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Oregon Personal Trainer: Exercise with your dog

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If you need to burn a few extra calories because you have just been slammed at work or just could not go to the gym that day, then play with your dog. Have them chase you or throw their favorite toy and then chase them. Try to keep the game going for a good 10 minutes. You will be amazed how heated up you will get by running back and forth and going around furniture. You heart rate will increase and you start to burn more calories the longer your dog wants to play. When they get tired, then that is when to stop. Don’t stop because you are tired, stop when they have had enough.

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Oregon Personal Trainer

Oregon Personal Trainer: Doing Ab Machines

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Doing ab machines are great at strengthening your rectus abdominus, but that is it. It is not going to decrease your body fat, but you will develop great ab’s from adding resistance to it. Here is a quick tip: if you have a lot of adipose tissue in your mid-section and you are doing an ab machine there is a possibility that your mid section will get bigger. The reason that could happen is that you are not decreasing your body fat. If you can do your best to reduce your body fat with at least a good diet, then your abs will become more defined versus what we discussed above.

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Oregon Personal Trainer