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Controversial School Fitness Option—Pole Dancing, Anyone?

I realize that many college co-eds resort to uh, shall we say, creative means to pay for their educations, but I must admit I was a bit stunned when I heard that a European high school was actually making it easier for students to learn the ropes of pole dancing, in case they needed to put their skills to use in the future. Am I the only one who equates pole dancing with strip clubs? Apparently administrators at South Devon College in the United Kingdom don’t see the relation. In their eyes pole dancing is merely a source of fitness. … Continue reading →

Fitness & Your Hula Hoop

Does your child hula hoop? Before the Nintendo age, the hula hoop was a hit on every child’s block. I owned three of them and I could hoop with all three. My daughter has a pair of hoops and she loves to hoop herself, though she complains she’s not that good at it yet. They do hoops at her school, not as much as she would like, but they do have them there. Yet hula hooping seems to be a dying art for kids’ fun, but that’s okay, adults like me are getting back into the hooping at their fitness … Continue reading →

Fitness Review – Dance Fitness for Beginners: Daily Quickies: 10 Minute Workouts

Earlier today, I gave you my review of Leslie Sansone’s Walk Away the Pounds: Power Mile DVD and now we’re going to take a look at Dance Fitness for Beginners: Daily Quickies: 10 Minute Workouts. The style of DVD is very different from the previous one as it utilizes different instructors to lead you through different styles of workouts. 10 Minute Quickies MaDonna Grimes offers the best aerobic workout on this DVD. Her aerobics get your heart up and racing. This is also not a beginner’s workout. The cardio stimulation is easy to follow and gives you a heart-pounding workout … Continue reading →

The Fitness Week in Review for December 9-15

Welcome to the third week in review for December and the end of our second full week. We’ve got just nine days left until Christmas and it’s been busy here in the Fitness Blog and I am assuming it will stay busy and that’s good for those of us trying to maintain our fitness amid the hectic pace that surrounds shopping, decorating, preparing and celebrating. So here is our Fitness Week in Review: Saturday, December 9 In Hoop Dancing – It’s Not Just for Kids Anymore we talked about a growing trend on the fitness circuit that involves aerobics with … Continue reading →

Post-Natal Fitness: Aerobic Workout

Aerobic workouts are about maximizing the oxygen demands of the body, increasing your heart rate and respiration and generating some good old-fashioned healthy sweat. Any workout program you are going to engage in is going to have an aerobic component. Kaye Siders wrote about a great program she used called The Firm and there are some definite advantages to that program so you might want to check it out. Among my library of fitness programs is the XBox Yourself!Fitness – this is a gaming system workout that can also be purchased for the Playstation 2. This is a great option … Continue reading →