As we know it’s the season for all man and women kind to start thinking of losing some of the flab they’ve piled on during the past twelve months. You’ve heard me warning of the false promises some exercise equipment manufacturers give to get you to part with your hard earned cash.

Now it appears that shoe and trainer makers are jumping on the bandwagon with so called exercise footwear. Reebok have recently introduced a whole line of footwear The Reebok EasyTone range which they claim can help give you a firm butt!

The weight loss claims are based around creating a shoe that is unstable to walk in and therefore (they claim) causes your body to have to work harder to stay upright / balanced.

I believe there are two major flaws in this argument:

1. The amount of extra calories burned because of this instability is going to be very small indeed compared to just walking for the same amount of time in ordinary footwear.
2. I don’t like the idea of any device which will change your natural gait. It’s a recipe for injury particularly as the people who are most likely to use them are going to be over weight and out of condition.

My recommendation is to avoid this type of footwear and just go for a walk in your normal trainers. After all 95% of the benefit you’ll get is from the walking alone so why pay over $100 for a measly 5% and an increased chance of injury to boot

If however you just have to have a pair then go take a peek at the Reebok EasyTone Sneakers.

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Well it’s that time of year again. Up and down the country people have been making new years resolutions that involve losing weight. As their waistlines have expanded so has their resolve to do something about it.

One of the first things that springs to mind is a Gym membership and it’s a well documented fact that the number of new people joining a gym surges in January. Sadly the numbers also fall off very rapidly by March / April of the same year. So what’s to be done? Why not make it easier to exercise?

After all trialling to the gym is usually the reason most people give for losing interest with a cry of “I’m just to busy, I tried but I couldn’t fine the time” Humbug I say why not use the gym membership money and buy at home workout equipment instead? No excuses now!

Why not consider the following:

• Get a home gym (expensive)
• Buy some dumb bells and learn how to use them
• Take a look at the Wii Fit (not my favoured option but if it gets you exercising so what)
• Invest in some Aerobic Fitness DVD’s that will inspire you exercise
• Join a Yoga or Pilates class

If you really want to get in the best shape of your life my recommendation is get The Firm Wave and the Kettleworx. Both simple, easy to use exercise programs that  combine Aerobic and Strength training in one fast simple (not easy) exercise program that I guarantee if you were to do regularly will give you the fat loss results you’re looking for. The snag? These are not exercise gimmicks that claim to do all the work for you. You’ll have to work hard and I’m sorry to say sweat

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I think anyone who is obese would love this to be true because after all it’s the perfect excuse for being overweight and not doing anything about it.

A researcher in the USA is claiming that this may in fact be true. According to Nikhil Dhurandhar there is some evidence that a so called fat virus may actually exist and he is asking for money to expand his research.

As you can imagine this has not proved a popular theory with mainstream thinking at odds with his idea. In fact with so many other factors at work it would be highly unlikely that this could be true but I’m sure many will wish it was.

Other factors include:

• Your age
• Your activity level (linked to age)
• Medications you’re taking (steroids,antidepressants etc)
• You’ve quit smoking
• What you eat
• The amount of exercise you get
• Your gender
• Hormonal influences

The list goes on and on. From my perspective sensible eating and an effective exercise program done regularly is the best antidote to packing on the extra pounds but as we all know it’s a simple solution but not one that people want to accept.  Much easier to buy the latest useless piece of at home exercise equipment and then hang your laundry on it or dream of a vaccine for the fat virus!

Not all home exercise equipment is rubbish why not take a look at The Malibu Pilates Chair or the Kettleworx Workout and lose the fat by working out?

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A new kid is on the block. The ViPR (viper) has arrived. Looking like a very large sausage with handles built in it stands about one metre high and is made of rubber. The ViPR comes in a variety of weights ranging from 4 Kg all the way to 20 Kg.

You can lift it, push it, squash it and roll on it.It can be used whilst squatting, lunging and pressing. It is said to combine aerobic and strength training in the same workout making them more challenging and therefore more effective.

The ViPR is fairly new having made it’s debut late in 2008 but is already taking the fitness industry by storm and is being sold in large numbers into gyms in the UK. Virgin Active is the first gym chain to take it on and I’m sure many others will follow.

A lot of interest has also been shown by rugby and football clubs who see this as a great addition to help improve players fitness.

The ViPR has been developed by Michol Dalcourt who has trained many Olympic gold medal winners. Touted as being able to replace multiple pieces of gym equipment including dumb bells, stability balls, medicine balls and kettle bells.

Being a new piece of exercise equipment being sold at the moment into the UK people living elsewhere may have to wait awhile before it becomes availible in their country. It is also a tad expensive at the moment but no doubt once production has been scaled up the price should come down.

I have my eye on the ViPR and may well add it to the exercise equipment I already have (if I can persuade my husband that is!)

Other pieces of functional exercise equipment you may wish to take a look at include KettleWorx Fitness and The Firm Wave.

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According to the latest research conducted in Europe scientists have found some evidence that using vibration machines on a regular basis can help with weight loss. Now I’ve always been suspicious of these types of machines on the basis that it just sounds to good to be true. Jump on, switch it on and jiggle your way to a sexy body. Hmm where have I heard that before?

The reasearchers found that those who used the vibration machines in combination with a calorie controlled diet did better weight loss wise than those controlling calories and exercising with traditional cardio training methods.

Now I’ve never been a great believer in cardio only exercise programs  anyway. Without a strength training element to build muscle and burn fat most exercise programs are doomed to fail or are mostly ineffective for long term and sustained fat loss anyway.

Should you rush out and buy a Power Plate then? Well if you have the money why not, just don’t rely on it alone – combine it with cardio and strength training and who knows you may have a winning combination.

I can’t remember who said it but “You don’t get anything for nothing” if fat loss was as easy as standing on a plate and reading a book then the weight loss industry would be out of business and I don’t see any sign of that happening just yet, do you? Why not stick with methods known to work like the Firm Wave or Kettleworx?

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If you want to keep fit at home, having a handy piece of home fitness kit like the Ab Circle Pro can be a big help to you as it folds up for easy storage and can quickly be set up whenever you have time to use it.  This will give you a useful amount of exercise to add to your other kinds of workout while eating a healthy diet.

To get fit and stay fit no matter how old you are involves several components as you must do regular and different types of exercise, hard enough to make you sweat.  A home exercise machine that will help with your fitness goals is the Cardio Twister but you must also eat properly and make sure you’re sleeping well.

It is not enough to exercise once a week and have a salad on Tuesdays, and then eat junk food and lounge on the couch for the rest of the week as you almost certainly will not lose weight or improve your fitness in this way!  Fitness gains and weight loss go hand-in-hand with one another, and if you do one without the other, all your efforts will end in failure.

Drastically reducing your food intake while not exercising is like a broken pencil.  Pointless.  True, the weight according to the scales will go down, but you will not be losing fat only muscle, you will feel hungry and grumpy and weight will soon pile back on again.

The best method of losing fat while giving your muscles a nice shape is to work out at an intensity that is just slightly uncomfortable for half an hour every other day, and to carry on with this on a permanent basis so that it becomes part of your life.

Either the Cardio Twister or Ab Circle Pro would be of great assistance to you in helping you to get fitter and start shedding those excess pounds.  Neither needs a large amount of floorspace, are always ready to use and work out much cheaper in the long run than a gym membership.

The Ab Circle Pro is fun and easy to use; you kneel on the padded kneepads and swing your hips from side to side around the glide track.  By a single simple adjustment you can change the Ab Circle Pro to work the inner and outer thighs, hips and buns, and the upper body positioning means that your shoulders and arms will also become strengthened and toned.

Alternative to an Ab Circle Pro as a piece of home equipment is the Cardio Twister which is currently very popular and consists of a step which also works your legs and thighs laterally with an upright and handlebars attached.  As you step, the adjustable-height handlebars move from side to side, thus working all your abdominal and core muscles for great calorie burning and a neat waistline.

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The Ab Rocket is a new and cleverly-engineered home exercise device to give you toned and shapely abs without causing you any back pain.  Raising you up off the floor and into a seated position for a great abdominal workout, the Ab Rocket is suitable to any level of exercise, is easy-to-use, and stores away neatly after use.

The majority of effective exercises for the stomach muscles are carried out on the floor as it is quite difficult to isolate the abs in order to tone and strengthen them. This supine position makes the muscles of the back very vulnerable as most exercisers don’t know how to engage their deep stomach muscles properly in order to perform a traditional abdominal crunch.

To recruit the correct abdominal muscles is not easy and requires separate training in itself.  If you are new to exercising it is almost certain that you will not know how to use your muscles correctly and would need an instructor standing over you to tell you exactly which muscle to contract and where you should feel it.

If you don’t have a Personal Trainer – and let’s face it, they don’t come cheap – you will struggle as reading how to do ab exercises properly will be more likely to confuse you than anything else, and is very likely that you won’t know where to start.

If you don’t engage deep stomach muscles correctly before attempting a situp, all you are likely to do is poke your elbows forward, drag your head and shoulders upwards and cause strain in your neck and back muscles, while your abs just lie there immobile.

If the important muscles are not correctly recruited, the work goes to other muscles nearby which are not designed to do the job.  I have known people tear a back muscle and even dislodge a disk by performing ab crunches incorrectly.

The Ab Rocket Workout will solve all these problems with one stroke, getting you off the mat and into a comfortable sitting position where your back is supported all the way from the base of your spine right up to the top of your head.  The firm, padded rollers support your back and massage your muscles while affording you protection from back injury.

In this position, when you lean back and crunch upwards, your back is carefully supported; not to the extent that the exercise is done for you, but enough to relax the back and put the focus of the exercise squarely back where it belongs – into your abdominals.

To read the customer Ab Rocket Reviews please click this link.

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