| Bharatbook.com included a new report on "Sports Equipment - Market Report" into its market report catalogue for reselling. |
An economic recession does not bode well for any leisure-goods market, since purchasing of these products can usually be postponed while consumers concentrate on the basics of existence. Sports equipment falls into this category. Many items of equipment have already been struggling to maintain their markets because consumers are shifting their exercise regimes away from traditional `equipped' sports (e.g. golf or tennis) and towards `pure' fitness activities (e.g. health-club membership or jogging). The UK sports-equipment market is extremely fragmented and difficult to define, but Key Note values it at £1.1bn in 2008. This represents only direct spending on personal equipment by consumers, not spending by clubs or leisure centres. Demand has essentially been static for 5 years: the market was worth a similar £1.12bn in 2004, although it peaked at £1.2bn in 2006. Domestic manufacturing of equipment is similarly static at around £300m per year, most of which is exported. Imports have a growing share of the UK market, with China having increased its share of UK imports from under 10% to more than 30% in the 2000s, overtaking the US as the leading supplier. A downturn in 2008 and 2009 was inevitable, given the depth of the recession and its impact on disposable income. However, generalisations are difficult because of the vast range of sports, outdoor activities and indoor games involved in the market. Golf is the outstanding sport for consumer spending on equipment, accounting for more than a third of the market. Home fitness equipment (e.g. domestic treadmills) has moved into second place, overtaking fishing equipment, but the market also includes dozens of small sectors, such as watersports, `extreme' sports and balls for team sports.There is even fragmentation within the equipment produced for each sport (for example, cricket requires bats, balls and protection, not counting the separate markets for appropriate footwear and cricketing `whites'). Given this fragmentation, manufacturing of sports equipment offers few economies of scale. Only a handful of companies compete across several sports. The dominance of the golf sector means that its leading manufacturers are among the largest sports-equipment companies, major names in a competitive global market including Callaway, Titleist, Srixon and Wilson. The most intriguing operator in the UK at present is Sports Direct International, which has managed to `vertically integrate', owning the UK's largest chain of sports shops (Sports World) as well as acquiring famous equipment brands such as Slazenger, Dunlop and Karrimor. The immediate prospects for the market are not favourable, pending the return of consumer confidence. However, the major sporting events (e.g. the Olympics and Commonwealth Games) that are scheduled to take place in the UK should stimulate enough interest to restore growth. Key Note forecasts that the UK market for sports equipment will decline in value in 2009 and 2010 but will then return to growth between 2011 and 2013. Source |
Friday, October 30, 2009
Treadmills in UK Market Report
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
How to make your weight loss goals happen faster
Napoleon Hill In his book Think and Grow Rich; He talks about a definitive Major Purpose. You got to have a clear idea of what you want. A definite goal allows you to place all your energy, all your will power, and all your effort to that goal.
Take some time to really think about it. Write out, define, and describe your goals of what you want. Using a pen and paper makes your thoughts objective. When writing your goals don’t just write expecting nothing to do about it. There is no such thing as SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. Do something in return for it. Give a date when will you achieve it. Create a defined plan, don’t debate and start immediately. Write exactly what you want to achieve, the steps you are going to do, the time limit, and what you are going to do in return for it. Use declarative sentence. Review your goal at least twice a day. Use visualization and imagine yourself already achieving what you want.
Let me give you an example you want to lose weight and be healthy. Don’t just write “I want to lose weight.” You need to be specific and detailed as well as visual to what you want to achieve. Defining your goals might be how much weight you want to lose, what size of clothes you will fit into, the lifestyle you want to live and how you will feel everyday.
By the 1st day of April, 2009, I will have a weight of 62 kilograms by which will happen during various amounts of time to time during the interim.
In return for the body I want, I will give the most of my will power and self-discipline by following a healthy program which requires me to eat healthy diet and exercises 3-4 times a week.
I believe I will achieve the body I want. My faith is so strong that I can wear again the pants of size 30 again. I can see myself feeling lively and have more energy everyday. I am now waiting for a plan to by which to follow to achieve my dream body and I will follow that plan when it is received.
This was my goal back in January 30, 2009 and I have achieved it. You will be surprised how writing goals can make your dreams come true faster. Does that sound achievable? Well yes I did achieve it. I just followed what is written in Think and Grow Rich and adjust it to what I want.
Whether your goal is to build muscle or fat loss. Give a time to write it down. So what about you? Do you write your goals? Leave some comments. Thanks for taking a time for reading my blog.
Stay Healthy and Fit,
Talk to you soon,
Michael
P.S. If this is the first time you heard about writing goals. Just try it and see what happens. You will be amaze later what happens in the next few months or years when you write what you really want to achieve. If you are interested in reading more about definitive major purpose, you can get it here: Think and Grow Rich
Take some time to really think about it. Write out, define, and describe your goals of what you want. Using a pen and paper makes your thoughts objective. When writing your goals don’t just write expecting nothing to do about it. There is no such thing as SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. Do something in return for it. Give a date when will you achieve it. Create a defined plan, don’t debate and start immediately. Write exactly what you want to achieve, the steps you are going to do, the time limit, and what you are going to do in return for it. Use declarative sentence. Review your goal at least twice a day. Use visualization and imagine yourself already achieving what you want.
Let me give you an example you want to lose weight and be healthy. Don’t just write “I want to lose weight.” You need to be specific and detailed as well as visual to what you want to achieve. Defining your goals might be how much weight you want to lose, what size of clothes you will fit into, the lifestyle you want to live and how you will feel everyday.
By the 1st day of April, 2009, I will have a weight of 62 kilograms by which will happen during various amounts of time to time during the interim.
In return for the body I want, I will give the most of my will power and self-discipline by following a healthy program which requires me to eat healthy diet and exercises 3-4 times a week.
I believe I will achieve the body I want. My faith is so strong that I can wear again the pants of size 30 again. I can see myself feeling lively and have more energy everyday. I am now waiting for a plan to by which to follow to achieve my dream body and I will follow that plan when it is received.
This was my goal back in January 30, 2009 and I have achieved it. You will be surprised how writing goals can make your dreams come true faster. Does that sound achievable? Well yes I did achieve it. I just followed what is written in Think and Grow Rich and adjust it to what I want.
Whether your goal is to build muscle or fat loss. Give a time to write it down. So what about you? Do you write your goals? Leave some comments. Thanks for taking a time for reading my blog.
Stay Healthy and Fit,
Talk to you soon,
Michael
P.S. If this is the first time you heard about writing goals. Just try it and see what happens. You will be amaze later what happens in the next few months or years when you write what you really want to achieve. If you are interested in reading more about definitive major purpose, you can get it here: Think and Grow Rich
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Adding Intervals of intensity to your treadmills workout
Here is an interesting topic about interval training. Gives you a stronger heart and burns more calories. Here it is:
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Add intervals of intensity for a stronger heart
By Harvard Health Publications
When it comes to exercise, interval training offers the best of both worlds.
When faced with an arduous physical task, most people break up the work with short periods of rest. Piano movers alternate bursts of heavy lifting with rest breaks; people with severe heart failure stop every now and then when climbing stairs. Giving stressed muscles time to recover lets them work harder and longer. The same thing holds true for conditioning the heart. For people with various forms of heart disease, an exercise plan that alternates bursts of intense activity with periods of rest or gentler activity seems to be better than longer stretches of continuous activity.
This pattern, called interval training, has long been the province of sports trainers and competitive athletes. Now it’s slowly entering the realm of cardiac rehabilitation and fitness centers. Done formally or informally, interval training can strengthen healthy hearts and help heal damaged ones. It’s also a boon for people who are watching their weight and those battling diabetes.
Bursts of intensity
Interval training alternates bursts of more intense activity, like jogging, with periods of moderate activity or even rest. Adding spurts of vigorous activity burns more calories and benefits the heart and arteries.
Olympic start
Interval training emerged from Central Europe in the late 1940s, the brainchild of athletic trainers looking for ways to give their long-distance runners an edge. It spread to swimmers and other elite athletes. An interval training plan that involved swimming 50 meters as fast as possible, resting for 10 seconds, and repeating this swim-rest cycle two dozen times before stopping helped the U.S. swim team take 13 of 16 gold medals at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. Interval training is now an integral element of high-level sports.
It didn’t take long before a few forward-thinking cardiologists applied interval training to healing damaged hearts. In the early 1960s, Dr. Vojin Smodlaka, a cardiologist at Valley Forge Medical Center and Heart Hospital in Norristown, Pa., asked dozens of his heart patients to try interval training on a stationary bicycle. From these experiments, he concluded that interval training was as safe as regular, continuous exercise and reconditioned the heart more efficiently.
The idea of interval training for heart patients didn’t catch on, partly because many doctors at the time believed that people with heart disease needed rest, not activity. Today, even though exercise is considered essential for maintaining and rehabilitating the heart, interval training remains a footnote.
Over the years, though, a few research teams have extended the work of Dr. Smodlaka and his colleagues. German studies in 1997 and 2002, a Canadian study in 2005, one from Texas in 2006, and another from Norway in 2007 all show that interval training works for people with a range of cardiovascular conditions. It’s been tested for stable coronary artery disease (cholesterol-clogged and narrowed arteries), intermittent claudication (leg pain when walking), and heart failure (see “The promise of interval training for people with heart failure”). In each case, interval training bested traditional continuous exercise.
The promise of interval training for people with heart failure
The latest interval training study suggests that this form of exercise could counter some of the devastating consequences of post–heart attack heart failure. Norwegian researchers recruited a small group of heart attack survivors who had developed heart failure, the heart’s inability to keep up with the body’s demand for oxygen. For three months, some of the volunteers exercised in intervals: four minutes of treadmill walking fast enough to push their heart rates to 90% or more of their estimated maximal heart rate, followed by three minutes of slower walking. This was repeated five times, with a three-minute cool-down walk, for a total of 38 minutes of exercise. Others walked on a treadmill continuously for 45 minutes three times a week. The two regimens were designed to burn equal numbers of calories.
Interval training trumped continuous exercise in almost every aspect, from measures of cardiac fitness to the amount of blood the left ventricle pumped with each contraction (the left ventricular ejection fraction). It also reversed harmful changes in the heart’s size and shape. The results were published in the June 19, 2007 Circulation.
This one study doesn’t mean interval training cures heart failure. It merely shows it’s a possibility for people with this chronic condition. “While this is a compelling study, we don’t really know if more exercise is better for heart failure,” says Dr. Daniel Forman, who directs the exercise testing lab at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is part of an ongoing study (Heart Failure — A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise Training, or HF-ACTION), that is the largest to date to look at the impact of tailored exercise programs among a wide range of people with heart failure.
“There’s no question that exercise adds to health benefits beyond what pills alone can achieve,” says Dr. Forman. What works for healthy people, though, may not be best for those beset by heart failure. An important task for researchers is to find out what types of exercise cause the most beneficial physical and molecular changes in healthy and damaged heart muscle.
Why interval training is special
Walking is often held up as the gold standard for cardiovascular exercise. Most people can do it, it doesn’t require any special equipment, it’s easy on the knees and other joints, and a host of studies leave little doubt that walking strengthens the heart and lungs and improves the function of blood vessels. That said, there’s also at least as much research showing that more intense activities and exercises yield even bigger benefits. Yet many people shun the idea of taking up jogging or other forms of more intense exercise or don’t think they can sustain it. Interval training may offer the best of both worlds.
What makes this regimen special? For starters, it lets many exercisers spend more time doing a high-intensity activity than they could perform in a single stretch. Someone who couldn’t run full speed for 5 minutes straight might be able to run full speed for 10 minutes by doing it in ten 1-minute intervals and resting in between. Rest breaks give the body time to remove waste products that can make muscles sluggish, tired, or painful.
Working the heart and other muscles hard for brief spurts trains them to use oxygen more efficiently. It conditions them to work through brief periods when the demand for oxygen temporarily outstrips the supply. It helps the body create new muscle fibers. A handful of studies show that interval training also changes mitochondria, the tiny powerhouses that provide energy to cells, so they burn fat more efficiently.
Intense activity, even brief spurts of it, is better than moderate activity at turning on genes that promote the growth of new blood vessels, make blood vessels more flexible, intensify the body’s defenses against harmful antioxidants, and ease low-level inflammation.
All these changes have a tangible product: the ability to be more active. They also quietly guard against invisible forces that erode cardiovascular health — things like the entry of cholesterol into artery walls, the stiffening of arteries, or the accumulation of fat.
Resistance isn’t futile
To get the most out of exercise, put a little resistance in it by lifting weights, doing push-ups, or engaging in other muscle-building exercises. An update on resistance training, also called strength training, from the American Heart Association says it is a perfect mate for aerobic exercise for healthy folks and those with heart disease. In addition to strengthening the heart, resistance training builds bone, helps prevent falls, and makes it easier to do everyday tasks like getting dressed and carrying groceries.
Design your own
Outside of competitive sports, interval training isn’t a rigorously defined regimen. There’s no single formula for how long and how hard to exercise, or how long and how often to rest. You can try fartlek, a Swedish word that means speed play — you set the intervals based on how you feel on a particular day. Or you can set up a more scientific approach with help from a personal trainer or fitness expert. The main guidelines to apply are these:
* The high-intensity bursts should last long enough and be strenuous enough that you are out of breath. If you monitor your heart rate, it should be more than 80% of your maximum heart rate.
* Rest periods should be long enough that you are ready to go again, but not so long that your heart slows to its resting rate.
* Warm up before exercising and cool down afterward.
* Don’t do interval training on consecutive days. Let your muscles recuperate in between. Two or three times a week is plenty.
Interval training is most easily done on a treadmill, where you can tinker with the speed of the machine. But you can also do it anywhere you exercise — around the neighborhood, in a pool, on a bike ride or cross-country ski outing.
Say you usually walk for 30 minutes at a stretch. To add intervals, walk for five minutes to warm up. Then walk as fast as you can, or jog, for one minute. Go back to your usual pace, or even a bit slower, for three minutes. Repeat the fast walking–slower walking cycle five more times. Although the exercise session lasted 30 minutes, you burned more calories than you would have by walking continuously at the same speed and kicked off a series of small changes that, if you keep it up, will further strengthen your heart and circulatory system. Of course, that’s just a start. If you are in fairly good shape, you can spend more time walking faster or jogging and less time walking or resting.
If you are a jogger, bust out into a sprint now and then. If you swim, alternate fast and slow laps. If you bicycle, sprinkle your ride with a few Tour de France finishes.
A warning is in order. Interval training isn’t for everyone. Revving the heart rate way up could provoke cardiac arrest or other disasters in people at risk for them. So if you have heart disease, high blood pressure, or other risk factors, check with your doctor before starting interval training.
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Now you see a support on study on interval training, go workout with interval training.
Stay healthy and fit,
Jan Michael A. Buyco
P.S. set your timer on your treadmill into interval and have a great workout.
******
Add intervals of intensity for a stronger heart
By Harvard Health Publications
When it comes to exercise, interval training offers the best of both worlds.
When faced with an arduous physical task, most people break up the work with short periods of rest. Piano movers alternate bursts of heavy lifting with rest breaks; people with severe heart failure stop every now and then when climbing stairs. Giving stressed muscles time to recover lets them work harder and longer. The same thing holds true for conditioning the heart. For people with various forms of heart disease, an exercise plan that alternates bursts of intense activity with periods of rest or gentler activity seems to be better than longer stretches of continuous activity.
This pattern, called interval training, has long been the province of sports trainers and competitive athletes. Now it’s slowly entering the realm of cardiac rehabilitation and fitness centers. Done formally or informally, interval training can strengthen healthy hearts and help heal damaged ones. It’s also a boon for people who are watching their weight and those battling diabetes.
Bursts of intensity
Interval training alternates bursts of more intense activity, like jogging, with periods of moderate activity or even rest. Adding spurts of vigorous activity burns more calories and benefits the heart and arteries.
Olympic start
Interval training emerged from Central Europe in the late 1940s, the brainchild of athletic trainers looking for ways to give their long-distance runners an edge. It spread to swimmers and other elite athletes. An interval training plan that involved swimming 50 meters as fast as possible, resting for 10 seconds, and repeating this swim-rest cycle two dozen times before stopping helped the U.S. swim team take 13 of 16 gold medals at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. Interval training is now an integral element of high-level sports.
It didn’t take long before a few forward-thinking cardiologists applied interval training to healing damaged hearts. In the early 1960s, Dr. Vojin Smodlaka, a cardiologist at Valley Forge Medical Center and Heart Hospital in Norristown, Pa., asked dozens of his heart patients to try interval training on a stationary bicycle. From these experiments, he concluded that interval training was as safe as regular, continuous exercise and reconditioned the heart more efficiently.
The idea of interval training for heart patients didn’t catch on, partly because many doctors at the time believed that people with heart disease needed rest, not activity. Today, even though exercise is considered essential for maintaining and rehabilitating the heart, interval training remains a footnote.
Over the years, though, a few research teams have extended the work of Dr. Smodlaka and his colleagues. German studies in 1997 and 2002, a Canadian study in 2005, one from Texas in 2006, and another from Norway in 2007 all show that interval training works for people with a range of cardiovascular conditions. It’s been tested for stable coronary artery disease (cholesterol-clogged and narrowed arteries), intermittent claudication (leg pain when walking), and heart failure (see “The promise of interval training for people with heart failure”). In each case, interval training bested traditional continuous exercise.
The promise of interval training for people with heart failure
The latest interval training study suggests that this form of exercise could counter some of the devastating consequences of post–heart attack heart failure. Norwegian researchers recruited a small group of heart attack survivors who had developed heart failure, the heart’s inability to keep up with the body’s demand for oxygen. For three months, some of the volunteers exercised in intervals: four minutes of treadmill walking fast enough to push their heart rates to 90% or more of their estimated maximal heart rate, followed by three minutes of slower walking. This was repeated five times, with a three-minute cool-down walk, for a total of 38 minutes of exercise. Others walked on a treadmill continuously for 45 minutes three times a week. The two regimens were designed to burn equal numbers of calories.
Interval training trumped continuous exercise in almost every aspect, from measures of cardiac fitness to the amount of blood the left ventricle pumped with each contraction (the left ventricular ejection fraction). It also reversed harmful changes in the heart’s size and shape. The results were published in the June 19, 2007 Circulation.
This one study doesn’t mean interval training cures heart failure. It merely shows it’s a possibility for people with this chronic condition. “While this is a compelling study, we don’t really know if more exercise is better for heart failure,” says Dr. Daniel Forman, who directs the exercise testing lab at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is part of an ongoing study (Heart Failure — A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise Training, or HF-ACTION), that is the largest to date to look at the impact of tailored exercise programs among a wide range of people with heart failure.
“There’s no question that exercise adds to health benefits beyond what pills alone can achieve,” says Dr. Forman. What works for healthy people, though, may not be best for those beset by heart failure. An important task for researchers is to find out what types of exercise cause the most beneficial physical and molecular changes in healthy and damaged heart muscle.
Why interval training is special
Walking is often held up as the gold standard for cardiovascular exercise. Most people can do it, it doesn’t require any special equipment, it’s easy on the knees and other joints, and a host of studies leave little doubt that walking strengthens the heart and lungs and improves the function of blood vessels. That said, there’s also at least as much research showing that more intense activities and exercises yield even bigger benefits. Yet many people shun the idea of taking up jogging or other forms of more intense exercise or don’t think they can sustain it. Interval training may offer the best of both worlds.
What makes this regimen special? For starters, it lets many exercisers spend more time doing a high-intensity activity than they could perform in a single stretch. Someone who couldn’t run full speed for 5 minutes straight might be able to run full speed for 10 minutes by doing it in ten 1-minute intervals and resting in between. Rest breaks give the body time to remove waste products that can make muscles sluggish, tired, or painful.
Working the heart and other muscles hard for brief spurts trains them to use oxygen more efficiently. It conditions them to work through brief periods when the demand for oxygen temporarily outstrips the supply. It helps the body create new muscle fibers. A handful of studies show that interval training also changes mitochondria, the tiny powerhouses that provide energy to cells, so they burn fat more efficiently.
Intense activity, even brief spurts of it, is better than moderate activity at turning on genes that promote the growth of new blood vessels, make blood vessels more flexible, intensify the body’s defenses against harmful antioxidants, and ease low-level inflammation.
All these changes have a tangible product: the ability to be more active. They also quietly guard against invisible forces that erode cardiovascular health — things like the entry of cholesterol into artery walls, the stiffening of arteries, or the accumulation of fat.
Resistance isn’t futile
To get the most out of exercise, put a little resistance in it by lifting weights, doing push-ups, or engaging in other muscle-building exercises. An update on resistance training, also called strength training, from the American Heart Association says it is a perfect mate for aerobic exercise for healthy folks and those with heart disease. In addition to strengthening the heart, resistance training builds bone, helps prevent falls, and makes it easier to do everyday tasks like getting dressed and carrying groceries.
Design your own
Outside of competitive sports, interval training isn’t a rigorously defined regimen. There’s no single formula for how long and how hard to exercise, or how long and how often to rest. You can try fartlek, a Swedish word that means speed play — you set the intervals based on how you feel on a particular day. Or you can set up a more scientific approach with help from a personal trainer or fitness expert. The main guidelines to apply are these:
* The high-intensity bursts should last long enough and be strenuous enough that you are out of breath. If you monitor your heart rate, it should be more than 80% of your maximum heart rate.
* Rest periods should be long enough that you are ready to go again, but not so long that your heart slows to its resting rate.
* Warm up before exercising and cool down afterward.
* Don’t do interval training on consecutive days. Let your muscles recuperate in between. Two or three times a week is plenty.
Interval training is most easily done on a treadmill, where you can tinker with the speed of the machine. But you can also do it anywhere you exercise — around the neighborhood, in a pool, on a bike ride or cross-country ski outing.
Say you usually walk for 30 minutes at a stretch. To add intervals, walk for five minutes to warm up. Then walk as fast as you can, or jog, for one minute. Go back to your usual pace, or even a bit slower, for three minutes. Repeat the fast walking–slower walking cycle five more times. Although the exercise session lasted 30 minutes, you burned more calories than you would have by walking continuously at the same speed and kicked off a series of small changes that, if you keep it up, will further strengthen your heart and circulatory system. Of course, that’s just a start. If you are in fairly good shape, you can spend more time walking faster or jogging and less time walking or resting.
If you are a jogger, bust out into a sprint now and then. If you swim, alternate fast and slow laps. If you bicycle, sprinkle your ride with a few Tour de France finishes.
A warning is in order. Interval training isn’t for everyone. Revving the heart rate way up could provoke cardiac arrest or other disasters in people at risk for them. So if you have heart disease, high blood pressure, or other risk factors, check with your doctor before starting interval training.
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Now you see a support on study on interval training, go workout with interval training.
Stay healthy and fit,
Jan Michael A. Buyco
P.S. set your timer on your treadmill into interval and have a great workout.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Seven Bad Ways to Buy a Treadmill
Here is a recent article I stumbled recently and I feel he covers ways on buying your treadmill especially in UK. From Robert Braun:
1. Spending more than you need to - Treadmill quality and treadmill prices both vary greatly. The first step in not spending more than you need to is to know what equipment you need. The second step is to know the best places to buy that equipment. Usually, buying online will spare you the pain of spending more than you need to.
2. Spending too little - Treadmills are like anything else; you get what you pay for. "Cheap" treadmills tend to be fragile. They are not heavy or large. When running on them, the user may feel uncomfortable because the machine moves around or does not feel stable. Good starting points here are an adequately-sized belt and an adequately-sized motor. What is adequate depends on your size and intended use. Generally speaking, the bigger the user the bigger the belt and motor should be. For faster or more serious runners, heavier machines are better. While heavy may not mean better, heavier machines almost always have bigger belts and bigger motors, so it's an easy place to start.
3. Buying Obscure Brands - The simplest method of ensuring you are spending enough is to buy well-known names. If you can't find much on the brand on the Internet, it is not a brand name. Why take chances? Many of the best brands have parts made in China to U.S. standards. Then the parts are assembled in the U.S. with the best technology. Contrast this to Chinese brands assembled in China. Chinese brands may be fine, but why take the chance?
4. Paying Sales Tax - Ouch! Your total cost can be quite a bit higher if you live in a state with a high sales tax rate. Making your purchase online usually allows you to avoid this. As of this writing, a buyer is only required to pay sales tax if he resides in the same state as the company he's buying from. A Congressional committee is working on a bill that would collect sales tax on all online purchases. Some big online retailers have already started collecting sales tax in anticipation of these changes. If you can buy now, this is a good reason to do it!
5. Paying Shipping Charges - Most specialty exercise equipment stores will not charge extra for delivery. They can afford to do this because they generally sell only the highest quality equipment at premium prices. Discount and department stores generally have lower prices, but, if they delivery at all, they add a significant delivery charge. Unless you have a pickup truck and strong friends with time on their hands, this is difficult to avoid. It can be difficult to compare prices if you have to add sales tax, shipping charges, and time. How about about just determining the right treadmill for you and then not paying for shipping or sales tax!
6. Not having the support of people you live with. As with any important goal, if the people close to you don't support it, they can subvert your efforts. There are aspects of this phenomenon that are unique to treadmills. First, if your family members are out of shape and are not trying to get into better shape, on some level they can start to resent the new you. They may call you a narcissist or accuse you of ignoring your responsibilities. They may not want you to succeed! This may sound crazy, but it really does happen and can be tough to resist.
Treadmills do make some noise. It's usually not the treadmill as much as it is your feet repeatedly hitting the belt that makes most of the noise. Someone in the room downstairs from you may not appreciate that. A treadmill mat or a rug can help, but be forewarned!
7. Not using the treadmill! - Everyone starts with good intentions. They gradually tail off into the land of excuses and procrastination. Your chances are best if you avoid the first six sins. The final mistake is the worst, and actually can be deadly. As some wise person said, "You either invest your time and money on your health, or you spend them on you diseases. The only way to escape this fact is to die early!"
End of article.
I like the #6 and #7. #7 reminds me of a friend of mine who bought a treadmill and not actually use it. Making excuses not to use it. I think most of the time people are to feel like they are doing something for themselves. Remember even with a treadmill an action is still required. Don't consider buying the treadmill as an change to your health.
Until next time, stay healthy.
Jan Michael A. Buyco
P.S. Treadmill in UK are great equipments for workouts.
Source
1. Spending more than you need to - Treadmill quality and treadmill prices both vary greatly. The first step in not spending more than you need to is to know what equipment you need. The second step is to know the best places to buy that equipment. Usually, buying online will spare you the pain of spending more than you need to.
2. Spending too little - Treadmills are like anything else; you get what you pay for. "Cheap" treadmills tend to be fragile. They are not heavy or large. When running on them, the user may feel uncomfortable because the machine moves around or does not feel stable. Good starting points here are an adequately-sized belt and an adequately-sized motor. What is adequate depends on your size and intended use. Generally speaking, the bigger the user the bigger the belt and motor should be. For faster or more serious runners, heavier machines are better. While heavy may not mean better, heavier machines almost always have bigger belts and bigger motors, so it's an easy place to start.
3. Buying Obscure Brands - The simplest method of ensuring you are spending enough is to buy well-known names. If you can't find much on the brand on the Internet, it is not a brand name. Why take chances? Many of the best brands have parts made in China to U.S. standards. Then the parts are assembled in the U.S. with the best technology. Contrast this to Chinese brands assembled in China. Chinese brands may be fine, but why take the chance?
4. Paying Sales Tax - Ouch! Your total cost can be quite a bit higher if you live in a state with a high sales tax rate. Making your purchase online usually allows you to avoid this. As of this writing, a buyer is only required to pay sales tax if he resides in the same state as the company he's buying from. A Congressional committee is working on a bill that would collect sales tax on all online purchases. Some big online retailers have already started collecting sales tax in anticipation of these changes. If you can buy now, this is a good reason to do it!
5. Paying Shipping Charges - Most specialty exercise equipment stores will not charge extra for delivery. They can afford to do this because they generally sell only the highest quality equipment at premium prices. Discount and department stores generally have lower prices, but, if they delivery at all, they add a significant delivery charge. Unless you have a pickup truck and strong friends with time on their hands, this is difficult to avoid. It can be difficult to compare prices if you have to add sales tax, shipping charges, and time. How about about just determining the right treadmill for you and then not paying for shipping or sales tax!
6. Not having the support of people you live with. As with any important goal, if the people close to you don't support it, they can subvert your efforts. There are aspects of this phenomenon that are unique to treadmills. First, if your family members are out of shape and are not trying to get into better shape, on some level they can start to resent the new you. They may call you a narcissist or accuse you of ignoring your responsibilities. They may not want you to succeed! This may sound crazy, but it really does happen and can be tough to resist.
Treadmills do make some noise. It's usually not the treadmill as much as it is your feet repeatedly hitting the belt that makes most of the noise. Someone in the room downstairs from you may not appreciate that. A treadmill mat or a rug can help, but be forewarned!
7. Not using the treadmill! - Everyone starts with good intentions. They gradually tail off into the land of excuses and procrastination. Your chances are best if you avoid the first six sins. The final mistake is the worst, and actually can be deadly. As some wise person said, "You either invest your time and money on your health, or you spend them on you diseases. The only way to escape this fact is to die early!"
End of article.
I like the #6 and #7. #7 reminds me of a friend of mine who bought a treadmill and not actually use it. Making excuses not to use it. I think most of the time people are to feel like they are doing something for themselves. Remember even with a treadmill an action is still required. Don't consider buying the treadmill as an change to your health.
Until next time, stay healthy.
Jan Michael A. Buyco
P.S. Treadmill in UK are great equipments for workouts.
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
MAKE FAT PEOPLE PAY MORE TAX
Dr Chand says the obese must take more responsibility for their health
Tuesday September 22,2009
By Tony Brooks
FAT people should be made to take more responsibility for their health and have perks taken away from them, a leading doctor said yesterday. Excessively obese patients should be made to walk rather than be given mobility scooters.
And fattening foods with little nutritional value should be taxed to help combat the obesity epidemic sweeping the UK, he said.
This would improve people’s health and reduce the burden on the health service, warned Dr Kailash Chand, a British Medical Association representative and NHS trust chairman.
At the same time, slim and healthy people should be rewarded with tax credits for looking after themselves. And so should mothers who breastfeed their babies .
The Indian-born doctor, who has been a practising GP in the UK for 25 years, feels some methods of combating obesity problems are actually contributing to them.
“I estimate that something like 50 to 70 per cent of my patients’ medical costs would not just be reduced but eliminated if their diets were healthier and they exercised more,” said Dr Chand, the chairman of the Tameside and Glossop Primary Care Trust, near Manchester.
“But we, as a nation, seem to be working on the other end of the problem. For example, motorised scooters are provided free to morbidly obese patients with weight-dependent arthritis, when the best remedy for these people would be to walk through their pain or avoid excess weight gain in the first place,” he said.
He wants financial rewards to be given to those with a body-mass index of less than 26 – a BMI of 30 is considered obese – and for those who can produce documented mileage from exercising on treadmills or bicycles.
Dr Chand made his controversial proposals as the annual cost to the NHS for issues relating to obesity was predicted to top £6.3billion by 2015. In 2007 it was £4.2 billion.
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Barring genetic or catastrophic disease, accidents and some aspects of ageing, our health is in our hands, said Dr Chand.
He warned that spending cuts by whoever wins the next general election could “cripple” the NHS.
“We simply can’t sustain a creaking system and patients must take more responsibility for their health,” he said. “The best way to save the NHS money is for fewer people to need its services – it is as simple as that.
“Obesity and lack of exercise are the prime causes of many common diseases. The problems start at the earliest stages of life. We have evidence to prove how excessive weight gain in the first three months of life is linked to cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes in early adulthood.
“Yet breast-feeding, which often prevents early and dangerous weight gain, just isn’t as popular as we might have hoped.”
He said many of the factors leading to obesity are “societal”, adding: “The mother who picks up hungry kids from day-care after working eight hours can be very tempted to stop at a fast-food outlet on her way home.
“In the old days, evening walks and chats with neighbours used to satisfy people’s evening leisure needs, but now our reliance on sedentary activity, watching the TV and working on computers has reached epic proportions.”
My Comment: Wow. Even the government is trying to prevent obesity by using tax. People rely so much on the nutritional labels. The real information is on the ingredients. I think first of all obesity persons should try to do cardio-vascular exercise. I do cardio with my workouts and it burns a lot of fats. I'm not talking about jogging with moderate heart 1 hour per day. I'm talking about 20-25 minutes of high intensity cardio workout. It's running and then walking afterwards. It's like Sprint.
By the way have you seen the bodies of the sprinters? Look at their build. It's awesome compared to the marathoners. Which one would you like to be? I think that answers the question which type of body you want.
Here's how to do sprint.
run for 1 minutes 7 miles per minute
walk for 1.5 minutes 3 miles per minute
run for 1 minutes 7 miles per minute
walk for 1.5 minutes 3 miles per minute
do this for 4 times and you got yourself a great cardio workout.
What if I hate running outside? Well that's were Treadmills came in. Buy yourself a Treadmill. It will be a good investment. The best investment with the highest return is your health so invest for it.
Stay healthy,
Jan Michael Buyco
P.S. Treadmills UK are great way for obesity to start.
Tuesday September 22,2009
By Tony Brooks
FAT people should be made to take more responsibility for their health and have perks taken away from them, a leading doctor said yesterday. Excessively obese patients should be made to walk rather than be given mobility scooters.
And fattening foods with little nutritional value should be taxed to help combat the obesity epidemic sweeping the UK, he said.
This would improve people’s health and reduce the burden on the health service, warned Dr Kailash Chand, a British Medical Association representative and NHS trust chairman.
At the same time, slim and healthy people should be rewarded with tax credits for looking after themselves. And so should mothers who breastfeed their babies .
The Indian-born doctor, who has been a practising GP in the UK for 25 years, feels some methods of combating obesity problems are actually contributing to them.
“I estimate that something like 50 to 70 per cent of my patients’ medical costs would not just be reduced but eliminated if their diets were healthier and they exercised more,” said Dr Chand, the chairman of the Tameside and Glossop Primary Care Trust, near Manchester.
“But we, as a nation, seem to be working on the other end of the problem. For example, motorised scooters are provided free to morbidly obese patients with weight-dependent arthritis, when the best remedy for these people would be to walk through their pain or avoid excess weight gain in the first place,” he said.
He wants financial rewards to be given to those with a body-mass index of less than 26 – a BMI of 30 is considered obese – and for those who can produce documented mileage from exercising on treadmills or bicycles.
Dr Chand made his controversial proposals as the annual cost to the NHS for issues relating to obesity was predicted to top £6.3billion by 2015. In 2007 it was £4.2 billion.
SEARCH UK NEWS for:
Barring genetic or catastrophic disease, accidents and some aspects of ageing, our health is in our hands, said Dr Chand.
He warned that spending cuts by whoever wins the next general election could “cripple” the NHS.
“We simply can’t sustain a creaking system and patients must take more responsibility for their health,” he said. “The best way to save the NHS money is for fewer people to need its services – it is as simple as that.
“Obesity and lack of exercise are the prime causes of many common diseases. The problems start at the earliest stages of life. We have evidence to prove how excessive weight gain in the first three months of life is linked to cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes in early adulthood.
“Yet breast-feeding, which often prevents early and dangerous weight gain, just isn’t as popular as we might have hoped.”
He said many of the factors leading to obesity are “societal”, adding: “The mother who picks up hungry kids from day-care after working eight hours can be very tempted to stop at a fast-food outlet on her way home.
“In the old days, evening walks and chats with neighbours used to satisfy people’s evening leisure needs, but now our reliance on sedentary activity, watching the TV and working on computers has reached epic proportions.”
My Comment: Wow. Even the government is trying to prevent obesity by using tax. People rely so much on the nutritional labels. The real information is on the ingredients. I think first of all obesity persons should try to do cardio-vascular exercise. I do cardio with my workouts and it burns a lot of fats. I'm not talking about jogging with moderate heart 1 hour per day. I'm talking about 20-25 minutes of high intensity cardio workout. It's running and then walking afterwards. It's like Sprint.
By the way have you seen the bodies of the sprinters? Look at their build. It's awesome compared to the marathoners. Which one would you like to be? I think that answers the question which type of body you want.
Here's how to do sprint.
run for 1 minutes 7 miles per minute
walk for 1.5 minutes 3 miles per minute
run for 1 minutes 7 miles per minute
walk for 1.5 minutes 3 miles per minute
do this for 4 times and you got yourself a great cardio workout.
What if I hate running outside? Well that's were Treadmills came in. Buy yourself a Treadmill. It will be a good investment. The best investment with the highest return is your health so invest for it.
Stay healthy,
Jan Michael Buyco
P.S. Treadmills UK are great way for obesity to start.
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