Sunday, January 19, 2014
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Training Room - Body-Solid Fitness
If you could buy only one piece of gym equipment for home use, what would it be? For many people, the answer to that question would be “a home gym, of course.” What is the reason? A home gym is remarkably multitalented; it enables folks to do a wide variety of exercises which normally require different single-purpose exercise machines. Whenever your home space is limited, a home gym will work marvellously for you; it has a very small footprint but will allow for numerous gym quality exercises. Even though home gyms are fairly high-priced, purchasing many single-purpose machines is even more expensive. Following is a bit of data regarding a resourceful home gym manufactured by Body-Solid: the G4i Iso-Flex
How Much Should You Work Out?
Exercise volume is one of the most critical components of training. It is a central tenet of mine that exercising at the highest volume from which you can recover is the best way to prepare for sport or to lift in the gym. The key to being a good coach or a good athlete is figuring out where your particular groove is. Find out how much you can handle, work in that range, and get the best results you can. Improve how much you can handle, and your results will be even better.
That said, We're always on the lookout for good information about how much volume athletes and researchers do and the relationship between volume and results. Of course, when you cross over into overtraining, then higher volume is only going to hold you back, so finding a good sweet spot is critical
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
Health Benefits of Exercise
Regular exercise can help protect you from heart disease and stroke, high blood pressure, noninsulin-dependent diabetes, obesity, back pain, osteoporosis, and can improve your mood and help you to better manage stress.
For the greatest overall health benefits, experts recommend that you do 20 to 30 minutes of aerobic activity three or more times a week and some type of muscle strengthening activity and stretching at least twice a week. However, if you are unable to do this level of activity, you can gain substantial health benefits by accumulating 30 minutes or more of moderate-intensity physical activity a day, at least five times a week.
If you have been inactive for a while, you may want to start with less strenuous activities such as walking or swimming at a comfortable pace. Beginning at a slow pace will allow you to become physically fit without straining your body. Once you are in better shape, you can gradually do more strenuous activity
For the greatest overall health benefits, experts recommend that you do 20 to 30 minutes of aerobic activity three or more times a week and some type of muscle strengthening activity and stretching at least twice a week. However, if you are unable to do this level of activity, you can gain substantial health benefits by accumulating 30 minutes or more of moderate-intensity physical activity a day, at least five times a week.
If you have been inactive for a while, you may want to start with less strenuous activities such as walking or swimming at a comfortable pace. Beginning at a slow pace will allow you to become physically fit without straining your body. Once you are in better shape, you can gradually do more strenuous activity
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Cap Barbell announced there NEW Soft Kettlebells
Cap Barbell announced there NEW soft kettlebells. These are new to the fitness market. Kettllebell workouts have become very popular and these items have soared. They come in 4 sizes- 5, 10, 15 and 20 lb. They’re filled with iron sand and covered in a soft neoprene fabric.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Fitness Tip
Mix it up. Every little bit counts! Missed your daily workout? Don’t worry, you can still fit something in. Watch one of your favorite TV shows and do strength training moves during the commercial breaks: lunges, squats, crunches—mix it up. Giving yourself mini, achievable health goals can go a loooong way.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
New! Troy VTX Leather Wall Balls .
This heavy duty crossfit Leather Wall Ball is designed to take the repetitive impact off the wall and durable enough to take the abuse off the floor if you miss the catch on a set of Wall Balls. The texture and material of VTX Leather Wall Ball is designed to help you maintain contact with the ball when sweat attempts to inhibit your ability to hold on.
View Troy VTX Leather Wall Balls
View Troy VTX Leather Wall Balls
Saturday, April 7, 2012
New Product Releases from KETTLER
Coming Soon....
7644-000 Rivo P
•Motorized magnetic resistance
•Warranty: 2 year parts/Lifetime frame
7629-000 Giro R
•Motorized magnetic resistance
•Warranty: 2 year parts/Lifetime frame
761-000 Giro P
•Motorized magnetic
•Warranty: 2 year parts/Lifetime frame
7648-500 AXOS Cross P
•Motorized magnetic re-sistance
•Warranty: 2 year parts/Lifetime frame
7639-500 Giro GT
•Self gener-ating motor-ized mag-netic re-sistance
•Warranty: 2 year parts/Lifetime frame
7644-000 Rivo P
•Motorized magnetic resistance
•Warranty: 2 year parts/Lifetime frame
7629-000 Giro R
•Motorized magnetic resistance
•Warranty: 2 year parts/Lifetime frame
761-000 Giro P
•Motorized magnetic
•Warranty: 2 year parts/Lifetime frame
7648-500 AXOS Cross P
•Motorized magnetic re-sistance
•Warranty: 2 year parts/Lifetime frame
7639-500 Giro GT
•Self gener-ating motor-ized mag-netic re-sistance
•Warranty: 2 year parts/Lifetime frame
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Product of the Month!
The Ab Coaster® MAX is a revolutionary exercise device that is taking abdominal training in a whole new direction. Unlike traditional crunches, which work your abs from the “top-down,” the Ab Coaster works your abs from the “bottom-up,” while limiting stress to your neck, back and shoulders.
Ab Definition for Everyone The Ab Coaster® MAX patented design, combined with its plate-loading resistance system, allows anyone— professional athletes, health club members, and home exercisers—to achieve great abs in the most effective way possible.
Ab Definition for Everyone The Ab Coaster® MAX patented design, combined with its plate-loading resistance system, allows anyone— professional athletes, health club members, and home exercisers—to achieve great abs in the most effective way possible.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Our new website
We are proud to launch our new website at the closing of 2011. We completely revised the layout, made it more user friendly and added many new features! All website work was performed in house by The Fitness Supercenter's web team.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Our Website is being redesigned and UPDATED for 2011
We are in the construction stage on our new website!! We hope to have the site active by August 2011. Our new site has a Brand NEW look ,with more products and more user friendly.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
We Are Redesigning Our Website
All New Features , Easier to Navigate, Completely New!!!!!!
Expected Release Date in the Summer 2011
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Eating Essentials
Eating Essentials
Time to make some changes in your diet? Learn all about the food guide pyramid, remarkable vitamins, the best super foods, calorie requirements, and more.
Balancing Act
Climbing to the Top of the Food Pyramid
The new food pyramid gives you the best choices for your busy lifestyle. Learn why getting closer to the guidelines is a good step in the right direction.
Whole Grains: We’re Not Talking Cardboard
How to select whole-grain foods packed with fiber and vitamins, plus easy ways to fit more whole grains into your diet.
Vegetables: Going Green, Red, and Orange
Discover more about vegetables -- from dark green to orange to starchy. Find out how many vegetable servings you and your family need each day.
Fruit: From Apples to Watermelon
Learn all about fruits, how many servings you need daily, and what fruits can do to boost your health.
Meats and Beans: Not Your Mama’s Protein
Discover the different types of protein foods included in the meats and beans group. Find out how much you need daily from this group depending on your age, sex, and physical activity.
Milk, Yogurt and Cheese: Dairy Is Your Friend
Learn about the different types of dairy products that are high in calcium and low in fat. Discover how many servings you and your family need each day.
Oils: The Good and the Bad
Find out if you are eating healthy fats or unhealthy fats. Learn more about healthy oils and how many servings you need daily.
Eating by the New Food Guide Pyramid
Learn all about the different food groups and calorie and portion sizes you and your family need each day.
Time to make some changes in your diet? Learn all about the food guide pyramid, remarkable vitamins, the best super foods, calorie requirements, and more.
Balancing Act
Climbing to the Top of the Food Pyramid
The new food pyramid gives you the best choices for your busy lifestyle. Learn why getting closer to the guidelines is a good step in the right direction.
Whole Grains: We’re Not Talking Cardboard
How to select whole-grain foods packed with fiber and vitamins, plus easy ways to fit more whole grains into your diet.
Vegetables: Going Green, Red, and Orange
Discover more about vegetables -- from dark green to orange to starchy. Find out how many vegetable servings you and your family need each day.
Fruit: From Apples to Watermelon
Learn all about fruits, how many servings you need daily, and what fruits can do to boost your health.
Meats and Beans: Not Your Mama’s Protein
Discover the different types of protein foods included in the meats and beans group. Find out how much you need daily from this group depending on your age, sex, and physical activity.
Milk, Yogurt and Cheese: Dairy Is Your Friend
Learn about the different types of dairy products that are high in calcium and low in fat. Discover how many servings you and your family need each day.
Oils: The Good and the Bad
Find out if you are eating healthy fats or unhealthy fats. Learn more about healthy oils and how many servings you need daily.
Eating by the New Food Guide Pyramid
Learn all about the different food groups and calorie and portion sizes you and your family need each day.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Crunch Free Ways to Transform Your Abs
Crunch Free Ways to Transform Your Abs
Adopt these Pilates-inspired tricks to strengthen your entire core and improve your posture.
By Lara Rosenbaum
If hitting the beach conjures painful thoughts of skimpy suits, Brazilian wax jobs and itchy sun burn, here’s one way to make the body-baring preparation a whole lot easier. By incorporating Pilates-inspired moves into your fitness routine, you can strengthen and shape your entire core all without doing a single crunch on the floor. What’s more, you’ll straighten your posture and improve your balance—so you can not only look hot in your bikini, but you’ll torch the competition in beach volleyball, too. Here, Pilates Master trainer Lizbeth Garcia, owner of Tilcia Studio in San Diego shows you how to sculpt your midsection and stand tall. Aim to perform the following tricks three to five times a week, and according to Garcia, you’ll see noticeable results in six weeks—just in time for Summer.Prop into Plank: You’ve heard of this move, but this core-building exercise has become a classic for a reason. “It works nearly your whole body,” Garcia says. “Your core encompasses your entire trunk—from your shoulders to your pelvis. And planks target your spinal and pelvic muscles, too, along with all of your abs—internal, external, obliques and rectus and transverse abdominals.”Even better, planks promote core stability, which can enhance athleticism and balance. (Thinking, looking good while remaining injury-free.) Try Belly Bulge Blast on ExerciseTV with Cindi Whitmarsh for a plank variation that utilizes leg movement and especially targets the lower section of your abs.Or try Lizbeth Garcia’s No Limits Plank Series, for side planks.
“When you perform variations and especially side planks, you have to balance and work harder,” Garcia says. “It becomes more of a workout.”
Perform Stand Up’s vs. Sit Up’s: “When you stand, you add a balance challenge to your work,” Garcia says. “You lose your balance in general when you don’t have a strong core, so performing abdominal exercises while standing is like a double whammy.”
Start by focusing on your alignment, pulling your navel in towards your spine to help create a neutral, straight line in your back. You’ll want to do this when performing the plank, too. “Your alignment has to be correct to balance well,” Garcia says.
Try the standing cross crunch—as performed in Core Class, with Jessica Smith. Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, and bring your left knee up toward you chest while simultaneously crunching your right elbow to your left knee. You don’t want to hunch, but rather stand strong. Repeat on the other side and continue for thirty reps.
Along with balance, bringing your knees up like this helps target the lower belly, a common trouble zone
“You also need to breathe properly,” Garcia says. “Allow your lungs to expand when you inhale, and then squeeze your navel toward your spine as you exhale. When you breathe like this it helps with your alignment and allows you to train your core more deeply
Stretch Your Spine: “Better posture naturally makes you look more slim,” Garcia says. “When you slouch, it can make your mid-section look chubby.”
Performing planks will naturally help you stand taller, as they work your shoulders and back muscles, and but it’s also important to loosen up to avoid muscle imbalances. Stretch your chest after doing exercises like push-ups and bench press, or if you frequently sit at a computer. Simply stand facing a door, and hold one end of the frame. Lean forward until you feel a stretch. Repeat on the other side.
To release your spine, however, and extend your vertebrae one by one, roll your spine as shown in Posture by Jennifer Galardi on Exercise TV.
Not only will it help you stand slimmer, it will relax all of your muscles post workout, so you can feel refreshed after your abs workout. Now there’s nothing painful about that.
Adopt these Pilates-inspired tricks to strengthen your entire core and improve your posture.
By Lara Rosenbaum
If hitting the beach conjures painful thoughts of skimpy suits, Brazilian wax jobs and itchy sun burn, here’s one way to make the body-baring preparation a whole lot easier. By incorporating Pilates-inspired moves into your fitness routine, you can strengthen and shape your entire core all without doing a single crunch on the floor. What’s more, you’ll straighten your posture and improve your balance—so you can not only look hot in your bikini, but you’ll torch the competition in beach volleyball, too. Here, Pilates Master trainer Lizbeth Garcia, owner of Tilcia Studio in San Diego shows you how to sculpt your midsection and stand tall. Aim to perform the following tricks three to five times a week, and according to Garcia, you’ll see noticeable results in six weeks—just in time for Summer.Prop into Plank: You’ve heard of this move, but this core-building exercise has become a classic for a reason. “It works nearly your whole body,” Garcia says. “Your core encompasses your entire trunk—from your shoulders to your pelvis. And planks target your spinal and pelvic muscles, too, along with all of your abs—internal, external, obliques and rectus and transverse abdominals.”Even better, planks promote core stability, which can enhance athleticism and balance. (Thinking, looking good while remaining injury-free.) Try Belly Bulge Blast on ExerciseTV with Cindi Whitmarsh for a plank variation that utilizes leg movement and especially targets the lower section of your abs.Or try Lizbeth Garcia’s No Limits Plank Series, for side planks.
“When you perform variations and especially side planks, you have to balance and work harder,” Garcia says. “It becomes more of a workout.”
Perform Stand Up’s vs. Sit Up’s: “When you stand, you add a balance challenge to your work,” Garcia says. “You lose your balance in general when you don’t have a strong core, so performing abdominal exercises while standing is like a double whammy.”
Start by focusing on your alignment, pulling your navel in towards your spine to help create a neutral, straight line in your back. You’ll want to do this when performing the plank, too. “Your alignment has to be correct to balance well,” Garcia says.
Try the standing cross crunch—as performed in Core Class, with Jessica Smith. Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, and bring your left knee up toward you chest while simultaneously crunching your right elbow to your left knee. You don’t want to hunch, but rather stand strong. Repeat on the other side and continue for thirty reps.
Along with balance, bringing your knees up like this helps target the lower belly, a common trouble zone
“You also need to breathe properly,” Garcia says. “Allow your lungs to expand when you inhale, and then squeeze your navel toward your spine as you exhale. When you breathe like this it helps with your alignment and allows you to train your core more deeply
Stretch Your Spine: “Better posture naturally makes you look more slim,” Garcia says. “When you slouch, it can make your mid-section look chubby.”
Performing planks will naturally help you stand taller, as they work your shoulders and back muscles, and but it’s also important to loosen up to avoid muscle imbalances. Stretch your chest after doing exercises like push-ups and bench press, or if you frequently sit at a computer. Simply stand facing a door, and hold one end of the frame. Lean forward until you feel a stretch. Repeat on the other side.
To release your spine, however, and extend your vertebrae one by one, roll your spine as shown in Posture by Jennifer Galardi on Exercise TV.
Not only will it help you stand slimmer, it will relax all of your muscles post workout, so you can feel refreshed after your abs workout. Now there’s nothing painful about that.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Grizzy Fitness comes to The Fitness Supercenter
We are proud to have Grizzly fitness be part of our fitness family.
Here's a little about GrizzlyFitness:
Grizzly Fitness has been providing superior quality and innovative fitness accessories for over 24 years and is the #1 recognized brand for fitness accessories in Canada.
Grizzly Fitness currently supplies 44 countries worldwide including Switzerland, Norway, Japan, England, Australia, Italy, and many more. At Grizzly Fitness, our main goals are to provide the best customer service in the industry while continually evaluating our customers needs and providing the latest technology and highest quality fitness accessories in the industry!
Friday, March 6, 2009
The Fitness Supercenter's Fitness Tip
The Fitness Supercenter's Fitness & Exercise Tips for Women & Men
As we age, our bodies lose muscle tissue and our metabolism slows down. Exercise is the best way to get physically fit and lose weight. Starting an exercise regimen at any age is extremely beneficial and can add years to your life.
Working out takes discipline and should not be painful. "No pain, no gain" is just a myth and is not good advice to follow. Exercise should make you feel healthy and fit, not looking for the ibuprofen and ice packs.
Experts advise that 20 to 30 minutes of aerobic activity at least three times a week is beneficial for both men and women. Select the best plan that is favorable to your lifestyle, whether it is at home or a fitness club.
Opt for a form of exercise you will enjoy the most and start out slowly, increasing your activity and work out-time gradually. Consider adding basic weight training to build muscles, burn calories and control body fat.
Aerobic Activity TrainingBicycling
Brisk walking
Dancing
Jogging
Jump Rope
Roller-skating
Skiing
Swimming
Tennis
For beginners, try increasing personal fitness in your everyday life by walking more, doing some yard work, painting, and parking your car further from your destination. Not only will you have the satisfaction of getting things done, you'll enjoy the benefits of being physically fit.
You don't need to lump your exercise all in one session. Try it in 10 minute increments if this is easier for you and as time allows. While there's no plan or guarantee for everyone, get started and find out what works for you.
Consult your physician before starting any exercise routine and understand that diet and nutrition will play a big factor in your overall results.
As we age, our bodies lose muscle tissue and our metabolism slows down. Exercise is the best way to get physically fit and lose weight. Starting an exercise regimen at any age is extremely beneficial and can add years to your life.
Working out takes discipline and should not be painful. "No pain, no gain" is just a myth and is not good advice to follow. Exercise should make you feel healthy and fit, not looking for the ibuprofen and ice packs.
Experts advise that 20 to 30 minutes of aerobic activity at least three times a week is beneficial for both men and women. Select the best plan that is favorable to your lifestyle, whether it is at home or a fitness club.
Opt for a form of exercise you will enjoy the most and start out slowly, increasing your activity and work out-time gradually. Consider adding basic weight training to build muscles, burn calories and control body fat.
Aerobic Activity TrainingBicycling
Brisk walking
Dancing
Jogging
Jump Rope
Roller-skating
Skiing
Swimming
Tennis
For beginners, try increasing personal fitness in your everyday life by walking more, doing some yard work, painting, and parking your car further from your destination. Not only will you have the satisfaction of getting things done, you'll enjoy the benefits of being physically fit.
You don't need to lump your exercise all in one session. Try it in 10 minute increments if this is easier for you and as time allows. While there's no plan or guarantee for everyone, get started and find out what works for you.
Consult your physician before starting any exercise routine and understand that diet and nutrition will play a big factor in your overall results.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
LOOK! "GET IN SHAPE FOR 2009"
We carry high quality products from the top fitness equipment manufacturers at the lowest possible prices. Whether you want to lose weight, bulk-up or simply look great and feel great we have the equipment and supplies you need to accomplish your goals. Whether you are looking for a home treadmill or an exercise ball, weight lifting equipment or an elliptical trainer, we are the place for fitness. If need a home gym or perhaps you just have an exercise routine,that needs some additional exercise equipment. We offer products for aerobics, yoga and pilates and strength training programs too! You can reach any health and fitness goal you set for yourself !!
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