Provided by Life Fitness Academy Everyone knows that exercising is one of most powerful things you can do to improve your health. Regular cardiovascular exercise makes your heart stronger and more efficient, burns calories, lowers your blood pressure and helps keep you mentally sharp. However, it is important to exercise properly to get optimum results and help you achieve your goals. With today’s busy schedules, no one has time to waste on ineffective or inefficient exercise. Performing cardiovascular work at the correct level of intensity is essential. Exercise too hard and you risk injury and exhaustion or you may burn out and stop exercising altogether. On the other hand, if you don’t work out hard enough, you may not get the results you want. The best way to measure intensity is to watch your heart rate as you exercise. (more…)

American adults gain on the average of about 3-5 pounds per year. Most of that gain occurs during the final quarter of the year when colder weather and busy holiday schedules can cut into work-out routines, and tempting high calorie holiday foods are everywhere.  Scheduling your workouts on your calendar along with your other holiday activities can help keep you on track.  Here are some healthier food options and actions that can help with weight maintenance during this challenging time of year. (more…)

Thanksgiving is here and the rest of the Holiday Season is upon us. We will all have a good chance to gain 10lbs before the dawn of 2010. Did you know that? The average American typically gains 10lbs each year between now and the end of the year?? (more…)

This video presentation reviews the benefits of the Vision Fitness Sprint 8 workout program with proven results.

The following video is a demonstration of the 20 Minute Sprint 8 workout included on Vision Fitness cardio exercise equipment.  

There is a lot of buzz these days about interval training. Interval training is a type of workout that involves bursts of high intensity work alternated with periods of rest or low activity work. The buzz is that this is the most efficient way to workout for the time crunched – aren’t we all? Also it has also been shown that high bursts of anaerobic activity stimulate the body’s production of growth hormone – this is the stuff that keeps you young. Don’t worry you will not be growing. :-) In fact this is a great way to lose unwanted fat. I like to combine high intensity cardio blasts with strength training for a full body workout. You can do in as little as a half hour. (more…)

by Phil Campbell – Ready, Set, Go! Synergy Fitness for Time Crunched Adults

The Sprint 8 Workout can be performed in many different ways.

Researchers show that high-intensity, anaerobic fitness training makes the body produce anti-aging, anti-MIDDLE-aging, athletic performance improving growth hormone NATURALLY, (Impact of acute exercise intensity on pulsatile growth hormone release in men, 2000, Pritzlaff). All Five Levels of the Ready Set GO Fitness program have a version of the Sprint 8 Workout based on age, conditioning, and training experience. This workout is perfect for time-crunched adults because it only takes 20-minutes. (more…)

Exciting new discoveries by biomedical researchers in the areas of health and anti-aging have begun to usher in a new paradigm in fitness training. Research shows that high-intensity, anaerobic workouts that include the short-burst, get-you-out-of-breath, sprinting types of exercise, will make your body release significant amounts of the most powerful “fitness hormone” in your body – growth hormone, or HGH. (more…)