For weekend reading from the Fitness Health Network this week checkout these posts:

• How do you know if you’re properly hydrated? Journal of Healthy Living posts for Proper Hydration: Clear Urine Is Best.
• Fat Man Unleashed asks Why Are We Fatter Than the Animals at the Zoo?
• A Little Help – Best Way To Cook Chicken by NCN asks for a recipe for a healthy and delicious way to cook chicken. Got one? Send it in!
• Lazy Man and Health blogs Are You Eating Enough of These 9 Diet Foods?
• The Myth of Moderate Exercise by Get Fit Slowly exposes fact from fiction.

If you’re not finished yet, check out these readings from those that linked or commented to me in the last week:

• Over at Quick to Fit Weight training is good for your health! And better still you can do it even if you don’t want to bulk up.
• You know what I always like to read? MizFitOnline’s Guest Chef Time: Thinking Thin style. I always need recipes.
• Healthy Habits write Super Carbs!!! – Obesity Research Update #5.
• Coffee? Coffee! Check out Spunkysuzi’s new find.
• A run with a podcast over at Andrew is getting fit, is an excellent idea. Instead of music, listen to your favorite podcasts!
• If you need a motive to stay fit, or even if you don’t, try something like Run Bulldog Run is doing and run for money. Help out local students go to college. See Memorial Scholarship 5k for more.
• Runner Girl’s “Detox” Update is a personal look at diet detox. Is a Diet Detox Right For You?
• Are you looking for smoothie recipes? Read Fantastic Fast Food Recipes: The Smooth Fad of Smoothies at Healthy New Age Blog for some delicious sounding recipes.
• Be Naturally Fit asks have you ever had to Pay for Slip ups?

Originally posted 2008-08-03 05:06:41. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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Weekend reading from the Fitness Health Network:

• Working out with the Misses, I love her by Fat Man Unleashed is an excellent post to remind us that working out with partners (spouses, friends, family members) is a great way to get motivated.
• Mr. Low Body Fat writes “The 1000 Calorie Tip” by Craig Ballantyne.
• Are increased portion sizes changing how much we eat? Get Fit Slowly wants to know and so might you!
• The Cookie Diet – is there truth behind the promotional gambit? Lazy Man and Health goes behind the scenes.
• Journey o Healthy Living explains why 8 hours of sleep matters.

From our readers and those that linked to us this last week:

• Health Habits provides 10 Ways to Burn 1 Pound of Body-Fat…vol.2. Great pictures and ideas!
• Valerie from The Diet Book blogs Wednesday Detox Wisdom: Migraine Headaches.
• iRun365  writes The Runner’s Curse (aka, No I Won’t Let You Pass Me) – the classic I can do better than you – no you can’t!
• The Fight for Fitness examines Faux Wheat Bread – what’s in your bread?
• Andrew is Getting Fit does a run to work.
• MizFit Online posts Tues Tip: Feel the Fear and Do It Anyhoo.

Originally posted 2008-09-07 05:04:06. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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From the Fitness Health Network this week were quite a few good articles in my opinion. Check them out:

• Did you know that One Pound of Fat = 3500 Calories? Journal of Healthy Living explains calorie deficits in relation to weight loss goals.
• Lazy Man and Health is looking into Hotel Friendly Food and not hotel food so much as food you can take on the road with you.
• FatManUnleashed is having a little contest this week. If you like Smoothie King you have until Wednesday the 9th of July to respond with a comment about the Smoothie King Chain or products.
• Walking 45 Minutes – The Ups And Downs by NCN is an interesting look at the mental state of a fellow blogger. Do you feel this way when exercising? How about in other areas of your life- like going to work?
• Nutrition Fitness Life presents Yoga Revisisted. Are you looking for a change of pace from the high intensity exercises? Yoga might just be for you.
• Drinking Water Only: A Month-Long Experiment in Self-Discipline by Get Fit Slowly is about habit breaking. Can you kick the sugar, caffeine, and alcohol addiction?

Now for the rest of blogosphere:

• MizFitOnline brings us a great interview with Tues Tip: Rocco style; from the personal trainer Rocco Castellano.
• How do you fight cravings? In Break Me off a Piece… at Weight Down, Money Up explores options such as moderation and learning to just say no. Who knew that simple phrase could do more than protect you from drugs?
• Andrew posts this week on Lessons learned: Exercise is not a dirty word. It really isn’t, but if you don’t believe me this is an excellent post to read.
• After my own scare with dehydration it’s imperative to remember to Hydrate, Hydrate, Hydrate! Sheamus informs readers that being 2% short on the fluids your body needs can result in a 10-20% loss in your body’s performance for exercise.
• Deflabbify brings us the killer hidden cost of weight-loss programs this week and for those who are looking to join a program might just think twice.
• As it is summer I thought this post from Fit36 was a great read: The Challenges of Living Healthy While on Vacation. What do you and your family do?
• Thinking to Thin brings us Baked Beef Ziti in Recipe Thursday and more… for only 5pts.
• In June Recap Laura from Pursuit of Healthyness examines her routine and life style changes for healthier living. Can you give her any tips?

At least he wasn’t right about their being fish in the river behind my house. Since he’s a pretty good fisherman, perhaps he’s just as humbled to have not caught a fish whenever I’ve been around.

Here are some links I liked this week from the Fitness Health Network:

Idea: Going Vegetarian For One Week – Jim is going to try to be a vegetarian for a week. In the past, I’ve tried it for a few meals and failed.

100 Pushups: Week One, Day Three – J.D. is repeating the first week of one hundred pushups. I barely survived the first week. I may be repeating week two.

Master List of Unconventional Benefits of Weight Loss – Israel has a list of unconventional benefits to weight loss. I wouldn’t have thought donating clothes to charity as one of them. That would mean that I would have to buy all new clothes.

100 Push Ups Week 1 Day 1 – 42 Push Ups!!! – No. Calories needed has joined the 100 push-up craze.

The Karl Lagerfeld Diet – Weight Loss Journal reviews the book. I liked this line: “The main premise of the diet is to simply lower the amount of calories you’re taking in and exercise more.” It’s too bad, I was looking for a diet that requires no exercise and lots of eating.

What is the 100 Pushup Program?

You can find out more about the 100 Pushup Program at the official website. I’m not 100% sure if it’s scientifically proven to work. However, I checked with my doctor and she says I’m fit enough to give it a shot. (I didn’t have any doubts, but I like to check anyway, you should think about it as well before you start a health-fitness program.) The idea is to start off with a small amount of pushups and over the span of six weeks gradually build up to the time where you can make a good run at 100 consecutive pushups. Where do I start? You start with an initial test to see how many pushups you can do to start the program. On my initial test, I got to 20 before I tired. My muscles weren’t particularly tired, but my breathing was off and I just had to stop and breathe better to continue. I think I probably could have done another 6 more, but I’m okay to start with 20. With that information I was ready for day one. Day one Yesterday was day one. I did 5 sets of push-ups. The sets had 10, 10, 8, 6, and 16 push-ups in them. The first four sets are dictated by the program, while the last one varies from person to person. That last one is supposed to be the most you can do before tiring. I was very happy to be able to hit that 16 number. It gives me confidence that I’ll be able to get through this week – though the end of the week looks difficult with repetitions of 15, 13, 10, 10, and 15+ on the docket. I will try to continue Monday, Wednesday, and Friday workouts. I will supplement that with some juggling for exercise, and follow that up with some Wii Fit.

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