Getting in the Right Frame of Mind for Fitness

One of the biggest blocks to getting fit is the mental block. If your mind just isn’t cooperating with your goals, you aren’t going to get anywhere. You know you’re not in the right frame of mind when you allow too many excuses to keep you from exercising. If you always come up with reasons why you can’t get to the gym, take a walk, take the stairs or whatever else you’re doing to improve your level of fitness, it’s time to figure out why you are doing this to... Read more »

Is Ten Minutes A Day Worth It For A “New You”?

You don’t need to spend an hour or two in a gym every day - or even a few times a week — to have an effective exercise program. Doing focused isometric exercises for just ten minutes a day, at home, will lead you safely and quickly to your goal. There are some “gym bunnies” out there who wouldn’t miss their daily or thrice-weekly gym sessions for anything. But that kind of compulsive dedication to sweating, straining, aching and struggling toward the goal of a “perfect... Read more »

Isometric Exercise Combined With Healthy Nutrition - What’s The Best Weight Loss Program?

How can anyone know what to believe, with all the grandiose claims made by so many different weight loss programs? The answer can be found in the definition of your goals - and if those goals are the loss of weight and inches, increased flexibility and agility, more effective breathing and renewed vigor and energy … all without suffering aching, painful muscles or an exorbitant outlay of time and money … then isometrics is the exercise for you. Anyone considering embarking on a fitness/weight-loss... Read more »

Isometrics Is The Key To Success - Fad Diets, Quick Weight Loss … Ultimate Failure

Fad diets may lead to the rapid loss of a few pounds of water, but the “weight loss” isn’t real, doesn’t last, and is ultimately harmful to both health and looks. What’s needed is a commitment to the three basics: nutrition, aerobics, and exercise for the kind of strength training you can achieve by exercising with an isometric training video. Just about everyone has experienced the exhilaration of quick weight loss from a fad diet. Just about everyone also has experienced... Read more »

Perfect “Gym Bodies” Intimidate Beginners - Avoid Them By Doing Isometric Exercises At Home

Why subject yourself to judgment and ridicule from the “fitness freaks” in a public gym? For them it’s almost entirely a matter of vanity and ego. Your dual goal of getting fit and healthy and looking good can be accomplished easily at home, with an isometric exercise DVD. Oh, those self-proclaimed workout champs! They seem to be everywhere. We see them on TV, selling expensive exercise equipment resembling instruments of torture … we see them in the gym, strutting and posturing... Read more »

Isometrics Is The Easier, Softer Most Effective Way To Fitness - Beginners And Pros, Kids and Senior

There’s absolutely no need to torture your body into the shape you want. Isometric exercise is effective, safe and perfect for all ages and all body types - even for those who face certain physical limitations. Whoever came up with the sayings, “No pain, no gain!” and “Feel the burn!” may have been a marketing genius - but he or she certainly didn’t trouble themselves to educate the public with the truth about effective exercise to achieve a fit, healthy body.... Read more »

Isometrics Is The Perfect Exercise For The Morbidly Obese

There’s a myth that people who need to lose a significant amount of weight can only do so with strenuous, high intensity, high impact exercise. But a myth is exactly what it is. Isometrics can be the perfect exercise for the morbidly obese, since many of the exercises can be done while sitting; physical limitations are no barrier to success. According to the owner of one popular fitness center, at least 35% of her clients need to lose upwards of 35 pounds - and about half of those need to... Read more »

Exercise Burnout - Not A Factor With Isometrics

Any exercise program that requires you to sweat, strain, grunt, sweat and suffer on a regular basis for an un-proscribed length of time is going to lead to burnout, eventually, no matter how satisfying the results might be. Since isometric exercise doesn’t contain any of those elements, burnout isn’t a factor. There are those who are addicted to gym workouts as surely as any poor unfortunate soul may be addicted to drugs, and they’d be utterly bewildered by any talk of “burnout.”... Read more »

Isometric Exercise & Proper Breathing Create A Non-Stressful Workout That Yields Results

Gentle, isometric exercise, combined with a carefully focused breathing technique facilitates quick, reliable, lasting results in a dedicated fitness program. You can lose more pounds and inches — without half-killing yourself by enduring high-impact, stressful exercise routines — simply by changing your breathing technique during a light, isometric workout. Hard to believe? Maybe so, given all the “No pain, no gain!” and “Feel the burn!” hogwash we’ve been... Read more »

Weight Loss And Sweating It Off: How You Can Cheat Your Caloric Banker And Loose Weight The Easy Way

We have all heard that loosing weight in the long term requires hard work. It involves restrictive diets combined with military style exercise regiments. Well, that may be true but is it the only way? Lets start with the basics and why traditional diet/workout methods can work and sometimes fail. The basics are like your bank account. If you put in more money than you take out, your bank account will grow. If you take out more than you put in it shrinks. The currency of weight control is calories... Read more »