I am often asked by friends how to get started on an exercise regimen or how to develop a training schedule. The phrase ‘training schedule’ sounds so formal, but don’t be intimidated. Whether people realize it or not, almost everyone who exercises even a little has a training schedule. They may not have written it down, but even the busy working mother of two who takes walks twice...

Have you been exercising for a long time in the hope of getting 6 pack abs? If you are truly exercising a lot and sticking to the right diet, then you are bound to be disappointed if you do not start seeing results within a reasonable period of time. Apart from causing you to spend a huge amount of time in the gym for which you might not see the required results, this could also make you feel demotivated...

Achieving a bigger and rounder butt is one of the most sought after desires of women around the globe. Today more than ever our culture is continuing to reinforce the attractiveness and sexual appeal of a women with a firm and shapely butt balanced with a healthy body. Many men today have reported this as equally desirable and in many cases more physically appealing than a woman’s breasts and...

Why is keeping fit so simple for my children, but a challenge for my husband and I? To my children, exercise means chasing each other, playing hide-and-go-seek, jumping and playing at the park. To kids, keeping fit is fun, as not much thought is put into exercise. Exercise means something altogether different to me. When I was in college and throughout my 20s, fitness was a priority. Going to the gym...

“Ordinary things consistently done produce extraordinary results.” The operant word of this quote is consistency. When it comes to starting an exercise program, it is very easy to get caught up in enrolling in the snazziest gym, purchasing the most complete home gym, hiring the best personal fitness trainer or waiting until we have enough money to purchase the latest and greatest infomercial...

As the Kentucky summer season approaches, more and more of its residents find it’s time to start reevaluating all of those comforting pecan pies that they took solace in during the cold winter months of the past year. Fortunately, there are ways to shed a few pounds quickly and tone up any flab that may have accumulated over the past few months, with the help of a Louisville fitness boot camp....

Most people at some point in their weight lifting routines will at notice their results sort of leveling out. There are a few techniques and exercises you can use to get over these plateaus so you can continue to increase your muscle mass and reach your fitness goals. Here are three ways to increase your results. The fist technique is to use a few of your normal workouts but doing them when you are...

The “Core” has become a poplar buzzword in the fitness world. Exercisers everywhere are training it and advertisers are promoting devices that train it. But, just what is your core and how much do you really know about it? Your core consists of all the muscles that make up your abdomen, lower & upper back, pelvic girdle, and shoulder girdle. Basically if you were to remove your arms...

As soon as you join a gym you get offers of personal training. It’s part of their overall sales plan or perhaps one of the benefits that are included, but do you really need a trainer and if you do, what should you look for? People look for different things in their trainers depending what their goals and plans are. Are you looking to make great gains in fitness? Are you a novice who needs instruction...

When you set goals for your personal fitness, it is helpful to know that 90% of your fellow goal-setters will quit within a month! This is not because it is necessarily difficult to do the things that you have set yourself up to do but more likely because of mental traps that they fall into without realizing it. Here are a few tricks to avoid those traps. Try to be around like-minded people as much...