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If the Beijing Olympics inspired you to improve your athletic performance or just spend a little less time on the couch, the technology industry can help.

Gadgets and web services won't make you faster or stronger but, by recording your efforts and enabling you to measure your progress and compare against friends' or rivals' results, they'll provide plenty of motivation to keep striving for a personal best.

With alot of emphasis on dieting in the media this article about learning how to cook is very true - throw away the microwave which encourages you to heat up fast food that can be high in fat and tasteless and learn how to prepare fast, fresh, nutritious meals - this way you will enjoy your food more and consume the right type of calories - not the ones that make you fat !

I dont use a microwave and cook most things at home with the George Foreman Grill - its excellent !

Enjoy the article below

Dean Piazza
www.getfit.com.au
Your Online Personal Trainer

AS AUSTRALIANS have been eating themselves towards full-fat, inglorious deaths in the past decade or two, an essential skill has been fading away, now a skeletal shadow in the corner.

We have forgotten how to cook.

The revelation is shocking and sad in equal parts: the more we gorge ourselves, the less we are in love with the wonder that is food. This can be the only explanation for the loss of such an essential skill.

Isn't preparing food - the modern-day equivalent of hunting, gathering and providing nutrition to self and family - essential to a healthy life, like washing and cleaning?

When it comes to exercise and losing weight most people think its just about being active and eating right.

While these are very important so is setting your priorities and having good time management skills so you can
achieve what you would like to do each day.

With people living life at such a hectic pace and employers demanding longer working hours , effective time
management is an essential part of your week.

Watch the video above for some great time management tips and if you find the video stopping and starting, press the pause button for 1 minute and start again.

You can also email me info@getfit.com.au for personalised help with organising your complete exercise, diet and time management schedule

Dean Piazza
www.getfit.com.au
Your Online Personal Trainer

If you have Two Arms and Two Legs and no disability then you have no excuses !
Watching our Paralympic heroes on television is very inspiring for any able bodied person .

These athletes are competing at the highest level with all types of disabilities ranging from no arms or legs to paraplegics.

They dont have excuses - they just get out there and compete , not letting their disablity get in the way.
We can all learn something from these athletes in terms of motivation, persistance and discipline.

The great thing about this workout is you dont need much room and its a total body workout.'

Email me with your feedback on what videos you would like me to do next dean@getfit.com.au

Enjoy Your Training

Dean Piazza - Your Online Personal Trainer
www.getfit.com.au

Do you think if they are prescribing gym sessions for the patients of cancer then it could possibly reduce the risk of contracting cancer ? I think so !

Most people who frequent gyms are under the age of 40 but its actually people over the age of 40 who have the most to gain from lifting light weights and staying strong.

Over the age of 40 your strength and flexibility levels rapidly decline so just doing two thirty minute gym sessions as a minimum will make a huge difference.

If you have any questions on what would be the best gym program for you you can email me @ dean@getfit.com.au

Enjoy the read below and I hope it inspires you to get moving and hit the weights !

Dean Piazza
Your Online Personal Trainer
www.getfit.com.au

AS the group of women trickled into the aerobics studio at the Bendheim Integrative Medicine Center in Manhattan on a recent Thursday morning, there were subtle signs that this was no ordinary fitness class.

Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

Irene Logan at a water-based class at a Brooklyn Y.M.C.A.
One woman told the instructor that she had missed a string of previous classes because she was grappling with fatigue, a side effect of her new cancer medication. Others wore colorful wraps on their arms, containment sleeves meant to protect against lymphedema, a painful swelling of the arm stemming from breast cancer surgery.

Sponsored by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, this class for cancer patients has been around for some time, mostly in a league by itself. But in recent years, following studies that found exercise to be beneficial in combating the effects of cancer, the class has gained some company.

Gyms and fitness centers have begun stepping in to meet a small but growing demand for programs designed to not only hasten recovery but to address the fatigue of chemotherapy, the swelling of lymphedema and the loss of muscle tone.

Dara Torres who at 41 is competing with and beating girls who on average are in their early twenties !

She finished with an olympic silver medal in the 50m sprint @ Beijing Olympics so read on below ladies and let it inspire you to achieve your goals-no matter what your age !

If you think you can you can and if you think you cant you cant ...................

Dean Piazza
Your Online Personal Coach
www.getfit.com.au

Beth Walsh is swimming laps again at age 57. Stasi Turrell has returned to walking, 13 weeks after giving birth to her fourth child. And Geralin Thomas is lifting hand weights and skipping rope at 47.

Until recently, all three women had fallen off their fitness programs.

That was before Dara Torres

Torres, 41, became the oldest Olympic swimming medalist Sunday when she anchored the U.S. women's 4x100-meter freestyle relay to a silver medal finish. She has now won 10 Olympic medals and will go for an 11th when she competes in the 50-meter freestyle.

Make that 11 medals - she finished with a sliver medal in the 50 m sprint !

click here to read the full story

Dean Piazza
www.getfit.com.au

Studies find that regular nudges help keep fitness on track

Kimberly Thomas-McPherson likes to walk for exercise. But as a single mother of two who works a full-time job at night and goes to college during the day, physical activity isn’t always high on her priority list.

So when Thomas-McPherson, 43, heard about a pilot study aimed at getting people to stick to their exercise routine, she signed up — and was pleasantly surprised when it gave her program a boost.

What was the secret? E-mail.

Sleep. It rejuvenates. It refreshes. It restores. And while it may seem as if sleep renders us inactive, the truth is quite the contrary. Our bodies, our brains, our minds are accomplishing great things while we slumber.

Dr Nilesh Dave, medical director of the Sleep and Breathing Disorders Centre at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre, says: "When you get good-quality sleep and enough hours of it, it is amazing how much better patients' moods are, how much better they're functioning. They're truly happy."

During a series of studies in the 1980s, rats were forced to stay awake. After five days, they started dying.

It proves there is no magic exercise to stay in shape - just do what you enjoy and do it
regularly and it wont feel like a chore - just something you do to feel good about life
and help you look great along the way !

Below is a list of stars who do yoga, boxing,weight training, jogging, pilates, surfing,
cycling and swimming.

Stars are always on the lookout for new ways to challenge their mind and body so if you
are bored with your current routine sont be afraid to try new ways to mix up your training.

Stay Strong
Dean Piazza
www.getfit.com.au

Each week, a new diet offers you the ultimate weight loss miracle. But, finally, one that is achievable has arrived. Having a big breakfast every day is the way to lose weight and keep it off.

If you can live off clear vegetable soup (or gruel for that matter) for three meals per day, every day, then you will lose weight. The question is how long can you eat that way?

These athletes are world class and have been aiming for this goal for at least 4 years so take a leaf out of their book and learn to apply yourself over the long term to be the be a champion in whatever you would like to do.

There are no medals for losing weight but we can all learn from their discipline, goal setting, motivation and the way they think .

Being successful at anything you do requires you to think like an Olympian and be positive and focussed.
Check out our Aussie Olympians below and the stories behind their journey.

http://www.olympics.com.au/

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Stay Strong
Dean Piazza
www.getfit.com.au

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