Archive for the "Exercise" category

Starting week eight on PUSH.tv

After waiting for my new PUSH.tv DVD for a long time, I contacted PUSH.tv and they resent it via 2-day air. It arrived on Friday, June 15, and, as Murphy’s Law would have it, so did the original DVD mailed on June 1st. Somehow this seemed inevitable. My contact at PUSH.tv told me that the [...]

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Interval training and the bodybugg

Some time ago I wrote about high intensity interval training (HIIT). One of the claims of HIIT proponents is that the intervals keep your metabolism up well after the short workout is over. Ever since I got the bodybugg, I’ve been curious to check that claim.

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A weekend spent pedaling on the road

After almost a month of no road riding, I got back in the saddle (ha ha) this weekend. Fortunately this picture is not from the long (100 km) charity ride on Saturday, but instead from a short ride around town on Sunday. Daniel and my mom rode the tandem and it was windy enough that [...]

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PUSH.tv MIA and a 100km weekend

I was planning to write about the new PUSH.tv workout today, but it hasn’t arrived yet.    The PUSH.tv site reports that it was mailed a week ago, but no sign of it yet.  I’m hoping it will appear in today’s mail so I can start it on Monday (and not embark on week four [...]

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Free online exercise videos?

Okay, I’m feeling a mite senile. I could swear that I came across a site a month or two ago that had user-submitted workouts online. Kind of like YouTube for exercise. Brilliant concept, and if it turns out I’m crazy and it really doesn’t exist, someone should do it. Much better than the sites trying [...]

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