Whether it’s getting ready for beach p90X3 season or trying to slim down for the big wedding, it helps to have a goal. So with exactly 55 days left before the Masters, it’s time to change some old habits and develop some new ones that will help make this your fittest year on the golf course. Golf Digest fitness advisor Ben Shear (@ ben_shear ) came up with 42 ways to do just that. It’s exactly six weeks worth of things you can do on and off the course to improve your body.
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“Short bursts of intense effort with minimal recovery melts the fat while increasing muscular strength and endurance, oftentimes in a 30-minute format. It’s maximum efficiency in minimal time.” Equinox group fitness examples include Stacked, Tabata and Shockwave classes. A new at-home option in this genre is beachbody.com’s P90X3, an abbreviated, 30-minute version of the original DVD workouts that have won devotees. Or it can be as simple as running as fast as you can for 1 minute, then walking for 2 minutes, repeating that 3-minute interval five times. (Conduct an Internet search of “Tabata” for other options.) Shape magazine says a mere 15 minutes of interval training, three times a week, can deliver better results than jogging on a treadmill for an hour.
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Four Digital Trends Redefining Fitness in 2014
Last year saw over 140,000 competitors post their scores and workout videos to an online leaderboard, and this years http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/p90x3-reviews/sbwire-455028.htm Open which starts February 27th is on pace to easily eclipse that mark. Expect more sports to follow suit this year by giving fans a chance to test themselves against the best (albeit on a much smaller scale). Exercisers Fight Back on Body Image. It all started last Fall when a series of online rants and criticisms brought the thigh gap to the heights of Internet debate (which is to say, not always high-brow). But instead of just deflecting criticism, the fitness community rallied around substantive thighs , with numerous trainers and athletes taking to the blogosphere to defend their right to bear legs of all shapes and sizes.
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