Training and Conditioning
By Scoop Malinowski Mike Onello isn’t your typical boxing coach. But this man understands and teaches the sport in a different way, with an unparalleled …
Talkin’ Boxing with Cotto Fitness Coach Phil Landman
By Scoop Malinowski Miguel Cotto’s fitness & nutrition coach Phil Landman took time out from riding waves of the San Diego surf to answer questions …
Success in Weight Loss: Get the Metabolism Moving
It is the nagging thought in millions of minds. From that moment in the morning when you catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror …
Summer Work Out: Diet The Best Foods For Getting Fit
Getting into shape is a dream that many Americans share in common. After the days of school day athletics are left behind, many find that …
Summer Work Out: The ‘Backend’ Burn
Great Ways to Tone Your Butt! There are many downsides to aging, but among the most seemingly unfair aspects is the effect of gravity. Though …
Summer Work Out: Yoga: the Perfect Exercise
Getting the Most Out of the Perfect Exercise If there was ever an ideal workout, likely the closest to that title is, and always has …
Summer Work Out: Steps to Sexy Abs
It is the epitome of the healthy body image – the flat, muscular stomach. A goal of exercisers all over this nation and beyond, a …
Not Losing Weight? Perhaps it’s Time for a New Weight Loss Plan
It is not uncommon for people to become horribly overwhelmed with working out simply because they can’t get the results they want. It’s not that …
Beating Belly Bulge by Busting the Bloat
A midsection paunch might be cute for a pregnant woman or an infant, but there are very few – if any – other times in …
Summer Workout: Plan for Success – Drink More Water
Have you been trying and trying and trying to lose those unwanted pounds? Are you just realizing that it is time? Whether you have been …
Coping With Stress: The Real Cure For Obesity
The link has long been suspected, but now it has been proven. Stress, which comes in many forms and for many reasons, is tied to …
Summer Work Out: Great Ways to Get Fit
Are you looking for a great way to get active and lose weight? Are you not really a big fan of hitting the gym or …
When Fat Isn’t the Enemy: Fixing Fish Facts
One of the most frequently recommended foods to people who are trying to get in shape or trying to shed unwanted pounds is fish. However, …
Act Your Age: Baby Boomers Can Still Bust Belly and Butt Fat
Just because you are a part of an aging generation doesn’t mean that fitness can’t be for you. In fact, it might be surprising to …
Just Starting Out? Find Success In Your Weight Loss Program
Are you headed to the gym for the first time in many years? Are you reaching the realization that you need to take steps to …
Summer Work Out: Weight Loss Results without the Gym
If you were to survey people throughout this country on why they are not able to stay in shape, there would likely be a trend …
Summer Work Out: Aerobic Fitness, Make Each Breath Count
One of the first things that track or cross country coaches across this country will focus on with new runners is the act of breathing. …
Summer Work Out: Build A Weight Loss Plan For Success
If you’re ready to lose weight then it’s time to get down to business. There’s no more room for excuses. But there is room for …
Maybe Try A Holistic Approach To Your Weight Loss
Many Buddhist masters live by the philosophy that their body is a temple, which is why they eat only fresh and natural fruits and vegetables. …
Supplement Your Workout With Vitamins
There are a variety of ways to enhance your personal fitness and increase your ability to live a healthy lifestyle. From holistic therapies to natural …
Personal Fitness And Nutrition Go Hand-in-Hand
You know the saying, “you can’t have one without the other?” It applies perfectly to personal fitness and nutrition. These two key factors go hand-in-hand …
Got A Sweet Craving? Try These Healthy Treats Instead
When you are trying to stick to a healthy diet and personal fitness regiment, it can sometimes be hard to fight off those late-night sweet …
How To Create The Perfect Home Gym
Going to the gym can be a hassle. The parking lot is always crowded after work, and most of the machines are occupied. There isn’t …
Why Cutting Out Carbs Can Help You Lose Weight
With obesity on the rise, many researchers have studied the food that we eat and also how it directly affects our waistline. It’s been proven …
6 Tips To Stay Motivated With Your Exercise Routine
It’s easy to lose motivation when you have been doing the same fitness workout routine day after day, week after week. That’s exactly the reason …
Yoga Is A Physical And Mental Workout
There are a lot of people who view yoga as just a simple spiritual practice rather than a means of intense exercise. But yoga is …
Ditch The Exercise Bike And Ride Outside
One great thing about the change of seasons is the ability to enjoy nature. During the wintertime, many of us spend our workouts in the …
Why Training On The Elliptical Is Good For Your Body
If the exercise bike doesn’t excite you and the treadmill doesn’t either, then perhaps you should try the elliptical machine instead. Even though the elliptical …
Speed Up Your Training With Treadmill Workouts, Picking The Right One
If you’re running on the treadmill for a marathon, a 5K or just to get in shape, then you can speed up your training with …
Obesity Problems And How You Can Prevent Them
In the United States, we live by the creed that “bigger is better.” We want the bigger television, the bigger house and the bigger car. …
5 Qualities You Need For The Right Personal Trainer
Asking the question, “why would I need a personal fitness trainer?” is a lot like asking the question, “why would I need a good mechanic?” …
Helpful Tips For Losing 2 lbs. Per Week
When you establish a fitness and weight loss plan, it’s important to set short-term goals in order to build success. Accomplishing short-term goals is the …
High Calorie-burning Exercises You Can Do At Home
In today’s fast-paced world, our daily lives are often filled to the brim with commitments, activities and obligations. Some days, you just can’t make it …
7 Foods That Give You Fuel
In order to get the most out of your workout, you need as much fuel from healthy foods as possible. Otherwise, your body won’t have …
Why Getting Adequate Amounts Of Rest Is Important To Losing Weight
You’ve read all the best fitness books, changed your diet and exercise on a regular basis. But for some reason, you are still not losing …
How To Select The Right Personal Trainer
A personal fitness trainer is a great investment for anyone looking to lose weight, change their eating habits and get into shape. However, finding the …
How To Prevent Childhood Obesity
Obesity is a major problem in the United States. We have become a nation of fast food eaters, who’d rather sit on the couch and …
How To Achieve Long-Term Fitness Goals
Staying healthy and getting fit is about more than just dropping a couple of pounds so you can make an appearance at the beach this …
Five Easy Steps To Get Fit
Most fitness trainers will tell you that losing weight and getting fit requires a great deal of dedication, commitment and time. There are even hundreds …
Three Easy Abdominal Exercises For Sexy Abs
What’s the one part of the body that everyone wishes they had? Washboard abs. Let’s face it — when you head to the beach you …
Does Muscle Confusion Really Work?
With every new exercise fad that comes along, a good amount of skepticism always comes with it. Of course, some of the doubt is warranted. …
Lose Weight By Eating More
It sounds like an oxymoron: eat more and lose weight. But like so many other fitness myths out there, cutting down your food intake isn’t …
Fitness Secrets Of The Stars
Do you long to have Jillian Michaels washboard abs, Madonna’s toned muscles or Jennifer Lopez’s luscious bottom? Sure, these stars may seem like they were …
How To Buy Fitness Equipment
We’ve all been there — it’s late at night, and you’re sitting on the couch with your feet up and tasty snack in your hand. …
Supplement Your Workout With Alternative Activities
One of the biggest reasons why some people lose interest in their workout regimen is lack of motivation. In order to get up early every …
Create a Great Home Gym on a Budget
For many Americans, especially those living in the more rural areas of this vast nation, going to the gym each day is beyond inconvenient. In …
Getting the Good Burn: Choosing the Right Treadmill
Treadmills are America’s favorite home gym selection. They are an investment into the well being and physical state of tomorrow. With dedication, this single piece …
The Martial Art Of Judo And Its Benefits On Health & Fitness
If you’re sick of the same old workout lately, consider taking a martial art. There are a variety of martial art styles available that offer …
Q&A with Cotto’s Fitness Coach Phil Landman
Miguel Cotto added a new team member before his win against Carlos Quintana. It was Phil Landman, a fitness expert from South Africa based in …
Training Routine: Andrew Golota
WBC #7, WBA #6 and IBF #10 heavyweight contender Andrew Golota describes some of his training routine as he prepares to meet Ray Austin in …
Training Routine: Joshua Clottey
IBF #1 ranked Welterweight contender Joshua Clottey let Boxinginsider.com watch his 15-round sparring session on Friday afternoon at the Fernwood Resort in Bushkill, PA. Clottey …
Tony Thompson’s Camp Diary
By Tony “The Tiger” Thompson (Courtesy of Marylyn Aceves of Goossen-Tutor Promotions) WBO #1 ranked contender Tony Thompson is in camp in Vero Beach, FL …
Training Program: Tomasz Adamek
By Scoop Malinowski Former WBC Light Heavyweight champion Tomasz Adamek has recently relocated to Kearny, New Jersey in the United States where he will compete …
Training Program: Dmitri Salita
By Scoop Malinowski Photo from www.dsalita.com (Alex Gorokhov) While WBA#3 Junior Welterweight contender Dmitri Salita (28-0-1, 16 KO’s) awaits scheduling his next match, he took …
Wladimir Klitschko’s Training Program
(Photo courtesy of www.klitschko.com) Wladimir Klitschko’s Training Program By Scoop Malinowski IBF/WBO World Heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko took some time out to describe some …
A Physical Fitness Glossary
Aerobic—has to do with oxygen use. Aerobic exercises are those in which your muscles use oxygen to burn fuel for energy. Because your heart and …
Choosing an Exercise Program for You
The first barrier most people encounter when they want to start exercising is getting started. The second barrier is keeping at it until you see …
Lose Your Fat Ass with These Training Exercises
Do you have a nice, shapely, firm badonkadonk, or does your ass look more like a hot air balloon? If you want a more attractive …
Strength Training Myths
A lot of people avoid strength training because they have heard so many myths and misconceptions that they are afraid to try it. They think …
Deciding on a Personal Trainer
Hiring a personal trainer can be very helpful in meeting your fitness goals. Just the act of hiring one and paying out money can be …
Don’t Buy into These Exercise Myths
The past decade or so has seen an explosion of research about nutrition, exercise and the human body. Some of this research has confirmed what …
Easy Ab Training Workout
There are three components to working your abs to get that sculpted look—nutrition, aerobic exercise and abdominal training. Truth is, you won’t have a washboard …
Too Much Water?
It’s important to drink enough water when you’re exercising. Your body is about 65% water, and that water is important. It is found in your …
Exercising to Lose Weight
Whenever someone talks about losing weight, we tend to think about diets. Cutting calories, counting carbs, South Beach, Mediterranean, Weight Watchers, the grapefruit diet and …
How Much Exercise Do You Need Each Day?
That’s a simple question, and you’d think the answer would be simple, too. But, alas, it is not. How much exercise you need each day …
Eating Right: Aerobic Activities
Aerobic exercise is part of a healthy lifestyle, and so is good nutrition. Eating right has a lot to do with the success of your …
Exercising to Increase Flexibility
Flexibility is an important aspect of overall fitness, and it gets more important as we get older. We improve flexibility by stretching, and the primary …
Measuring the Intensity of Your Exercise Program
An exercise program has three measures: frequency (how often you exercise), duration or time (how long you exercise) and intensity (how hard you exercise). It’s …
Resistance Training
Your muscles do work; they use energy to move your body. Resistance is a force that opposes work. When you do resistance training, you apply …
What Is Physical Fitness?
Physical fitness is one of those hard-to-define concepts; we know it when we see it, but how, exactly, do you define it? Instead of a …
Seven Keys to an Easy Barbell Workout
Barbells are standard weight lifting equipment and are an excellent way to increase muscle strength; it’s the only piece of equipment many people need. Designing …
Incorporating an Exercise Ball into Your Workout
Those big exercise balls are a great addition to your workout. You can use them in several ways, depending on your exercise goals. Exercise balls …
Taking Care of Sore Joints after a Workout
Joint pain after a workout is nothing to sneeze at. You don’t want to brush it off or tell yourself, “No pain, no gain.” Joint …
Eating Right: Aqua Training
Aqua training is basically running in water. It’s a great way for injured athletes to maintain conditioning, and for uninjured individuals to improve their fitness. …
Eating Right: For Fighting
Boxing is, indeed, a high energy aerobic sport, and competitive cyclists do, indeed burn up the calories. When training and sparring, boxers can require 5,000 …
Exercise for a Younger Generation
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions not only in the United States, but also throughout the world. The World Health Organization says obesity is increasing rapidly …
Eating Right: Weight Training
Fitness requires both regular exercise and good nutrition. Your nutritional requirements may change depending on what kind of exercise you are doing and how intensely …
Stretching Before a Workout
For years, common wisdom has been to stretch out your muscles before a workout. It was thought that stretching loosened up the muscles and prevented …
Exercising Outdoors in the Winter
Winter sports are great fun and a wonderful way to maintain fitness during cold months. Downhill or cross-country skiing, sledding, ice skating—or just walkin’ in …
Exercising Outdoors in the Summer
Summer is prime time for exercising. We love being out of doors when it’s warm and the days are long, and there are so many …
The Best Strength Training Workout Tips
Strength training is an important part of an overall exercise program. It makes you stronger, helps your endurance, improves your balance and helps burn excess …
The Connection between Exercise and Osteoporosis
Exercise is an important factor in preventing and treating osteoporosis. After menopause, most women begin to lose bone density, which puts them at risk for …
The Connection between Fitness and Mood
Most people agree that exercise improves your mood and exercise has long been recommended for people struggling with depression. There are probably many reasons for …
The Right Supplements
If you have done any investigating at all, you know there are a zillion different nutritional supplements, and all claim to be the Fountain of …
Taking the Right Supplements
Supplements are designed to provide nutrients that we don’t get in our normal diets. It is now recommended that everybody take at least a multivitamin …
What You’ll Need to Work Out
Thinking of beginning an exercise program? Ready to start working out? There are a few things you’ll need before you can get started. Here’s a …
Why Weight Watchers Works
Numerous studies and examples have shown why certain “diet” programs don’t work for the long-term. As soon as you stop eating the prepackaged food or …
