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By Ben GreenfieldNov 25, 20081 topic

How to Recover Quickly from Endurance Exercise

To get the most out of every workout and get your best results, it is imperative not only to work hard, but to recover. Many triathletes are Type A, overachievers. They have the "work hard" principle down, but often overlook the basic training principle of recovery in their training programs. As a result, many are overtrained from an accumulation of workout and life stresses paired with insufficient recovery. This can further lead to overuse or burnout, which can be detriment

Primary topic: Fitness and Exercise

Fitness and Exercise

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By Ben GreenfieldNov 25, 20081 topic

A Water Running Workout

Water running, also called aqua jogging or water jogging, offers many health benefits for many people. According to Aquajogger water fitness products, more than 2.2 millions Americans have started deep water running. These enthusiasts have discovered the benefits gained from exercising in water. Aquajogging has been used by professional athletes, the elderly, the injured, and the overweight, and pregnant women alike. Water running has been used as a means of exercise when oth

Primary topic: Fitness and Exercise

Fitness and Exercise

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By Ben GreenfieldMay 20, 20081 topic

Your Body Wants To Be Fat

Call it what you will. Yo-Yo Dieting , Battle of the Bulge, The Holiday Pounds...it's that annoying tendency of our bodies to re-gain so easily weight that we tried to hard to lose. So why does this occur?nnBasically, there are several mechanisms that your body relies on to keep your weight-o-meter at one constant level. While these survival mechanisms may have helped our ancestors rely on stored fat in times of cold, famine and trekking, it really doesn't help us out at all

Primary topic: Fitness and Exercise

Fitness and Exercise

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By Ben GreenfieldMay 20, 20081 topic

What You Didn't Know About Fat

Believe it or not, there is not much credibility to the idea that avoiding animals fats and consuming a low-cholesterol diet will reduce the risk of heart disease. In the past one hundred years, heart disease has gradually become the leading cause of death in America. But this increase in heart disease has not been accompanied by an increase in saturated fats and animal fats in the diet. As a matter of fact, the consumption of animal fat in the American diet has plummeted in

Primary topic: Heart Disease

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By Ben GreenfieldMay 20, 20081 topic

Weight Loss Challenge

WOW! It's been a busy 4 months during the Lost It for Life: Weight Loss Challenge 2006. This was a weight loss contest that I helped coordinate at a local gym in Spokane, Washington. We kicked off at the beginning of the year with 96 people signing up, and 87 actually showing up for the first weigh-in, before photo, circumference measurements, and body fat testing. Every few weeks, participants were scheduled to weigh-in and re-test body fat. Of the starting 87 participants,

Primary topic: Dieting and Weight Loss

Dieting and Weight Loss

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By Ben GreenfieldMay 20, 20081 topic

Training Through Injury

As cold weather approaches, joint injuries become more frequent. Not only do we return to fall and winter sports, but the lower temperatures decrease elasticity of tendons and ligaments, resulting in increased susceptibility to injury. My impetus for writing this article is the number of people who have hobbled into my office lately and complained about "not being able to exercise" in the presence of a shoulder, knee, back, or ankle injury.nnNonsense!nnWhile you want to follo

Primary topic: Fitness and Exercise

Fitness and Exercise

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By Ben GreenfieldMay 20, 20081 topic

Three Perfect Summer Workouts

Now that the warm weather has arrived and being outdoors is no longer a cold and wet experience, it's a perfect time to hit the park or backyard to get a quick, metabolism-boosting break from your weekly gym routine. You'll not only feel fantastic after a fun, body-weight only exercise routine, but you'll also get healthy doses of sunlight and fresh clean air. Remember, there's no perfect exercise routine for everybody, so if you feel any joint pain or experience any distress

Primary topic: Exercise Equipment

Exercise Equipment

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By Ben GreenfieldMar 28, 20081 topic

Cardio: Long & Easy Or Short & Hard?

Even if you've got the greatest abdominal workout in the world, it's not going to slim your waist unless you also burn off the fat. Trust me...there are many of people out there who have great muscular tone and balance in the mid-section, but don't even know it because those nice abs are covered in a layer of fat. Remember, a combination of three factors is necessary for a slim waistline: a good abdominal workout, smart cardiovascular exercise, and proper nutrition. In this a

Primary topic: Health Products and Services

Health Products and Services

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By Ben GreenfieldMar 28, 20081 topic

Cardio: Get The Most Bang For Your Buck!

Which cardio exercise burns the most calories? If I had a nickel for every time I hear this question from a client or curious gym-goer, I'd have a pretty fat wallet! In this article, I'd like to not only compare the calorie burning effects of various forms of popular cardio exercise, but also consider the pros and cons of each.nn 1. The Bicycle: Since the pedaling motion incorporates the big and powerful muscles of the leg, bicycling is a great choice for calorie burning. Man

Primary topic: Nutrition

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By Ben GreenfieldMar 28, 20081 topic

All About Overtraining

Many people engage in what I would call "under-reaching". Individuals who "under-reach" typically arrive at the gym and perform light exercise at an intensity that is insufficient to achieve weight loss or boost fitness levels. However, there is a truth to the mantra "Something Is Better Than Nothing", and even under-reachers are doing better for their bodies than if they hadn't shown up to exercise at all.nnOn the other hand, there are "over-trainers". Over-trainers work out

Primary topic: Health Products and Services

Health Products and Services

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By Ben GreenfieldMar 28, 20081 topic

A Powerful Nutrition Secret

I do not endorse fad diets. I also do not make a practice of recommending health and wellness habits that are not backed by sound scientific studies and data. However, in my constant quest to help my clients and readers achieve optimal health, I'll occasionally stumble upon an amazing diet or fitness tidbit that is so interesting and potentially beneficial that I just can't ignore it. So this week, I'm going to share with you a powerful method to enhance nutrient absorption a

Primary topic: Nutrition

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By Ben GreenfieldMar 28, 20081 topic

A 30 Minute Lean Body Exercise Plan

So you can make it to the gym almost every day...but you just don't have the time when you're there. To really get optimum fat-burning and lean-muscle-building results, you have to devote at least an hour every time you show up, right? Not necessarily - with the following program, you can achieve great results with just a half-hour workout. This program is perfectly designed for the individual who can easily devote 30 minutes a day to exercise - no more, no less. The goal of

Primary topic: Health Products and Services

Health Products and Services

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By Ben GreenfieldMar 22, 20081 topic

5 Simple Ways To Boost Your Workout Intensity

There is a term in exercise science called the SAID principle. It stands for Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands. This means that the body will eventually adapt to the exercise demands that you place upon it. As this occurs, the body becomes more efficient at performing those exercises, and the results seen from those exercises become less noticeable. That explains why you can obtain excellent results with a perfectly designed 6 week exercise program, but then become disap

Primary topic: Fitness and Exercise

Fitness and Exercise

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By Ben GreenfieldMar 22, 20081 topic

5 Nutritional Myths That Can Change Your Life

We are constantly bombarbed by "cutting-edge" research that often causes dietary confusion. Several years ago, eggs were "bad", but now they're "good"; diet soda was a great way to lose weight, but now is correlated with obesity; chicken was considered a lean protein source, but now might be laced with unhealthy hormones. Often it's enough to make your head spin. In this article, I'd like to dispel 7 nutritional myths that may help clear some confusion and put you one step cl

Primary topic: Health Education

Health Education

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By Ben GreenfieldMar 22, 20081 topic

5 Fat Burning Tips

I'm going to give you 5 practical tips to turn your body into a fat-burning machine - information that you can take with you and implement on a daily basis, both in and out of the gym or workout environment. Rather than quantify specific amounts, I'll be giving you some simple ideas. Let's get right to it:nnEat FibernnA high-fiber diet decreases fat and cholesterol absorption in your intestine (preventing fat storage), slows glucose absorption in the bloodstream (meaning more

Primary topic: Fitness and Exercise

Fitness and Exercise

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By Ben GreenfieldMar 22, 20081 topic

5 Ab Revealing Tips

A recent article in the New York Times described a phrase called "unit bias". Unit bias is defined as an individual's tendency to take whatever "unit" or "portion" of food they are served, and consider this a standard sized meal.nnWhat this means is that if you purchase a container of yogurt at the grocery store, you're most likely to eat the entire container because you consider this a meal. Or if the typical person receives a plate of food at a restaurant, they are likely t

Primary topic: Fitness and Exercise

Fitness and Exercise

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By Ben GreenfieldMar 22, 20081 topic

10 Reasons For Your Expanding Waistline

On Monday, July 3rd, an editorial appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The author of the article decided that there must be more to the growing obesity problem in America than the simple fact that people don't exercise enough while eating too much. To back this statement, the editorial cited research from the International Journal of Obesity, which recently reported 10 other possible reasons that people get fat. Ready for the top ten countdown on why Americans are gett

Primary topic: Fitness and Exercise

Fitness and Exercise

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