Exercise Video – Basic Home Workout for Men and Women
When working out you should rest as little as possible between exercises. This ensures you maintain a higher heart rate and maximize the effects of the exercise routine by adding a cardio element. If your workout isn’t intense and is easy to perform it probably isn’t going to be effective in your weight loss and fitness goals. Checkout this full body workout video below to add some new exercises to your fitness routine.
Healthy iPhone & iPad Application For Weight Loss: Lose It!
Exercise is only a small portion of weight loss and living healthy. Without proper nutrition, weight loss is impossible no matter how much you workout.
Lose It! is a free iPhone & iPad application that helps you lose weight by monitoring your daily calorie intake. This weight loss application is designed so that you lose weight the right way, slowly, up to two pounds per week. Losing weight any faster is considered unhealthy because a large percentage of the weight loss is muscle loss, not fat loss.
Once you setup your weight loss goals, Lose It! tells you the amount of calories to eat each day. After each meal simply add what you ate into the iPhone & iPad application Lose It! and it will display the remaining calories you can eat each day. Watch the video below on Lose It! to see an overview of its features.
Standing vs Sitting – Burning More Calories Everyday
As I write this I am standing at my new desk. My new desk design was quick and simple allowing me to ditch my desk chair. My new desk design is basically a large cardboard box turned sideways on top of my desk that I can use my laptop on at a comfortable angle while standing. Why would I get rid of my office chair? Simple, when you sit you studies show you tend to gain fat around the abdomen. Standing helps people who typically sit all day at work with an opportunity to burn almost twice the amount of calories. Sitting for 4 hours, someone my size typically burns around 450 calories. Standing for the same time burns over 800 calories. You burn so many more calories because muscles in your legs and back need to tense in order to maintain your standing posture. You also move around more as you shift your weight on your feet. Ditch your office chair, burn more calories, lose weight, and keep the weight off by doing simple things like standing to burn more calories everyday.
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Bicycle Riding Benefits Instructional Workout Video
I prefer riding a real bicycle over running because it is less impact on my joints. Also, I find it less tedious than running for cardio exercise. Unlike jogging, you cover more ground cycling so you tend to explore areas more and see more more, distracting you from the exercise itself. I tend to keep my rides under an hour long, often around 20 to 30 minutes using interval training. I ride out to a straight path and do short 10 to 20 second sprints with a 10 second break between them. You can even do a tabata interval on a bike.