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Esprit by Spirit ET-2 Folding Treadmill

Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 10:49 pm  
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Esprit by Spirit ET 2 Folding Treadmill
Manufacturer: Spirit Fitness
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List Price: $1,299.00
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An affordable choice for walking and jogging workouts in your own home, the Spirit ET-2 Folding Treadmill features a folding design that makes it easy to store and a "soft drop" design for easy access when you're ready to work out. It has a 2 HP motor with a speed range of 0.5 to 10 MPH, which can be adjusted in 0.1 MPH increments, and a choice of 0 to 10 percent elevation (with 1 percent incremental changes). The sturdy cushioned, phenolic deck has a 20 by 50-inch running surface and has 2.5-inch rollers. You'll be challenged by 8 total programs--including 2 heart rate-controlled programs (operated via contact sensors or optional telemetry belt). Other features include controls for speed and incline built into the handrails, speed and elevation quick keys on the blue backlit console, a frame made of institutional grade structural steel, and a 250-pound weight capacity.

Specifications:

  • Platform: Folding
  • Motor: 2.0 HP, continuous duty
  • Incline motor: 1000-pound thrust rated
  • Speed range: 0.5 to 10 MPH, 0.1 MPH increments
  • Elevation range: 0 to 10 degrees, 1-degree increments
  • Running surface: 20 x 50 inches
  • Deck: 3/4-inch pre-waxed phenolic with variable durometer elastomer cushioning
  • Belt: 1.5 ply textured duraweave
  • Rear roller: 2.5 inches
  • Heart rate monitoring: Yes
  • Programs: 8 total (including 2 heart rate control)
  • Maximum weight capacity: 250 pounds
  • Dimensions: 66 x 38 x 60 inches (LxWxH)
  • Weight: 210 pounds

Manufacturer's Warranty
Lifetime on frame; 20 years on motor; 2 years on parts; 5 years on deck, 1 year on labor

About Treadmills
Walking is still considered one of the most beneficial cardiovascular exercises for people of all ages, body types, and fitness levels. As a fundamental form of aerobic training, walking has numerous physical benefits for the heart, lungs, and circulatory system, while also increasing muscle tone and burning fat calories. Treadmills provide a convenient way to regularly exercise in all weather conditions in the comfort and safety of your own home.

From beginners just starting an exercise regimen to advanced athletes looking to maintain their fitness level, anyone interested in getting and staying in shape can benefit greatly from regular use of a treadmill. Treadmills allow you to determine the pace, distance, and complexity of the workout based on your needs, all while watching television, talking on the telephone, or reading a magazine. Much easier on sensitive joints like the knees and hips, treadmill walking and running surfaces are typically long, padded platforms that allow ample room for a long stride and comfortable, low-impact walk or jog without the harsh contact of a concrete surface.

While many different types, styles, and price ranges of treadmills exist, many of them offer unique features like a fold-up design for easy storage, an electronic display monitor showing speed, distance, workout time, incline level, and burned calories, and EKG grip pulses to monitor the heart rate while exercising. Regardless of the simple to complex features you may choose, treadmills offer an array of aerobic exercise opportunities that will provide long-lasting beneficial cardiovascular results without a commute to the gym or a jog in the rain.
  • Folding treadmill for the home with 2.0 HP motor; measures 66 x 38 x 60 inches (LxWxH)
  • 0 to 10 MPH speed range (0.1 increments); 1 to 10 percent degree elevation
  • 8 total programs, including 2 heart rate control via contact sensors or optional telemetry belt
  • Cushioned, 3/4-inch phenolic deck with 20 by 50-inch running surface
  • Blue backlit exercise console, 250-pound weight capacity
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Easiest Way to Burn Fat

Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 1:53 pm  
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Fat burning is essential to every health and fitness program. Excess stored body fat has significant implications to health and obesity is now the leading cause of death in the United states. Fat burning exercise and fat burning foods work together to burn body fat and to use body fat as fuel. At any given time, we store only about 1500 kilo calories of energy as glycogen, but between 50,000 and 60,000 kilo calories as stored body fat.

While exercising our muscles burn both fat and glucose (carbohydrates in the blood) in different proportions. Depending on how an individual exercises muscle can burn fat in a larger proportion to glucose. When activity is light and easy we tend to burn a much higher percentage of fat. Fat is a slow burning fuel that requires oxygen so if oxygen is delivered to muscle cells in sufficient quantities the cells can easily burn fat for most of its energy requirement.

If you exercise first thing in the morning your metabolism will get a boost for the whole day allowing for more calories to get burned throughout the day. 
Exercising at night you rev up your metabolism only a short time just before you are going to sleep.  When you sleep your body goes into the slowest metabolic rate of the day.  Exercising at night can be counterproductive when you want to exercise to burn fat.

Digestion and absorption of a protein are critical to producing high levels of amino acids in the blood to stimulate the muscle growth process. Hydrolyzed, short chain (oligopeptides) whey isolates are shown to be absorbed faster and in greater amounts compared to other proteins. I hope you know that dieting and intense exercise cause an undesirable competition between muscle and the immune system for a limited amount of glutathione.

Go swimming. Not often seen in “how to burn body fat” guides, but swimming, if you do it with intensity, is truly a fat burner. Not only that, but it works muscles that can otherwise be dormant, PLUS it will help you maintain some flexibility in your muscles as they get larger and you get heavier. It’s not for everyone, but you’ll be surprised if you give it a shot.

Fat burning zone. You may have noticed that some bikes and treadmills at the gym have a setting that says “fat burning zone”, which implies a setting for intensity or speed. The reason for this is that the body burns a greater percentage of fat at a slow pace (or after about 90 minutes of exercise). The fat burning zone, a low intensity speed zone is mainly a gimmick, and here is the reason.

A diet that will enable our body to burn fat needs to restrict  carbohydrates. The popular low carbohydrate diets are based on this fact. If the body has no carbohydrates to burn, it next burns body fat. But, while a high protein and low carbohydrate diet can be helpful in burning body fat ; it can also have harmful long term effects. Make sure your diet is not overly restrictive. Make sure you are still getting the proper nutrients with any diet that restricts carbohydrates.

15 Fat Burning Foods- Burn Fat the Easy Way

Sunday, November 29th, 2009 at 7:53 pm  
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Eating the right foods will help you burn fat quicker, even if you’re just sitting around the house. Along with exercising, nutrition is the one of the things that will determine how much weight you lose and how fast you’re able to lose it.

So, what I’m going to share with you are 15 fat burning foods that will help you lose weight the easy way.

The 15 fat burning foods are:

1. Chicken- great protein source. Very lean meat. Great for eating anytime of the day.

2. Salmon- Has healthy fats in it called omega-6 fatty acids. Great for weight loss and other health benefits.

3. Tuna- Lean fish. Excellent protein source. Helps with burning fat. Also, has omega-6 in it.

4. Turkey- Lean meat. Good source of protein.

5. Broccoli- Dark green veggie. Helps with curbing your appetite.

6. Green Beans- Helps with curbing appetite. Also, has many other health benefits.

7. Salad- When combined with olive oil and apple cider vinegar, it will help you burn fat fast. Salad helps curb appetite, olive oil has healthy fats that help burn fat, and apple cider vinegar helps burn carbs.

8. Asparagus- Has alot of health benefits and curbs appetite.

9. Tilapia- Lean fish. Great protein source.

10. Yogurt- Has been shown to help burn fat. Also, has alot of other health benefits.

11. Cottage Cheese- slow-digesting protein source. Great for a late night snack. Helps keep you feeling full.

12. Apples- Complex carbohydrate source. Great for helping your body burn fat for energy.

13. Grapefruit- Helps burn fat. Also, has many other health benefits.

14. Almonds- Has healthy fats. Great as a snack.

15. Celery- helps with weight loss. Great late night snack.

Along with these fat burning foods, green tea and red wine has also been shown to help with burning fat. You should drink one cup of green tea a day and one cup of red wine per week to experience the weight loss effect from both drinks.

Add these foods and drinks to your meal plan to help you burn fat. Make sure you eat small meals every 2-3 hours. And exercise at least 3 times a week. If you follow these weight loss tips, you’ll burn fat fast and keep it off!

ProForm Crosswalk 3.0 XT Treadmill

Sunday, November 29th, 2009 at 12:49 pm  
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ProForm Crosswalk 3.0 XT Treadmill
Manufacturer: ProForm
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List Price: $899.00
Sale Price: $659.99
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Tone and train your entire body with the ProForm Crosswalk 3.0 XT Treadmill, which combines advanced technology with an innovative design to let you enjoy an excellent form of cardiovascular exercise in the convenience and privacy of your home. To help maximize your calorie burn and increase your cardio benefits, it also has CrossWalk Upper Body Arms. When you are not exercising, the unique Crosswalk 3.0 XT treadmill can be folded up, requiring less than half the floor space of other treadmills. This treadmill includes a floor mat and accessory kit to help lengthen the life of your treadmill.

ProForm Crosswalk 3.0 XT Treadmill
Features and Specifications:
  • CrossWalk Upper Body Resistance: Improve total-body conditioning by combining upper-body exercise with this traditional cardio workout. Adjustable resistance allows you to customize intensity.
  • ProSoft Cushion Deck: Reduce impact on your joints by 15 percent as compared to road running with this superior absorption system, delivering the perfect balance of comfort and joint protection.
  • Interactive Audio CrossTrainer: The convenient fitness coach that verbally and visually prompts you to perform a variety of strength-training exercises throughout your cardio workout, allowing you to burn calories, while building and maintaining muscle mass.
  • EKG Heart Rate Monitor: Get an accurate heart rate reading by simply placing your thumb on the EKG sensor that is built right into the console.
  • CoolAire Workout Fan: Stay cool and comfortable with this adjustable, 2-speed fan built right into the console.
  • Motivational RaceTrack: The patented Motivational RaceTrack feature visually displays your workouts progress in the form of a 1/4-mile track, keeping you informed, while adding motivation to your workout.
  • Scrolling Workout Matrix: This console also includes a 7x30 scrolling workout matrix that displays your workout graphically, prompts you when its time to perform cross-training exercises and displays your speed, distance, time, pulse and calories burned.
  • Console readouts: Calories, incline, heart rate, speed, distance, time
  • Workout options: 6 preset programs including 2 upper cross trainer, 2 lower cross trainer, 2 total cross trainer
  • Motor: 2.5 HP
  • Maximum speed: 10 MPH
  • Maximum incline: 10 percent
  • Heart rate monitoring: Built-in handgrips
  • Belt size: 18 by 50 inches
  • Maximum user weight: 300 pounds

Manufacturer's Warranty
10 year motor warranty; 90 day parts and labor warranty

About Treadmills
Walking is still considered one of the most beneficial cardiovascular exercises for people of all ages, body types, and fitness levels. As a fundamental form of aerobic training, walking has numerous physical benefits for the heart, lungs, and circulatory system, while also increasing muscle tone and burning fat calories. Treadmills provide a convenient way to regularly exercise in all weather conditions in the comfort and safety of your own home.

From beginners just starting an exercise regimen to advanced athletes looking to maintain their fitness level, anyone interested in getting and staying in shape can benefit greatly from regular use of a treadmill. Treadmills allow you to determine the pace, distance, and complexity of the workout based on your needs, all while watching television, talking on the telephone, or reading a magazine. Much easier on sensitive joints like the knees and hips, treadmill walking and running surfaces are typically long, padded platforms that allow ample room for a long stride and comfortable, low-impact walk or jog without the harsh contact of a concrete surface.

While many different types, styles, and price ranges of treadmills exist, many of them offer unique features like a fold-up design for easy storage, an electronic display monitor showing speed, distance, workout time, incline level, and burned calories, and EKG grip pulses to monitor the heart rate while exercising. Regardless of the simple to complex features you may choose, treadmills offer an array of aerobic exercise opportunities that will provide long-lasting beneficial cardiovascular results without a commute to the gym or a jog in the rain.
  • Folding treadmill with upper body arms for total-body workout
  • 2.5 HP continuous duty motor, up to 10 MPH speed and up to 10 degree incline
  • Unique audio coach verbally prompts you on a variety of strength training exercises
  • 6 preset programs including 2 upper cross trainer, 2 lower cross trainer, 2 total cross trainer
  • 10-year motor warranty; 90 days on parts and labor
ProForm Crosswalk 3.0 XT Treadmill Not what I expected.
 
Review Date: May 22, 2009
Reviewer: D Constantine, Citrus Springs, FL United States
The features of this treadmill are nice and the pre-programmed workouts are better than my old ProForm. However, my old ProForm's control panel was slanted back and folded to 90 degrees and would fit flat against the wall. The control panel on this one is slanted forward and the tread folds to about 75 degrees and will not fit flat. If space is a consideration, do not buy this one. If space is not a problem this will be an excellent machine.

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