Looking to get in shape in 2007? Your new iPod makes a great workout companion. Yes, you still have to "just do it", but your iPod can help you "do it" if you let it.
Co ider the Nike+iPod orts kit. It lets you track your training progre in real time by co ecting a tra mitter in your eakers to a receiver on your iPod nano. This is great for people who want to start easy and work on pushing themselves a little at a time towards more and more progre on their goals.
Tangerine from the Potion Factory is another great workout tool. It allows you to build workout playlists from the music in your iTunes library, creating training sets at either a steady M or using M profiles that ramp up and down for interval training.
You can also download any number of training podcasts that provide a personal electronic trainer. Here are some of my favorites, both with and without coaching.
Marina's Walking and Aerobics Marina offers 10-15 minute workout sets that range from 126-150 m. The free samples available at the iTunes link are pretty lame. You have to go to her we ite to purchase and download actual work-outs. You put together four or five of them and you get a full hours' workout. Marina is a love-her or don't-love-her phenomenon. I personally love her style, her reminders to breathe, her focus on walking for fitne . If you like the music but not the coaching, you can purchase the workouts without i tructio .
Podru er Great music at varying M, ru ing about an hour each in length. Fantastic stuff, easy to work out to. No coaching or voice-overs, though. If you're looking for nicely paced high inte ity music, this is the podcast to turn to.
My Pod Bod This is a mix of audio and video how-tos, including coached exercises and interval training. The audio se io run about twenty minutes and the video how-to's are just a few minutes in length.
Muscle Audio Workouts David Greenwalt's "world cla " muscle workout training involves weight lifting and resistance training. I find these work best over eakers so your headphones don't get tangled in the equipment.
Workout On The Web Short how-to video fitne info. Good reference material.
Fitne Attack Amy McIntyre's 60-second fitne i iratio . For when you're looking for a little fitne boost in your life.
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