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Exercise Ball - Back Workout

jbode — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:10:28 +0000

You can incorporate your core muscles into your back workout using exercise and bosu balls. A great exercise is to stand on a bosu ball (to use your core muscles) then you use a cable machine that you can adjust so that the cable hook is just below chest level. Next, attach a row bar. Using the row bar stand arms length away from the bar then grab the bar and pull it in directly below your chest, extend your arms and repeat.

You can also do rows on an exercise ball provided that you can accurately perform the movement without the ball interfering.

You can buy an exercise ball here starting at $20

All U.S. Adults Overweight in 40 Years

jbode — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:22:25 +0000

According to a recent study yahoo news reports that if the trend for the past 3 decades continues all U.S. adults will be overweight in 40 years. This is quite alarming considering the fact that today there is many more resources available for weight loss than ever before.

What are the possible reasons for this rapid increase in the number of obese adults?

A possible explanation may be that it’s now easier than ever to have an unhealthy diet. Due to the increasing amount of packaged food that is loaded with saturated fat and simple carbs that can easily produce fat.

The increase in fast food with bigger portion sizes is a valid explanation for the increasing problem. Fortunately, some fast food companies have added healthier foods to their menus and also changed to healthier oils.

As far as physical activity is concerned we are lazier than ever? Why because we simply spend most of our time sitting. Like at a computer or watching tv. We even use more machines and technology so that we don’t have to do as much physical activity. Maybe 40 years from now we can sit around and not have to do anything that involves any physical activity.

It comes down to the choices we make we can ether choose a healthy lifestyle or not.

So is this really a possible situation?
Or can we start changing our lazy and unhealthy lifestyle to ensure this doesn’t happen?

Exercise Ball - Chest Workout

jbode — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:02:45 +0000

Are you looking for a new chest workout? Well, you can add a balance and core muscle element to your chest workout by simply using an exercise (swiss) ball.

Here’s what you do:

Find an exercise ball that you are parallel with the ground and your knees are at 90 degrees when your back is lying on the ball. Next get some dumbbells that you feel comfortable with. I suggest less than you usually use. Then simple lay on the ball and do chest presses or chest flyes as you normally would on a bench.

You can also use a bosu ball to do these exercises if you do not feel comfortable with your balance yet. Another great thing you can do is push ups on the bosu ball. You can use the flat side or the rounded side. The flat side works better so I would recommend that.

Now you will be using your core muscles more for your chest workout.

You can buy an exercise ball here starting at $20

Fun Fitness

jbode — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:46:52 +0000

Fun fitness was created to help you by giving you fun and interesting fitness tips. These tips will help you improve your workouts and add excitement to your exercise. By offering these tips our goal is that you improve your motivation to participate in fitness activities. Due to the increasing overweight and obesity problem we feel this will be a good helpful way to get more people involved in fitness activities.

We want to help you find a fitness program that you enjoy so we will be telling you about a wide variety of workouts so that you can choose based on your interest and lifestyle.