Practice "HIIT", the acronym for High Intensity Interval Training. The basic idea is to do your cardiovascular training in 2 different zones. Zone #1 is your "cruising speed", which is the speed and/or resistance that keeps you inside your Target Heart Rate Zone. Zone #2 is significantly more intense, cranking your heart rate [...]

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Breathe hard! Or, get your heart rate up - however you want to phrase it. The point is that no serious, long-term fitness progress ever came out of "taking a stroll" on the treadmill, or by meandering around your neighborhood after dinner.
Although it is true that ANY exercise is better than NO exercise, if you [...]

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Get out and PLAY! People are so hung up on the "latest exercise programs" that they forget that the mission is to simply expend energy. No one ever said that you had to expend energy in the gym, or by pounding the pavement in your neighborhood.
Structured sports such as football, volleyball, tennis and similar activities [...]

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Set and measure your goals! If you don't know specifically where you want to go, how can you possibly know if you are on the right track to get there?
Everyone wants to "lose weight" or "feel better". What does that MEAN? Does it mean that you want to drop 4 dress sizes? Does it mean [...]

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The High Jump is one of those exercises that looks easy, but it's not! This basic movement that requires no equipment is more effective in some ways than using the high-tech cardiovascular training equipment at the gym.
Be sure to visit Fitness Generator to get access to thousands of exercise graphics as well as instructions on [...]

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