Exercise and Fitness :

There are many good sites discussing exercise and fitness topics.

The American Heart Association operates a website filled with tips for starting a new workout regimen, maintaining a good level of fitness and tools for keeping track of it all.

Click here to go to American Heart Association

Calculate how many calories you burn on a given exercise. Distinguishes by type and intensity of exercise, taking your body into consideration.

Click here to calculate your calorie output.

Or click on this link for a more sophisticated calorie burn calculator: http://www.stevenscreek.com/goodies/calories.shtml

 

In order to burn calories and increase fitness, you must work out in the "aerobic" range of your heart rate. Initially, for maximum weight loss, you will keep your heart rate at between 60 and 70% of your max heart rate. Later, as fitness improves, you'll go higher.

Calculate here your maximum heart rate

 

Walking at the Right Pace

Many people who want to keep fit use a pedometer to track how many steps they take. However, the device gives no information on how intensely they're exercising -- that is, whether their heart rate is raised enough to improve physical fitness.
Now new research tells us how you can improve your walking regimen. The magic number for most people is 100.

Click here for the full text of the press release.

 

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead

Attention, couch potatoes. Every hour spent on the sofa watching TV, whether it's Iron Chef or Biggest Loser, is bad for your heart. What's alarming is just how bad being fused to your Lazyboy turns out to be...

Read the full press release in PDF format.