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Month: October 2013

Turbo-boost your cross training with TRX

Posted on by Angie Tinsley

As you know, it’s important to include both strength and cardio workouts in your overall fitness plan. Cardio sessions increase your endurance and stamina levels, while strength training builds and stabilizes muscles required to successfully complete a run on a home treadmill or a ride on a home exercise bike.

When considering home gym equipment, cardio like a True PS800 Home Treadmill and a True ES700 Home Recumbent Bike are crucial, but what do you do for strength? A great option is to cross-train with TRX. Continue reading “Turbo-boost your cross training with TRX”

How can you achieve the treadmill body?

Posted on by Angie Tinsley

When people think of a home treadmill, the idea of a total body workout may not necessarily be the first thing that comes to mind. More often than not, treadmills correlate to the idea of a great cardio workout or strengthening the leg muscles like quadriceps, hamstrings and calves.

While treadmills like a True PS800 Home Treadmill are popular pieces of equipment, exercisers don’t always know how to mix up their routines on them, which can definitely lead to fitness boredom. Continue reading “How can you achieve the treadmill body?”

Cross training with kettlebells and ellipticals

Posted on by Angie Tinsley

To really achieve the maximum benefits from physical fitness, it’s important to cross train. This involves participating in both cardiovascular and strength building workouts, whether you follow one after the other or alternate days.

Cross training ensures that your entire body, from your muscles and heart to your internal organs and brain, is in great shape. You’ll be stronger mentally and physically with both cardio and strength training, which can be achieved with home fitness equipment. Additionally, the more stable your muscles are, the better form you’ll have when performing cardio. You need solid leg muscles to keep you moving and a stable core to keep proper stance and form. Continue reading “Cross training with kettlebells and ellipticals”

Fitness motivation: training for a mud run

Posted on by Angie Tinsley

One of the best ways to stay motivated with fitness is to set an end goal. Having something to work toward can help put each treadmill workout in perspective and provide you with a sense of achievement in reaching and attaining your health needs.

For a runners, races are always a great option for goal setting. It’s something a runner of any fitness level can participate in, and it allows you to set up a training program you must stick to in order to be successful. To make things even more exciting, sign up for a mud run and/or obstacle course. Continue reading “Fitness motivation: training for a mud run”

Should you work out on weight machines or not?

Posted on by Angie Tinsley

A lot of goes into planning a home gym. You must determine what sort of working out you’ll be doing and what machines will be required. You’re sure to want home gym equipment, especially a fitness treadmill like a True M30 Home Treadmill, a stationary bike like a True ES700 Home Recumbent Bike and/or a home elliptical machine like a True M50 Home Elliptical Trainer, depending on what sort of cardio is most enjoyable for you.

Cardio equipment is convenient and necessary for when you get can’t get outside to run or bike, or if you want to mix up your visuals and train on various surfaces. Continue reading “Should you work out on weight machines or not?”

Is the Paleo Diet a valid option for eating healthy?

Posted on by Angie Tinsley

As you develop a commitment to healthy changes in your life, you’ll have to examine both the physical activity and diet choices you make. Whether you’re looking to lose weight, tone up your muscles or just be in better shape generally, it requires lifestyle changes on both fronts for you to truly see the best results.

After setting up your home gym equipment, it’ll be easy to spend time each week running on a home treadmill like the True PS100 Home Treadmill or an elliptical machine like a True PS300 Home Elliptical. Or maybe you’re preparing for a cycling race and like to spend time on a stationary bike like the True ES9.0 Home Upright Bike. Whatever your chosen method of working out is, sticking to a plan and switching up your routine periodically keeps you motivated and focused. Continue reading “Is the Paleo Diet a valid option for eating healthy?”

Clean eating is part of living a healthy lifestyle

Posted on by Angie Tinsley

Committing yourself to a healthy lifestyle is a great accomplishment. One half of achieving this is due to your daily fitness component. Working out regularly on your home gym equipment is crucial to keeping your body in good shape. Whether you’re running on your home treadmill, like a True M30 Home Treadmill, lifting weights or cycling on a True ES9.0 Home Upright Bike, staying active keeps muscles strong and immune systems functioning properly.

The other component of living a truly healthy lifestyle is a balanced diet. A great way to achieve this is through clean eating. The good news is that clean eating is not a diet, but a lifestyle change, and something you can continue permanently. But what does clean eating actually entail? Continue reading “Clean eating is part of living a healthy lifestyle”