Posts by Craig Ballantyne

Cardio (a.k.a. aerobic exercise) is no longer the King of Exercise. Research now shows that you can lose fat, improve your heart health, increase your quality of life, and reduce your risk of disability with resistance training. Sure, you can get some benefits by using machines at your local health club. But total-body “functional” exercises…

The best strength-training exercises to use are multiple-muscle and total-body exercises, such as step-ups, lunges, and squats. You can do these with your bodyweight only, or while holding dumbbells in both hands.

Doing long-duration aerobic exercise (“cardio”) for weight loss is inefficient and often ineffective. But that may not be the worst thing about it. According to Alwyn Cosgrove, a personal trainer in Santa Clarita, CA, “Research has shown that aerobic exercise programs result in injury – in fact, one study found a 50 to 90 percent…

Tired of inefficient workouts that often take an hour or more to complete? You can replace that boring routine with simple exercises that work all the major muscle groups in 15 minutes – and have the following advantages: You get your workout completed faster, because you work more muscle groups with each exercise. You reduce…

Chances are, you don’t have hours to spend at the gym each day. But you know that you need to fit exercise into your busy schedule. So if you’ve had it with marathon workouts that cut into your precious time, you owe it to yourself to check out more efficient and effective types of exercise.…