FitCamp

Full Challenge Contest starts 08/29/2012

Not Just a Work Out

The workouts will start out at a lower intensity, and over the course of 8 weeks the intensity gradually increases. The workouts are different every day. There are circuit workouts, strength workouts, Beach workouts, Aqua Fitness workouts, and Yoga. At the end of each daily workout week, your team competes against an opposing team in a FitCamp challenge which will require strength, endurance, agility and team work. The winning team moves closer to the 8 week grand prize. And only from the team that wins the most challenges will the most improved Female and Male be chosen to receive the Grand Prize and the Title of FitCamp Champs.

Register Now: By sending a 15sec. video to change@fitcampchallenge.com telling us why you want to enter into the FitCamp Challenge

  The Fit Camp Challenge starts AUGUST 29 2012 and ends OCTOBER 22 2012

ONLY 20 PARTICIPANTS WILL BE SELECTED FOR THE CHALLENGE.

THIS YEARS CHALLENGE LOCATION WILL BE HELD IN THE (MIAMI FLORIDA AREA)

This FitCamp Challenge will be filmed for a reality show following participants through there challenges.

Wellfitness, Inc. Business Partner Program

Wellfitness, Inc. is now opening its website store front and administration department to independent Contractors in the Health and Fitness industry nationwide. If you are in the Health and fitness industry and would like to expand your clientele, send out professional newsletters nationwide, and operate as a professional business, without big business cost contact us. Here are a few of the benefits in becoming a WFBP.

·         You will receive an 866 number with an extension and voice mail and voice to text. An 800 number gives your small business the appearance of a bigger well established business the 800 number eliminates localities which help you take your business to a national level.     
  

·         You will receive business cards with your company’s name and your logo

·         Your client will receive monthly and or weekly news letters, newsletters are a great way of marketing your products/services to current and new clients 

·         You will be able to have your clients purchase your products/services online with credit cards as they are directed to your products/services logo and price list via Wellfitness store front website  

·         If you have service providers that work for you you’ll be able to pay them with direct deposit without the headache of opening and setting up a business e commerce website or checking account

·            You will be able to send marketing material to promote your business through  Wellfitness, Inc. client data base (not only will your Health/ fitness specials go out to your clients but they will be sent through our entire client data base in your local area or nation wide)   

·            New clients locally and nationally will be directed to our business partner service logos with the help of Wellfitness client data base and social media such as twitter, facebook, linked in, manta any many more.   

To become a Wellfitnessinc.com Business partner send your contact information to wfbp@wellfitnessinc.com to request a WFBP application. or call 1.866.942.5553

Why Should You Exercise?

Exercise is a key component of health. In order to be healthy, we have to exercise regularly. Sure, it can be difficult to take the time out of your busy schedule to engage in physical activity but exercise helps your mind, emotions and your body in so many ways. Yes, exercise can help you to lose weight and tone muscle. It will make you look better, but it also releases endorphins and other feel-good chemicals that stabilize and even improve mood.

Exercise isn’t just a prescription for weight loss. It’s a prescription for longevity. Strength and weight-bearing exercises such as jumping, running or walking can help stave off osteoporosis (weakening of the bones) for both men and women. A person might be able to avoid deadly diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure if he/she engages in regular physical activity. Of course, for those who have these diseases, it’s easier to manage or control them going forward if exercise is a regular part of your life.

It’s also important to note that exercise, when done routinely, can boost HDL (high-density lipoprotein) – the good cholesterol – while decreasing LDL (low-density lipoprotein) – bad cholesterol. As a result, the blood flows more smoothly through the body, reducing the buildup of plaque in the arteries. (Arterial plaque leads to a host of heart problems including arteriosclerosis, stroke and myocardial infarction, aka heart attack.)

Studies show that most people know that they should exercise, but still maintain that they can’t make the time for it. It’s true that life is hectic with work, child care/family responsibilities and a bunch of other demands on our time. The trick is to make exercise a priority. You just have to commit to doing it. Although experts suggest we exercise 5-7 times a week for at least one hour, long-term benefits can be seen with regular activity of 20 minutes, 3-4 times a week.

If you’re new to exercising, the best thing to do is to start slow and build up at a reasonable rate. Overdoing it can lead to injuries and stress. Find activities you enjoy such as golfing, swimming or walking and start with those. Many people think exercised is boring, but it doesn’t have to be. Mix up your activities and again, do the things you enjoy.

Others need outside support to make exercise work. So, if you need to engage a buddy, your significant other or even a fitness trainer, then go ahead and do it. Some people report success with marking time out in their calendars for exercise each and every week. They make an appointment with themselves and find that they’re much happier – and healthier – for it.

Of course, you don’t have to do the whole hour of activity at the same time. Exercise has a cumulative effect. You can get the same benefits from working out in three, 20-minute intervals a day or building up your hour in five-minute chunks.

Another benefit of exercise is that it will boost your confidence – and potentially – your sex life. Regular exercise, as we mentioned earlier, makes you look better. It also makes you feel better…and it gives you more energy. Men who exercise regularly report fewer problems with erectile dysfunction as they age. Most individuals claim improved sleep function. They have less trouble falling and staying asleep.

With so many benefits to regular exercising, the question should be – how can you not find the time for it?

Pregnancy water workout

Pregnancy does not mean you get to slouch. Get up and get active. Exercise while pregnant is good for baby and you. Health during pregnancy includes some form of exercise. Below you will learn about an interesting pregnancy water workout you can do in any pool. Pregnant women and exercise make a good match. Try to purchase some water-exercise gear such as fitness paddles, inflatable flotation belt, and webbed gloves. Dana Sullivan has created some water-exercises for pregnant women. Read on and try the following exercises below The Buggy Push, Lifting the Baby, Step Climb, and Charlie Chaplin Walk.


As your belly expands, keeping up with your regular exercise routine becomes more of a challenge since the added weight puts extra stress on the muscles and joints. Consider alternating or switching your routine to a water workout. "Whenever I teach water exercise to pregnant women, they say they can't believe how light and graceful they feel in the water," says Mary E. Sanders, M.S., an exercise physiologist and water-exercise researcher at the University of Nevada, Reno.

An added plus: You don't need to know how to swim to reap the benefits of water exercise (you don't have to get your hair wet, either). "Just moving in water is like lifting liquid weight," says Sanders. The more effort you use, by bumping up the intensity of a particular move, or using resistance tools such as dumbbell-shaped paddles or webbed gloves, the higher the resistance.

Water-exercise also forces you to strengthen your trunk muscles -- especially the abdominal and lower back -- almost without trying. That's because you must contract and use these muscles in order to stabilize yourself as you move. "Performing abdominal exercises on land, while you're lying on your back, doesn't prepare your muscles for the way you use them in real life," notes Sanders. In the water, you work them in an upright position by simply walking through the water.

The following workout, designed by Sanders, is so gentle that even a beginner can do it (although if you didn't exercise before your pregnancy, be sure to ask for your physician's approval). Get into the water and warm up for five minutes, swimming laps or just walking back and forth across the pool. Then, alternate these four strength-training moves with aerobic intervals. For instance, walk or jog as quickly as you can for 15 seconds, then go at a slow recovery speed for 15 seconds (as you get stronger, increase the duration of the high-intensity intervals). Alternate back and forth for 3 minutes. Then do move #1. Do another three-minute aerobic interval and do move #2, and so on. The workout should take about 30 minutes.

The Buggy Push (targets the trunk, upper back and shoulders). Hold a kick board so it's up on one edge and immersed halfway into the water. Now walk while pushing the kick board in front of you. Concentrate on keeping the board straight. Turn around and walk back to the starting position, but this time zig-zag the board in front of you.

Lifting the Baby (targets the arms). Stand with your elbows bent, palms facing up, floating on top of the water, (to make this even more challenging, wear webbed gloves or use water paddles, see below for details). Bend your knees and lower your body into a squat position. At the same time, pushing your hands (or the paddles) down through the water until they're in front of your thighs. Rise up to the start position, curling your arms up toward your shoulders. Repeat 12-15 times.

Step Climb (targets the buttocks and legs). Stand in the shallow end of the pool facing the stairs. Step up onto the lowest step and then back down. Repeat 10 times, slowly, leading with the right leg, and then 10 times leading with the left. Now turn sideways, so the stairs are on your right, and step up, leading with the right leg; repeat with the left. Finally, turn away from the step and step up backward, again, 10 times leading with the right leg and 10 times with the left.

Tip: Keep your hands above the water to make the exercise more challenging.

Charlie Chaplin Walk (targets the middle and upper back). Tuck your elbows into your sides, hold your hands out to the sides with your thumbs pointing up. Walk the width of the pool twice forward and twice backward.

CrossFit Pros and Cons

Quit hating on CrossFit!!!! You’re an idiot and so is everyone that listens to you. I am enlightened, but won’t share my secrets with you because I don’t want you to beat me on today’s WOD, Fran!
All joking aside, and in my defense, I think I offered a well-balanced perspective on CrossFit. I mentioned the pros and cons of the system from a non-biased perspective, and even concluded with a suggestion to attend a CrossFit seminar (with some precautions in mind). I definitely wasn’t hating on the system at all.
I am a strong critic and an eternal skeptic, and some significant aspects of CrossFit concern me greatly. For instance, the founder Greg Glassman admits that “[CrossFit] can kill you” (NY Times article here) Things like that tend to raise a warning flag in my book, among many others.
Needless to say, I didn’t publish the comment because it offered nothing of value to the discussion, but it got me thinking…

Isn’t this the kind of blind following that CrossFit is renowned for (not every CrossFit trainee, but many of the ones I’ve encountered)? It’s this attitude of we-are-holier-than-thou. We are the enlightened ones, and all who oppose us are nonobjective and misinformed. It sounds like a cult-following to me!
Well, excuse me if I don’t bite the hook, line, and sinker on the CrossFit method. I’d rather sit back and make a thoughtful analysis of the system before I commit my entire training program over to it, no questions asked. I happen to see several things about CrossFit that worry me, and I have yet to receive any proof that my suspicions are unfounded.
For instance, I have yet to find proof that CrossFit is a safe, healthy, and sustainable activity. In fact, I’ve found plenty of anecdotal evidence to the contrary. Read some of the comments in the CrossFit Q+A to get started collecting some evidence of its risks and dangers. The more people I talk to about CrossFit, the more I realize that it does have a “dark side” – usually injury and pain, or worse.
You don’t even have to be a fitness professional to realize this. Just take a peek at any one of the CrossFit workout videos that they post regularly on CrossFit.com. One of the most common problems with CrossFit training is that most of the athletes compromise on technique to achieve higher intensity, and it’s very obvious. Sure, you can get away with this for a little while, but using poor technique in any exercise will condition you to repeat that activity poorly – leading to overuse and/or repetitive stress injuries down the road. The process usually goes like this: first diminishing returns, then a plateau in progress, regress, pain, injury, illness and eventually death. I guess that’s what Glassman was talking about.
Now, I’ve got nothing against the people who willingly and knowingly decide to go this route – free will is not the issue here. I just need to make sure that people know the costs of CrossFit before they choose to blindly participate without someone telling them that they WILL GET INJURED. I know too many people who have tried CrossFit on a whim, and gotten hurt, sometimes severely.
Conclusion
Now, hear me out on this. I want CrossFit to succeed. I want them to continue to do what they’re doing, and especially to focus on how to better serve their clientele. I think it’s safe to say that CrossFit is growing rapidly (maybe too fast!), and there are some people involved with it that legitimately want to help others rediscover vibrant health and natural athleticism, irregardless of private interests or potential for personal gain. I’ve met some very nice CrossFitters who are objective and smart about their training, and who are willing to talk about both the strengths and weaknesses of their system. Some of them have great ideas for how to improve the quality of their coaching.
However, I see some very strong dogmatic views being expressed and followed, and that worries me because it leaves little room for freethinking, questioning convention, and asking “is this really the best way to accomplish our goals?”
I would hope that CrossFit, fast becoming one of the worlds most popular fitness systems, would be open to change if it were presented logically. Instead, I see a business giant growing too fast for its own good, sacrificing quality control for profit.
And before the hate mail starts pouring, let me stress again that there are many things about CrossFit that I like, and I would encourage anyone to attend a seminar to evaluate for themselves if CrossFit is right for them. My goal is to be transparent, and to talk about the things that seem to be overlooked by others.

Boot Camps vs. The Gym – Which Is Better?

If you’ve been interested in improving your overall fitness level, you might be asking yourself the best way to go about your fat burning workouts There are a number of different options available for those who want to burn fat quickly and reshape their entire body but by looking at which methods will be right for you, you’re going to dramatically boost your overall chances for success.
Let’s take a look right now at the comparison between boot camps versus the traditional gym fat burning workouts that you might already be doing.
These are usually the two main types of workout programs that most people consider so by looking at the two options, you can decide which is the best choices for you.

Boot Camp Benefits

First let’s take a look at some of the top bootcamp benefits. The main reasons for joining a bootcamp are due to the social benefits you’ll get, the enhanced motivation that you’ll experience from that group support, the reduced cost of the session itself, and the higher level of variation within the overall workout program structure.
Often with a boot camp fitness class you’ll never be doing the same two workouts in a row so that can help prevent training plateaus from setting in. You’ll also get bored far less frequently from bootcamps due to this higher variability.

Gym Benefits

Now let’s look at the gym workouts benefits that you’re going to see. First, you may find that you see better overall strength gains with a gym style workout due to the fact that usually you’ll have more time between sets therefore will be able to lift a higher amount of weight.
Since weight lifted is the primary determinant of whether or not you see strength gains, this is going to be a big consideration for some people depending on your goals.
Second, if you are someone who prefers zoning out during the workout and going about your business then gym workouts may be the best option for you. Some people really use this time as a chance to de-stress and if that’s the case you may not be willing to part with your gym workouts.

Selecting Your Best Workout

So when selecting which is the best workout for you, you need to think about what your primary goals are and how much money you have to spend. Some people may choose to include both boot camp and gym workouts in their program and that’s fine as long as you are sure to allow plenty of time off for recovery.
Boot camp workouts definitely will be something most people enjoy so if you have never had a chance to participate in one, it might be the time to try.
Which do you prefer, bootcamp workouts or gym workouts?

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Know The Symptoms of Prostate Cancer

While most men today are diagnosed

before they begin to show any symptoms of
prostate cancer, it is important to know what to look for and which signs may point to an underlying prostate cancer.
Anyone concerned about themselves or a loved one developing prostate cancer should know the basics about the first symptoms that are typically seen.

What Are the Most Common Symptoms of Prostate Cancer?

Because of the prostate's

location in the body, prostate cancer is often accompanied by a number of unique symptoms. The prostate is located just below the bladder in the lower pelvis. As urine empties out of the bladder it travels through a thin tube called the urethra. At the very beginning of the urethra, just as it exits the bladder, it passes directly through the prostate. As the prostate enlarges due to cancer or another problem, the urethra is pinched tighter and tighter within the prostate. As the tube narrows, urine has a much harder time making its way through the urethra and out of the body.

This results in four primary urinary symptoms:

• Frequency - urinating much more often than normal.
• Urgency - having a sensation that you need to urinate immediately.
• Nocturia - getting up to urinate multiple times during the night.
• Hesitancy - difficulty starting the urine stream.

All of these symptoms are a direct result of the urethra being pinched closed by the enlarged prostate.
Prostate cancer is not the only disease that can cause the prostate to swell, however. In fact,

BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia is a much more common cause of an enlarged prostate and, thus, of urinary symptoms. BPH is not cancer, but is still an important condition that should be treated by a physician.

What Are Other Less Common Symptoms of Prostate Cancer?

The urinary symptoms discussed above are undoubtedly the most common symptoms experienced by men with prostate cancer. However, they are not the only ones. Other less common symptoms

include:

• Blood in the urine.
• Blood in the semen.
• New-onset erectile dysfunction (impotence).
• Bone pain (especially in the lower back, hips, or ribs).
• Loss of bladder control.

These symptoms are less specific to problems with the prostate (meaning that problems with other organs such as the bladder can also cause them). However, they are important symptoms of which to be aware.

When Should I Go to See My Doctor

?

The answer to this question is simple. Visit your physician and explain your situation whenever you first begin to experience any of these symptoms. This is especially true for any men that are over the age of 40 because the vast majority of prostate cancers are diagnosed after that age. It is also especially important for

African-American men and those with a family history of prostate cancer

to see their physicians as these two groups have much higher rates of prostate cancer.

The symptoms listed above are almost always abnormal and all need to be evaluated by a physician. This is especially true if these symptoms appear suddenly. Very simple examinations and laboratory tests can be put to use by your doctor to determine whether or not your symptoms are due to prostate cancer, another serious disease, or a less dangerous condition.

Are Most Men Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer After They Have Symptoms?

Many people are surprised to learn that the majority of men diagnosed with prostate cancer today have no symptoms when it is first detected. Because of the PSA (prostate specific antigen) test,

most men have their prostate cancer detected before they have any significant symptoms. The PSA test is a simple blood test that detects a specific protein produced by the prostate. As the prostate enlarges, more of this protein is produced and more is detected by the PSA test.
Despite this fact, it is still vitally important that you see your physician if you begin experiencing any of the symptoms discussed above. Thousands of men are still diagnosed every year after they develop symptoms.