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1The Perfect SitUp UnmaskedArray55555
2The Air Climber ReviewsArray44444
3Weight Loss Madness Please Don't Do ThisArray00000
4The Ab Circle Mini Reviews - Mini By Name - Mini By Nature?Array00000
5Hoola Hoops Can Damage Your Health!Array00000

The Perfect SitUp Unmasked

by Julia on April 30, 2010

When it comes to exercise people seem to be obsessed with the abdominal area.  The drive for many people working out seems to be to get those washboard abs they’ve seen on the TV.  Now there are many reasons why people won’t get the same results as the models demonstrating the equipment. For one models [...]

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The Air Climber Reviews

by Julia on November 14, 2010

Although not a new piece of exercise equipment the Air Climber is once again being advertised heavily on the Infomercial channels. This machine is basically a stepper but resistance is provided by a pair of air filled chambers which can be adjusted to provide different levels of resistance. Although this machine looks a little bit [...]

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Weight Loss Madness Please Don’t Do This

by Julia on September 10, 2010

Have people gone completely mad or have they lost the ability to use common sense? I got another comment on one of my Blog posts (one of many on this topic) that went something like this. “If I buy this machine (insert any gadget that claims it will help you lose weight quickly) can I [...]

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Just when you thought it was safe to come out the Ab Circle Pro spawns a smaller sibling  called aptly enough The Ab Circle Mini. At half the size and weight of it’s bigger brother the sales blurb claims it’ll give the same fantastic results. As an additional bonus it’s also cheaper coming in at [...]

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Hoola Hoops Can Damage Your Health!

by Julia on April 27, 2010

Hulahoop’s seem like quite an innocuous and fun type of exercise.  Most of us have had a hula hoop when we were child.  It was great fun trying to keep the hoop at waist level and  preventing it from hitting the floor.  Competitions with friends were great fun and great source of  exercise. But what [...]

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I’m not saying that every piece of that home exercise equipment you see advertised on the television is trash.  But let’s face it a lot of them are.  The slick salesmen and stick thin models can easily persuade you that losing 20lb of fat every week is possible.  The reality is unless you hack off [...]

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It looks like the fast-food chains are in trouble once again and I have to say this time I think it is well justified.  One particular fast-food chain and I’ll mention no names has developed a meal in which it touts as healthy  because it has no bread bun. now you’d think without the bread [...]

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Reebok EasyTone Trainers – A Step To Far?

by Julia on April 22, 2010

I see that the Reebok Easy Tone Trainers are back in the news again.  It looks like that going for the big push trying to persuade people like you that just by changing your footwear you can gain huge fitness benefits.  However it doesn’t take a brain the size of a planet to realise that [...]

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How To Get Fit At (Insert Number Here)

by Julia on April 21, 2010

I’ve been seeing a lot of articles recently all saying the same thing how to get fit at 40, 50, 60 or 70 you get the idea.  As if getting fit and staying fit has anything to do with how old you are.  Yes as you get older you do need to take a little [...]

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Workouts Need To Be Balanced

by Julia on April 20, 2010

Workouts like everything in life need to be balanced.  The problem is when we exercise we tend to do more and more of the things that we like.  Or to put it another way exercises we can do well. For men that tends to be working out the upper part of her body to the [...]

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