With all the options available to help you improve the way
you look and feel, purchasing a piece of home equipment is
a viable solution for those who are disciplined enough to
use it consistently. Unfortunately, most home exercise
equipment is left to collect dust because people buy the
wrong equipment that won't help them achieve their fitness
goals. Slick marketing campaigns and infomercials that use
deceptive claims have tricked people into thinking that
they can achieve fast results with little effort.
If you are like most people, you want to improve the way
you look and feel. but you are confused by all the options
available and fed up with false promises. The number one
reason people cite for not exercising is the lack of time.
The simple convenience of squeezing in a quick workout in
your own home takes the time excuse out of the equation.
Once you've made the decision to buy home equipment, the
key is making the right purchase the first time. If you buy
something that doesn't work even once, you will be less
likely to try again, and you will ruin a great opportunity
to improve your health. Here are some of the top Do's and
Don'ts on your path to improved health and fitness.
Do:
-Include strength training in your physical activity
routine. Strength training helps build lean muscle tissue,
which is your body's fat-burning machinery, and will allow
you to burn more calories at rest.
-Include cardio exercise in your physical activity routine.
Walking is a good start but losing a single pound of fat
equals 3,500 calories burned, and walking will yield
limited results, compared to other forms of
higher-intensity cardio exercise. For example, walking at a
slow pace of less than 2.0 mph for an hour will burn
approximately 175 calories for a person who weighs 155
pounds. Higher-intensity exercise, like running or using an
elliptical trainer at approximately 70% of your maximum
heart rate, can burn over twice the calories in half the
time.
-Invest in a good elliptical trainer because it is the most
effective, non-impact piece of equipment available.
-Choose short workouts - you will have a better chance of
sticking with your routine. Start out with 20 minutes of
cardio exercise four times per week and 10 minutes of
strength training, focusing on only two muscle groups with
each workout, for a total of 30 minutes. Long-term fitness
results will happen only if you include physical activity
in the form of regular exercise as a part of your routines
and habits. There are 168 hours in a week. Give just two of
these hours per week to exercise to improve your health
with this simple system.
Don't:
-Make hasty decisions with your purchases.
-Be tricked into buying a piece of abdominal equipment as
the solution for achieving your fitness goals. The Ab
Lounger, Ab Roller, Ab Rocker, Ab Doer, the Bean, Red
Exerciser and other abdominal equipment claim that you can
lose inches and get washboard abs by using their products.
This is one of the biggest deceptions in the fitness
industry. It doesn't work that way. There isn't anything on
the market that will magically melt away fat or reduce
inches from your midsection. The human body does not have a
mechanism to selectively burn fat in specific areas. You
can do abdominal exercises until the cows come home, but
you will never lose inches around your mid-section or see
"washboard abs" until the fat around your waistline is
gone. Spot reduction is a lie, and any product that claims
or implies otherwise is a scam and a big, fat rip-off.
-Waste your money on electrical muscle stimulators (EMS).
For years, manufacturers of ab belts that stimulate muscles
using small currents of electricity made distorted claims,
including weight loss, spot reduction, shaping and
contouring, and cellulite removal. Claims by these
manufacturers were so outrageous that the FDA filed
litigation to protect consumers and halt the use of
deceptive claims. Amazingly (and shamefully), the FDA then
approved the Slendertone (EMS), but the manufacturer still
uses deceptive before-and-after images to make people think
that they can lose weight and drop inches by using their
product.
-Be taken by false promises made by manufacturers of sauna
belts that claim or imply they will help you lose inches
around your midsection. The only thing you will lose by
purchasing this utterly useless device is temporary water
weight and some permanent cash. Sauna belts are a complete
and total lie and will not help you achieve your health and
fitness goals.
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Craig Pepin-Donat has helped millions of people get on the
path to living a healthier and more active lifestyle. He
has dedicated his life to helping people through health and
fitness education and now brings that knowledge and
expertise to you in his ground breaking book, The Big Fat
Health and Fitness Lie. He founded
http://www.FitAdvocate.com
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