Beyond Know How

For all of you out there thinking of purchasing an Elliptical, or even just thinking about making the switch from elliptical to treadmill at your local gym, listen to this.  I’m only 22 years old, I’ve been playing sports for my whole life and I’m already feeling its affects on my body.  I try and go to the gym as much as possible, I usually weight train and I kind of throw any cardio workout on the back burner.  The reason for this is my sore joints.  As you would imagine, if my young adult bones are aching, then all of you baby boomers out their looking to stay in shape must be in agony.

But wait!  I just found the solution; Ellipticals!  Yeah I know they’ve been around for a while.  I tried one once and it just felt really awkward, and I felt like an idiot using it.  But a few weeks ago I figured I would give them another shot, and it was great.  Sure it took a little longer to burn the same amount of calories as a treadmill, but I was pain free afterwards.  So I started to research Ellipticals on my own, and made up some Elliptical reviews to share with the masses.  You may look stupid on one (well I know I do), but they’re effective and osteoporosis free.

Besides just doing situps and other traditional exercises you can use a lot of different fitness equipment to build good abs for the summer. The most popular machines like treadmill fitness equipment can be easily used to develop great abs and to be honest you don’t even need to do a lot of situps or use abdominal equipment like the roman chair and ab-swing. The basic things you need to do to turn your treadmill workout to an abdominal workout is to try to focuse on keeping perfect posture while walking or running. This way your internal obligue, which is an abdominal muscle that os resposible for mostly keeping a good form in your spine and middle section, is activated during the whole workout. So if you are running for a half an hour, your abs are working that long also.