Lifehacker had another good post that consolidated information, videos and exercises that could all be done without a gym membership or any equipment – with nothing but your body. It includes exercises for all different parts of your body too – so whatever your need you should find some good tips.
Source: Lifehacker
Mens Journal had a really good, comprehensive article on fitness. The header reads:
Gym machines are boring, CrossFit is sadistic, and dieting sucks. Luckily, none of them is essential to being truly fit. Through years of trial and error — and humiliation at the hands of some of the world’s top trainers — the author discovered the secrets to real health.
Source: http://www.mensjournal.com/everything-you-know-about-fitness-is-a-lie/
I bought the Four Hour Body and it is a pretty interesting reference manual. There are some exercises and tests recommended for muscle imbalances, which I have many. The videos are combined into a single playlist:
http://m.lifehacker.com/5664322/
From Lifehacker: The majority of eating advice centers on losing weight. Instead, let’s look at how changing what you eat can help fend off mid-day energy slumps and blah feelings from your work day.
Wisebread had a good post on the amount of caffeine you can find in common drinks and foods. Of course coffee has a lot, but how much more than an espresso? How about a chocolate bar? They got a lot of their information from an article at the Mayo Clinic.
Source: Wisebread
Lifehacker had a post about napping – how and why to power nap. While the main link is to Ririan Project on 10 benefits to power napping, there are several other links of interest.
Source: Lifehacker
Do you get frequent injuries like me? Or do you just want to figure out what’s wrong when your arm starts cramping up for no reason. Lifehacker had a post about WedMD Symptom Checker. They will ask you a serious of questions, walking you through the symptoms and give you a diagnosis.
Source: Lifehacker
Are you always a bit tired? Need a quick rejuivination? You should consider taking a meditation nap. Life Learning Today had a good post on this very subject. They provide an exercise to take a short mental break and give youself a little pep in the middle of the day.
Source: Lifehacker
After my post on the ’300′ workout, I read into some more workout routines. Recently we bought a fitness ball so I wanted to see what exercises could be done using this tool. The Washington Post had a Live Online chat that discussed it, and provided a link to a set of exercises (with descriptions) posted at the Mayo Clinic. Pretty useful.
Source: Mayo Clinic
Unfortaunately, I can’t remember where I original saw a reference to this blog, but Josh Hill’s blog had a post on the ’300′ workout – the workout that was used to train the Spartans for the film 300. The workout was designed and run by Mark Twight, who runs Gym Jones. The workout is intense, but can be scaled for different people. It doesn’t use any machines, nothing that isolates muscles – it’s a full body workout to the extreme.
