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A Smoother Way To Buy Home Fitness Equipment

A Smoother Way To Buy Home Fitness Equipment

Smooth Fitness, the world's largest online retailer of home fitness equipment, including treadmills and elliptical trainers, has partnered with Google's Checkout to provide customers with a fast, safe and convenient way to shop online without the need to create multiple accounts and passwords.

Running Weekends On The Sunshine Coast

Running Weekends On The Sunshine Coast

The Running Inn, Eastbourne, offers unique weekend breaks for anyone who loves running for fitness. Launched just over a year ago, the Running Inn team has successfully coached over 100 runners and received extensive press coverage in praise of the package.

Make Sure Only The Goose Gets Fat At Christmas!

Make Sure Only The Goose Gets Fat At Christmas!

Struggling to squeeze into your office Christmas party dress? Want a flatter tummy for the new-year? A free guide has been written to provide advice on how to achieve a flatter tummy with some clever exercise and nutritional advice from nutritionist Dr Chris Fenn.

Get Fit By Learning To Dance Like A Pro!

Get Fit By Learning To Dance Like A Pro!

Learning to dance and get in shape just got easier with the new fitness and dance DVD series from Edyta Sliwinska and Alec Mazo (as seen on America’s version of Strictly Come Dancing "Dancing with the Stars"). The fitness series consists of beginner - low impact, intermediate - medium impact, and advanced - high impact videos, with featured dances such as the Rumba, Cha Cha, Jive, and Samba.

Hitting 50 Is Good For Your Health!

Hitting 50 Is Good For Your Health!

People in their twenties could have parents – or even grandparents – who are more healthy than they are according to new research from Fitness First. The company has devised a ten-point ‘Health Tracker’ to examine a range of aspects that impact on health including diet, alcohol consumption, smoking and stress and those over the age of 50 have achieved the highest health ratings.

Twelve Tips To Stay Fit During Christmas

Twelve Tips To Stay Fit During Christmas

Absolute Fitness, one of the US’s premiere personalized fitness studios is offering twelve easy and simple tips to stay fit during the holiday season. The average American gains between 5 to 8 pounds during the holiday period beginning at Thanksgiving and ending during New Year’s festivities according to a recent study. While many attribute the cause for this weight gain as excessive eating during the holiday period, much of the weight gain is due more to lack of exercise and physical activity.

Put On Your Dancing Shoes

Put On Your Dancing Shoes

On Thursday 16 November at 11:15 a.m. more than 200,000 Dutch people will be dancing simultaneously for five minutes as part of the 'Get the Netherlands Dancing' campaign, an initiative by the Dutch Institute for Sport and Exercise (NISB). The aim of the campaign is to call attention to exercise as a resource in the fight against obesity. An important part of the campaign is to break the current Guinness world record for simultaneous dancing. At the moment it is held by Canada, where 196,569 people danced the hokey cokey simultaneously on 9 April 2002.

Fitness Expert Launches Online Gym

Fitness Expert Launches Online Gym

Fed up of paying expensive gym fees and never going? Or do you go to the gym but never achieve your goals? Going to the gym has become a popular way to help fight the flab and shed the pounds. But if you're one of those people who struggles to find the motivation to go and you're only really there because there's no other alternative - your problem is about to be solved as one of the UK's leading fitness experts launches an online alternative to going to the gym.