Tag Archives: womens fitness

Biggest Fitness Mistakes

If you are a female looking to lose weight as expeditiously as possible, a new study says you need to kick up your fitness routine. Researchers say that one of the biggest mistakes women make at the gym, is thinking their available workout time is best spent completing cardio exercises — often at the same pace the entire time. However, studies show rather than doing 45 minutes of cardio work at a steady (and relatively easy) pace, women can burn more fat and calories if they complete intense cardio work, and also incorporate some strength exercises. Bottom line: Women, who … Continue reading →

Is Birth Control Sabotaging Your Fitness Goals?

If you are using oral birth control, it may be, without you even realizing it. A new study found that oral contraceptive use impairs muscle gains in young women, and is associated with lower hormone levels. That’s a shocking find, especially for active young women, who are looking to improve their fitness performance while taking oral birth control. Researchers at Texas A&M University and the University of Pittsburgh studied 73 healthy women between the ages of 18-31 for 10 weeks. During the study the women were broken up into two groups and completed whole-body resistance exercise training. The first group … Continue reading →

I Want To Know How to Like Working Out

There’s no recipe to conjure up a great feeling about working out. The truth is – people like it or they don’t. But, you knew there was a but, right? Of course you did. Whether you like working out or not, you are more than likely to enjoy the results of a good workout – especially if you do it regularly. Results Matter Results matter. It’s a simple, but elegant fact that we all have to appreciate. After all, whether you are working out to look great in your wedding dress, to look great every day, to keep your blood … Continue reading →

Building the Busy Mom Workout

There are just never enough hours in the day. If you’re a mom (or a dad for that matter), then you’re probably constantly torn between all the stuff you need to do and all the things you have to do. When you have kids, finding time to exercise is probably one of the biggest challenges you have. Family Oriented Fitness With one child, it can be a challenge to meet your fitness goals and with each successive child it can become that much more difficult. The family that lives next door to me, for example, is comprised of mom, dad … Continue reading →

Women’s Fitness: A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed

Helping your friends can really help you as well. Recent studies have shown that women who regularly support their friends have lower blood pressure and experience less stress. Does that make you more inclined to answer the phone the next time one of your friends call needing a shoulder to cry on? If not, then perhaps the other findings of the study will. Not only can helping your friends help you to maintain lower blood pressure and even reduce your own stress, it can help you build confidence as well as cultivating the types of interpersonal and intrapersonal skills that … Continue reading →

Women’s Fitness: It’s That Time of the Month

Hey ladies, you know what time I’m talking about and you know how it can leave you feeling discombobulated and uncomfortable. Over the years, it’s been my experience that when you have cramps, bloating and other discomfort – working out is not necessarily high on your list. So let’s talk about that for a few minutes – first and foremost, if you are that uncomfortable – skipping your workout or reducing the intensity of it is not a bad plan. Regular Exercise Can Help Though If you exercise regularly, however, maintaining a regular exercise routine 3 to 5 times a … Continue reading →

Women’s Fitness: The Challenge of Mothers & Daughters

There is a long history of the challenges faced in a relationship between mothers and daughters. One challenge that you may not be familiar with, but that researchers are finding a great deal of impact in is the perception mothers and daughters have about a daughter’s weight. Studies have found that their views of a daughter’s body image are radically different. Your daughter may view herself very accurately in terms of their weight, but as mothers, we tend to see them far thinner than they may actually be. When a child is thin, we may want their weight to be … Continue reading →

Women’s Fitness: Time Marches On

When it comes to getting in shape, we’ve often said that women are different from men. But how they are different is very specific. How are they different? Let’s talk about that today. First and foremost, sometime around the age of 25, women who do not exercise begin to lose an average of 7 pounds of muscle every decade and gain about 15 pounds of fat. This continues until we’re in our 40s and 50s. Then comes menopause – after menopause those numbers double. If that isn’t a frightening set of numbers, I don’t know what is. We call it … Continue reading →

Women’s Fitness: Fast, Fit & Fulfilling

EDiet’s Chief Fitness pro, Raphael Calzadilla has designed a great fitness program for the busy woman. This fitness outline is a series of exercises that get you up and moving in as little as 12 to 15 minutes 3 to 5 times a week. For many of us, this sounds almost too good to be true. When you’re busy as hell and constantly on the go, moms are more likely to leave themselves out of the equation to make sure that their kids and their families are taken care of. Calzadilla’s workout may be just the thing for you. In … Continue reading →

Women’s Fitness: Your Duty to Yourself

Good morning Ladies, how are you today? Well, I hope. Me? Oh, I’m a bit tired. I’ve been working too much again and not taking enough time for myself. I seem to spend my life in an expectant stage of going from one project to another so fast that I forget to stop and take a breath in between them. This isn’t a healthy way to exist and I, of all people, am aware of it. Ladies, Our Duty is to Ourselves As wives, mothers, daughters and sisters we tend to overlook ourselves in favor of our husbands, our children, … Continue reading →