You are browsing the archives of- NewdietFitness.

Let’s try and clear up a few misconceptions about losing fat with the goal of increasing your fitness level. First, increasing your lean body weight through strength conditioning actually might result in a greater fat reduction than performing aerobics. How can this be? About 60 percent of the average person’s total weight is lean muscle [...]

Cardio exercise it as necessary for overall health and fitness as anaerobic exercise (lifting weights) is. When you do cardio, you get your heart rate going and increase blood circulation throughout your body. Cardio exercise (or cardiovascular exercise) is basically whole body exercise that, ideally, should make you breathe harder than usual, get your heart [...]

NOW that you’ve committed to getting fit (or at least thinking about it) here are a few definitions of words and phrases you’re likely to encounter: Abdominals or “abs” – The collective name for the muscles on the front of the torso, below the chest. Aerobic – Literally, “with oxygen.” Aerobic exercise is the body’s [...]

Having trouble losing those five pounds you’ve been swearing off since the start of the new year? While you may be working tirelessly to rid yourself of that last pesky weight, you may be duping your own body into failure without even knowing it. Come check out these five reasons why you may not be [...]

THE term ‘calories’ originated circa 1890 from a scientist named Wilbur Atwater. Atwater got the idea of putting food into a special machine, which he later called a calorimeter, setting the food on fire, and measuring the amount of heat it produced. He decided to call the energy produced by burning the food into ash [...]