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How To Foam Roll like a Pro [Infographic]

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We’ve talked the other day about how massages have been shown to benefit fitness more than we once though, which you can check out the full post on the issue here.

From working out day to day, as many of us should be doing for optimal health, our muscles can get tight, and stretching alone does not always relieve these. So this is where massages come into play, to help relieve those tight muscles. Yet many of us cannot always afford, not have the time to get a massage every week when we start to experience these tight muscle pains.

This is where foam rolling comes into play. According to this article from RunningTimes.com, a “foam roller is a firm foam log that is six inches in diameter.” They describe them to be the best way to eliminate and prevent muscles knots, while being a good alternative to massages, which can add up to be costly expensive if done repetitively. They also go on to compare foam rollers to a rolling pin, which rolls lumps out of bread dough, just as the foam roller rolls tightness and knots out of your muscles. [Read more…]

Why You Should Add Cardio Into Your Life!

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Cardiovascular exercise, also known as cardio, is important to any weight loss or fitness plan, and that is why many of you came to us to fill your cardiovascular needs by getting our top of the line NordicTrack treadmills, elliptical trainers, and exercise bikes.

Whether your goal is weight loss, to build muscle or simply to improve your overall health, cardio is an important part of any fitness plan. With that being said, we also want to remind you as well the importance of combining weight training with cardio for optimal fat loss, as stated in this article here.

So since we supply you with all your cardio equipment needs, we thought it was important to tell you all you need to know about cardio including: exactly what cardio is, why cardio is such an important factor in any fitness and weight loss plan, how much cardio you should be doing, as well as a few cardio workouts to try. [Read more…]

Chi Running…What Is It? And How It Can Provide Injury-Free Runs

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Chi running…every tried it, or even heard of it?! According to this article on Wikipedia, “ChiRunning(CR) is a method of running instruction…Its primary focus is to teach runners to move in a more efficient, natural way.”

Chi Running ThoughtsThe truth is, most of us are never really taught exactly how to run, it is more of a natural instinct and we just do it. When you were two and started running, no one was really there giving you specific running form and instruction, and for the most par this continued throughout our lives. Although most of us have done pretty well so far, with the occasional shin splints here and there, we’ve gotten here and there without any major difficulties. [Read more…]

Bust Those Top 3 ‘BUT’ Excuses Stopping You From Working Out

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You made that smart decision and took that first step towards a healthier lifestyle and purchased your Nordic Track fitness equipment, yet unfortunately many times that lust for you wanting to break in your new machine and that willpower you once had surely fade.

All too often the excuses people have for not being able to fit in that workout one day or not having the desire nor energy to get on that treadmill or elliptical the next day start to trump the workouts themselves. This crazy thing we call life soon gets in the way and wins over our desires we once had to get fit. Well no more…it’s time to make your goals a priority and win over even those toughest excuses you once had. [Read more…]

Benefits of Walking

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We’ve talked about the importance of incorporating LISS into your workouts, how you need that break from all those high intensity workouts to give your body a chance to re-cope and rest. Yet many hate taking those low intensity rest days and feel like it’s only a waste of time, yet it is something your body needs. Although it is low impact and may not as burn as many calories as your HIIT, walking can provide many benefits as you can see: [Read more…]

9 Week Program To Make You A Runner

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Anyone, at any age, at any weight, at any stage in there lives can take that step towards a healthier lifestyle and become a runner. We shared with you in a recent post some Beginner Running Tips with some advice to help you get started in becoming a runner.

Today we have guest author Tim Joseph who is going to share his experience in becoming a runner and sharing some advice and his 9 week program to help make you a runner as well.  [Read more…]

Why Incline?!

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I know it’s probably not the first time you’ve heard this, but adding incline to your treadmill runs gives you a great cardio boost! We’ve talked about it before in a post titled, Tips to Help Maximize Your Workout Time where we told you that adding incline was a good way to maximize your workout! Yet we never really got down to the basics of it, so do many of you really know why adding incline is so beneficial?!

That is why we are here today; to give you the basic knowledge and facts on why elevating your treadmill is such a beneficial cardio boost! Having the knowledge to know why you should be doing something makes you more likely to stick to it and actually do the workout yourself. [Read more…]

Bought the Treadmill Now What?! Beginner Running Tips!

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We know many of you who purchase your treadmills here at NordicTrackCoupons.com have most likely been running on treadmills for a while now and love it so much that you finally decided to break down and buy your very own. Yet we also know that for many of you that is not the case.

Some of you may be purchasing your first treadmill to get started on that path towards a healthier lifestyle. You either may not have access to a gym, don’t feel comfortable working out in public, or are making the smart investment of purchasing an exercise equipment to work out in the luxury of your home instead of paying an endless amount in a gym membership. [Read more…]