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Motivation For My Daughter

Motivation for my daughter! This is the dress you WILL marry Michael in. You can do it, I know you can and I have all the faith in the World in you. Love

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Ideal Weight For My Height - What Does It Actually Tell Me?

Am I the ideal weight for my height? A question we often ask, but do average values tell us much anymore? Here's the best way to decide whether to gain or lose weight.

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Home Physiotherapy Exercises

A range of easy physiotherapy exercises for common aches and pains from injury. You can do these exercises at home whilst you wait for your physio appointment.

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Fitness Trampoline Buying Guide - Buy, Bounce, Be Happy

Buy your fitness trampoline with confidence. Choose the best fitness trampoline for you and your family. Size, shape, safety and cost all come into it.

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The Fitness Equipment Apparel Guide

A great guide for fitness equipment apparel. Make a stress free decision for your own personal needs.

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Fat Burning Exercises - Get The Best From Your Workout

See fast results with fat burning exercises. Find out how to lose excess fat quickly, and how to enjoy keeping it away for life.

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Yoga Pilates - A Core Guide for Fitness

Open your mind to yoga pilates and strengthen your core body. Great tips, equipment and advice for you and your family.

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Swimming Fitness for Everyone - Love the Splash

Improve your swimming fitness with this free guide. Tips to make the water fun and friendly. Swimming equipment essentials too.

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Looking for Exercise Shoes? The Guide to Your Perfect Pair

Know your exercise shoes before you buy. Use these tips to shop for the best footwear suited only for you.

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Back Exercises - For A Pain-Free Lifestyle

Simple back exercises for a strong, pain-free back. The best prevention and cure for back pain, try these back exercises as part of your core workout.

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Best Ab Exercises - Circuit Workouts

Ab exercises that put you on the 6-pack path. Forget about boring sit-ups. The most effective ab exercises are dynamic, fun and form great circuit workouts.

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Core Exercises - Your Every Move Starts Here

Use these core exercises to strengthen your abs and back. Find out why it's so important to have core strength and stability for any activity.

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Warm Up Exercises to Avoid Injury and Cool Down Exercises to Aid Recovery

Essential warm up exercises for you to enjoy. Don't forget the cool down exercises that will help you recover for your next workout.

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Health Fitness Exercise Tips With a Twist

Looking for something different from your health fitness exercise? Be inspired with these great workout tips.

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Mini Trampoline Exercises - Tips To Vary Your Workout

There's more to mini trampoline exercises than just bouncing. Enjoy your workouts even more by combining these mini trampoline exercises.

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Swati Inner Thigh Stretch

To do the inner thigh stretch: 1) Sit in front of a wall, knees raised and feet on the ground. Then slowly lie down, touching each vertebra from hip

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4 Common But Useless Fat-burning Exercises

USELESS EXERCISE 3: The Bench Press

I'm going to get a lot of flack from the guys out there who love to bench, but I'm here to tell you that this exercise for bodyshaping is all but worthless.

Why? Because most people are not built right body-wise to bench press on a flat bench with a barbell. I am not, that's for sure.

Bench presses work if you have short arms, a relatively short torso, and your shoulders are genetically strong.

Protect your shoulders and really work your chest by doing incline dumbbell presses with your palms facing OUT, not in toward your head. This protects the rotator cuff, a part of the shoulder that is often injured using barbell bench presses.

Combine this with a good cable fly or press movement and you're set. Again, you only need about 7-14 minutes of chest work tops to get the job done.

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4 Common But Useless Fat-burning Exercises

USELESS EXERCISE 2: The Sit-up

I'm shocked that people still think sit-ups done the old-fashioned way actually work the abs. Even worse, most people have been fooled into believing this actually helps get rid of bellyfat.

Nonsense. Bellyfat is burned off when you have a good nutrition plan and through general exercise, not using exercises for the abs. Ab exercises are fine, but guess what?

I never train my abs more than 3-5 minutes. Today my ab workout took 3 minutes and 12 seconds to complete. And my abs are sore!

But without the nutrition plan, forget it... I'd never SEE my abs at all. I'd just have a nice wall of muscle with a bunch of flab covering it up.

The best nutrition plan for abs is The Every Other Day Dietplan, found here:

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The best exercises to do for the actual ab muscles are hanging leg raises, done slowly, crunches (if you do them right)... and that's really all you need.

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4 Common But Useless Fat-burning Exercises

You may be wasting your time in the gym or at home if you are trying to shape your body or get rid of bodyfat.

Most people are. That is when it comes to exercise for getting rid of belly fat and getting into better shape.

I was in the gym today and I saw all 4 of these exercises being performed by various gym members.

And they are useless for 99% of the people on the planet.

Here they are...

USELESS EXERCISE 1: Walking Dumbbell Lunges

Okay ladies, this one is for you... although I see guys do this exercise as well.

This is where you take a pair of dumbbells and kneel with one leg, then the other, and so-on, walking around the gym as you go.

The idea behind this exercise is to work the butt, and to some extent the thighs... but it's a joke. It's something invented by trainers who should know better.

If you want to build and tone your butt, exercise one leg at a time. Lunges are a great exercise for this, but save your energy. Do them on a Smith Machine or with a barbell. Work one leg at a time, too. Do not alternate legs. This just wears you out aerobically before it has a chance to get to your glutes.

Here's how I perform lunges: On a Smith Machine, with pretty heavy weights... one leg at a time. I will do 2-3 sets, or do them in my 7 Minute Body-style workout fashion. I will finish one leg (and one butt cheek) before moving to the other leg.

Why? Again, to focus on the muscle more intensely and to avoid turning a leg/butt workout into a cardio session.

Jon Benson covers exactly how to work the butt area for the best results in 7 Minute Body and 7 Minute Muscle, found right here:

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4 Common But Useless Fat-burning Exercises

USELESS EXERCISE 4: Most Cardio Exercises

Yep... saved the best for last.

Here's a fact: Most cardio (bike, treadmill, glider, whatever) is a waste to time... UNLESS you do it at the right time with the right nutrition plan.

The calories you burn from cardio will be easily negated simply by eating a bagel! Hardly effective for getting rid of bodyfat. Weight training and/or resistance training at home or with your body weight, as covered in 7 Minute Muscle, is your best bet for exercise that burns-off mega-calories and keeps on burning long after the exercise session is over.

Here's how to use traditional cardio wisely:

1. Do it first thing in the morning on an empty stomach;
2. Keep your heart rate down to 75% of your max (220 minus your age x 0.75 will give you this number, at least approximately);
3. "Burst" for 2-3 minutes in your session up to 85-90% of your max heart rate.
4. OR, do cardio right after weight or resistance training when your heart rate is already elevated and your blood sugar is lower. Your body burns blood sugar first during exercise.

Cardio for most people only needs to be performed 3-4 times a week for 20 minutes. The only time I break this rule is when I want to get my bodyfat below 10%. Then I will do more, but only using the rules above.

Hope this saves you a ton of time with your workouts.

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