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Be Your Own Online Personal Trainer
Filed under BloggingOct 31Whether your goal is flat abs, sculpted arms, or the perfect butt, we’ll help you get the body you want. We’ve pulled together our best results-guaranteed moves. Be your own online personal trainer and pick the ones you like best. Print your custom workout, and hit the gym!
Build your own custom workout.
(Note: You’ll need to log in or register for a free WH online membership once you click this link. The custom workout-builder is a special benefit for our members.)Source: http://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/total-body-workout-build-your-own-custom-plan
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Abs Exercises: Yoga And Pilates
Filed under BloggingOct 30Carnitas or fish tacos? Choices are hard?especially if hard is how you want your abs. And while there’s no doubt that yoga has some serious abs strengtheners in its arsenal, we have to concede that Pilates picks up the point for variety and depth in the core category.
Fret no longer, ab-envying yoginis.You can now have your six pack abs and eat up your sweet savasana, too. “One time I went to a yoga session after Pilates?and everything was so much easier,” says Jonathan Urla, instructor at The Sports Club/LA in New York City. “That’s when a lightbulb went off in my head. I needed to put the two together.”
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Workout Playlists: Spinning Songs
Filed under BloggingOct 30Workout Playlist plan Up-tempo tunes
Why it works It’s not because all spin instructors are ecstasy-loving club kids in disguise. It’s because fast music inspires you to move. A 2007 study at Brunel University in London found that runners on a treadmill were more productive when they matched their stride to music with a tempo of 120 to 140 beats per minute (aka bpm–for the average music buff, that’s the number of times you tap your foot to a song in one minute).
How does this translate to spin class? According to a study by Costas Karageorghis, Ph.D., a senior lecturer in sports psychology at Brunel, you’ll work up to 7 percent harder while grooving to music synched to your pedal stroke and not feel any more fatigued. To get the most pedal power from your playlist, Karageorghis recommends songs around 120 bpm for medium to high levels of exertion (when you can speak in spurts of three or four words). When it’s time to raise the intensity, bump up your soundtrack to 140.
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Source: http://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/workout-songs-spinning-playlist