The muscle on the upper arm, the biceps, is commonly used as the biceps and is important so that you avoid you the elbow and forearm turn. One of the best ways to get the biceps workout and to strengthen it’s training by a cable. If it done right and routinely, is cable bicep of [...]

Play By Numbers First, calculate your maximum heart rate (MHR) by subtracting your age from 220. The American College of Sports Medicine recommends hitting at least 70 percent of your MHR while you exercise to maximize your calorie burn and fat loss. If you don’t have a heart rate monitor, count your pulse for 10 [...]

Weight loss Dieting health Exercise tips It is estimated that two out of every three American adults over the age of 20 are either overweight or obese and one out of three are obese. In children between the ages of 2-19 the rate ranges from one in 10 to one in five. Most turn to [...]

Although some old fitness fictions, such as “no pain, no gain” and “spot reducing” are fading fast, plenty of popular exercise misconceptions still exist. Here are some of the most common exercise myths as well as the not-so-common facts based on current exercise research. Exercise Myth 1. You Will Burn More Fat If You Exercise [...]

Multistation Machines There is no getting around it. When you begin looking at high end equipment, you can pretty much bet that you are going to have to spend quite a bit of money. These are often referred to as “home gyms.” This piece of equipment is multi-purpose and able to serve more than one [...]

Our test panelists logged more than 2,240 miles while evaluating two dozen models of running shoes and almost as many pairs of walking shoes. Besides pounding the pavement, we tested the shoes in our labs. We checked whether the front of the shoe flexed enough to let you push off easily with the ball of [...]

If you’ve ever been at the gym and spied someone in the corner jumping up and down on boxes, hopping around wildly or catching and throwing medicine balls, you’ve seen plyometric training. You may have been curious but, more than likely, you wondered, “Why would anyone do that to themselves?” One reason? To burn more [...]