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Exercise & Motivation, Part 2: Overcoming Inertia & Getting Started
Copyright 2005 Tanja Gardner In the first article in this series (http://tinyurl.com/8ztbo), we gave you an overview of the stages of change in Prochaska’s Transtheoretical model. The first three of these stages are all about getting started....
Eye Exercises - Boost The Power of Your Optic Muscles
The eyes contain many small muscles, and there is no doubt that eye exercises can do little harm to your eyes, but can they actually be of benefit? A New York ophthalmologist called Dr William Bates, developed a series of eye exercises to improve...
Finding the G Spot: A Guided Exercise
We are often asked for help in finding a woman’s g spot. To support you around this, we’ve created a simple, easy exercise that takes about an hour. Be sure to try it when you have space and time to do it fully.
You’ll notice that much of this...
Postpartum Exercise - Abdominals And Other Exercises
Most women are concerned with reshaping their newly formed ‘pooch’ after delivery. You know the sagging area of skin that used to resemble your stomach? The good news is you can restore your abdomen to its pre-pregnancy luster, or at least a...
The Perfect Body building Exercise
So what is the perfect bodybuilding exercise or workout routine? READ ON.
Most people, when they plan out a workout routine, don’t take into consideration the implication of each exercise on other areas of the body. Almost every individual...
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Workout And Exercise Equipment At Home
If you want to start exercising in you own home, which kind of exercise equipment do you need? Your workout plan determines exactly which kind of training you are going to start up and the equipment that is necessary for this kind of workout.
Most fitness experts tell us that we obtain the leanest, most defined muscles through a combination of aerobic exercise and weight training, so let's take a look at what we need to perform such training:
For aerobic exercise, which is the best way to lose fat and build cardiovascular endurance, all you need is 20 minutes of exercise per day with no equipment at all. Of course if you want to vary your aerobic training you can buy an exercise bike, treadmill, home skiers, elliptical machines etc., which will absolutely help you in working off some excess pounds.
Aerobic workouts shed fat, while weight lifting exercises replaces the lost fat with muscle. Weight training requires a little more equipment however, and the most important here are various weights. You can also use home fitness machines for resistance training. There are some combi machines on the market that can take care of all your weight and/or resistance training you need, for all your muscles in your entire body.
And the price is amazingly low. Of course there are some quality differences and it normally pays to buy quality training equipment, especially if you are going to train for a lengthy period of time. Like in most cases you must weigh what it cost by how many years you'll be able to use it.
Workout at home vs. in a fitness center
By purchasing and installing home fitness equipment, you can do all your workout in the privacy of your own home without having to go to local fitness centers and paying membership fees.
Home fitness machines normally come with guides and some of them even vwith videos that teach you how to use it to get fit. By following these instructions you don't need a personal trainer to instruct you like in a fitness center or gym.
By using home fitness equipment, you'll save time as you don't have to commute to the gym or fitness center and you also avoid waiting in line to use various training machines. You can utilize your time much better with home training devices because you can do your workout routines while your food is cooking, or even when having conversations with your family members.
If you place your workout equipment near your TV you can even do your complete exercise routine while you watch it. One of the worst things I feel about training outside the home, is that it gives me a bad consciousness because I have so much to do in my business. With training at home my time is much better utilized and I feel much more satisfied with the convenience of training this way. And I know this training is more efficient than having to stress over making my daily workouts.
About the Author: Terje Brooks Ellingsen is a writer and internet marketer. He runs the website http://www.11-weight-loss.net. Terje enjoys to give advice and help people with workout plans, see http://www.11-weight-loss.net/workout.htm and low carb weight loss, see http://www.11-weight-loss.net/high_protein_food.htm.
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