3 Fitness Gadgets to Revamp Your Workout

The Polar FT4 heart rate monitor communicates with a transmitter, so you can see your overall progress when you’re working out. The FT4 is one of the lower-level models; if you want more aggressive training and detailed statistics, Polar has that, too. I love that the watch has a backlight. I also adore the color (mine is a pink/purple).
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7 Pieces Of Fitness Advice We Actually Want To Follow

She could be making a phone call now. FITNESS TIP OF THE DAY: MAKE THE MOST OF PHONE TIME My best friend Susan (whom I call by her maiden name, Woolum), joined LA Fitness in Maryland a little more than a year ago. Though shes long walked all over tarnation to various locals to and from her job in Washington D.C., as well as fairly regularly with neighbors in the morning, she hadnt been part of the get-fit gym brigade. Then she signed up for sessions with a personal trainerand hasnt stopped going Hooray! We were talking the other day, shortly after shed gotten home from a trip to the beach. She said this in passing, and I zeroed in on its Tip-of-the-Day potential: I had a conference call earlier, she said, and I did a plank during it. This tickles me beyond measure.
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Fitness Tip of the Day: Make the most of phone time

That doesn’t mean ignore your abs: Core strength is essential to balance, stability and power in your arms and legs. Just try something more efficient and safer, like a plank . Caffeinate If you’ve been torn by debates over the health effects of caffeine , consider this: That jolt can give your stamina and endurance a boost, “making a long run or ride feel easier,” sports dietitian Molly Kimball told Shape. Whether you prefer coffee or tea is up to you. Just go easy on the sweeteners, as sugar may negate the pick-me-up from the caffeine, Shape reported. Sleep In It’s a classic conundrum: Both exercise and sleep are crucial, but if you get a lousy night’s rest, do you still get up for that a.m. workout you had planned?
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Weight loss 123: Mental versus physical (Video)

Weight loss to blame for CC Sabathia’s woes?

We actually use all of our mind, it is simply divided up differently than most understand. Your conscious mind is about 10% of your mind power, the other 90% is the subconscious and super conscious mind. Think of your mind like a machine. Every experience, every new behavior, all your learning is initially processed in your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind then goes through it’s storage cells to see if this is something you have experienced before or if it is new. If you have experienced it before you subconscious will send message to conscious mind to respond to the stimuli with the habit that has already been created (a habit that could have been created four months ago or when you were two years old). If the experience, challenge, or stimuli is new the subconscious mind has to give direction to the conscious mind on how to proceed.
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Weight Watchers trying to cash in on desire for healthy workers

Some players just perform better carrying more weight. Sabathia seems to be one of them. Some think such a theory is silly, that Sabathia is merely showing wear and tear after being a workhorse for so many years. But doesnt it make some sense?
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In two years, Morgan has dropped 289 pounds. The word “can’t” has been eliminated from her vocabulary. She motivated herself to be a cleaner eater and more active individual for her family, friends and most importantly, herself. She says she “took the bull by the horns and changed her life.” Posing for pictures is no longer something that brings anxiety to Morgan. She says she’s still in disbelief when she looks at herself. Once she came to terms with her weight issue, she says a powerful emotion took over, the will to live.
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But, wouldn’t it be nice if you could lose weight without the need to diet and exercise? Fortunately, extracts from Green Coffee Beans can help you achieve your fitness goal. This report was created by Consumers’s Health News to expose the truth behind a very promising diet. Note: Dr OZ Green Coffee Beans has sold out in most stores. But Today Its Still Available Online. Hurry! Get Your FREE Trials Dr.
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Before weight loss, ‘Every beat of my heart hurt’

Another thing you should do is consult with friends or look for reviews online to get a better picture of what weight loss supplement does what. There are some fake diet pills on the market so check for reputable companies. Well, we here at Consumers’s Health were a little skeptical of this Garcinia Cambogia Extract for Weight Loss . Even after pouring though mountains of research. While I had an educated opinion, I still had no personal proof that the Garcinia Cambogia option was worth the time. So, with my editors blessing, I decided to go out and put the product to the test myself. What better way to find out the truth that to conduct my own study?
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Those programs are expected to expand next year when provisions of the Affordable Care Act that encourage obesity prevention kick in. Weight Watchers has seen its revenue dip in the first half of the year as it struggles to convince cost-conscious dieters to pay $18.95 a month for an online subscription when they have access to free or inexpensive weight loss apps on their phones. “It’s been an ongoing struggle to try and differentiate themselves from those apps,” said Wedbush Securities analyst Kurt Frederick. Some of the apps even rival Weight Watchers’ edge in providing a supportive community to help with weight loss. The free, calorie-counting app My Fitness Pal, for example, has an active forum online. Weight Watchers Chief Financial Officer Nicholas Hotchkin told analysts the calorie-counting apps can’t compare to the company’s holistic approach to weight loss, which advocates for lifestyle and behavioral changes. But it certainly has shed some revenue.
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HEALTH TRENDS

Health reasons linked to senator’s resignation

In turn, it acts as a mild antidepressant through enhancing the production of various neurotransmitters in the brain, such as serotonin, dopamine and noradrenaline. Despite results showing that coffee can improve mood, study authors also emphasised that depressed individuals should not increase their daily intake of coffee. More women altering menstruation cycles A surprisingly large number of women 18 years or older choose to delay or skip monthly menstruation by deviating from the instructions of birth-control pills and other hormonal contraceptives, a team of University of Oregon, United States researchers and others found, in a study of female students at the university. Most women who alter bleeding cycles do so for convenience rather than to avoid menstrual symptoms, and many learn about the option from non-medical sources, according to research by the university’s Department of Human Physiology, Portland-based Oregon Health and Sciences University and Eastern Michigan University. The study is published in Contraception, the official journal of the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals and the Society of Family Planning. As research indicates that reducing the occurrence of menstruation is safe and can even be beneficial, women are increasingly using hormonal contraceptives to alter bleeding cycles. In a survey of undergraduate and graduate students, 17 per cent reported altering their scheduled bleeding pattern by deviating from the instructions of hormonal contraceptives, which include birth-control pills, vaginal contraceptive rings and transdermal contraceptive patches.
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MLB players’ use of performance enhancing drugs comes with serious health risks

Sen. Rod Zimmer, 70, stepped down on Friday. He has battled repeated health problems in recent years. His resignation creates a second Manitoba vacancy in the Canadian Senate, leaving the province with only four members. Sen. Terry Stratton, a Conservative, reached the mandatory retirement age of 75 on March 16. Zimmer, a longtime Winnipeg businessman and Liberal party fundraiser, was travelling on an Air Canada flight from Ottawa to Saskatoon last August when his distraught 23-year-old spouse confronted him over the lack of care he was taking with his health.
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Athletes who take hormones or steroids experience a strengthening of the muscles, bones and tendons throughout their bodies, allowing them to train harder, longer and with fewer injuries, according to Dr. Robert Truax, who practices family and sports medicine at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland. Using pills, injections or creams, athletes often ingest these drugs in cycles, allowing them to train aggressively for periods of time. Then in advance of PED testing periods, athletes go off the drugs, which can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks to leave the system. You can cycle it so you have moments of medicine in you, do aggressive training and the medicine helps enhance that training, Truax told FoxNews.com. Then they get off of it, and hopefully their training without the medicine is a little bit better. Serious health consequences Despite their short term training benefits, PEDs have serious and potentially debilitating long-term side effects, according to Truax.
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Fitness-Enthusiast Coulla Pieri Shares Trainer Favorites

There are so many to choose from, and sometimes it really depends on the individual and their goal. But if I could pick just one, Id say the kettlebell swing. The beauty of the exercise is you can do it anywhere and it burns more calories than sprinting. Tara Stiles, the founder of Strala Yoga notes that seated meditation is most valuable to her. All the poses are movements that provide great benefits as long as you are moving with ease, instead of moving tense. Finding a moving meditation is a great way to practice instead of performing poses. Beginning with seated meditation helps my body to relax and my mind to calm and focus and intuition to take the wheel. Coulla Pieri Talks on Muscle Endurance and Power According to Coulla Pieri, Orangetheory Fitness claims to produce increased muscle endurance, power and stamina and weight loss.
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LA Fitness to open three new gyms

Im saying this as I sit at my standing desk because Im just feeling a little too weary to stand all the livelong day, attributing my feeling of general malaise to heat. And yes, if I still feel like this in a day or so, Ill reconsider my self-diagnosis (but then again, the heat isnt going anywhere). Twice in the last 48 hours, Ive seen people I want to hand a pair of sunglasses to, put a water bottle in their sweaty little palms, and slather sunscreen over their necks, faces, and backs of their legs. The first was a man oh, maybe in his 50s or so with a thick curly beard, no hat, no sunglasses, no water. He was running down the non-shady side of a street at around 2 p.m.
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Fitness Tip of the Day: Heed the heat warnings

The industry’s memberships and revenue have flat-lined since 2011, and while growth is expected within the next few years, it will be at a slower rate than before. This, along with the growth of competition from yoga studios, Zumba classes, and the convenience of home workouts threatens the future of bigger gyms. Yet Runyon doesn’t feel threatened; he seems to relish the challenge. “Blockbuster got beat by a better business model in Redbox and Netflix, so we must be prepared to see what’s around the corner … Our focus going forward will be on outside club activities than inside activities,” he said. To extend their reach, Anytime Fitness has created an online health guide, anytimehealth.com, focusing on meal planning, tracking workouts, and sharing members’ fitness successes with others.
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Meet the World’s Fastest-Growing Fitness Chain

currentDate:8/5/13 8:0 EDT! allowComments:true! displayComments:true! LA Fitness to open three new gyms By Abha Bhattarai , E-mail the writer LA Fitness, the health club chain, has signed leases to open three new gyms in the Washington area, according to real estate investment firm Next Realty, which handled the deals. The locations in Mitchellville, Bowie and Manassas are scheduled to open by the first quarter of 2014. A fourth is planned to open in Towson, north of Baltimore.
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Fitness Challenge Underway to Help Those With Multiple Sclerosis [VIDEO]

The event was created by David Lyons, who also suffers from Multiple Sclerosis, as a way to help those with MS try and fight this disease like he did. My goal was to get on a body building stage as soon as I can to prove to the world that even though I had MS I could still overcome this disease, says Lyons. This 12 week program with pair those who have MS with a trainer and help build the muscles that the disease trys to take away. Were trying to help them create a goal and help them achieve the next level of fitness, or mobility or better living, says Fitness Evolution Club Owner Brad Kloss. Throughout the day Fitness Evolution, in Sartell, will hold a live auction, zumbathon, food vendors, silent auction, as well as a live concert from Country Music Singer Julie Roberts which will start at 2:00 p.m. Im very blessed that I can travel around singing my music and telling people about MS, says Roberts, who also has MS. And telling those with it you can come and work out, and you can live a normal life, and you can follow your dreams. All the proceeds from the auction will then go into funding for trainers and memberships to those participating in the MS Fitness Challenge.
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