Protect your body from the stresses that build up over time at work. You promise your boss that you will due your job efficiently, but what do you promise your body? There is nothing worse than letting your health go to shit while you sit back and watch your belly grow because you don’t leave the shop mindset anymore. Try some exciting new ways of living. Promise your body that you will give it the attention and care that it needs. Promise your knees, hips and ankles that you will purchase a treadmill with gym quality shock absorption system that will not let your joints suffer. Make a deal with your heart that you will buy a treadmill (or another piece of cardio equipment such as an exercise bike, rowing machine, stair stepper) with an accurate heart rate monitoring system so you can be knowledgable at all times throughout your workout as to how high or low your pulse is. Your body counts on you. Don’t let it down. You do summersaults and back flips through flaming hoops for your boss and co-workers. Do the same for yourself. Make sure you do whatever is necessary in order for you to stay physically fit (and mentally stable of course).

Countless hours of intense mental activity add up and create stresses that our body does not like. You can’t jkust sit back and expect your body to do the work for you.

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?

Weight lifting and strength exercises are just as important to maintaining good health as cardio exercises.  Most of us go to the gym, stretch for ten minutes, turn our Mp3 player on, hop on the treadmill or elliptical and then hit the shower. We need to keep in mind that lifting weights, as well as other forms of muscle building, is absolutely essential if you want to remain healthy and maintain a great looking physique.  Some people still believe that lifting weights stunts growth, reduces mobility, and that strength training does not have as significant of an impact on our daily lives as cardio routines such as running, jogging, biking, climbing stairs and so on. Nothing could be further from the truth. Lifting weights and building muscle mass is just as important to your health as cardio exercises. The Kings of Cardio are and have been on the front lines of fitness since the 1980’s so trust us when we tell you that you must compliment your cardio routine with strength training.

Through proper and effective weight lifting, one is able to raise their metabolism, increase their endurance, build muscle and lose weight. People commonly think that strength training is not as significant as cardio training when it comes to burning calories and losing weight. The reason that people who state that strength training doesn’t help lose weight are wrong  is because when you lift weights you build muscle mass, and when your muscle mass is increased, so is your resting metabolic rate. Therefore, you actually burn more muscle even in your sleep from lifting weights.