Monthly Archives: March 2014

Fitness Expert Explains How To Use Weight Loss Yoga To Burn 400 Calories An Hour

New apps, digital fitness devices keep track of your workout

This free iPhone app from Puma helps track your workout, crunching the data into an overall score. The app also helps you figure out conditions that affect your workout, and the scoring system can be motivating.

Cathe Friedrich is a famed exercise guru, creator of numerous best-selling fitness DVDs such as ” Cathe Friedrich’s XTrain Series: All-Out Low Impact HiiT” (click for details ) and ” Cathe Friedrich: XTrain Tabatacise .” And here’s what Cathe revealed in a recent blog: “Power yoga burns between 300 and 400 calories per session.” Plus, all types of yoga boost your ability to burn body fat, according to a study funded by the National Cancer Institute. Over a 10-year period, people who did yoga lost five pounds. Those who didn’t do yoga gained an average of 14 pounds during that same period. Cathe has created a yoga fitness DVD that helps you to get those same weight loss wins: ” Cathe Friedrich’s Low Impact Series: Yoga Relax” (click for details ). Her words of wisdom: Yoga can be a part of a successful weight loss program, especially when you alternate it with higher intensity exercise sessions.
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OXYGEN Magazine Embraces Functional-Fitness Trend

Story running Runtastic Adventure app: This app’s concept is “story running,” found in four 38-minute dramatic narrated stories that have a protagonist running to or away from something: the fantasy http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/p90x3-reviews/sbwire-455028.htm story “Journey of Iomluath: The Tribes’ Saviour,” the motivational story “Toward the Finish Line ,” the travel story “The Globerunner: Rio’s Marvels of Life” and the adventure story “The Carrier of Truth: Beyond the Walls of Alcatraz.” Runtastic also includes normal workout and social features. Likes: Enthralling. I got so caught up in the protagonist’s escape from Alcatraz that I sometimes lost my sense of doing a workout at all. It was like being immersed in “War of the Worlds” or another 1930s radio show, where the character’s experience becomes your own, forcing you to speed up in moments of anxiety, then slow down in moments of calm.
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Sunny Side Up Egg

(Poll) cyclocross.JPG View/Post Comments A nod to those of you who are reading this after having just finished a bike ride, run, swim, tennis match, basketball game or nice long row down the Willamette River: Men’s Fitness magazine has named Portland America’s fittest city for the second year in a row. The magazine claims that a whopping 86 percent of Rose City residents get regular exercise. To measure something seemingly so unmeasureable, Men’s Fitness used a 15-point formula, taking into account such things as conventional fitness, plus airquality, pedestrian and bike friendliness, obesity rates, general well being,and other factors. Read all about it …
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Men’s Fitness magazine calls Portland America’s fittest city. Is it? (Poll)

Functional fitness refers to training your body as one integrated unit for real-life situations, and women have been embracing it in droves. The magazine, which was recently acquired by Active Interest Media ( aimmedia.com ), will remain true to its proven formula of providingsolid fitness programs, practical fat-loss solutions, andnutrition and healthy recipes geared toward busy,active women, but it will now expand its content to reach a wider marketplace. Beginning with the April issue, Oxygen enthusiasts can look forward to morefunctional fitness and bodyweight-training routines as well as time-efficient home workouts and clean, easy recipes that nurture the Oxygen lifestyle. New departments include “Cardio Bonus,” “Smart Snacking,” and much more.
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