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We've divided them up two ways. The first is by the categories below. If that's too general, keep scrolling down to the index to find what you need. If you still can't find what you're looking for use the search button to find it.

First Steps

These are the first things you should do when you begin a workout program. Suggestions on how to choose a gym, a personal trainer and how to behave when you're working out.

Motivation

When you don't think you can do it anymore, turn to these articles for ideas and inspiration. We'll tell you how to live longer, work through your excuses and those simple steps you can take that will change your life.

Training Programs

This is the "How To" section. How to design a proper workout, how best to exercise different body parts and how to choose the best fitness routine for you.

Nutrition & Supplements

A workout is only half of the fitness routine. These articles help you make intelligent choices from fast food restaurants, tell you how to avoid quack diets and give details on foods and supplements.

Medical

Here we'll help you make sense of all the numbers and clinical information. We'll help you understand your ideal weight, what those blood pressure numbers mean, how to deal with muscle soreness after a workout and much more.

Index of Articles

A
Abdominals - Get a Six Pack This Summer
Add Years to Your Life
Aerobic vs Strength Training - Which is Best?
Aerobics - Do They Work?
After You Hire a Personal Trainer
After You Workout
Aging - Staying Healthy in Your 60s, 70s and Beyond
Airlines - Don't Let Airlines Sabotage Your Waistline
Alcohol Trivia
Alcohol - The 10 Most Fattening Drinks
Anabolic Steroids
Anti-Inflamatories
Arms - Tips on How to Prevent "Arm" Ageddon
Analytical versus Pre-Determined
Artificial Sweeteners (Part 1) - The Natural Stuff
Artificial Sweeteners (Part 2) - Banned in America
Artificial Sweeteners (Part 3) - Blue, Yellow and Coming Soon...
Artificial Sweeteners (Part 4) - Sugar Alcohols and Hidden Sweeteners
Arthritis - Can Strength Gain Help Arthritis Pain?
Aspirin
Auburn Brown - The Path To Change
Avoid Restaurant Roulette
B
Ball - Exercise Ball Office Chair
Barefoot Running vs. Shoes
Basal Metabolic Rate
Beat the Heat When Exercising Outdoors
Beef - Options for a Healthy Meal
Beef Ground - How to cut the fat and save some money.
Before You Workout
Beginners - Straight Sets or Supersets, Which is Better for Beginners?
Bet Your Butt Off
Bicycling Tips and Adjustment Techniques
Bike to Work Week
Binge - How to Beat an Eating Binge
Blockbuster Movies & Gutbuster Food
Blood Pressure
Body Fat Percentage
Body Weight - What is the Ideal?
Bodybuilding Myths
Bottled Water that DOESN'T Harm the Environment
Bottled Water: The Battle Between Bottled and the Tap
Breakfast Eaters are Smarter and Fitter than Breakfast Skippers
Breaking the 3 Set, 10 Rep Mentality
Breakthrough Training - Multiple Ways to Failure
Breathing Techniques for a Better Workout
Buddy - How to Choose a Workout Buddy
C
Caffeine and Your Workouts (Part 1 of 2)
Caffeine and Your Workouts (Part 2 of 2)
Calories - Fueling Your Body
Can Friends Make You Fat?
Can Strength Gain Help Arthritis Pain?
Carbohydrates - Macronutrients 1 of 3 Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates - Resistant Starch
Cardio is Key to a Healthy Routine
Cardio - Secrets of Cardio Machine Programs
Cardio Machines - Which is Best?
Cardio Secrets
Cardio - Thirty Second Sprints vs. Traditional Cardio Workouts
Cardio or Weights - Which is First?
Cellulite - The Whole Story (Part 1 of 2)
Cellulite - The Whole Story (Part 2 of 2)
Chain Training for Bigger Muscles
Change - The Story of Auburn Brown
Change Your Life, One Small Step at a Time
Change Your Workouts to Grow
Cheat Reps
Cheat Your Body (How To...)
Chest - Proper Form Yields Perfect Pecs
Childlike Ways to Fitness
Chocolate - Walk Away Your Chocolate Cravings
Chocolate Without Guilt
Cholesterol Fighting Ideas
Choosing a Personal Trainer
Choosing Your Right Routine
CLA - Miracle Pill or Medicine Oil?
Contracts - Fitness Contracts
Cooking for One or Two
Cool Down or Simply Stop?
Core Conditioning
Cramps
Creating a Workout Program
Cross Training
Cross Training Breaks Boredom
Cruise Ship Madness
Cryotherapy
D
Daily Choices - Can you choose the healthy options?
Dangerous Drugs - The Over Medication of America (Part 1)
Dangerous Drugs - The Over Medication of America (Part 2)
Dangerous Drugs - The Over Medication of America (Part 3)
Debunking "Non-Facts"
Deceptive Gadgets and Weight Loss Schemes
Depression - Exercise Your Blues Away
Detox Fads Debunked
Diabetes and Exercise
Diet - Eight Secrets Popular Diets Won't Tell You
Diet - 4 Diets Reviewed
Diet - Fight Fat / Eat Fit
Diet - Healthy Choices on the Run
Diet - How to Choose a Healthy Diet
Diet - Seven Ways to Eat Healthier
Diet Quacks and Frauds
Diet Sodas - Do They Cause Obesity
Dieting - Four Deadly Sins
Dizziness
Dogs - Exercising With Your Dog - 01
Dogs - Exercising With Your Dog - 02 Safety
Drop Sets
E
Eat Healthy & Save Money (Part 1 of 3)
Eat Healthy & Save Money (Part 2 of 3)
Eat Healthy & Save Money (Part 3 of 3)
Eating Healthy Over 50
Eco-Friendly Meat
Ectomorph - Different Body Types - Different Routines
Eight Glasses of Water a Day
Eight Secrets Popular Diets Won't Tell You
Emotional Eating
Endomorph - Different Body Types - Different Routines
Energy Sinkholes - How to Overcome Them (Part 1 of 2)
Energy Sinkholes - How to Overcome Them (Part 2 of 2)
Etiquette - Mis-Manners at the Gym
Exercise Alone Isn't Enough to Lose Weight
Exercise Ball Office Chair
Exercise Equipment - Homemade
Exercise in Just 30 Minutes a Day
Excuses - Ten More Reasons Not to Workout
Excuses - Working Through Them
Exercise on the Road
F
Failure - Training to Failure
Fake - How to Spot a Fake
Fast Food - Healthy Choices on the Run
Fast Food Choices - How Fast Food Steals Your Time
Fast Twitch Muscle Type
Fat - Macronutrients 3 of 3
Fear - Gym-O-Phobia
Fiber Facts & Fallacies (1 of 2)
Fiber Facts & Fallacies (2 of 2)
Fight Fat - Eat Fit
Find a Personal Trainer
Fish Oil
Fitness Contracts
Fitness Over Fifty: Five Ways Exercise Helps You Live Longer
Fitness Over Fifty: Three Exercises to Get You Started
Fitness Plan - 5 Steps to Better Health
Fitness Tips
5K - Running Your First Race
Five Meal Plans - How to Eat Healthier all Day
Five Reasons You're Still Fat
Flip Your Grip for Muscle Growth
Focus on Achievement
Food Labels - How They Lie
Food Labels - Two New Ways to Shop for Helathier Food
Foot Positioning on the Bench
Forced Reps
Four Deadly Sins of Dieting
Four Lessons in Fitness from a Child
Four Weeks to Fitness - Week 1
Four Weeks to Fitness - Week 2
Four Weeks to Fitness - Week 3
Four Weeks to Fitness - Week 4
Fraud - Deceptive Gadgets and Weight Loss Schemes
Free Weights vs. Machines
Freezer Friendly Tips
Friends - Can They Make You Fat?
Friends - How to Help an Out-of-Shape Friend
Fruit - Is it a healthy choice?
Fueling Your Body
G
Getting to the Beat of It
Germ Warfare - Protect Yourself While Working Out
German Volume Training
Gifts - Seven Holiday Gift Ideas
Goals and the Lesson of the Good Samaritan
Goals - Setting Achievable Goals
Golden Ratio
Ground Beef - How to cut the fat and save some money.
Grunting - Can it improve your workout?
Gym Bag Packing
Gyms - How to Choose One
Gym Jerks - 9 Annoying Habits
Gyms - Surviving your First Day
Gym-O-Phobia
H
Habits - Six Habits of Healthy People (Part 1 of 2)
Habits - Six Habits of Healthy People (Part 2 of 2)
Half Reps
Halloween Candy - How to Avoid Binges
Health Clubs - How to Choose One
Health Creates Wealth
Healthy Choices on the Run
Healthy Food - Three Secrets Ways to Find It
Heart Attack - Safe Exercises for Recovery
Heat - Beat the Heat When Exercising Outdoors
Heating Pad or Ice Pack?
Heel Pain (Plantar Fasciitis) Relief thru Stretching
Holiday - Seven Holiday Gift Ideas
Holiday Fat Fighting Tips
Home Gym Design (Part 1 of 2)
Home Gym Design (Part 2 of 2)
Home Workout - No Gym? No Problem.
Homemade Exercise Equipment
Hoodia Hoodwinked?
How Often Should You Workout?
How to Fix Muscular Shortcomings
How to Help an Out-of-Shape Friend
How to Lose 1 Pound a Week
How to Spot a Fake
How to Order a Guilt-Free Dinner
Hyponatremia
I
Ice Bath Therapy
Ice Pack or Heating Pad?
Ideal Body Weight
Instincts - Are they keeping you fat?
J
Jerks - 9 Annoying Habits of Gym Jerks
Jogging - What are the Best Surfaces to Run on?
Joint Cracking and Muscle Pops
Jump Rope 101
Jump Rope Techniques and Routines
K
Kids - Ways to Fitness
Kitchen Makeover
L
Labels - When Food Labels Lie
Label Fraud - How to decipher food marketing claims.
Laces - Shoe Lacing Tips for Sore Feet
Lactose Intolerance - When Milk Doesn't Do a Body Good
Live Longer...Gain Weight!
Lose 1 Pound a Week
M
Machines vs. Free Weights
Macronutrients 1 of 3: Carbohydrates
Macronutrients 2 of 3: Protein
Macronutrients 3 of 3: Fat
Make Your Workouts Count
Manners - Gym Etiquette
Marathon Training Tips
Marathon Training Tips - The Last Two Weeks
Meal Plans - Five Chances to Eat Healthier all Day
Meal Timing - Does WHEN You Eat Matter?
Measure Yourself - Is your body in proper proportion?
Meat - Eco-Friendly
Medical History
Mesomorph - Different Body Types - Different Routines
Metabolism Boosters - 17 Ways to Burn More Calories.
Micro-Workouts
MonaVie Supplement Review
Mood Boosting Foods
Movies - Blockbuster Movies & Gutbuster Food
Multivitamins, Exercise and Your Health
Muscle Cramps
Muscle Fiber Type - What's Your Genetic Potential?
Muscle Movement - The Secret
Muscle Pain - The Truth About Pain and Gain
Muscle Recovery Test
Muscular Shortcomings - How to Fix Them
Music & Fitness
N
Neck Strain - How to Avoid it
Negative Reps
Negative Resistance Reps
No Gym? No Problem!
Noise - Can Grunting Improve Your Workout?
NSAIDS - Do they stop muscle growth?
Nutrition - After You Workout
Nutrition - Before You Workout
Nutrition Label Revealed!
Nutrition Label Shorthand
O
Omega-3
One Rep Max
Overcome Energy Sinkholes (Part 1 of 2)
Overcome Energy Sinkholes (Part 2 of 2)
Overtraining - Symptoms
P
Packing a Gym Bag
Pain - Good Pain / Bad Pain - What's The Difference
Pain - The Truth About Pain and Gain
Pain Pills Kill Muscle Growth?
Partial Reps - vs. Full Range of Motion
Partner - How to Choose a Workout Partner
Pecs - Proper Form Yields Perfect Pecs
Personal Trainer - After You Hire One
Personal Trainer - How to Choose
Personal Trainer in a Box
Personal Trainer Locator
Personal Trainer Questions - Why Do You Want to Workout?
Personal Trainer Secrets
Personality - Your Workout Personality
Photo - Taking the perfect before and after picture.
Plan Your Walking Workouts
Plank - Build Stronger Abs
Plantar Fasciitis (Heel Pain) Relief thru Stretching
Plateau - Shock Your Workouts
Pops - Joint Cracking and Muscle Pops
Pork - Can it be a healthy choice?
Portion Distortion
Portion vs. Serving Size
Pre-Determined versus Analytical
Pre-Exhaustion Training
Pre-Restaurant Preparations
Protein Bar Review - 2004
Protein Bar Review Details - 2004
Protein - Macronutrients 2 of 3
Protein Packed Meal Ideas
Pump - Can it help you build muscle?
Pyramiding
Q
Quacks and Fraud Diets
Quit Holding on to the Treadmill
R
Recipe Substitutions - Healthy Recipe Makeovers
Recovery - The Ultimate Muscle Recovery Test
Refrigerator Makeover
Reps and Sets - Breaking the 3 Set, 10 Rep Mentality
Resistant Starch - The Carb That Helps You Lose Fat
Restaurant Preparations - What to do before you go out to eat.
Restaurant Preparations - How to Order a Guilt-Free Dinner
Restaurant Preparations - How to Order Healthy in Ethnic Restaurants
Resting Heart Rate - What's Yours?
Resting Metabolic Rate
Rest-Pause Training
Resveratrol, The Wonder Drug for Rats
Running - What are the Best Surfaces to Run on?
Running Barefoot
Running Shoes - How to Choose the Best Ones
Running Your First 5K
S
Salt - The Important Facts You Should Know
Sarcopenia - Staying Healthy in Your 60s, 70s and Beyond
Sauna - Is the hot box healthy?
Save Money & Eat Healthy (Part 1 of 3)
Save Money & Eat Healthy (Part 2 of 3)
Save Money & Eat Healthy (Part 3 of 3)
Save Time in the Gym
Schedule a Healthy Body
Secret of Muscle Movement
Secrets of Cardio Machine Programs
Sets and Reps - Breaking the 3 Set, 10 Rep Mentality
Setting Achievable Goals
Seven Ways to Eat Healthier
Sex - Six Steps to a Better Sex Life
Sex Before Competition
Shock Your Workouts
Shoe Lacing Tips for Sore Feet
Shoes - How to Choose the Best Pair
Shopping List
Side Plank
Side Stitches
Six Foods that Sabotage Diets
Skin Chafing Prevention Strategies
Skinny Bitch Diet Revealed!
Sleep - Are you getting enough?
Slow Twitch Muscle Type
Snack Smart
Socks
Sports Drinks - Which one is best?
Squats Build Better Butts
Start Slow if You Want to Grow
Steak - Options for a Healthy Meal
Steroids
Straight Sets or Supersets, Which is Better for Beginners?
Strength vs Aerobic Training - Which is Best?
Stretching - Myths and Realities
Sugar Attack! The Truth About Sugar (Part 1 of 2)
Sugar Attack! How to Cut Back on Sugar (Part 2 of 2)
Superfruits: The Truth Behind the Hype
Supersetting
SuppleCON - How Supplement Companies STEAL Your Money
Supplements - Buyer Beware (Part 1 of 2)
Supplements - Choose Wisely (Part 2 of 2)
Supplements - Three Secrets to Buying Healthy Food and Supplements
Surviving the Holiday Cocktail Party
Surviving Your First Day at the Gym
Sweat - The Science of Sweat
Swiss Ball vs. Crunches
T
Tabata: The Toughest Four Minute Workout Ever
Ten Minute Workouts
Ten More Reasons NOT to Workout
Ten Sets Method
Tennis Shoes - How to Choose the Best Ones
Tests - Simple Tests Can Evaluate Health Risk
Thirty Minute Workouts
Thirty Second Sprints vs. Traditional Cardio Workouts
Time - Save Time in the Gym
Time Magazine - The Myth of Exercise
Time Under Tension
Timing - Longer or More Frequent Workouts?
Timing Meals - Does WHEN You Eat Matter?
Timeless Advice on How to Stay Healthy
Toppings - Six Foods that Sabotage Diets
Trainer - How Do You Choose One?
Trainer in a Box
Trainer Questions - Why Do You Want to Workout?
Trainer Secrets
Training Heart Rate - Getting to the Beat of It
Training to Failure
Trans Fat Phantoms
Travel - Exercise on the Road
Treadmill - Quit Holding On
Twelve Changes in Twelve Months (Part 1 of 2)
Twelve Changes in Twelve Months (Part 2 of 2)
Two New Ways to Shop for Healthier Food
Two Types of People...which are you?
U
"Un-Facts" - Debunking Two Myths Behind Healthy Choices.
V
Valentines Day Fitness Ideas
Vending Machines - So Many Choices...
Vibration - Whole Body Vibration Training
Video Games - Wii Fit
Vitamin D
Vitamins
Vitamins - Multivitamins, Exercise and Your Health
Vitamins in Food - For People Over 50
W
Waist to Hip Ratio - What's Your Measurement?
Walk Away Your Chocolate Cravings
Walking Workouts - Fun New Programs
Walking Workouts - Expert Tips
Walking Workouts - Planning
Walking Workouts - Safety
Warm Up - No Point Pumping Unless You Warm Up
Water: The Battle Between Bottled and Tap
Water: Bottled Water that DOESN'T Harm the Environment
Water Water Everywhere, How Much Should I Drink?
Water Intoxication
Wealth Creation Through Better Health
Weight Belts - Should you use them?
Weight Loss - Lose 1 Pound a Week
Weights or Cardio - Which is First?
What are the Best Surfaces to Run on?
What's Your Resting Heart Rate?
When Good Foods Go Bad
When Should You Workout?
Whole Body Vibration Training
Why are Americans so Fat?
Why Do You Want to Workout?
Wii Fit Review
Work - Don't Let it Sabotage Your Waistline
Workout Buddy - How to Choose
Workout Frequency
Workout Frequency - Test
Workout Timing
Wrist Straps - Their Proper Use and Abuse
Wristbands - Use a Wristband to Change Your Life
X
Y
You've just had a heart attack... now what?
Your Workout Personality
Your Fitness Plan - 5 Steps to Better Health
Z
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