Top Fitness Trends For 2014

Apple looking to hire experts to help create fitness products

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. Or it can be as simple as running as fast as you can for 1 minute, then walking for 2 minutes, repeating that 3-minute interval five times. (Conduct an Internet search of “Tabata” for other options.) Shape magazine says a mere 15 minutes of interval training, three times a week, can deliver better results than jogging on a treadmill for an hour. In addition to preserving muscle while burning fat, these workouts have been found to boost metabolism in the 24 hours afterward. Integrated exertion Rather than scheduling exercise, many are finding ways to distribute exercise over the course of their day, said Jay Cardiello, a p90X3 celebrity trainer and nutrition expert (jcorebody.com).
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Plank to palm: Lower to forearm plank, elbows under shoulders, forearms straight out in front of you, feet hip distance apart, knees off floor. Try not to swivel hips during movements. Raise up to regular plank position, right hand, then left hand. Lower to forearm plank position, right forearm, then left forearm. Switch sides.

Could it be the iWatch? A mock-up of what an iWatch might look like. (Credit: Sarah Tew and Christopher MacManus/CNET) Apple seems to be gearing up for a fitness product, at least based on details from a new job posting. Listed Thursday on Apple’s job site but since taken down, the ad was seeking a “User Studies Exercise Physiologist” to put in 40 hours a week at Apple headquarters in Santa Clara Valley. As quoted below from the ad, Apple is looking for people who not only are knowledgeable about cardiovascular fitness but can put that knowledge toward the design of products.
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Will you fall over the fitness cliff on February 18?

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 simple solution for those who have a little more stick-to-itiveness than the http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/p90x3-reviews/sbwire-455028.htm average person, why not mark February 19 on your calendar as your personal Fitness Cliff? That way you will miss the free fall. And, after all, why be like everyone else?
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