BodyBuilding
How a Digital Scale Analyzes and Calculates Your Body Fat Percentage
With John's recent frustrations over his body fat measurements, we decided to find out exactly how body fat calculators, monitors, analyzers, and scales work (lots of fancy names, but one universal way of estimating your body fat percentage).
Holy Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis, Batman! Body fat scales use BIA to estimate your body composition (ratio of fat [...]
Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog Carnival #3
Monday is Blog Carnivals Day (see the FAQ for a detailed breakdown of FitBuff.com's posting schedule). A Blog Carnival is basically a collection of articles or blog posts, all relating to a similar subject, that are gathered together for your viewing pleasure. You can quickly and conveniently see a list of Article Titles and click [...]
10 Fitness Facts and Statistics to Keep You Motivated
Over 50% of people who start an exercise program GIVE UP within the first 12 months.
The average man exercises 115 days per year. Sound impressive? It's not — that's only about TWO days per week.
71% of men admit that they should exercise more.
A whopping 96% of men admit to skipping a workout on more than [...]
Exercise of the Week: Hanging Leg Raises
Exercise of the Week: Hanging Leg Raises
Difficulty: Intermediate to Advanced
Hanging Leg Raises are like Pullups…they are one of the best exercises you can do without any weights at all, but most people skip them, because they think if they can only do a few reps, then everyone will laugh at them.
The truth is, no one [...]
Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog Carnival #2
Monday is Blog Carnivals Day (see the FAQ for a detailed breakdown of FitBuff.com's posting schedule). A Blog Carnival is basically a collection of articles or blog posts, all relating to a similar subject, that are gathered together for your viewing pleasure. You can quickly and conveniently see a list of Article Titles and click [...]
How to Literally Turn Back Time - The REAL Fountain of Youth
Ever wish you could turn back the clock and actually reverse the aging process? Well, there's a man who did just that. This man was over 65 years old. This man began strength training. And, this man literally reversed the "genetic fingerprint" of his muscle tissue, returning it to a state [...]
7 Tips for General Health and Fitness
It never fails, but as soon as I wrote all my Weight Loss, Weight Gain, Fitness and Nutrition type of tips I had a few left over that couldn't really be placed into these categories. But, as you will see, they are right on the money for your general health and fitness and can be [...]
Food for Thought - 10 Tips to a Better Brain
You've probably heard the expression, "We only use 10% of our brains", right? Well, that isn't exactly true, but there are some things you can do to improve that often misunderstood clump of gray matter up there.
Tip #1
You understand that in order to get bigger and stronger you have to [...]
5 Action Ideas to Get Big Fast
Are you sick and tired of picking up that latest body building magazine off the shelve, opening it to the latest program on the current bodybuilding star and discovering that he is using a six day split program that has you in the gym for four hours a day!!
What it won’t tell you is that [...]
30 Days to Success
A powerful personal growth tool is the 30-day trial. This is a concept I borrowed from the shareware industry, where you can download a trial version of a piece of software and try it out risk-free for 30 days before you’re required to buy the full version. It’s also a great way to develop new [...]
