Just wanted to let everybody know that I am now running up to 45 minutes a day on my Life Fitness 95ti treadmill. As part of my plan to lose 22 pounds, I purchased an elliptical and treadmill for cardio, along with a home gym for my strength workout. When I run on my treadmill, I use the interactive heart rate programming, in order to burn the maximum amount of calories possible. Getting the most out of each and every workout is a must for those of you trying to lose a bunch of weight. Just doing a light jog and some sit-ups is not going to cut the layers of fat off like running on a tredmill or an elliptical for at least 45 minutes a day.

The recent increase in the amount of people in the United States that purchase fitness equipment for their home is a good sign. Are we finally realizing that happiness is attained through gym equipment rather than designer clothes? We here at Kings of Cardio sure hope so!

Recently in the news, there has been even more coverage focused around heathcare, than the average daily dosage. It is well known that the U.S.A. is the only first world nation on the planet that does not offer a comprehensive, universal healthcare system. The counter argument to that is something in the realm of “well that’s why we have the best doctors.” That argument is flawed to say the least. Our nation is not even in the top 10 when it comes to highest life expectancy rates! Why? One reason is that 9/10 people would be clueless if you asked them what an elliptical is, or what a stair climber is, or what their favorite piece of fitness equipment is. Home gym equipment, gym equipment, sports equipment, or weight equipment is foreign to most people.

Let us give you some advice, if you spend more time eating every day, then you do exercising, then you will be unhealthy and you will not have the rock hard body that you would like to have.  Using gym equipment should not be as difficult as math. Your daily exercise routiner should not have the same level of intensity as one of your study sessions. So get up, get out and get something. Don’t just waste your time away like a fat ass sitting on the couch all day and waiting for something good to happen. You must make it happen through staying true to your fitness routine. Daily exercise, along with personalized fitness goals, will enable you to look and feel like you really want to. How many times in your life have you looked in the mirror and told yourself that you are going to start exercising in some form or another? Aren’t you tired of always just hoping and wishing? Isn’t it time to get something done? Even if you have not done any cardio or strength training in the last 10 years, you can still get in shape. You do not have to start of by running on the treadmill for 2 hours everyday at top notch speeds on the “interval training” propgram. The great thing about exercising is that you are your own boss. If you have not worked out in a very long time, then just get on the treadmill for like 10 minutes and walk at low speeds. Do this everyday until you feel comfortable picking up the pace. The key is to walk a little bit longer and start moving a little bit faster as you progress in your workouts.

I have recently got in to a stomach workout which has been showing great results within 2 1/2 weeks. It takes me about 20 minutes a day and combined with a little cardio keeps me on the road to meeting my fitness goals. People tend to overlook their abdominal muscles and just go for the easy stuff like legs, biceps, chest, back and all of the exercises where you can just sit there and use your amrs, or just your legs. Doing sit-ups feels very difficult because you are using your entire body at once. Myself included, we just do not do enough work on our stomachs. Why? I have no idea. You would think that the main thing everybody does when they workout would be focused around their belly because afterall, that is the determination world-wide as to whether or not somebody is in shape. But instead of people going to the gym and doing crunches all day, they do one 1,000,000 reps of bicep curls, or bench press. Stomach crunches are totally forgotten. Even ab-equipment is almost non-existant. When you go to the gym you see a ton of treads, a gang of ellipticals, recumbent bikes by the dozen, room fulls of spinner bikes, at least 10 step mills, stair climbers, StairMasters or whatever they are called, at least 50 pieces of strength equipment, rows of rowing machines, loud and noisy free weight equipment everywhere, multi-station strength piece / home gym like set ups blocking your vision every way you look, but where the hell are the ab-machines? Hello? Anybody seen one?