Exercise Tutorials - Weight loss, Training, Workouts, Health, Wellness, Nutrition and Diets!

Cardio Exercise Principles and Guidelines

ExerciseGuru — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:22:22 +0000

Cardiovascular workouts are designed to balance three factors for maximum effectiveness and safety: frequency, intensity and duration. You will also need to include a warm-up period before you enter the target intensity period of your workout, and a cool-down period before the end of your workout. Traditionally, you are coached to stretch the primary muscles to be used in the workout after your warm-up. There are several schools of thought on the use and effectiveness of stretching, but we will cover the traditional view here.

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How To Get A Great Workout At Home.

ExerciseGuru — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:01:19 +0000

Many people think that creating a home workout gym is either too intimidating or too costly. So, often they instead invest their money in a health club membership not realizing that for the same amount of money (or even less) they can create a very effective gym right in their own home. For an effective home gym, all that is required is a little bit of planning. Lets take a closer look at what you need to consider and how you get started.

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Finding the right exercise program for yourself!

ExerciseGuru — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:50:54 +0000

Most people who exercise have specific goals in mind (i.e. to lose weight, increase flexibility, tone muscles etc.). Before you begin an exercise program, you must think about what results you want to achieve, then you can gear your exercise program toward attaining your desired results.

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Tai Chi: An Effective Alternative Exercise

ExerciseGuru — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:40:15 +0000

If the usual no-pain no-gain kinds of exercise don’t appeal to you, practicing the martial art known as tai chi (or qigong) may be the perfect alternative. The gentle movements of tai chi can be done by everyone—even people who can exercise only while seated in a chair. You can practice tai chi anywhere, and no special equipment is required.

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Should you exercise with a cold?

ExerciseGuru — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:39:42 +0000

It’s a question that has dazzled us for hundreds of years. Should you or should you not work out when you are sick? When is it ok to pick up the training shoes again? There is a very simple but also very effective rule of thumb for exercising when sick, and we’re going to take a closer look at it.

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10 Tricks To Get You Exercising!

ExerciseGuru — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:03:08 +0000

Hold on a second, if - deep-down - you really don’t want to exercise, then don’t bother reading further. You will need to get to the bottom of those feelings before moving on. Ambivalence and double-mindedness will only lead to a constant cycle of disappointment. But - if you want to reap the many mental and physical benefits of exercise — then read on.
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Ab Crunches for a firm, tight stomach!

ExerciseGuru — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:17:35 +0000

To achieve a firm set of ab muscles, you need to be consistent with your stomach exercises. You can always finish your workout in the gym with a couple of different ab exercises. No matter how exhausted the rest of your body is, you can more then likely still train your abs in the end of the training session. Your ab muscles are the center of your body and constantly work to hold your whole body up hence their enormous strength.

There are numerous ab exercises that will tone, shape and strengthen your ab muscles but one of the more effective ones are ab crunches. They can be performed on the floor, with the legs on a bench, hanging, or on a stability ball.

The most important part to remember no matter where they take place is to use the ab muscles to bring your legs and knees up to your torso and not let the hip flexor muscles do the work.
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A simple but great 4-day workout split!

ExerciseGuru — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:14:29 +0000

It is very important to rotate your workout splits as you go along. Our muscles have a very good memory and they will adapt to your workout routines over time. If you want to challenge your musles you have to give them variation. I have added a little simple 4 day split program for you to try out.

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Exercise Tutorials Online

ExerciseGuru — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:46:03 +0000

This is a little introduction to this site, exercisetutorials.com. The purpose of this site is to give people the chance to learn more about training, exercising, diets, getting in shape and weightloss.

We will be back with more info soon, have fun :)