How many times have you dreaded going to the gym for cardio. You spend countless hours pounding away on the treadmill or spinning into nowhere. After all this work it would be nice to see noticable results right? For many people they follow this routine every week with little to no results. The problem may be with how they are doing their cardio.

The trick to highly effective cardio is interval training. This makes your body never settle into a rhythm as your doing your cardio. Thus... More about: The Cardio Misconception

One of the best ways to get a hold of some usable home gym equipment is to check out yard sales. Of course many people would overlook this option but if you look you are able to find some great equipment at a great price. It is all too common for someone to get new exercise equipment for Christmas or as a New Year's resolution only to use it once or twice and let it collect dust in the corner until they get tired of looking at it and sell it. You may also run into someone who is... More about: Cheap Exercise Equipment

If you are like most people, you approach each New Year with wonderful intentions to improve your life and do more in the coming year. Then the New Year comes, and goes, and somehow those good intentions did not translate into new accomplishments. Of course, when that pattern repeats itself year after year, we eventually give up on the good intentions altogether and resign ourselves to mediocrity. DO NOT GIVE UP! There is wisdom and hope in the old adage, ?If you want something you have never... More about: Facing the New Year Head on!

Sport Specific conditioning benefits a lot more than just your sport!

By Wendy Tarlow, Fitness Together ? Fort Lauderdale, CPT

A true Sport Specific exercise program is built entirely upon the principles of functional exercise. Functional exercises are designed to restore balance, lengthen, strengthen, and coordinate movement patterns specific to the golf swing, to the swimmers stroke, to the sport that you are focusing on. Exercise programming and periodization will cater to... More about: Sport Specific Conditioning

Sticking to an Exercise Program By Wendy Tarlow, Owner of Fitness Together ? Fort Lauderdale

Program adherence is probably the most difficult ? challenging issue people face when starting a fitness regiment. Most people start a program all revved up and ready to go with noble ambitions of reaching their fitness goals. ?This time I am going to stick to this program! Three times a week. Five times a week, etc??

Sound familiar? This is the typical pattern that we see repeatedly when... More about: Sticking to an Exercise Program

Jack and Marcus had long played golf together, and both had knee replacements at the same time. Jack exercised religiously before his operation and resumed shortly thereafter. He did his daily stretches and about 30 minutes of strength training a week. His recovery was swift, and he was ready for duck hunting season. Meanwhile Marcus who did not exercise was still on a walker.

Jack stuck to the exercise program for the years that followed. Jack now 78 years old was still an avid golfer... More about: Strength Training To Get Back The Life You Had