A personal gym at home will allow for more flexibility in terms of your workout schedule, and if time is tight and you want to include exercise into the busiest of routines, a gym at home is definitely the way to go.

Unfortunately, many people only think of weight and resistance training based multi-gyms when they’re considering home gym equipment, but the range of home exercise equipment now available extends to: Rowing Machines treadmills ab machines orbital trainers elliptical trainer, and much, much more.

This means that in

Plan your home gym carefully

Think of the type of workout you’d like, the areas of your body and overall fitness you want to work on.

Next, have a look at the space you have to set up your equipment. It could be an area as small as a section of a spare room to an entire basement or garage. These factors will dictate the types of fitness products are best suited to your goals.

At the very minimum you could get a few pairs

The next consideration is cost. Only purchase good quality home exercise equipment; the best you can afford for your specific needs. Doing so may be expensive, but it’s a worthwhile investment for both safety, as well as the long term financial benefits associated with less maintenance costs.

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A normal cost to outfit your home might be compared to a two year traditional gym

Do your homework before you buy.

Take advice about your purchase from fitness experts, health and fitness magazines and website reviews or another relevant consumer based source.

Most home exercise equipment will come with a 30-day money back guarantee, so don’t be afraid to try the equipment that will build your Home Gyms before you commit.

Give them a run for their money to ensure that you invest in the right equipment for you. If they’re not right for you, send them back and continue the hunt for the perfect machine.

Once built, be disciplined and use your home gym

Keep it well maintained and you’ll see fantastic results in no time at all, all in the comfort and convenience of your own home.

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I’m 21 years old and trying to quit doing the unhealthy things I do to my body and here’s my problem. I started smoking and drinking a couple of months ago (vodka), and last night was one of the nights I went overboard and drank way too much. I hate the terrible, worthless feeling I get the next day as I don’t feel like training at the gym today due to this feeling. I just feel like staying in bed all day..

I know this is a stupid question but would smoking and drinking affect my gym training (I know it affects cardio cause it screws up your lungs)?

~the thirsty trainer

Dear thirsty trainer,

Thanks

Drinking and smoking while trying to achieve practically any fitness goal are the exact opposites and dont mix. Drinking can compromise your goals especially if fatloss is one of them. I’ve read that the liver can take days to get rid of the alcohol in ones body and so one of its main jobs of filtering fat comes to a standstill and it packs it away for processing later (which never comes of course).

Still not convinced? Okay try this - have a can of beer (or any other alcoholic beverage) just before your workout and let me know if you have a productive workout.

It’s a matter of priorities, especially at your young age of which

There is research out there that says alcohol in moderation has benefits, but I would not recommend anyone that doesn’t drink to start solely for these benefits. Hey, Schwarzenegger smokes cigars too, however, I believe that they are the exceptions. I’d rather stay away from it if I were you.

You know what the right decision is - otherwise you wouldnt be asking about it here

Good luck!

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Although some of the equipment makes be a little bulky, home fitness equipment usually stores always nicely. You can find equipment that costs some money or you can find just as nice equipment that does not cost you a fortune. Not one piece of equipment is better than the other. It all becomes a matter of personal preference. Most of the fitness equipment comes with instructions on how to use the equipment for the areas of the body. This is supplied

Some of the home fitness equipment includes weights, stairs stepper, exercise bicycles, treadmills and weight benches. With all these innovated designs and styles, you should be able to find equipment that you can use at home.

Looking To Flatten Your Stomach

If you are looking to flatten your stomach, the home fitness equipment has many different machines that help you with this task. Have you heard about the AB Rocker, rolling machine and the AB Lounge to name a few? These machines aid you in working the stomach muscles to tone and flatten while strengthening the muscles as well.

If you choose to use the AB Lounge, you can purchase this home fitness

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A Cardiovascular Workout

For a full upper and lower body workout, you might consider a treadmill. This not only

If you need something a little trendier, a stair stepper gives you a good cardiovascular workout while toning and burning calories as well. You have more options for resistance with this type of home fitness equipment. You will receive a great workout with this equipment.

Another type of home fitness equipment that most people do not even know about is the Elliptical trainers. It has been said that this equipment provides the ultimate workout. It has the resistance of a stair stepper and the motivation needed and received from the treadmill.

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Hiring a personal fitness trainer is one of the best ways to receive motivation. Make sure they are certified by an accredited organization and that they have some experience under their belts. Making a commitment to a friend/spouse/sibling/parent to go

It is very important to have a goal or goals to strive for. They must be realistic, however,

Take a look at your thinking patterns as well. You may have a lot of negative self-talk going on. That has to stop if you really plan to be successful. Become your own support coach. Whenever you can, catch yourself and either simply tell yourself “No, I’m not going to talk to myself that way anymore” or literally turn whatever you have said around, putting a positive

Finally, surround yourself with inspirational stimulation such as pictures, reading material, the TV show you choose and the radio/CDs that you choose to listen to … these all matter. You are going to vibrate in accordance to anything that holds your attention, so choose wisely. As you vibrate, so do you create. Always remember that like attracts like, so submerge yourself in those things that are positive, uplifting and inspirational to you. You will succeed.

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The best way to describe an elliptical trainer is to compare it to running on or in the air. Research shows that exercising on a good elliptical trainer is comparable to jogging in terms of energy expenditure and fitness benefit. All this with little or no impact to the body. Your back, knees, hips and feet are protected while you get full body workout.

Using the handlebars on the elliptical trainer works the upper body in a similar manner as a

Many trainers talk about the Rate of perceived exercise when they are discussing the benefits of using an elliptical trainer. This means that your mind and body do not realize that you are doing an intense workout. According to some people this makes the workout on an elliptical trainer much more enjoyable.

These days there are many quality elliptical trainers on the market. Choosing one to fit you can be a problem. Good quality manufactures like Nordic Track,

The best way to determine what trainers will fit your workout style is to physically try them out. This can be done at the gym or local Y or you can visit your local dealer and ask if you can demo the elliptical trainer. When conducting the test make sure you do an intense workout similar to that you would normally do at the local fitness center. Ask lots of questions, including warranty information both from the factor and available

A quality elliptical trainer that fits you and is reliable will make keeping in shape much easier and enjoyable. Ellipticals can be used by almost anyone because they are low impact. We believe they are a worthwhile investment into your health and well being.

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If you are considering teaching Yoga in a fitness center, or health club; imagine the following situation. A Power Yoga teacher is called, by the fitness center she works for - to substitute her Power Yoga class for the regular Step Aerobics Class; this is her story.

This morning I substituted for another fitness class and had a woman literally scowl, once she found out that Yoga was filling in the time

I told her that she might be surprised and she might see Yoga in a different light. She replied “Not likely,” and walked away from me. Though she said it wasn’t personal, I took it so.

I really thought hard about all the things I wanted to say, but found that everything I wanted to say had a negative tone. I told this person, as she walked away that I was not going to argue with her because I saw no

I felt hurt by her attitude, what can be said to people like this? What can I do to let it “roll off of me?” Can you respond in love and still get the point across?

Let s find some realistic solutions for this Yoga teacher.

In a nutshell: This particular health club member is full of negative energy. You are doing your job by substituting for the Step Aerobics class. She decides to take it out on you, but it is all misplaced aggression. She would have acted the same way toward anyone teaching anything, except a cardio based fitness class.

Fitness centers are doing the best they can to serve

What you did is the best thing by avoiding an argument. Showing loving kindness was wise for many reasons. Management will usually back the members, no matter how obnoxious they are.

Many Yoga instructors currently teach Yoga in, or have taught Yoga at, fitness centers, in the past. When a racquetball court is in full swing, a fitness center is not always an ideal place to teach meditation.

Pass them out with a smile. If the class wants to work hard, give them their money’s worth (a serious challenge). They will believe Power Yoga can get them fit, when they can see and feel it.

Those scenarios are the reasons why some Yoga teachers do not teach in fitness centers anymore. When I teach Yoga to anyone, I want to make sure the students want to be there for Yoga.

In a health club, Yoga is just part of a big fitness menu -

Lastly, you are a Yoga teacher, but you are human too. Negative people do not think much before talking, but they do upset everyone all day and every day.

You did the right thing by displaying self-restraint. Remember the saying: You cannot please everyone all the time.

Copyright 2007 Paul Jerard / Aura Publications

Paul Jerard, e-RYT 500, is a co-owner and the director of Yoga teacher training at: Aura Wellness Center, in Attleboro, MA. http://www.riyoga.com He has been a certified Master Yoga teacher since 1995.

To receive a

Setting up a gym at your own home is easy to accomplish. No need to buy every fitness equipment you can get your hands on, as you’ll spend more than it’s necessary and you won’t have space at home for all those fitness equipments.

The first thing you should do is find out what fitness equipments you need for your personal gym. Here are some fitness equipment suggestions to get you started:

- Dumbbell set: most come

- Barbell set: this set often comes included with the dumbbells and also comes in different weight levels. Barbells are a good addition to dumbbells because as you get stronger from lifting dumbbells you want to progress on to lifting the heavier barbells to give your body a different workout. Barbells work various parts of your body such as the upper- and the mid-sections. Barbells can also increase your body stamina.

- Steps: steps are

- Exercise balls. they help improve your balance and you body core strength. Exercise balls are widely used for abdominal workouts. For intermediate users the exercise ball can be used together with a weight bench to workout the stabilizer muscles while doing bench presses. Exercise balls can also be used for pushups, back extensions and lower body exercises.

- Weight lifting glove set: it helps protect your hands during weight training. It helps prevent swollen hands and rough calluses. A solid pair of weight lifting gloves is made from fabric that is comfortable and also allows sweat from the hand to evaporate so that the weights are less

- Ankle weights: they are considered one of the cheaper fitness equipment. Ankle weights are commonly used for body toning and muscular endurance training so as to prevent muscle injury in the lower region.

- Exercise mat: it can be used for floor workouts. Try not to workout on your house carpet in case you slip and injure yourself. Make sure that you select a no-slip mat.

Having a gym with these fitness equipments in your house is much more economical and you’ll now have all the time in the world for workout activities.

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But the bodybuilding magazines say to split up my program into 5 separate days… Yes, I am more than familiar. I call these 5 day splits ‘drug programs.’ They treat your body simply as a ‘muscular system’ and neglect the other systems such as your central nervous system, hormonal system and immune system. Each of these systems have a unique part in muscle growth. Not to mention that these ‘drug programs’ only work if coupled with a few thousand dollars a month on drugs.

Just because you trained your chest on Monday does not mean your immune system, or hormonal system or central nervous

If you are not able to lift more weight than guess what happens to your level of fitness? It certainly will not go up because you will be depleting your energy reserves further into a deep, dark hole called ‘over-training.’ If you can not lift more weight or ‘out-do’ yourself from your previous workout than how do you expect to create any NEW muscle? It is literally impossible. Taking a full rest day every two days will minimize the chance of overtraining and ensure your energy reserves are replenished.

Multiple choice question:

Q. You train your chest on Monday and you averaged 4 sets of 8 with 225 pounds on bench press. This workout would be considered a personal best. Your following chest workout, let’s say five days later, you come to the gym with great anticipation to out-do your last workout. To your disappointment you discover that you can barely do 4 sets of 8 with 185 pounds this week. What happened?

A. Your body had not fully compensated from the previous workout and required a longer recovery period.

B. Who cares! You toughed it out

C . Complain to the gym owner that his weight plates are messed up and you want a refund on your gym membership.

If you picked A than say hurray and pat yourself on the back. The rational decision would be to admit the recovery error, assess the factors that could of resulted from not fully recovering (did you take all your supplements, did you sleep enough, did you follow your nutrition plan etc) and plan for success next time. This is the ‘trial and error’ process.

The emotional and irrational trainee would take option B and slug it out. Consider what is actually happening when you take this

1. You will be using weights within your threshold so your muscles will simply laugh back at you because there is no new unaccustomed stress on your muscles. Remember, your muscles only grow if you give them a reason to.

2. You will be training in the hole and prolong the period of time that it takes to come out of the hole and supercompensate.

3. You will have no new muscle to work with because you have not fully recovered or grown bigger so it will be literally impossible to lift more weight or more reps.

4. You will be using your precious energy reserves, that could be going towards building muscle, instead to

5. You will lose motivation and grow frustrated and confused because of your lack of progress.

This is a very tough and mature training decision one must face. After commencing a workout, if you discover after a few sets that you are on tract for a crappy workout than I would suggest to drop the workout and go home. Plan to come back the next day. If your goals are to simply train to train, than you will probably not follow this rule. However, if your goal is to get huge muscles and pack inches of new muscle onto your frame than this is a critical training decision.

To ensure your trip to

6. Find a mentor

What does this have to do with muscle building? Everything finding a mentor can make all the difference in how much muscle you build! If you plan on becoming successful in the gym than surround yourself with someone who has already walked the path. Would you agree that the quickest way to achieve success is to find someone who has gone before you and done what you want to do and model

So why do millions of fitness enthusiasts wander aimlessly following generic advice in text books, magazines or websites? Although these methods of learning can provide a theoretical perspective, they are absent in accountability, a formal system, time and financial commitment and assessment of performance.

A wise mentor will guide you step-by-step of the way with a formal system that includes a higher level of commitment and accountability on your part. You will be required to fulfill tasks, change habits, meet deadlines and perform at a higher level than you would without a mentor.

The premise of having a mentor is that he has been there and done that. He has walked in your shoes and will

Seriously consider hiring a fitness coach, a personal trainer or anybody who has done what you wish to do and be prepared to elate the same results!

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What’s the fuss?
An influx of over the counter diet pills has bombarded the market, prompting scientists and researchers to express their concern. These diet pills claim to be either appetite suppressants or fat-burners. However, according to scientists, these diet pills have not

Weight loss centers
Aside from diet pills, weight loss centers have also sprung out throughout the country. Weight loss centers provide various services to help people lose weight, such as gym facilities, diet plans, counseling, and even surgery. However, not all weight loss centers are helpful. Some even overcharge their clients on fixed menus and pre-packaged meals.

About Curves
One popular venue for weight loss is the Curve weight loss center. The Curve weight loss center literally sprouted overnight. In the span of a few years, it has opened several branches designed to help women lose weight with its 30-minute

How it works
Considered to be largest fitness center franchise in the world, the Curve weight loss center consists of small facilities with hydraulic resistance machines lined up in a circuit. Clients move from one machine to another in a fixed time interval. There are eight to 12 pieces of equipment in the circuit, each targeting a specific body part. Clients are directed to move from one station to another accompanied by music and taped instruction. A quicker pace equates to a faster heart rate.
Membership in a Curve weight loss

Target market
The Curve weight loss center targets women who are seeking alternatives to traditional gyms. Most clients are middle-aged and above, although many are first-time health club members. The center is designed to curb one’s fears towards exercise.

Problems
The main problem with the Curve weight loss center is the program itself. The 30-minute exercise program is close to being mundane. Every workout is at the same level, and it does not progress to match your body as it gets used to the intensity of exercise. The time is too short to feel like a real workout, and there is a possibility that clients will not take the program seriously enough for long-term use.

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Benefits
On the upside, the Curves program is beneficial for those looking to maintain their weight. It is not heavy exercise, so there is no risk of overworking your muscles. If you re already reached your ideal weight, the Curves exercise is a good way to keep the pounds off.

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The only solution
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Rock Climbing Gift Ideas

You can always tell a rock climber by their appearance. White chalk fingers, bleeding knuckles, bent fingers and a grin a mile wide. Whether they are climbing in indoor climbing gyms or hanging off Half Dome in Yosemite, rock climbers are very receptive to rock climbing gifts. Here are a few gift ideas that will make you a favorite with them.

1. Rock Climbing Gym Most metropolitan areas now have rock climbing gyms. These gyms are typically

2. Climb International DVD The Climb International DVD is a highly recommended financial planning tool for rock climbers. Why? Well, the DVD contains climbs from exotic locations such as Thailand and China. After watching the DVD, the average rock climber will suddenly start saving every penny from their paycheck, rolling nickels and generally being as cheap

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