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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Sitting Is Bad For Our Health?

By I Dig Fitness
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January 27, 2010
Sitting Is Bad For Our Health?

This falls in the “can’t win” category for a guy like me whose day job is a desk job. It seems that sitting for prolonged periods of time shortens your life. Darn. How am I going to get around that? I welcome suggestions. Read the full story here.
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My New Favorite Bodyweight Workout

By I Dig Fitness
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January 25, 2010

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, click here...
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The Kaizen of Weight Loss

By I Dig Fitness
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January 24, 2010

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...
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What’s An “Ab Shovel”?

By I Dig Fitness
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January 21, 2010
What’s An “Ab Shovel”?

Huh? An Ab Shovel – what the heck is that? It’s my latest idea for a late night infomercial “get-you-six-pack-ab” device. I’m sure you’ve seen all these goofy devices they hawk on late night TV that supposedly will give you 6-pack abs by tomorrow morning. Yea, right! Well, here at IDigFitness we think fitness...
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Burn 9 Times More Fat By Exercising Less!

By I Dig Fitness
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January 18, 2010

Is it really possible to burn more fat by exercising LESS? Well, here’s an interesting study I read about done by researchers at Quebec’s Laval University. They divided the participants in the study into two groups. Group One did long-duration exercise and Group Two did repeated short-duration exercise. The long-duration group cycled for 45...
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Fitness Advice From a Stoic

By I Dig Fitness
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January 17, 2010

OK, gang. Never let it be said that IDigFitness doesn’t keep you up to date on the latest trends in fitness research. Today, I’m going to cite you the thoughts of Seneca (born around 4 B. C.). Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman, and his writings have survived a lot longer than...
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Your Brain on Exercise

By I Dig Fitness
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January 12, 2010

OK, time for some more preaching from IDigFitness.  This time, I’m talking to you midlifers and old dudes and dudettes.  According to two reports in the January issue of the Archives of Neurology, moderate physical exercise performed during midlife, or later, seems to be associated with a reduced risk of mild cognitive impairment (thinking...
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Exercise and Your Mouth

By I Dig Fitness
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January 6, 2010

Back when I was running with the triathloning crowd, I had buddies who thought that all the training (running, cycling and swimming) they did gave them a free pass to the local buffet. They believed that they could, after their workouts, eat with immunity and with total disregard for their caloric intake. At the...
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New Year, New Resolutions!

By I Dig Fitness
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January 5, 2010

It’s a new year and many of us have new resolutions regarding how we are going to exercise (or should I say many of us are repeating our fitness resolutions from prior years). Well, let me preach to the choir some more. We all know exercise is good for us. Maybe this brief post...
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I Workout When I Feel Good, Or. . .

By I Dig Fitness
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January 5, 2010

I recently read a study done by researchers at Bowling Green University. In a nutshell, they took some obese people and followed their exercise patterns by logging whether they reported being in a good or bad mood in the morning. They found that people were more likely to exercise on days on which they...
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Faster Fitness

By I Dig Fitness
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January 2, 2010

A recent study indicates that people who do short-duration, high intensity training for a total of 1.5 hours a week (including rest periods) achieved the same exercise-induced changes in their muscles over six weeks as people who did traditional endurance training of 4.5 hours a week. This is consistent with the philosophy of Dr....
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P.A.C.E. Revised – the 12 Minute Fitness Revolution!

By I Dig Fitness
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January 1, 2010
P.A.C.E. Revised – the 12 Minute Fitness Revolution!

Those of you who follow this website know that I am an evangelist for Dr. Al Sears’ P.A.C.E. fitness program. I bought it years ago and when it comes to efficiency and effectiveness in exercise, P.A.C.E. is second to none. This post is being written on New Year’s Day, a time when many of...
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