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The application complements a variety of outdoor activities, including walking, running, hiking, cycling, mountain biking and snowboarding.

After downloading AllSport GPS, you can:

• Begin a new fitness routine or maintain your existing workout plan
• Track exercise activity by monitoring time, speed, calories burned, and distance traveled during outdoor workouts
• Download map images and recommended routes to your iPhone
• View performance statistics and real-time information
• Store favorite outdoor workout routes
• Share fitness progress with friends and family

You can interrupt your workout if you get a call and then resume the app. You can also listen to your favorite music while running the AllSport GPS app through the iPod feature on your iPhone.

Furthermore, you can analyze your workouts, upload workout plans and check out customized trips taken by others on the Trimble Outdoors website.

You can the AllSport GPS app for $9.99 through the Health & Fitness category in the Apple iPhone App Store or online through iTunes.

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AllSport GPS iPhone App

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The tests check your heart, cardiovascular levels, core stability, neck and shoulder mobility and many other aspects of fitness. Check out their top 10 DIY ways to test your fitness to get started.

These are good tests, no matter your fitness level but especially helpful for beginners. The website is chockful of other terrific fitness information including tips for creating a fitness plan, motivational advice and other support for maintaining a fit, active lifestyle.

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DIY Fitness Tests at realbuzz.com

• Biking/walking for cardio
• Crunches for core/abs
• Pushups for chest/triceps
• Pullups for lats/biceps

With this vacation workout routine, you actually don’t need any equipment. So you can do the workout anywhere. With a good workout routine, you can get healthy, have more energy, sleep better and feel good about yourself. There are some parts of the video that are a little corny but the information is good.

Also checkout the website, fitness.scoobysworkshop.com.

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Working Out on Vacation

Hiking

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If you are headed to the mountains for vacation this summer, enjoy your time outdoors and get fit by hiking. Be sure to take a lot of water with you on your hike and only stay on designated trails, particularly if you are unfamiliar with the area.

Biking
Enjoy the summer sun by biking. Whether you are riding on the city streets or through the hills, you can get in a get in a good workout by biking. Consider joining a riding group in your area. Most major cities have a bicycle association or bike riding groups.

Swimming
As I mentioned in a previous post, swimming is a popular exercise, particularly in the summer. Head to the pool at your local YMCA or health club. Swimming laps every day is a great alternative for a low-impact, full body aerobic workout.

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Summer Workouts

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Another benefit of swimming is that it can provide an allover total body workout. If you are overweight or haven’t exercised in a while, ease yourself into a swimming routine by starting out slowly.

Start by swimming two days a week and break often. Slowly increase your weekly distance, adding 5-10% each week.

Use a variety of different strokes to avoid getting bored and work out different sets of muscles. Take lessons at your local gym or YMCA to help improve your technique.

Time yourself every workout. Like with other exercise programs, set short-term and long-term goals for speed.

Consider joining a U.S. Masters Swimming group in your area for camaraderie and competition.

Enjoy swimming and get fit!

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Swimming for Fitness

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Don’t Drive When You Can Walk
Make it a rule in your household. Never drive when you can walk. If you need to go to the store right around the corner, put on your walking shoes and get going.

Pick a Bad Parking Spot
When the rest of shoppers are clamoring for a spot near the door, do the opposite. Pick the worst parking spot you can and make the trek.

Take the Stairs
Skip the elevator and escalator whenever you can and take the stairs. Even if you can only take the stairs down when you first start, that’s better than nothing. Soon, you will be skipping up flights of stairs with ease.

Make Dessert a Special Occasion
Sweets and other desserts are not something you should eat every day. Instead of making dessert an after-meal routine, reserve it for special occasions. This is an easy way to cut out empty calories.

Ditch the Soda and Beer
Stock up on water, unsweetened iced tea, diet soda and other light drinks. Sugared sodas and beer don’t offer anything but calories and unwanted carbs.

15 Minutes
If an hour long sprint on the treadmill seems impossible, that’s because it is (at first). But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t exercise at all. Start out with 15 minutes a day of aerobic exercise of some sort — walking, jogging, swimming, biking, whatever you can do. At the end of the week, add five minutes. For the following week, do 20 minutes a day, then add another five minutes. You’ll be up to 45-60 minutes a day in no time.

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Jump Start Your Fitness Routine

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When jumping back in the a good fitness routine I have found it best not to jump right back in head first. Dip your toes in the water, take baby steps and don’t over-do it. Many people want to shed off the weight quickly and that is never the best way. They jump in to the gym and go at it full force for the first time in awhile. They wake up the next morning and want to swear off the gym for the rest of their lives. Sometimes you don’t even have to go all out to have sore muscles. It can just be the fact that you haven’t put them to good use in awhile.

Depending on exactly how sore your muscles are or how hard you pushed yourself, sore muscles can stick around for a few days. Sometimes the best way to alleviate sore muscles is to keep them loose by doing more exercise. Don’t over-do it again, but just go for a less intense workout and if you keep with your routine, sore muscles will be a thing of the past. Well, almost.

Legs have always been my kryptonite. Whenever train legs by doing squats I will be sore for sometimes up to a week. To keep my legs muscle loose and to prevent myself from walking around Frankenstein’s monster, I do series of body weight squats throughout the day. This is the only way that I have found to keep them loose and keep me from giving up on squats. I like doing squats, I love the way it makes me feel both during and shortly after, but not the next day. Plus it’s a great calorie burner.

Next time you go to get back in to a fitness program, take it easy at first and build yourself back up to speed.

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Getting Back On Track