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Body Weight Workout Routine for Budget Fitness
The Body Weight Workout is an exercise routine you can do any time with no equipment. Perfect for budget exercise, traveling, home workouts or adding a bit of variety to your regular exercise routine.

What Makes a Good Coach?
Qualities of an Effective Coach. An effective coach understands how to communicate with players in a way that gets results. The goal of coaching is to guide, inspire and empower the athlete to realize and develop his or her potential.

Exercisers Less Likely to Catch Colds
Exercisers Less Likely to Catch Colds

Recharge Your Workout - How to Break Exercise Boredum
Are you are bored with the same exercise routine? Here are a few ideas to help you break free of your fitness rut.

Bone Density and Exercise
Building and maintaining bone density requires a combination of good nutrition and weight bearing exercise.

Active Recovery
Active recovery, or engaging in low-intensity exercise after competition or vigorous exercise sessions, may be better than complete rest for full physical and psychological recovery.

Interval Training Builds Fitness Fast
Interval training helps boost your athletic performance. Here's how to do it.

Reader Question: How Do I Start Exercising?
Advice for beginners who want to start a fitness program: often, the biggest challenge you will face is changing your lifestyle.

Getting Started and Sticking with Exercise
Tips and tricks for new exercisers or anyone who need motivation to sticking with an exercise program

Add 1% of Incline to Your Treadmill Workout
A 1 percent incline makes the treadmill effort equal to running outside

Cross Training Improves Fitness and Reduces Injury
Cross Training - How Varying your workouts can improve performance and reduce burn-out.

Training Tip: Peaking for Races or Events
Athletes use the term "peaking" or "hitting a peak" to describe being in the absolute best condition (physical, emotional and mental) for an event or race. Peaking is not easy to do, and it requires a lot of experience and planning, but there are things that can make peaking more likely.

How to Get Fit Fast - Tips for Effective Exercise and Workout Programs
Tips for athletes who want to improve the effectiveness of their training programs and exercise sessions.

Why Do I Get Dizzy When I Stand Up?
If you exercise often and are in good shape you might occasionally experience dizziness and lightheadedness when you stand up quickly. This is generally nothing serious, and occurs due to a slow heart rate.

Sun Safety for Outdoor Athletes
Athletes and serious recreational exercisers are at high risk for skin cancer.

Calories Burned by Type of Exercise
Not all types of exercise are comparable in terms of energy (caloric) expenditure. Learn what type of activity or exercise burns more calories.

Sports Injury Prevention Using the 10 Percent Rule
The 10 Percent Rule is an easy way to gauge your training increases to get the most from your workouts without suffering from aches, pains and injuries.

Training Through Injury
If you have a sports injury, chances are you will need to take some time off to rest, recover and regroup. That's perfectly acceptable. But if you don't want to stop exercising entirely there are ways to work out while recovering from most sports injuries.

Does Jet Lag Decrease Athletic Performance?
Air travel is common for athletes participating in national and international sport competitions. Travel across multiple time zones may cause jet lag. Here are recommendations for athletes who travel.

How To Achieve a Personal Best
If you are trying to improve sports performance and achieve you best the following training tips might help.

Health Club Manners
Health Club Manners and gym etiquette is built on common courtesy and a little tolerance. Here is a reminder to mind your manners at your local health club

Crowded Gyms Keep People Away
Many people avoid going to the gym, even though they have a membership. Here are some resons why.

Itching During Exercise
Itching and skin irritation during exercise can be caused by a number of factors; some minor and some more serious.

iPods and Hearing Loss
New research is finding hearing loss in iPod users that is typically found in aging adults.

Mid-Day Exercise Improves Employee Productivity
According to a study out of England researchers found that when workers used their company gym, reported that they were more productive and worked better with their co-workers.

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