Articles - Index

How to Get Started with Exercise

A Fitness and Weight Loss Test

Overcoming Fitness Fears and Assumptions

Gin's 4X4 Eating Plan

Gin's 8 best Diet Tips

Holiday Weight Gain

Dietary Guidelines & 10,000 Steps per Day

Balance in Fitness

What Are You Training For? Functional Training

At Work Workout

Measuring Exercise Intensity

Introduction & Calculating Target Heart Rate
Target Heart Rate Chart
Checking Heart Rate
Inaccuracies
Rate of Perceived Exertion and Talk Test
Heart Rate Monitors

Best Ab Exercises

Review of ACE article on the Top Exercises for the Abs
Stability Ball Exercises - "arguably, the best of the lot"

Interval Training

What it is and Why it Works
Types of Interval Training

Other Exercise Article Resources

For several years, Gin has been a contributor to Cooking Light magazine. Many of these articles can be found on the Cooking Light web site.

Articles & Info - Instructors

The 7 Deadly Sub Sins
Digital download choreography for fitness instructors
Choreography Handouts - Archives

Fitness Tip Jar - A humorous take on the financial plight of our fitness profession.

Introduction... are we too proud to beg?
What It Costs to be a Group Fitness Instructor
Why We Settle to do Charity Work
Certifications and Options
The Solution?

Step Training - History and Evolution

History Introduction
From a crate to a bench, a box to a Step
The Research
The Guidelines
Revised Guidelines
The Workout with Muscle - Use of Hand weights
Power
Power Guidelines
Combinations and Variations
A Fork in the Road - Intensity and Complexity
Intensity and Interval Training
Complexity - Training the Brain
Complexity - Speed
Speed Issue - will it ever be resolved?
Dealing with the speed issue