Fit Body

Get Fit-Have Fun

Is Your Kid Fat?

February 11, 2010
By I Dig Fitness
Is Your Kid Fat?

OK, IDigFitness fans. Time for some sobering information if you’re a parent. The New England Journal of Medicine recently reported on a long term study of nearly 5,000 children. The results show that children who are obese are more than twice as likely to die before age 55 than their non-obese friends. So,...
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Fitness Activities, General Health | No Comments »

More Bone – Less Cardio

February 4, 2010
By I Dig Fitness

According to a report in Journal of Internal Medicine, Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found that some activity may be better than none at all for certain areas of your health like heart health, but milder forms of activity may not be sufficient to hold off or attenuate age-related decline in...
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in General Health, General Principles, Strength | No Comments »

Can Exercise Be “Bad” for Your Health?

February 1, 2010
By I Dig Fitness

OK.  I know not exercising is bad for your health.  But I didn’t realize exercising could also be bad for your health.  According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, in 2009 there were 575 reported instances of exercisers being injured by treadmills alone. Now if you extrapolate that to all the different kinds of exercise...
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Fitness Activities, Random Thoughts | No Comments »

My New Favorite Bodyweight Workout

January 25, 2010
By I Dig Fitness

OK, Fitness Diggers. Here’s my new favorite bodyweight exercise/strength training/weight loss program: Bodyweight Blueprint For Fat Loss This program is so “IDigFitness” that I bought it myself. And now I’m going to “use” it myself. It’s fast and it’s fun. Here’s a little sample of what the workout is like. Enjoy! Please,...
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Bodyweight Workouts, Fitness Activities, Flexibility, Recommended Products, Strength | No Comments »

The Kaizen of Weight Loss

January 24, 2010
By I Dig Fitness

I’ll bet a bunch of you Fitness Diggers are trying to lose a few (or more than a few) pounds, especially having just come through Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day if you’re in the USA.  And, the Super Bowl is coming too – another opportunity to eat too much of the wrong kind...
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Random Thoughts, Weight Problems | No Comments »