Better Exercise N Fitness

Regular exercise during pregnancy can lead to you feeling more comfortable physically, healthier during the pregnancy, and a quicker recovery afterwards.  Often time, those who exercise while pregnant will tolerate the stress and pain of childbirth better.  Stretching and very low impact exercises can be particularly useful to easing your labor and delivery.  Additionally, regular exercise during pregnancy help a women to recuperate faster after childbirth and can help in gaining only the healthy weight before your baby's birth.  But, before you start exercising, you should know what to do and what not to do for both you and your baby's safety. More...

Mike Geary’s Truth About Six Pack Abs is currently the top selling fitness book on the Internet.  Mike Geary's book teaches you that building lifelong six pack abs can be accomplished through a full-body training routine that cuts your fat away by building up both your metabolism and your hormonal response to your workouts.

A quick read of the home page will provide an explanation of the five biggest myths about getting ripped six-pack abs. This 120 page book debunks the myths about health food, endless repetitions of crunches or sit ups, and is not some new type of supplement gimmick.

This book provides a simple full-body exercise plan to get you ripped six pack abs.  But just doing exercises alone everyday is not enough; Mike includes special section on nutrition along with a well balanced food plan making the book a more complete guide to a flatter stomach. More...

Exercise after pregnancy is not only a necessity for getting your body back in shape but also to strengthen and heal your body and mind.  For the previous nine months, your body has gone through significant hormone change that not only added weight and caused mood swings, but also allowed you to carry a baby and assist in it development.  Congratulations on the birth of your newborn.  But now that you have given birth, it is time for you to get back to being you.  Here are 5 post pregnancy exercises to recover the real you.  More...

Choosing the best type of conditioning program that will stimulate the muscle fiber type that will get you results is extremely important.  This post will explore the twitch muscle fibers, when are they used, and how you can develop them in your training programs. More...

Vince DelMonte's No-Nonsense Muscle Building is a book for the smaller framed man or women who want to develop a muscular toned physique.  While other muscle building books topics focus on massive bulking up, No-Nonsense is from a fitness model perspective.  This 215 page book covers all the key points about muscle building without the fluff that some use to increase the page count. Just recently, Vince has released his latest product Your Six Pack Quest as a companion product to further assist you in fat loss and building six pack abs.

Vince is a successful fitness model competitor so his knowledge is in developing the “fitness model physique” as opposed to the bulky “bodybuilder physique.”  He emphasizes aspects in his program that are ignored or barely covered in similar programs like flexibility training, endurance training and muscular balance.

Of all the muscle building programs, Vince's ranks the best in continuously expanding and improving on his package's content through his limited time offer free membership site.  He explanations are clear and directly to the point.  If you do not want to read an long book that restates the same points multiple time or listen to repetitive audio drone on for hours, then this is the book for you.

Best of all, this book caters equally to both males and females. In fact, you will find that this program provides each of his books, workouts, and diet plans in both of male and female editions. More...

Almost everyone who is a serious athlete and plays competitively will experience symptoms of over-training at one point in their development.  Over-training can lead to serious injury, chronic fatigue, and potentially muscle mass loss.  Over-training is far too common since many athletes want to train as fast as possible to get to that next competitive level.   Training too much or at too high an intensity can create short-term and potentially long term damage to an athlete. More...

The most common cardiovascular workout consists of a 30 minute steady rate run on a treadmill, riding a stationary bike, or coasting on a elliptical machine while watching the television at their $35 per month state of the art gym.  While it is good that the individual is actively elevating their heart rate for 30 minutes and religiously doing this three to four days per week, the truth is that the value to an individual's cardiovascular system is greatly reduced after the first couple of weeks as the body becomes condition to operating in this steady state.  That is what our bodies do ...  they quickly adapt to new environments and conditions and then efficiently operate in that situation.  This is why it is important to vary the activity rate to keep the body under stress and tax the cardiovascular system. More...

The emerging trend in dieting are low carbohydrate diets such as Atkins, South Beach, and Sonoma diets.  Everybody has heard of "low carb" weight loss.  But do they really work?  If so, are they the solution to weight loss that everybody is looking for?  No.  Most low carb diets have several problems, which make losing weight very difficult for the average dieter. More...

If you are looking to improve your physical conditioning, sprint training is one of the best cardiovascular and muscle building exercises.  Many individuals prefer sprint training because it takes less time than traditional cardio exercises that have you running on a treadmill for thirty to sixty minutes, still consumes a large amount of calories, and utilizes energy burst training that has shown to provide better cardiovascular health. More...

I had an interesting discussion yesterday with a certified professional training about what is a cardio workout and do you really need cardiovascular training to get in great shape.  Most fitness buffs and weekend warriors consider it a fact that you need cardio exercises to get in shape, lose body fat, and develop lung capacity.  You may be surprised to know that some of the leanest and meanest people never do any type of traditional cardiovascular training. More...