Happy New Year everyone! I hope all of your celebrations were fun and that you are poised and ready to make 2011 your most incredible year yet! I want to help you in any way I can, so I’m going to be doing a weekly series of blog posts where I answer YOUR fitness questions.
Send Me Your Fitness Questions
“But aren’t there any exercises that can be done to reduce belly fat?” That’s the usual response I get after providing the above answer. The truth is that there are exercises that help, but they’re not what you would think they are. High Intensity Interval Training has been proven to be an excellent way to burn fat, even more so than slow, boring cardio (that’s an article for another time). Taking exercises that get the heart rate up and performing them in a circuit or in an interval format is what you need to do. Keep it short, hard, and fast and get that heart rate racing! Good exercises for this are wall ball or cleans with a medicine ball, squat jumps, burpees, and mountain climbers if using your body weight or intense dumbbell complexes. Not a sit up in that list, but everything uses most of the body, or intense plyometric leg movement.
There you go, your road map to flatter abs. If you’d like an example of the type of workout I just described, get in touch for a free workout and fitness consultation! I’d love to share these exercises and more with you. Have a strong New Year, and don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS Feed so you can keep up on future fitness Q and A articles. Have a question? Leave it in the comments below and I’ll answer it in a future article!
I was at Wal-Mart today and noticed that the fitness gizmos are being displayed in full force in preparation for people’s New Years fitness resolutions. Bear in mind that none of the seasonal displays had anything useful on them, like dumbbells, kettlebells, or foam rollers, all of which you can find at Wal-Mart. No, the things being highlighted on every end cap were things like the Shake Weight, something ridiculous called T-Core, and the latest turd that Jillian Michaels squeezed out.
Set And Achieve Your Weight Loss Goal
Setting Your Goal
Rather than setting some arbitrary number, like saying “I need to lose 10 pounds”, it’s important to look at other metrics, such as body fat percentage and circumference measurements. If the only tool you’re using for analyzing your body composition is a scale, you’re kind of flying blind. In this article, we’ll discuss body fat percentages.
According to the American Council on Exercise, the following table illustrates body fat percentages for men and women at various fitness levels.
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So, you’ve heard that trans fat is bad for you, and you have made it a point to purchase only foods that contain no trans fat. Perhaps you look for bold print on the front of a food package that exclaims “0 grams of trans fat per serving”. Maybe you even look at the nutrition label because you are an educated, health conscious shopper. But, even with your diligence, you may still be purchasing foods containing trans fat and not even know it! To explain why, lets explore a very brief history of trans fat, and then I’ll show you how to REALLY tell if you are purchasing trans fat free foods.
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