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Feb 29

O2 MAX and Teen Fitness Present Prom 2011 Fitness Program – Video

28-02-2011 08:23 As Prom and summer come , some girls begin dangerous fad diets or weight loss pills to look slim on prom and summer. O2 MAX Fitness MAX Prom/summer program, , uses prom and summer as a jumpstart for a lifetime of health. Enrollment in this10-week program includes a personalized fitness/exercise and nutrition plan - complete with support - developed by certified trainers to help girls get fit using the resources they have access to-be it a gym or their bedroom. Girls in the Los Angeles area also get entry into a series of exclusive fashion events in Santa Monica with gift giveaways and Prom shopping perks on hair, makeup, shoes, limo, by retail sponsors such as ABS and Benefit. Ultimately, it's not about that one night on the dance floor—it's about living life to the max, and finding the fun in a proactive, healthy lifestyle. That includes confidence in one's self and one's body. O2 MAX shows that fitness can be empowering and fun. For that reason, O2 MAX fashion partners will individually consult Primp for Prom participants, to bring out the belle in every girl. While based in Santa Monica, O2 MAX has attracted girls near and far by utilizing the Internet, Facebook and other social media tools. O2 MAX teens produced a mini video to show the importance of a healthy approach to get prom and summer ready, which is this video you are watching on You Tube. Health and fitness clubs can also help girls with the program in collaboration with O2 MAX-one club that has already ...

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Feb 29

My Exercise Plan – Video

26-02-2012 18:37 Just my exercise plan and what I've ben doing/ will be doing. http://www.beachbodycoach.com --contact me, look at programs, watch videos about the programs I'm doing, shakeology, etc. http://www.lauramustloseweight.com has my diet, blog, exercise, faq, tips, etc

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Feb 29

Metamorphosis Custom Fitness Program by Tracy Anderson 2/3 – Video

29-12-2011 12:05 Get the body you've dreamed of with Metamorphosis by Tracy Anderson. Eliminate your problem areas faster with Tracy's targeted approach. Call 1-800-298-2933 to order and make only 3 payments of $29.99 plus s&h.

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Feb 29

New Workout Gets Attention From Bay Area Athletes, NASA

MOUNTAIN VIEW (CBS 5) Exercise programs that make bold claims is nothing new. But a new kind of workout has grabbed the attention of Bay Area athletes, rescuers and NASA scientists.

Amidst the Velcro, hoses, and pain, may be the future of fitness. Its called Vasper, short for vascular performance. The workouts are the brainchild of Peter Wasowski.

As you can see Im not a fitness buff, Wasowski said, laughing.

During hard workouts, lactic acid builds in ones muscles, causing a burning sensation. That triggers the release of human growth hormones and other biochemicals. Vasper claims its pressure cuffs trap lactic acid in your quads and biceps, tricking your body into thinking its working a lot harder than it really is.

As we build up huge amounts of lactic acid, were sending a false signal to the brain. Like hacking the brain, telling the brain that weve destroyed all this muscle tissue when in fact, we havent, Wasowski said. The brain doesnt know that, it releases all this growth hormone to rebuild all this muscle tissue.

The compression cuffs, vest, footpads, and helmet are chilled down to as low as 40 degrees. It creates a strange feeling of simultaneous burning and cooling. As a result, Vasper said clients can push themselves a lot harder without sweating. Trainers guide clients through the interval workouts, consisting of six 30-second intensive sprints, with rests in between.

After the workout, Wasowski said the body is flush with human growth hormones, promising better sleep, and faster recovery. Wasowskis big claim: two hours worth of exercise in just 20 minutes.

The San Jose Sharks tested Vasper for two months last summer. Patrick Marelau, the teams all-time leading scorer, liked the workouts so much hes now an investor, appearing on the companys homepage.

When I did Vasper before my workouts, I had some of my best workouts. I went and did weightlifting after that. I can maybe compare it to like a runners high. Its unbelievable, said Marleau.

Vasper continued testing with the California Air National Guard 131st Rescue Squadron, based at Moffett Field in Mountain View. Dubbed pararescuers, the 131st is tasked with conducting risky missions around the world.

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Feb 28

American Top Team Miramar – ATT FIT – South Florida Fitness Program – Video

13-06-2011 19:39 programs.attmiramar.com Check out our newest video of the American Top Team Miramar Fitness Program, ATT FIT! With ATT FIT you will completely change the way you look and feel with a low impact, high intensity workout for your whole body. Call 954-538-3899 for more information or visit ATTMiramar.com

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Feb 28

TAMUCC Kinesiology Program Exercise Science Research Technology – Video

28-02-2011 16:18 http://www.tamucc.edu - The Kinesiology Program (http at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi is setting a new standard of excellence with facilities equipped with leading exercise science research technology that enables students to acquire the skills needed to be successful in today's modern-technological based competitive world. Such facilities include the motion laboratory equipped with state of the art Dartfish biomechanical analysis software, Vizual Edge visual analysis and training software, and Digital motion capture. Another laboratory houses the most advanced body scan equipment of its kind in comparison to models at hospitals. The general electric IKE Deska has the capabilities of measuring bone density as well as multiple forms of body composition and allows students to virtually know what exactly the test subject is made of; making it the only one of its kind in any of the Universities in the state of Texas. Another laboratory is capable of testing multiple sport science variables such as aerobic capacity, muscle activation, and body lactate formation. Such remarkable equipment can additionally measure things like ventilation per minute, lung capabilities during inhalation and exhalation, directly the number of calories a person uses per minute at various levels of exercise and what these athletes are using for fuels during exercise. Such information is then used to design training variables that help athletes get proper training zones in order to achieve the highest ...

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Feb 28

Docs' intensive 'get healthy' program whittles the waist — a little

If primary care doctors build intensive counseling programs to help their obese patients exercise, lose weight and get healthy, will they work? A new study finds that for half the population, at least, they will. For men and women alike, results will be modest. And for women, they won't last.

The authors of the study, published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, concluded that physicians' efforts to improve their obese patients' health by promoting lifestyle change might do better to embrace "a more realistic expectation": a modest reduction of patients' waist circumference and the prevention of further weight gain.

That discouraging picture comes just three months after Medicare, the nation's healthcare safety net for seniors, announced it would reimburse primary care physicians for providing obese patients "intensive behavioral therapy" to lose weight and improve their health. Increasingly, physicians, who have been told they can be a powerful prod to healthy behavior change in their patients, are devising ways to play that role: they are incorporating nutritional and weight-loss counselors into their practices and honing their own roles as motivational agents for increased exercise and weight loss.

But many studies, including the current one, suggest that expectations for these efforts are impossibly high. For patients who already have entered obese territory, even interventions far more intensive than those that most physicians are equipped to provide will fall short of hopes -- if those hopes focus on bringing a patient's body-mass index (BMI) under 30. Weight loss -- for men and women -- is hard enough, and maintaining weight loss an even tougher challenge.

But does that mean that "lifestyle interventions" cannot improve patients' health? Sometimes that depends on how you define and measure improvements -- and BMI may not always be the best bellwether.

A growing body of research -- including the current study -- is focusing on measures of fatness that may be more amenable to lifestyle changes, and which might reflect meaningful improvements in a patient's health prospects. One of those focuses on fat deposits that girdle the waist and visceral organs, where they can play havoc on metabolic function.

Easily measured with a tape measure, for instance, the circumference of a patient's waist appears to be a better measure of risk for developing type 2 diabetes than is BMI. For men, a waist circumference greater than 40 inches, and for women, greater than 35 inches, has been linked consistently to higher risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and early mortality.

In this study and others, researchers have found that waist circumference tends to respond most to changes in exercise: with more physical activity, fat is less likely to cling to the middle, where it's most dangerous. While that may not translate directly into pounds lost, it may well bring health benefits that will drive down patients' disease risk.

Waist circumference as a measure of health may not be the big kahuna that body-mass index is -- yet. But it's making inroads. A quick search of the nation's clinical trials shows that some 1,631 studies using human subjects make use of BMI as a measure. Waist circumference, a measure of health barely seen in clinical trials a decade ago, is now used in some 571 today.

 

 

 

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Feb 28

Lite Life Surgery Adds Palm Springs Weight Loss Coaching Programs

PALM SPRINGS, CA--(Marketwire -02/27/12)- Lite Life Surgery is pleased to announce the addition of weight loss coaching, dietician, and weight management programs to their California weight loss clinic. Lite Life Surgery, renowned for their bariatric surgery services and weight loss surgery solutions, has recently updated their services with weight loss programs and health regimens. The weight loss services provide for ongoing maintenance to those who have undergone weight loss surgery and also offer a nutrition and coaching solution to those who may have a BMI that is not high enough to qualify for surgical intervention.

Guided through each step by a registered dietician, Palm Springs patients enrolled in the weight management programs are taken through a 12-week course. The program includes weekly visits with a registered dietician who will educate patients on nutrition and exercise. A focus is placed on glycemic eating, as well as behavior and exercise modifications. Throughout the weight management programs, Palm Springs attendees of the program have access to a suite of online tools including a journal to track their thoughts, caloric consumption, and pattern of exercise habits.

The Lite Life Surgery weight loss management program is a great way for patients to take control of their behaviors, bodies, and health. Whether for medical reasons or personal reasons, these programs prove successful because they offer consultation, one on one coaching, and unyielding support.

Overseen by a nutrition and weight loss coach, Palm Spring residents who are looking to lose a lot of weight, or just a little, are encouraged to check out these weight loss programs in California.

About Lite Life Surgery

Lite Life Surgery in Palm Springs, CA provides weight loss surgery, nutrition and exercise programs, and weight management programs for patients throughout Southern California and beyond. Lite Life Surgery is renowned for obesity weight loss surgery, including bariatric surgery, gastric bypass, lap band surgery, gastric sleeve and duodenal switch weight loss surgeries.

For more information about weight loss surgery options or weight loss management programs in Palm Springs visit http://www.litelifesurgery.com.

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Feb 28

Wii active video games don't count as exercise

A new study shows that kids who play Wii Sports or Dance Dance Revolution are as active as those who play Disney Sing-It Pop Hits or Super Mario Galaxy.

The Wii U.

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It seemed like the perfect setup--give kids video games that would motivate them to get off the couch and start moving. Not only would they have fun, they would also get healthier.

However, these high hopes may have been wishful thinking. According to a new study by Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, kids given "active" video games showed no more overall physical exertion than kids who used only their thumbs to play.

"There was no evidence that children receiving the active video games were more active in general, or at anytime, than children receiving the inactive video games," reads the study. "These results provide no reason to believe that simply acquiring an active video game under naturalistic circumstances provides a public health benefit to children."

For the study, researchers gave 78 children, who were above-average weight and between the ages of 9 to 12, a Nintendo Wii console. Half of the kids got "active" video games like Wii Sports and Dance Dance Revolution-Hottest Party 3, and the other half got "inactive" games, such as Disney Sing-It Pop Hits or Super Mario Galaxy. Over the course of the 13-week study, researchers kept logs of their play times and activity levels.

"We expected that playing the video games would in fact lead to a substantial increase in physical activity in the children," Tom Baranowski, lead researcher on the study, told Reuters in an interview. "Frankly, we were shocked by the complete lack of difference."

Researchers tallied the children's average time of moderate or vigorous activity and came up with between 25 to 28 minutes a day for the kids who played active games and between 26 and 29 minutes a day for the kids with inactive games.

Earlier studies, such as one by the University of Massachusetts in Boston that came out last year, showed that interactive games could improve moderate or even vigorous activity while playing.

Baranowski told Reuters he isn't sure why the results came out nearly the same for both groups; one suggestion is that possibly the children in the active group played with minimal effort, another is that they exercised less than they otherwise would throughout the day.

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Feb 28

Behavior Change Programs Focused on Exercise and Stress Management Also Dramatically Improve Overall Well-Being

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Computer-tailored intervention (CTI) programs applying the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) of behavior change to exercise and stress management programs simultaneously reduced participants’ health risks while improving multiple areas of well-being. Areas of well-being that were particularly impacted included: physical health, emotional health, life evaluation and healthy behaviors, according to a new study presented today at the Population Health and Care Coordination Colloquium in Philadelphia.

Participants in a telephonic coaching program group, with exercise as the primary target behavior and stress management as a secondary target, improved healthy behaviors pertaining to exercise (57.3%) and stress management (74.9%). Those in a web-based program group, with stress management as the primary target behavior and exercise as a secondary target, also reported healthy behavior change pertaining to exercise (46.6%) and stress management (64.7%). Both of these groups were significantly more likely to achieve treatment success than the control group, which did not receive telephonic or online interventions for exercise or stress management.

“We know that well-being measures how we feel and experience our daily lives in addition to being predictive of future healthcare cost,” said Dr. James Pope, vice president and chief science officer, Healthways, Inc. “This study adds to that knowledge by showing that cost-effective programs, conducted via telephone or online, adequately provide the support required to help populations improve health and well-being, resulting in lower healthcare costs across the board.”

Although a variety of behaviors relate to well-being, such as physical health, happiness and quality of life, healthcare costs, exercise and effective stress management were chosen as the two health behaviors having the greatest potential for changing multiple domains of well-being. Exercise has been found to produce over 60 different benefits, including reduction of depression, decreased pain, increased self-esteem, greater energy and increased productivity. In addition, effective stress management has been found to decrease stress and depression, improve sleep, decrease pain and increase productivity.

Exercise and stress management interventions were chosen since these behaviors were anticipated to have effects on multiple aspects of well-being and would be important components of a well-being improvement system, if proven effective. Results from the trial demonstrated that multiple areas of well-being did show improvement. Those areas of well-being not showing significant change, such as an individual’s access to healthcare or work environment, were not expected to show changes.

About the Study

The study was conducted on 3,391 individuals by Pro-Change Behavior Systems and the Center for Health Research, Healthways, Inc. Both treatment groups included CTIs with tailoring based on an individual’s state of change for a given behavior. The secondary behaviors in each intervention received stage matched tailoring, which only tailors on stage of change by giving guidance on the one or two steps that could lead to the next stage. This type of protocol can simultaneously treat multiple behaviors while reducing the treatment demands on participants and providers.

The exercise coaching group received up to three proactive telephone sessions at 0, 3 and 6 months via outreach by a trained health coach. Coaches used the CTIs to guide all sessions with optimal TTM tailoring for exercise and stage-tailoring for stress management, the secondary target. The CTI led the coaches through a series of assessment questions and tailored feedback, based on stage of change and TTM variables, to guide their participants to the next stage of change. Each telephone session lasted about 20 minutes. The stress management online group received a self-directed Web-based intervention with full TTM tailoring for stress management and stage-based tailoring for exercise.

These two treatments were used, in part, because telephonic coaching and online CTIs represent the two most commonly applied modalities of scalable wellness interventions. This study was not designed, however, to compare whether telephonic coaching produces greater impact than online CTIs or whether exercise, as the primary behavior, is more effective than stress management.

About Participants

Participants were recruited via the Internet through a survey sampling company that has a national pool of about 1,500,000 potential participants. To be eligible, participants had to report risk in the areas of both exercise (not engaging in moderate or vigorous exercise to guidelines) and stress (reporting stress that was not being managed effectively) during the screening process.

About Healthways

Healthways (NASDAQ: HWAY - News) is the leading provider of specialized, comprehensive solutions to help millions of people maintain or improve their health and well-being and, as a result, reduce overall costs. Healthways’ solutions are designed to help healthy individuals stay healthy, mitigate or eliminate lifestyle risk factors that can lead to disease and optimize care for those with chronic illness. Our proven, evidence-based programs provide highly specific and personalized interventions for each individual in a population, irrespective of age or health status, and are delivered to consumers by phone, mail, internet and face-to-face interactions, both domestically and internationally. Healthways also provides a national, fully accredited complementary and alternative Health Provider Network and a national Fitness Center Network, offering convenient access to individuals who seek health services outside of, and in conjunction with, the traditional healthcare system. For more information, please visit http://www.healthways.com.

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