Top Fitness Trends For 2014

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Beier recommends a circuit of eight exercises that includes squats with a reverse lunge, forearm plank to palm pushups, V-ups and the dreaded burpees. Quick HIIT fitness “High intensity interval training (HIIT) is still going strong and remains the predominant trend for 2014,” said Jenn Hogg, a group fitness manager for Equinox clubs (equinox.com). “Short bursts of intense effort with minimal recovery melts the fat while increasing muscular strength and endurance, oftentimes in a 30-minute format. It’s maximum efficiency in minimal time.” Equinox group fitness examples include Stacked, Tabata and Shockwave classes. A new at-home option in this genre is beachbody.com’s P90X3, an abbreviated, 30-minute version of the original DVD workouts that have won devotees.
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Will you fall over the fitness cliff on February 18?

They simply researched all of their member check-in data for the last four years from Golds Gym locations across the country more than 400 clubs in the U.S. and tracked the numbers. The drop-off in check-ins starts around February 12 and continues until February 18 when, like lemmings – and driven by some inexplicable aversion to exercise people start migrating away from the gym and regressing back to their former inactive lifestyles only to repeat the same behavior next year. Of course, a p90X3 results simple solution for those who have a little more stick-to-itiveness than the average person, why not mark February 19 on your calendar as your personal Fitness Cliff? That way you will miss the free fall.
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NASA Astronauts Talk Space Fitness with US Olympic Bobsled Team

View photo NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins hold up an Olympic pennant in honor of the 2014 Winter Two NASA astronauts on the International Space Station connected with the United States Olympic bobsled team in Sochi, Russia before the 2014 Winter Games kick off Friday (Feb. 7). Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Rick Mastracchio chatted fitness in space and on the ground with Curt Tomasevicz and other members of the U.S. bobsled team during a NASA-sponsored Google Hangout about the upcoming games and how astronauts exercise in space.
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