22 Minute Hard Corps Deluxe Workout from BeachBody – Review

I just got around to trying 22 Minute Hard Corps (link for Deluxe kit) from Beachbody and Tony Horton even though it’s been around for a bit. And, of course, I wanted to review it here even though I’m a bit late to the party. During the entire time I…

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Review – Les Mills Combat

Previous to a few years ago I had not been much interested in any of the Martial Arts – that was until I started doing P90X (see my review of P90X vs Insanity vs P90X2 vs T25 vs P90CX3 here).  I found Kenpo X (or Kempo, depending on who you are…

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Review – Charlene Johnson’s PiYo DVD series from Beachbody

Pilates and Yoga have been combined before, I believe Jonathan Urla may have coined the term Yogalates, meaning a mixture of the two practices. But more recently the term Piyo has come to be associated with Beachbody’s Charlene Johnson’s Piyo which, while it too is a combination of Pilates and Yoga, is a nearly continuous…

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Schwinn 130 / Journey 1.0 Exercise Stationary Bike – Review

  To replace an aging recumbent bike (that had malfunctioned, I had to jerry-rig the resistance magnet to make it work) we decided to go with a regular upright bike for bike training and exercise.  My preference is an upright bike, though we had gotten a good deal on the…

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Review – FitBit Flex

Everyone’s heard of them – activity-trackers.  They are devices that you wear on your wrist or in your pocket or another place on your person and which monitor and track your physical activities – whether it is general movement, steps, stairs, sleep, etc.  If you want to keep a bit…

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A Review of Some Fitness Syncing Sites and a Syncing App

(This review has been updated on 1/25/2018) This review is a companion to my previous posting – A Review of Some Exercise Logging Sites. Okay, so you’re uploading your GPS watch tracking to Runkeeper but want to log some weight-training on Fitocracy and want both sets of data to show up on each…

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A Review of Some Exercise/Fitness Logging Sites

This review will cover a few of the more popular exercise logging and fitness tracking websites, though I’m going to center this review around a few of my favorites and then more briefly touch on some others. This review also goes along with my next blog post – A Review of…

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(Finding) Time to Exercise

Finding Time to Exercise

What about those people who can’t find time to exercise?  I hear it all the time: “I don’t have time to exercise.” “I would if I could find the time.” “I have kids and a job, there’s just no time to workout.” “My job keeps me pretty busy and then…

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P90X vs. Insanity vs. P90X2 vs. T25 vs. P90X3

P90X vs. INsanity Vs. P90X2 vs. T25 vs. P90X3

I’m no fitness expert but I do work out often for health and fun and as a hobby, I try to keep in pretty good shape and be an all-around fit person; which involves working hard in various and varied areas of fitness.  And in my case it includes the…

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Trim Endeavors Podcast Interview of Jen’s 225+ Pound Weight Loss

  In previous posts I have mentioned how a number of years ago my wife, Jennifer, and I started eating better, exercising, and losing weight. Jennifer lost a tremendous amount of weight, 225+ pounds, all of it through diet and exercise.  She did have surgery to remove excess skin after…

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