Exercise Blog with Paige Waehner October 2007 Archive

Happy Halloween! I love this time of year, mainly because it's almost like permission to eat lots of candy. It's always fun to indulge a little this time ... Read More

While squats and lunges are great for the glutes, hips and thighs, not everyone can do them because of knee problems, flexibility or balance issues. Or, maybe you just ... Read More

I love Halloween. I especially love the tiny Snickers bars my husband and I vow not to buy every year...Snickers bars that seem to jump right off the shelf ... Read More

If you're a veteran exerciser, you probably have that one go-to workout you can always turn to. It may be cardio or strength training, it may be simple or complex ... Read More

One of the most popular questions I get from both readers and clients is: How much cardio do I really need to do to lose weight? There's always ... Read More

The close-grip bench press is one of my favorite triceps exercises because it not only works the back of the arms, it also involves the chest and shoulder muscles. ... Read More

Being an adult can be a real drag sometimes, what with all the working and cleaning and taking care of the family. It's easy for those daily obligations - ... Read More

Welcome to Friday! Today, I'm covering a few interesting tidbits out there about exercise and fitness for your reading pleasure. Enjoy and have a great weekend: Strip Aerobics. Bored ... Read More

I used to have a real job...a job where I had to show up at the office and sit in a cubicle all day long typing things and talking on ... Read More

The BOSU Balance Trainer (BT) adds a little fun to some exercises, but my favorite is probably these over-the-top squat jumps. This exercise really takes advantage of the dome's ... Read More

Back in 1995, the American College of Sports Medicine and the AHA published some exercise guidelines in an attempt to give us a clue about how much to exercise. ... Read More

Every now and then you see a headline in the news about exercise...usually about how fat we are. You may also see occasional articles about fitness and health studies ... Read More

You may not realize this, but your body is a very efficient fat burning machine. It may seem like even looking at a piece of cake or a bag ... Read More

In the past few years, the plank exercise has become almost as standard as crunches when it comes to working the abs. One reason is because it's an excellent ... Read More

Last week we talked a lot about overeating and why we do it. One thing that kept cropping up over and over in comments was emotional eating...eating to get ... Read More

In this week's poll, we started an interesting discussion about something almost all of us do on occasion: overeating. From that discussion, it's clear that a lot of ... Read More

My sister has seven kids. After the fourth kid, I asked her if she knew how babies were made and she assured me that, yes, she had figured out ... Read More

Ab exercises have evolved over the years, almost to the point where you don't have to do a single crunch or situp at all. That's great news for those ... Read More

Did your mom ever tell you to clean your plate because wasting food was an insult to the poor, starving children around the world? Or what about polishing off ... Read More