Home Fitness - How Can You Lose Weight

Article by Katrina Rusiecka

In recent years there?s been a lot of hyped up TV infomercials promoting new products on home fitness. While the concept of becoming physically fit and losing weight all from the comfort of your home is in theory is possible, in reality it does not always work out that way. Often times these TV infomercials glamorize some new piece of fitness equipment making bold claims that it will transform your body and your health but for many of us the bold claims don?t work out as promised.

While it?s easy to become hypocritical and a pessimist and say that none of these new products can help us achieve optimal health and fitness, I think we have to objectively examine these products further. It is possible that if one person gets great results with a new piece of equipment, that everyone should be able to achieve the same results? Some might beg to differ, but it is an irrefutable fact that there is no machine or product that by itself can magically transform your body and your health. It is up to you to be accountable and for you to take charge of your own health and make it happen.

Although exercise machines, fitness routines, and diets can be great tools to help you achieve your health and fitness goals, it remains just that ? tools. The tools will help you get there but it?s ultimately up to you to make the dream come true. Whether you do it at home, in a health and fitness club, on the tennis court or even in a gymnasium the principles remain the same. Good health and fitness begins with what is on the inside. If your mental attitude isn?t right and your motivation is lacking, then the best equipment, diets, and exercise regimens will not help you to achieve your health and fitness goals. The key to successfully implementing a health and wellness program is perseverance, consistency, dedication, and a stronger fighter instinct to never give up and to do whatever it takes, against all odds, to make it happen.

There is no question in my mind that home fitness has its benefits. If you have to commute a long distance to get to a gym every week, then it is going to be very challenging to stay on top of your game because it is going to be easier to come up with excuses for why you could not make it to the gym. The more travel time involved in getting to the gym, the harder it is going to be to stay focused and motivated. Exercising in the comfort of your own home means that you don?t have to travel anywhere to work out and therefore it is less likely that you are going to be able to come up with excuses for not completing your program on a particular week or month.

The real secret to achieving great fitness results is to make it a regular part of your daily or weekly routines. Having to get in your car or on a bus to make it to the gym can be very time consuming. Sometimes it can take hours just to get there and then get started. When you are at home, all you have to do is to set aside 45 minutes to do a work out and then take a 5 minute shower afterwards.

So if you lack self-discipline or motivation and this is a major obstacle holding you back from becoming physically fit and healthy and losing weight, I would strongly suggest that you give serious consideration to designing and implementing a home fitness program. It is easy, it doesn?t cost very much, and most important of all, it actually works.

About the Author

K. Rusiecka is an internet marketer who is passionate about health, fitness, and good nutrition. She has lots of great practical and easy to follow tips for supercharging your metabolism, losing weight, getting motivated, and remaining focused in order to achieve all of your health and fitness goals.

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K. Rusiecka is an internet marketer who is passionate about health, fitness, and good nutrition. She has lots of great practical and easy to follow tips for supercharging your metabolism, losing weight, getting motivated, and remaining focused in order to achieve all of your health and fitness goals.

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Peterson says 'truth will surface'

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The Jaguars know their tarps are a punch-line.

And they want to get rid of them.

Figuring out the right way to do it has become a tougher problem to solve.

New owner Shad Khan?s goal is to get rid of them, saying: ?To me, every day I look at the tarps, it is like underachieving, and I can?t wait to be able to do that [remove the tarps].?

Mark Lamping, the Jaguars president in charge of non-football operations, said an announcement?s coming in August about new features at EverBank Field. New video boards are coming, but maybe not until 2014.

But those tarps are still the first thing many see, and the biggest problem.

?We?re working on a number of ideas,? Lamping told Vito Stellino of the Florida Times-Union. ?We?d like to get something done this year, but maybe we won?t be able to. It needs to be a done in a way to enhance the fan experience as opposed to an advertising panel. We haven?t come up with a solution, but we?re working very hard.?

The Jags have an apparent, but complicated problem. They like what the tarps do, cutting the capacity of their stadium from a too-big-for-the-market 76,000 to a closer-to-just-right 67,246.

If they were the only tenants, they could just blow out those seats, install some kind of amenity and proceed happily. Problem is, that leaves the stadium (at least) 10,000 seats short of what they need for the annual Georgia-Florida game and the Gator Bowl if that game gets a lucky draw, meaning they can?t make permanent alterations.

Trying to come up with a system of platforms that don?t block the views from other seats and can sustain anything from concession stands to plazas to palm trees is proving more expensive than they thought.

?Putting tarps over seats does nothing for the fan experience and is a blatant reminder that there are seats under them,? Lamping said.

It?s also a blatant reminder that the Jaguars are held hostage by one extremely popular college football game a year, which limits their ability to improve their own product.

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Earnings won't pause Wall Street's wild ride

By Rodrigo Campos, Reuters

NEW YORK -- Wall Street has been running in circles for the past two months, and the pattern may continue despite the upcoming start of the earnings season.

Quarterly report cards from blue-chips Alcoa and JPMorgan this week could fade into the background as traders jockey for position before key data from China and more central bank headlines.

After three major central banks eased monetary policy last week, investors will comb through the minutes of the latest Federal Reserve policy meeting, which will be released on Wednesday, to see what officials said about a further round of asset purchases.

U.S. stocks face headwinds from a slowing global economy. Europe's debt crisis has drawn much of the attention, but little clarity has emerged about how the euro zone's debt and banking problems will be fixed despite numerous meetings.

The uncertainty has left the market in the hands of traders, who look for opportunities for quick returns, while investors, who are in the market for the long haul, watch from the sidelines.

The S&P 500 flirted with going negative for the year shortly before posting its best week since December. The benchmark index is less than 0.1 percent above where it was two months ago.

"Traders are happy going in and out of the market within a range, but for the average investor it's a market in which the path is still unclear," said Quincy Krosby, market strategist at Prudential Financial in Newark, New Jersey.

On Friday, the S&P 500 closed down 0.55 percent for the week. The index has posted four weeks of gains and four of losses in the last eight.

Weak U.S. labor market data on Friday raised the chances in favor of the Fed launching a new round of monetary stimulus to boost growth, according to a Reuters poll.?

The Fed's minutes midweek will be followed Thursday by the Japanese central bank's views on the health of that country's economy after a two-day meeting.

"If we do see additional asset purchases from the Bank of Japan that would depreciate the yen and would be a short-term positive for global equities," said Brian Jacobsen, chief portfolio strategist at Wells Fargo Funds Management in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.

The recent central bank actions are seen as precautionary moves as the global economy stalls. This week's gross domestic product data out of China will help give the market important clues about the world's second-biggest economy.

"Some of the negative news is built in, and I'm anticipating a positive surprise coming out of China," Jacobsen said.

Economists expect China to report year-on-year GDP growth of 7.6 percent, compared to an 8.1 percent yearly gain in the first quarter.

Other Chinese data include inflation, loan growth, trade balance and retail sales.

Europe remains on traders' minds despite a recent agreement that opens the door for troubled banks to receive rescue funds. However, Italian and Spanish borrowing costs have resumed their rise in a bearish sign for markets.

Testimony by ECB President Mario Draghi to Europe's parliament on Monday will be followed by a meeting of euro zone finance ministers.

Aluminum company Alcoa reports second-quarter results on Monday. Alcoa surprised Wall Street last quarter with a positive outlook, but the global slowdown could make it harder for the aluminum maker to keep its bullish stance.

JPMorgan Chase & Co will also report earnings this week, with investors eager to know how big the bank's losses will be following a botched trade. The initial estimated loss at the bank was $2 billion but later reports indicated it could balloon to more than four times that.

"The idea is that analysts have been marking down not only earnings estimates but revenue estimates, and the reason is because of weakness in Europe, which is spilling over to weakness in global operations for many companies," said Brian Gendreau, market strategist with Cetera Financial Group in Gainesville, Florida.

The U.S. economic calendar for this week includes import prices and trade, plus producer prices and the preliminary reading on July consumer sentiment from the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan surveys.?

Below, CNBC's?Tyler Mathisen looks ahead to what are likely to be next week's top business and financial stories.

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Physics confirms sprinters are performing better than ever before

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In this month's Physics World, Steve Haake, director of the Centre for Sports Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK, reveals that the men's 100 m sprint will be one event not to miss this summer.

Haake has developed something called the "performance-improvement index", which uses very simple physics to compare the relative improvement of top athletes in different sports over the last 100 years.

The model shows that the performance-improvement index in the men's 100 m sprint is increasing at a time when those of other events, such as javelin and swimming, have plateaued or decreased.

Some of the reasons for these changes, which Haake describes in this feature, are because of technological interventions that have changed the face of the sport. The performance of javelin throwers, for example, was improving drastically up until the mid-1980s, to a point where officials were concerned for crowd safety.

At the time, javelins would float to the ground and land flat, meaning it was very hard to tell where the tip had hit the ground. As such, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) changed the specifications of the javelin itself, moving its centre of mass towards the tip by 4 cm and so forcing the javelin to land on its tip, thus reducing throwing distances by about 9 m.

Haake also describes the step-change in the men's 100 m in the mid-1970s with the introduction of fully automated timing.

In swimming, an unprecedented 25 and 47 world records were broken in 2008 and 2009, respectively, with tight-fitting, full-body swimsuits seen as the main reason.

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From Monday 9 July, this month's edition of Physics World will be freely available as a PDF download from http://physicsworld.com.

The Steve Haake feature, along with a selection of videos of him talking about the physics of running, swimming and cycling, can be viewed at http://physicsworld.com from Thursday 12 July.

Also in this issue:

• The fastest man on no legs -- award-winning science writer James Poskett explores the stories behind the sports prostheses used by elite athletes such as double below-the-leg amputee Oscar Pistorius
• Balance, angular momentum and sport -- "biomechanic" Roland Ennos from Manchester University explains how gymnasts, divers and long jumpers all use simple physics principles to perform amazing balancing acts

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Contact: Joe Winters
joseph.winters@iop.org
44-207-470-4815
Institute of Physics

In this month's Physics World, Steve Haake, director of the Centre for Sports Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK, reveals that the men's 100 m sprint will be one event not to miss this summer.

Haake has developed something called the "performance-improvement index", which uses very simple physics to compare the relative improvement of top athletes in different sports over the last 100 years.

The model shows that the performance-improvement index in the men's 100 m sprint is increasing at a time when those of other events, such as javelin and swimming, have plateaued or decreased.

Some of the reasons for these changes, which Haake describes in this feature, are because of technological interventions that have changed the face of the sport. The performance of javelin throwers, for example, was improving drastically up until the mid-1980s, to a point where officials were concerned for crowd safety.

At the time, javelins would float to the ground and land flat, meaning it was very hard to tell where the tip had hit the ground. As such, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) changed the specifications of the javelin itself, moving its centre of mass towards the tip by 4 cm and so forcing the javelin to land on its tip, thus reducing throwing distances by about 9 m.

Haake also describes the step-change in the men's 100 m in the mid-1970s with the introduction of fully automated timing.

In swimming, an unprecedented 25 and 47 world records were broken in 2008 and 2009, respectively, with tight-fitting, full-body swimsuits seen as the main reason.

The swimsuits, which have now been banned by swimming's ruling body (FINA), were relatively tight and reduced the cross-sectional area of the body by pulling it into a more cylindrical shape, thus reducing drag. They were made from polyurethane, which also affected the way the water flowed over the body.

As Haake writes, "One way of finding out how exactly technology affects sporting performance is to examine the physics involved. We can then try to quantify the effect of technology on sporting events and find out whether it really is all about the equipment."

From Monday 9 July, this month's edition of Physics World will be freely available as a PDF download from http://physicsworld.com.

The Steve Haake feature, along with a selection of videos of him talking about the physics of running, swimming and cycling, can be viewed at http://physicsworld.com from Thursday 12 July.

Also in this issue:

• The fastest man on no legs -- award-winning science writer James Poskett explores the stories behind the sports prostheses used by elite athletes such as double below-the-leg amputee Oscar Pistorius
• Balance, angular momentum and sport -- "biomechanic" Roland Ennos from Manchester University explains how gymnasts, divers and long jumpers all use simple physics principles to perform amazing balancing acts

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