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Fitness

How do exercise referral schemes work?

Obese patients are referred to specialist fitness instructors and nutritionists.

How do exercise referral schemes work? Read More
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Questions

Should I Walk or Jog To Lose Weight?

Question Is walking as effective for weight loss and helping with overall general health as running? Vandejc. Answer In a way, yes it is. The benefit of running over walking …

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Weight Loss

The Secrets To Looking Slim, Fit And Toned

This brief guide is designed to help display some of the myths about weight training.

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Fitness

Do Just 1 More Each Day – Fitness For Everyone In A Month!

OK, many people fear those intensive workouts. Why? Because they feel that only elite athletes should be doing them. But anybody can exercise, the only thing that really stops you …

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Fitness

What Are Best Sports For Long Life?

Health scientists have found that the type of sport you do has an impact on your life expectancy. Recent research published in the British Medical Journal looked at the life …

What Are Best Sports For Long Life? Read More
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Fitness

Why It’s Time To Bring Back Old School Physical Training

Why are young adults more obese today than they were 25 years ago? Is it because we have forgotten how to keep fit? Exercise is the most basic of human activities really and it is a real shame that so many people have no idea how to start.

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Fitness

The Chair is a Killer – The Truth About Exercise

Michael Mosley, the medical researcher and reporter for the BBC, has presented yet another excellent documentary about health and weight loss called The Truth About Exercise. In this latest feature …

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Fitness

How Much Exercise Is Needed to Get Fit and Lose Weight?

How much exercise do you need to do each day? We’ll help you calculate it here today!

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Health News

Increase Muscle and Fitness to Fight Diabetes

Several studies have shown that both increasing muscle mass and regular intensive cardiovascular exercise helps to prevent the onset of Type 2 Diabetes. Increasing muscle mass helps to increase insulin …

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Fitness

The Health Benefits of Walking + a Walking Workout

Unfit? Want to lose weight? Then start a walking plan. Brisk walking burns as many calories an hour as slow jogging and you can walk longer than you can jog!

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Fitness

Heart Rate Zone Monitors Under The Microscope

Two years ago we wrote about heart rate monitors in our article Fat Burning or Time Wasting Zone? It seems that others are now starting to realize that watching the heart rate can …

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Fitness

Outdoor Exercise, Green Gyms and Natural Living

Exercising outdoors has both mental and physical health benefits. Studies have shown that fresh and and exercise helps with stress and depression as well as providing an often enhanced workout. Kids who play outdoors are healthier too. Walking, jogging and cycling are the most popular outdoor fitness activities. So get outside and get fit.

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Fitness

Stretch Before and After Exercise For Better Results

Stretching is a part of fitness and exercise which is often neglected.

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Fitness

Sleep More To Get Fitter – Mental Fatigue Affects Exercise Intensity

If you sometimes feel that you are not exercising as hard as usual then your lack of physical exertion while training could be due to mental fatigue. Sports scientists found …

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Fitness

Exercise Time Management – You Do Have Time For Fitness

One of the most common excuses people give for not exercising is a lack of time. Well, with our fast and intensive workout you can start getting fit by spending just 1% of your day exercising. Surely you can spare 1% of your day? In 15 minutes you can work your whole body, tone muscles, burn fat and make your heart stronger.

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Fitness

Do Ab Machines Help Build Six Pack and Burn Fat?

If there is one thing that springs to mind when people think of the commercialism of fitness, it is most likely to be an “ab machine”. Ab machines have plagued television shopping …

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Fitness

Quick exercises that can be done at home or work

This style of exercising is different from anything else being talked about, and you will probably find that your friends will not even recognize the leaner, toned, strong and healthy body that you will soon be enjoying.

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Fitness

Fat Burning or Time Wasting Zone?

Many heart rate monitors, especially those incorporated into fitness equipment such as treadmills, cross trainers and bicycles, have a fat burning zone. The idea is that if you workout in …

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Fitness

Survival of the Fittest – Exercise That Could Save Your Life

Many people find it difficult to stay motivated enough to maintain a fitness routine after they have left school or college. Some team sports, such as football and rugby, require …

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