Smart Fitness Goals

SMART Fitness Goals

SMART goals are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound objectives that help you stay focused and motivated in achieving your goals. Here’s a breakdown of each element: Specific: A specific goal is focused and well-defined, making it easier to understand and work towards. When setting a specific goal, it’s helpful to answer the following questions:…

Staying Fit
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Staying Fit

Self-Image For most people, “overweight” and “obese” are not scientific terms, but are loaded words that trigger anxiety and frustration. Like gender and ethnicity, weight is an essential part of every person’s self-image, and when pounds go haywire, the result is distress. Our culture is, to put it mildly, preoccupied with weight. Weight gain is…

Weighing In
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Weighing In

Precise and Accurate Bathroom Scales for Home Weighing Obesity is loosely defined as accumulation of fat in body storage areas to a point where the amount stored exceeds the amount required for normal body function. Obesity Risks Obesity increases the risk of morbidity from many disorders, including hypertension, dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease,…

Before You Begin
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Before You Start

Before you start your exercise programs The heart rate varies depending on a person’s activity level, age, and overall health. A healthy heart rate typically falls between 60 and 100 beats per minute for adults, although this can vary somewhat depending on the individual. A few notes before you start your exercise programs Read the…

Checking Heart Rate
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Your Workout

Setting up your workout Since your maximum heart rate won’t change much with age if you continue to be fit, you won’t ever have to readjust your zones – they are yours for a lifetime. Your Heart Zone Training System You are ready. You have everything you need to start your program: a heart rate…

Getting Started
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Getting Started

How to Get Started Physical activity is one of life’s most individual pursuits. Still, many people have found they work out better with others so they can get on-the-spot feedback and motivation for their fitness efforts. When you have a heart rate monitor, it doesn’t matter if you are working out alone or with a…

Active Adult
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Elements of Fitness

Fitness is defined as “the ability to carry out daily tasks with vigor and alertness, without undue fatigue, and with ample energy to enjoy leisure time pursuits and to meet unforeseen emergencies.” Yet physical fitness means different things to a dancer, marathon runner, lumberjack, mailman, and weight lifter. It’s also a relative term, in that…