Exercises

Jumping jack is a bodyweight exercise. It can also be an effective way to turn into aerobic exercises if performed for a longer duration. It is one of the boot camp workouts and targets the entire body. It is a fun loving exercise and can be performed anywhere at home/ gym/ outdoor. Jumping jack is an exercise to use for warm up exercise if done at a low-level intensity. It is also great calories burner if done at high intensity and works the majority of muscles of your body at one time.

This is also a good aquatic exercise i.e. it can be performed by jumping in water where the water is at chest level.

In short, you can use the jumping jack in warm-up training, aerobic training, strength training, plyometric training and dynamic flexibility exercise.

If someone told you there was a form of exercise that could enhance physical beauty, embellish grace of expression, increase power of mental receptivity, prevent hardening of arteries, enable lasting youth by stimulating circulation and ejecting waste from body, drive away headaches, improve voice, steady the nerves, put on or take off fat as desired, send curative energy to diseased parts, detach scattered attention from the senses, lead to greater concentration, strengthen the mind, and inspire success, you would want to know about it, right?

That is exactly what the famous yoga guru Paramhansa Yogananda promised with the set of 39 isometric exercises he developed called Energization Exercises. I have witnessed remarkable changes in myself and hundreds of others within just one week of starting these exercises. There is a lot of research showing the benefits of isometric exercises. Now that can be applied to this full body workout!

Many of you are probably training for a Fall Half Marathon or Marathon. By October or November, the weather in many parts of the country will become much more favorable for running a successful long distance event. Unfortunately, your training plan calls for you to do long runs during the heat and humidity of August and September. Here are some tips on how to successfully make it through your late summer long runs:

Watch the weather – first and foremost, watch the weather forecast. If you see in advance that your long run will fall on a day with less favorable conditions, you can adjust your plan accordingly. Keep in mind that your running performance drops below optimal levels when temperatures are above 55°F and will fall off 10% or more when temperatures exceed 80.