Squats – To Perfection

Here’s how to do the perfect squat Starting With the Feet We are going to start with the feet. You want your feet to be hip-shoulder width apart. Find the front part of your hips, run an imaginary line straight down to the ground, and make sure your feet are in...

How Much Exercise Should I Be Doing?

A question I get asked a lot is, “How much exercise should I be doing?”. It’s an interesting question and one that’s not easily answered because it depends on what a person is trying to achieve by exercising. Why Goals Are So Important Some...

Core Workout With Stability Ball

Here is a simple core workout using a ball and body weight. You can do these exercises as repetitions (like 5-30 movements per exercise) or you can time the exercise, but make sure you do the exercises slowly. Body Weight Warm-up Before you start the workout, you are...

Skinny Fat – What’s That?

Skinny fat is a strange term. How could someone be skinny and fat at the same time? Well, that’s easy. Skinny fat people tend to have very little muscle and, instead, a large amount of fat. They don’t look “fat” or large and often, when they originate wanting to “lose...

Exercise – The Almighty Cure

We here at Gofitnow.com are really excited by the trend towards using exercise as medicine. It’s a concept we’ve espoused for over twenty years and one we’ve seen reap huge rewards both in prevention and alleviation of common ailments and diseases....

Exercise – How Hard Do You Really Work Out?

Regular exercise is all-important to maintaining a healthy body, staying young and looking your best. The question is… how do you know if you’re working out too hard or not hard enough? You’ve probably seen the term “MET” on the display...