Workout Programs
Home Workouts: Hotel Room Edition
Home workouts can be just as effective as going to a fancy, equipment-packed gym if you know the right exercises to perform. Even better, you can get a full body workout using a few simple moves that require no equipment at all.
As long as your body is attached to your head, then you're ready to [...]
Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog Carnival #13
Monday is Blog Carnivals Day. 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 on the ones that interest you to read the full post. [...]
Quality Over Quantity and Intensity Over Frequency
Good news for those having a hard time fitting gym sessions into their hectic work weeks: A new study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research says your training intensity is more important than your training frequency.
The researchers based their finding on the results of two separate groups. One group trained three times a [...]
Walking Is For Your Grandmother, Now Drop and Give Me 20!
Health experts have been taking it easy on us for the past several years: "Try and eat well, and walk a couple times a week." Well, we see where that's gotten us…
If we continue piling on unhealthy fat at our current rate, a new study predicts that 75% of Americans will be overweight by [...]
Should I Lift or Run First?
It's a common question among exercisers: "Should I lift weights before or after my cardio session?"
The best solution is actually to do them on separate days. This allows your body to be fresh for both the weightlifting and the cardio, thus allowing you to give your maximum effort on each. However, due to work and/or [...]
Body Transformers: YOU Could Be the Star
With all of the hype and buzz surrounding the rebirth of the Transformers, you've undoubtedly seen the movie or at least the commercials by now. Everyone watches in awe as these seemingly normal cars, trucks, and motorcycles transform into magnificent and complex machines. Well, YOU can do the same thing. Even if you're currently a [...]
How to Burn MORE Fat in LESS Time - The Secret to HIIT
"More for less" statements are usually followed by 30 minute infomercials that guarantee you phenomenal results with little work or "no money down". Well, there really is a way to burn more fat in less time, but the key is in defining the more and less variables.
Most people approach fat-burning and cardio workouts the same [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
