There’s a good (and long) article in the Montreal Gazette about the growing variety of group exercise classes offered at gyms and health clubs. And it gets to one of the fundamental challenges of maintaining fitness: Your routine can get boring. Which is deadly, because boredom leads to poor workouts, then missed workouts, and then [...]
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Variety Is The Key to Staying On The Comeback Trail
February 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Fitness, Health and Fitness News, Motivation
10-Minute Workouts: Too Good To Be True?
February 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Exercises, Fitness, Products
Is it a case of giving people what they really need — or merely what they’ll buy? From Reuters: The American Council on Exercise has listed shorter, more intense workouts among the top exercise trends for 2010, as consumers approach fitness with time and money in mind. Taking aim at the time-challenged and the easily [...]
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Jane Fonda Wants Boomers to Feel the Burn
January 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Health and Fitness News, Products
To many, she’ll always be “Hanoi Jane” (just check the vitriolic comments in this article from England’s Telegraph web site), but for millions of exercise enthusiasts around the world, 72-year-old actress Jane Fonda is the person who brought the then-burgeoning fitness craze into their homes with her 1982 aerobics video, Jane Fonda’s Workout. Now Fonda is planning [...]
Tags: aerobics·fitness DVDs·Jane Fonda·Jillian Michaels·P90X·Tony Horton
You Don’t Have to Be a Psycho to Be Fit
January 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Fitness
One thing that has always bothered me as a fitness professional is the program and product marketers who try to convince potential clients and customers that extreme is the only path to true fitness. Check out the language in this Beachbody ad for “Insanity,” touted as “the hardest workout ever put on DVD” and one [...]
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