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Fitness Tip: Business Travel Training – When traveling out of town, book a hotel with a gym. It’s the next best thing to training at home. And if there’s no gym, make your own! In lieu of a stair stepper, try the stairs! In lieu of a treadmill, try the sidewalk. In strange areas always [...]

Fitness Tip: Heart Smart Training – Like the ever-mounting hits on tobacco, on the flip side, its nemesis, exercise, continues to attract a growing crowd. Reports by the American Heart Association and others in Club Business International suggest that heart attack patients who exercise regularly had a 40 percent lower risk of death as well [...]

Fitness Tip: Remember to BREATHE – Holding your breath while performing an exercise can cause a marked spike in blood pressure. Exhale on the contraction, inhale on the release. Keep breathing throughout the exercise. A good way to remember this is exhale on exertion. Exercise of the day: Band Inner Thigh – The Band Inner [...]

Fitness Tip: Negatives are a good thing – When a muscle shortens during an exercise, it is called the concentric, or positive phase of contraction; When it lengthens, it is called the eccentric or negative phase. Research shows that the muscle can be up to 40% stronger in this negative phase. Capitalize on this fact [...]

Fitness Tip: Use variety – The body is very adaptive. Performing the same routine over and over is not only boring, but your body will get used to the routine and quit responding. Change your exercises, the order in which you do them, the number or sets and reps, or change the weights. In one [...]