Aerobics and Fitness Daily

Here is a good idea whose time has come.  Senior fitness trainer Craig Marcacci has released a second video for seniors called “Easy Does It! Staying Active! Staying Fit!” that contains extensive menus as well as titles and formats that are specifically designed to make the exercises on the video easier for the hearing impaired to follow. 

Like Marcacci’s first fitness video which was simply titled “Easy Does It!” this fitness program is specifically designed so that people aged 55 or older could follow a safe exercise program that is geared to help them maintain their flexibility and overall fitness level.

A new DVD video promises to work off the pounds simulating the movements and style of the striptease for a heart-rate pleasing aerobics session.

Urban Striptease was created as way for women to exercise, have fun and feel sexy about themselves. Creator Tricia Murphy, decided after many years of teaching traditional aerobics, dance, yoga and martial arts that this would be a new innovative way to get her members in shape at Urban Fitness in West Seattle.

Seasun Zieger’s latest step aerobics fitness video is now available for pre-order.

Sue West has released a new DVD that combines the grace of ballet with some basic yoga and Pilates work. Titled “The Sante Fe Stretch,” the video aims to help viewers develop lean, supple, dancer-like bodies.

The program is not simply a stretch routine, despite its name. Though it offers few aerobics benefits, it provides plenty of toning and strength-building moves along with the expected flexibility training.

And it also offers the beautiful, even inspiring scenery of Santa Fe, with its verdant forests and grayish purple mountains.

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Chris Carmichael has coached six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong for fourteen years and has written a new book about nutrition and fitness.

According to “Chris Carmichael’s Food for Fitness,” active people need carbohydrates for fuel. Try a trendy low-carb diet and you may find your endurance sapped.

“It’s actually pretty simple,” Carmichael said. “These low-carb fad diets are not for active people.”

But what does he mean by “active”? If you blasted through a 90-minute track workout this morning, plan to make swim team practice tomorrow and have already scheduled a 50-mile bike ride for this weekend, chances are you’re active in Carmichael’s eyes. Exercise intensely for an hour or more most days of the week, and you’ll simply bonk if you try to stick to the Atkins diet.

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