These are my favorite fitness tips from resources that I trust. Send us your favorite fitness tips. Maybe we will add them to this page. Be sure to give us your source, so we can give them credit for their work.
Your Workout Range
Sat, 19 Aug 2006
What is your perfect workout range? It's where you burn the most fat and calories. Its where you build the most lean muscle mass. Some think it's when they feel like they couldn't possibly work out any harder. They are wrong! When we work out to a point that is painful or uncomfortable, we do damage to our bodies. We end up burning muscle instead of fat.
So what should we do? The American Academy of Sports Medicine suggests this formula to find our best exercise pace:
- Estimate your maximum heart rate by subtracting your age from 220.
- Multiply your maximum heart rate by 0.6 to get your lower limit.
- Multiply your maximum heart rate by 0.9 to get your upper limit.
Now you have your ideal heart rate range. Try to work out at the lower limit of your range for longer periods. Don't worry about taking it too easy. We build more muscle (and burn more fat) by keeping our intensity in check. That's your perfect workout!
Send us your favorite fitness tips, maybe we will add them to our fitness blog. Remember to give your source!
Go to our most recent Fitness blog
More fitness posts:
Food or diet
- 15 No-Brainer Ways to Cut Out About 100 Calories a Day
- Dining Out, Made Easy!
- Ready for Thanksgiving?
- 5 Temptation Foods to Eliminate
- Greek Food Is Smart Food
- Stop boredom eating!
- Eliminate Eat-More Foods
- Power of Protein
- Beauty from the Fridge
- Specific Types of Fat
- Practice Portion Control!
- Eat Beautifully
- Great Workout, Just Add Water
- Stop Food Headaches!
- Break the Soda Habit!
- Need healthy snacks?
- Nine Steps to a Younger You
- Prevent Childhood Obesity
- Energy In, Energy Out
- Good-Mood Food
- Curb Overeating
- Downsizing your tableware
- Avoid Supermarket Temptations
- Plateau-Busting Tips
- Can pills peel off pounds?
- Fight Fructose Flab
- Eat to Beat the 3 pm Slump
- Buffet Survival Tips
- New Diet Tricks!
- A Real Nut Case
- When Snacks Attack!
- The Italian Pasta Diet
- Java at the Gym?
Exercise
- Give Your Workout a Break!
- Burn Calories on the Stairs!
- Weight loss intervals
- Work that walk!
- Reasons to Pump Iron
- Hooray for Housework!
- Get Crunching!
- Winter Wonderland Workouts
- Boost Your Metabolism!
- Jump for Your Health
- Keep Kids' Sports Safe
- Strapped for Time?
- Exercise Keeps Your Brain Young!
- Stretch Safely!
- Your Workout Range
- The Perfect Workout
- Slow and Steady
- Three Keys to Fitness!
- Stand Up for Rock-Hard Abs
- Happiness Workout
- Maximize your aerobic activity!
- Are You Exerting Yourself?
- Energy In, Energy Out
- Java at the Gym?
- Firm Your Thighs On the Phone!
- Burn Fat Faster: 10 Great Tips!
- Six Workout Wreckers
