By Fit4Life | September 28, 2007 - 5:13 am - Posted in Workout Regimens

I learned this new exercise today for inner and outer thighs, and I think I might add it to my daily exercise repertoire, because of it’s ease of performance, the fact that you can do it without any equipment, and the part of the body it targets happens to be one of my biggest problem areas – my outer thighs. This exercise does also target the inner thighs as well. It’s very simple, but it seems to be effective, because I could really feel it in my inner and outer thighs when I was finished.

By Fit4Life | September 25, 2007 - 8:40 pm - Posted in Fitness Advice

Exercise of any kind has consistently been proven as one of the best ways to beat the blues, combat depression, and be in a generally happier, more positive frame of mind if you do it on a regular basis. That is one of the reasons that I started this blog on fitness, because I truly believe that fitness and exercise is one of the components that is lacking in lives of people who suffer depression and other mental illnesses, and that exercise can help anyone in this hard place immensely. I’m not saying it’s necessarily a cure, but it’s darn close, especially if you do it every day.

By Fit4Life | September 22, 2007 - 1:43 pm - Posted in Elliptical Reviews

I was at the gym where I work (I’m lucky enough to have a great gym facility where I work), and a gym worker was giving a new member a tour of the gym. She had stopped at the elliptical machines and was answering the new patrons questions about how to operate the piece of machinery, when I thought “wow, I never even thought about how confused I was when I first tried one of these machines”. It’s like the old saying about riding bikes, once you know you never forget, even though learning seemed hard at the time.

By Fit4Life | September 19, 2007 - 7:01 am - Posted in Fitness Advice

I have asthma, so it has always been a challenge for me to workout. However, since I work out regularly, my asthma is considerably more manageable. In fact, I have to use my inhaler very seldom now, and my asthma is almost never set off by physical activity, but usually from stress, anxiety or allergies when allergy season is in full gear. Here are some tips to managing asthma naturally so you can go about your life and have a healthy, normal exercise regime.

By Fit4Life | September 16, 2007 - 8:21 pm - Posted in Health and Fitness News

I’m going to be reviewing a newer healthy energy supplement that is supposed to healthfully sustain your energy levels all day long. It’s called FRS Healthy Energy, and it is a combination of several different types of supplementation that can be used by themselves or together as a sort of energy boost.

The main idea behind the FRS energy supplements is that it provides a lot of antioxidants in the formula, and they say that since your body is not concentrating on healthy cell renewal and the destruction of free radicals since their patented antioxidant delivery system is, you will have more energy to spare.

By Fit4Life | September 13, 2007 - 7:40 pm - Posted in Fitness Advice

Speaking from personal experience, and as a woman, saddle bags, those fatty deposits on the sides of your thighs, are the absolute hardest thing in the world to lose, especially if you’re genetically inclined. Saddle bags run in my family. We are smaller women, and by no means do we have any obesity in our family, but we all have the saddle bag syndrome, and for me personally, these have historically been the hardest part of my body to keep in check.

By Fit4Life | September 10, 2007 - 11:30 am - Posted in Fitness Advice

Health is on everyone’s mind and most of us would love to get in shape and work out regularly. One of the biggest obstacles to attaining and maintaining a physical fitness routine is a lack of time.

Health clubs are responding by offering faster harder workouts in a cool environment to enable their customers to work out even with their time crunch. Locally, in Ohio, there is a sweat-free facility called Overload with three different locations.

By Fit4Life | September 7, 2007 - 10:15 am - Posted in Exercise DVD Reviews

I’ve been going on a very big non-yoga kick, and have been strictly pretty much working out at the gym and on home fitness equipment, simply due to time restraints and the fact that I have access to a great gym at work, but I have just put in my qeue on Netflix for a Rodney Yee Fat Burning Yoga DVD, and am hoping that this can get me back into yoga, with the fat burning and cardio that I’m looking for.