Precor Elliptical Trainers offer themselves as superb cellulite smoothers and centimeter trimmers in the weight loss wars of both men and women. Add their cross training capabilities, and you accelerate fat-burning markedly. The Precor Fitness Equipment company comes with a solid reputation and is reckoned as one of the giants in the home gym equipment arena. Their expertise clearly shows in the quality of the Precor Elliptical Trainer line and technology.

1. Precor EFX 5.17i Elliptical Trainer - Entry-Level Enthusiasm

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What is Lance Armstrong doing that you can do to improve your results?

Most people exercise to lose weight, focusing solely on that one single goal. But
wait, it is not only about looking aesthetically pleasing, getting in those tight jeans,
or losing ten pounds. It is really about improving your health, and human
performance.

Each day when you are huffing and puffing on the treadmill, focusing vigorously
on keeping yourself lean, have you ever thought about what physically is
occurring in your body besides burning a bunch of calories?

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In 1976, 413 high school runners in Finland competed in a 2000-meter race. At the time of the race and in a follow-up study twenty-five years later, the faster runners had much lower blood pressures than the slower ones (International Journal of Sports Medicine, July-August 2005.)

The researchers wanted to know whether a maximal endurance test to measure aerobic fitness in adolescence would predict hypertension in adults. This is the first study to show that faster teen age runners have lower blood pressures and that the lower blood pressures persist long after they stop running. In their teens, the faster runners were more fit than the slower runners, and their dedication may have persisted

into later life; or the faster teen-age runners may have had some physiological advantage that kept their blood pressure lower and made them less likely to suffer heart attacks in later life. Either the faster runners were genetically superior to the slower runners, or something in their lifestyles made them faster as teenagers and also caused them to have lower blood pressures throughout their lives. Either way, the findings of this study should encourage early participation in sports and lifelong exercise habits.

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What is Lance Armstrong doing that you can do to improve your results?

Most people exercise to lose weight, focusing solely on that one single goal. But
wait, it is not only about looking aesthetically pleasing, getting in those tight jeans,
or losing ten pounds. It is really about improving your health, and human
performance.

Each day when you are huffing and puffing on the treadmill, focusing vigorously
on keeping yourself lean, have you ever thought about what physically is
occurring in your body besides burning a bunch of calories?

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If you re like most people you re looking to get the most out of a workout that you possibly can. However exercising to build endurance requires a different approach than exercising to lose weight. To get the most out of your workout you need to know what your Anaerobic Threshold or AT is.

Your AT rate is an individual number that varies from person to person, and can even change as your body becomes stronger over time. To better understand AT we need to take a look at your heart rate. Your heart is expressed in beats per minute, the maximum rate at which your heart can safely operate is known as your Maximum Heart Rate or MHR

and is an average value taken over a few minutes. Originally your AT number was believed to be between 80 to 90 percent of your MHR. However since you were taking a percentage of an average the value was often inaccurate, and a more precise measurement was needed.

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