Exercise can help fend off disease

We all know that regular exercise has numerous health benefits – a few hours spent on your home treadmill each week can help you shed pounds, reduce stress and improve your focus. However, new research suggests that your fitness routine may have an additional, important effect on your health: It can reduce inflammation, which can help you fend of disease.

According to Dr. Brent Bauer, a member of the Mayo Clinic Health Letter editorial board, inflammation appears to play a role in many chronic diseases, including arthritis, heart conditions and Crohn’s Disease. Continue reading “Exercise can help fend off disease”

Get your legs ready for shorts weather

Summer’s here, and that means it’s time to break out your shorts and show off your legs. There’s no reason to dread the season of bare legs if you have the tools to tone your glutes and thighs. Keep these tips in mind as you ease into your summer workout routine, and you’ll be ready for shorts season in no time. Continue reading “Get your legs ready for shorts weather”

How To Burn More Calories During Your Run

We all know that running is one of the most efficient ways to burn calories, which makes it one of the best ways to go about losing weight (combined with a healthy diet, of course). But if you’re not seeing results from your runs in the form of disappearing pounds on the scale, you may want to try other ways to burn more calories during your fitness routine. So hop up on your home treadmill and use these strategies for more effective running. Let’s learn How To Burn More Calories During Your Run.

Ramp Up The Incline

When running on a flat surface, you burn approximately 270 calories in half an hour, but putting your fitness treadmill on an incline can help you burn hundreds of calories more! This is because one of the easiest ways to increase your heart rate is by running on an incline, and a faster heart rate means more calories burned. All TRUE Fitness treadmills allow you to adjust your incline, so try to challenge yourself by gradually upping the tilt of your running surface during your workout.

Try Some Intervals

A really effective way to burn calories is by training in intervals, that is to say, combining short spurts of sprinting with your regular running pace. While there are many different combinations of interval training that you can choose from, the fact remains that the body is less “fuel-efficient” at higher speeds, which means you will burn more calories as you continue to run. Some interval-adherents even say they are able to run for longer periods of time when using this exercise strategy.

Run For Five More Minutes

Speaking of running longer, lengthening your run by a mere five minutes can help you burn more calories. Those few extra minutes allow you to burn approximately 50 more calories – which adds up pretty quickly if you’re a regular runner. Start slowly by running just a minute longer each day, and by the end of the week, you’ll have reached your five-minute goal.

Focus On Speed

If you’re a regular runner, it can be easy for your body to get too comfortable with your exercise routine, which means it may not burn as many calories as you would like. To combat this problem, you’ll have to ramp up the intensity of your run by increasing your speed. After warming up, run 0.5 miles per hour faster than normal. You can start by increasing your pace for just a few minutes at a time, and then returning to your normal running speed. Lengthen the amount of time you spend at a faster pace during each successive run, and you’ll be a speed demon before you know it.

Traditional workouts that will get you fit

It seems like every day you read about the best new fitness fad that will help you shed pounds and look years younger, but what about good-old-fashioned exercises like running or doing push ups? Are they still effective? As it turns out, yes! There’s no need to pay for a pricey fitness class when you have home gym equipment that will keep you fit. Continue reading “Traditional workouts that will get you fit”

Is walking better than running?

The age-old debate rages on: Which is better for you, walking or running? The answer? It depends on who you talk to, and what home gym equipment you use.

Findings published by statistician Dr. Paul Williams from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory revealed that it can really go both ways. In fact, it seems that both walking and running have numerous health benefits, they just differ. Continue reading “Is walking better than running?”

How to find a great workout partner

If you’re lacking in motivation when it comes to sticking to your fitness routine, having a workout partner can go along way toward getting you off the couch and onto your home treadmill or out to the gym. While knowing that you have a fitness treadmill with preset programs can go a long way toward simplifying your exercise regimen, sometimes you just need a buddy by your side to inspire you to work out. Continue reading “How to find a great workout partner”

3 ways to flex your flexibility

As you formulate your fitness routine, stretching may be the last thing on your mind: After all, isn’t the whole point to lose weight and get healthy? But flexibility is actually a key component of proper training, because it can improve your performance and may decrease your risk of injury from working out or performing daily activities. If you’re lucky enough to belong to a gym that has a TRUE Stretch, you can use it to take a natural approach to flexibility training and make sure you are doing stretches that will truly improve your range of motion. You can also try these tactics at home: Continue reading “3 ways to flex your flexibility”

Don’t derail your fitness goals with these diet mistakes

You may think that once you’ve established a workout routine you’ve won the battle to meet your fitness goals, but you may unintentionally be eating foods that make it difficult to get the most out of the time you spend on your home treadmill. While features like the TRUE HRC Cruise Controlâ„¢ system – available on all TRUE Fitness treadmills – will help you maintain your target heart rate throughout your workout, these diet mistakes could prevent your from reaching your full potential: Continue reading “Don’t derail your fitness goals with these diet mistakes”