Smart Fitness Goals For The New Year

It's January! It's time to revisit, tweak, or set new fitness and wellness goals for the New Year.

Here's one that might sound familiar: 'I just want to get toned'. As a fitness leader for more than 20 years, I can tell you that this goal that has been top of the list for at least two decades. Unfortunately this simple statement is rooted in misconception, which doesn't say much for its attainability. There is no such thing as toning. Tone is a state of partial muscle contraction at rest. All muscle has tone all of the time. It's the reason we don't fall over while seated or standing during our daily activities.

How Exercise Helps You Cope With Stress

Its 6 am and your alarm gets you bounding out of bed. And it begins with kids, school, time, money, bosses and work. Even small things can send you into a spiral of frustration, and stress that seems to be there, day after day.

The Different Benefits Of Vibration Exercise

There's a new work out approach that a lot of people are talking about. It's called vibration exercise, and a machine is needed to perform it. According to this work out's proponents, it's something that can give the body something different from what usual exercising offers. But this is best done together with other work out routines. 

Originally, it was intended to keep astronauts in space from losing muscle mass and bone density. But these days it's being used by many fitness enthusiasts as part of a regular fitness routine. What it does is make the muscles contract and relax involuntarily numerous times a second, the secret to why it yields results.