How does this appeal? You want to loose weight, get fit, improve your strength, ease aches and pains and reduce the risk of osteoporosis and all you have to do is stand on a vibrating platform. Well that’s the claims from the manufacturers of vibrating machines and its generating lots of buzz and celebrity use....

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Your workout at the gym isn’t going to be any less painful. But the world’s leading commercial provider of exercise equipment might at least help make the session on a stair-climber or treadmill more entertaining. Life Fitness, a division of Brunswick Corp., says it plans to offer seamless integration with Apple Inc.’s iPod players in upcoming...

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The California Fitness health club in Hong Kong has connected car batteries to exercise machines so that they can harness human energy to reduce their electricity bills. Rita Wong a fit 27 year old said its very good motivation; for as she pedals furiously on the elliptical she can see the calories she’s burning powering the...

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Can vibration training be good for you? This is a question that a magazine called GearTrends® a very well respected trade magazine in America has been looking in to. To begin with the first American Conference on Human Vibration has just taken place with a focus on disorders of the vascular, neural and musculoskeletal system caused by...

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The New Movement in Weight Training Weight training has always been a popular fitness activity and the reason for this is quite simple. The results are quick; it can improve your performance in athletic activities and dramatically improve strength, muscle tone, appearance and health. Conventional weight training methods achieve excellent results, however they do have their drawbacks....

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It’s really tough to loose weight-and keep it off. Statistics suggest that 9 out of 10 people who go on a diet put the weight back on again, but that means 10% are successful. How do they do it? Research suggests that there are nine key habits that successful weight loss winners adopt. Whether they consciously adopt...

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On the walls of the funerary chapel in Beni-Hassan in Egypt is a drawing. Depicted in this drawing are three figures, lifting what appears to be bags above their heads. Although no one can say with certainty that they are actually performing strength-training exercises the impression is very reminiscent of Indian club training. This drawing...

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DR KENNETH COOPER The Father of Aerobics It’s hard to believe but until the early 1960’s, few doctors and fewer non-professionals knew just how much exercise was good or necessary. In the 1950’s it was actually discouraged by some doctors. Dr P Steincrohn in his book How to Keep Fit Without Exercise wrote that “to have a...

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46 women, strength training in a health club were split into two groups. Half of the women trained with a personal trainer and the other half worked out on their own. The study by the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research was for a period of 3 months. Those that worked out with a personal trainer...

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Here are a few guidelines to determine whether you should continue to train when feeling a little under the weather. These guidelines are for common illnesses such as a cold virus or a mild tummy bug and should not be used if you are suffering from a more serious condition. At the end of the day...

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