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A President’s Standard of Fitness: Do you Measure Up?

  • December 9, 2009 12:20 pm

How many of you all remember the presidential fitness tests when we were in grade school? Well there is new test which is based on the same program aimed at adults.

Created in 2008, the adult fitness test is meant to test the aerobic fitness and muscular strength and endurance of the men and women of the United States. It is pretty basic in its testing criteria and easy enough that anyone can do it at home. You could even make it a competition between you and your friends to further motivate yourself to try harder.

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Dynamic Flexibility Part 1: What is it?

  • December 8, 2009 9:48 pm

The question on when and how to stretch and warm up is one that comes up often. It is one of those, made to complicated because we think about it too much things. And from all this thinking have spawned several myths which we will talk about here later on. But what people fail to talk about or do much is dynamic warmups.

Dynamic warm ups are not exactly new, but they have yet to go mainstream. What are they? Well its warming up your body by stretching through movement. Examples of this are lunges, side bends, high knees, back pedals, scorpions, side stepping, high knee skipping, Frankenstein walk and MORE! Descriptions will follow.

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Rant: Push Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It

  • December 7, 2009 11:24 am

So I’m at the gym today and what do I see but three girls “working out” in the shortest shorts ever, talking and laughing like it’s the most fun they’ve had in their lives. Now, why did I just put “working out” in quotes? Because there’s a difference between actually working out and just hanging out in the gym and thinking you’re working out, and apparently a lot of people do not realize this. The gym is not a place to socialize people — be it the basement of your house, gym in your apartment or road you are going running on, go there with a purpose.

If you’re in the middle of a set and talking to the person next to you, you are not working out. If you are looking across the room and checking out some girl stretching, you’re not working out. And if you feel exactly the same at the end of a set as you did at the beginning, you damn sure are not working out.

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What is fitness? A Misunderstood Word

  • December 7, 2009 10:59 am

When asked what it means to be physically fit, most people respond by answering that it means being athletic, thin, strong, fast or any combination of the latter. This is still a broad definition. Since this blog’s purpose is to help explain what fitness is and how one can be fit, I find it necessary to define the term.

For our purposes, fitness is the epitome of health. Now this might seem bizarre or incorrect, but a properly executed fitness regimen will provide excellent health benefits. Merely exercising and dieting by no means produce fitness though. For example, someone who runs everyday but is on a high carbohydrate, low fat and medium protein intake  diet is at risk of developing atherosclerotic disease, among a slew of other things. Fitness then is a compound measurement of many key areas.

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But, I Don’t Belong to a Gym

  • December 6, 2009 9:24 pm

One of the most widely circulated reasons that I hear as to why it is hard to stay healthy is someone saying that they do not belong to a gym. Who ever stipulated that being healthy required a gym membership? I think the reason  that people will resort to an excuse like this is because they do not know how to exercise without exercise equipment. Well let me see if I can help dispel the myth that being healthy requires a gym membership.

So what exactly do we do at a gym? Well, we either push something, which would be weights, pull something, or breathe hard which would be cardio. Now, unless you live in a box, I think it is impossible for anyone to say that they cannot do those three things in and around their house or place of work.

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Who can you listen to?

  • November 23, 2009 7:44 pm

There are few markets that are as saturated with pseudo-knowledge and self proclaimed experts as the fitness market. Everywhere you look there is someone or something telling you how to be healthy, how to be in good fitness, or how to achieve a particular goal. It has come to the point that it is almost impossible to pick out the real information and knowledge, and so we believe whatever sounds the best, or whatever seems to be articulated in the most elegant manner. The problem is that 99% of the information available at arm’s length is intended to sell us on something and thus this massive percentage of information is likely based in non-fact. AITank’s purpose is to make sense of what we hear and read, to separate fact from fiction and inform you so that you can make better decisions in regards to what you allow to influence your fitness. We are pushing for the raw truth.

The AITank Team