Stretching both before and after exercise is key to any fitness program. Stretching prior to exercise warms up your body making it less prone to accidents and injuries. Stretching exercises increase joint and muscle flexibility making for a better workout. During the warm-up period, stretches should be held between 15 and 30 seconds. Stretching following…
How to Benefit From Stretching
Stretching simply means extending the body or part of the body to its full capacity. It involves straightening or flexing the body or the limbs. The body is actually a flexible structure and has to be to function properly, at least on a physical level. You should not have too much difficulty to be able…
How Stretching Can Improve Your Strength
Most people tend to lift heavy weights as often as possible when trying to increase their strength and muscles. Other people might include some cardiovascular workouts to develop their endurance, sprints to work on explosive power, or low intensity workouts to get rid of fat. One piece that’s missing from many workouts is quite possibly…
Stretching Exercises and Their Great Benefits
Most people are unaware that stretching has many great benefits. Whether you are doing weight lifting exercises for building up and strengthening muscles or cardio exercises to increase stamina and to slim down, it is common knowledge most people do not do sufficient stretching exercises prior and after their exercise program. What’s even worse, a…
Getting Started in Running – Beginner’s Guide
Running can be a very good part of your exercise routine. However, if you are a beginner in running you have to be aware of some guidelines and tips first before hitting the road or the gym. People living in modern cities have the advantage in using modern technologies and amenities in running. You can…
Running – To Boost And Build Your Strength
What is the real thing about running? Some people say running is just for exercise and some are saying it is a kind of sports. Whatever the meaning or the real thing about running is, there is only one important thing to consider when doing it. It has something to do with the most precious…
Best Tips For Starting a Running Program – Part One
With more spring-like temperatures these days, I’ve been thinking a lot about running. As I’ve shared, I love running in all four seasons – I’m not a fair weather fan! At this time of year, when people are itching to get outside more and shed their winter insulation, I’ve mostly been thinking about how to…
Benefits of Running to Losing Weight
Running is considered one of the best activities for fat burning being the key to losing weight fast. 60% of runners start running to lose weight and take advantage of all the benefits that running brings health and physical and mental wellbeing. To begin with, we highlight basics: • It helps tone muscles, • It…
Running Tips – Getting Started With Running Training
If you are new to running, one of the first challenges is to figure out where you can run. Here’s some running tips to help get you started. Look at a map of your local area, and see what there is in the way of green spaces, such as parks. There are often footpaths alongside…
Why Personal Training Is A Good Idea
A client once shared with me that she saw a poster in New York advertising personal training with the following slogan “you wouldn’t do your own tax return if you didn’t know what you were doing and you would hire a tax advisor to help you. The same is true for personal training.” I continue…