Sometimes video games can help you lose weight.

Cardio-vascular exercise routine tip #2
I bought a Nintendo Wii system less than a year ago. I'm old school, owning two video gaming consoles a Sega Saturn and a Sony PlayStation. I wanted to find something that was fun to do inside the house and participate in sports that I've only dream of doing.

According to the Diet Channel's Cynthia York-Camden MS, RD, LDN states that the Wii weight loss plan seeks to promote weight loss by burning extra calories using the Nintendo's Wii Sport System. The Wii includes a hand held wireless wand that requires the player to move around using arm motions (which are performed either standing or sitting). Wii games include tennis, golf, baseball, bowling and more. Gamers who have have tried this weight lose plan report losing 10 to 39 pounds in less than two months by including at least 30 minutes per a day of Wii game play along with regular aerobic exercise and healthier eating. Wii Weight Lose Plan participants usually play Wii Sports games 30-45 minutes daily. Successful losers report adding extra regular aerobic exercise to their plan such as walking, jogging, using the treadmill or other aerobic activity. In addition to daily Wii play, about 30 minutes of aerobic exercise is needed three to five times per week to promote the greatest amount of weight loss.

So get your game on and lose some weight. It's as simple as that!

Please follow your doctor's recommendations before starting any exercise routine.

For more information go to www.thedietchannel.com/wii-weight-loss-plan or go to the Nintendo website for more information of Wii Fit.

Have you played with your Wii today?

My blonde four legged friend is Man's best friend

Cardio-vascular exercise routine tip #1

Meet my favorite blonde Mavrick, who is over a year old. He is a very energetic golden Labrador Retriever puppy.

He isn't really my dog and I don't spend a lot of time with him. When I do, he can walk your butt off. He loves the outdoors no matter what the weather is like outside, that's where he wants to be. The other nice thing about being outside with a dog besides the fresh air is that you can always find someone who will take a picture of you with your favorite walking partner.

Denise Austin, the fitness guru states that you don't have to commit to an intense exercise program to see results. By taking your dog for a walk just 30 minutes a day, you'll burn more than 43,500 calories-and lose more than 12 pounds a year.

With this knowledge you can see why your pooch can be man's or woman's best friend.

Mavrick likes the beach, so sometimes he gets to go to Nantasket Beach down to the water's edge after beach season and to the boardwalk area during beach season.

Most dogs like water so watch out, during the winter months they might just jump in. That will kill your walking workout quickly.

If you live in Massachusetts and spend time on the south shore there are plenty of places to take Fido or Max to for a good long walk. You can also go cross country skiing and snow shoeing there as well.

One of the places where Me and Mavrick have been to is the Whitney and Thayer Woods on route 3A in Cohasset and Hingham, MA. dogs are welcome there!

For more information on recreation areas go to http://www.thetrustees.org/

Oh yeah, I've lost 10 pounds as of March 1st 2009!

Who's walking who?

Find Your inner strength

To find your inner strength is easy and it won't cost you anything but time.

Isometrics involves muscle contraction against resistance in which the length of the muscle remains the same.

Denise Austin, you know that Idaho potato lady the fitness guru. She has put out these free, yes I said free weight management guides at Rite Aid.

See, stop spending all that money on buying these fitness expert's books.

Anyway, here are some of the things she said about exercising and isometrics.

"People think they have to go to the gym for two hours, but all you need is 30 minutes if you're consistent". Stand up and move, isometric exercises will help you burn more calories during the course of the day. You can do these exercises in the kitchen, at work and even on the subway. Isometric exercises can add immeasurable strength and muscle growth. With muscle growth you will burn more fat. You need to add them to your exercise program, don't leave them out.

Isometrics and other stretching exercises are important in reducing stress by letting you take time out for yourself. It also improves your posture, lengthens your muscles and improves your strength, energy and circulation.

I do a lot of isometrics and stretching exercises before and after my workouts. For me, it helps by warm up my muscles and avoid injury to them.

I also like to do them before I lift any weights whether it's a resistance machine or free weights.

It doesn't matter, we are older so please stretch before and after.

Please follow the recommendations of your doctor before your start any exercise routine.

How do you find your inner strength?

Out of shape get into Shipshape

My voyage continues righting the ship I'm in. This old sailor's no nonsense approach to getting back into shipshape through diet; a commitment to embracing a cardio-vascular exercise routine, the "Navy Way" floor calisthenics and mental health lifestyle changes.

This plan will help me stay on course to reaching my targeted weight loss goals. I hope that my mission will work for you.

"Your body is a temple". 1Corinthians 6:19 You need to treat it that way and not abuse it!

The scripture is really about sexual immorality but the message is clear, to honor God by avoiding exposure to disease or other bodily harm. If you maintain good health habits you can avoid diseases whether sexual or not and other problems like ED.

Exercises and a healthy diet can help maintain your body. The sexual stuff is all on you and is not my problem.

First of all, I'm a short big guy at 248 pounds! We must realize that we have a weight problem, a body appearance problem and a lifestyle problem. That my friends, is our biggest hurdle to cross.

Once we admit we have those kind of problems we need a realistic plan to attack the problem,

a mission statement.

Here are my four mission statements.

I don't expect you or anybody else to quit eating, that's not healthy and could end up putting you in the hospital or worse.

I like food like most Americans, I don't want to give up anything. I need a plan that I can live with, not the one that my doctor or my good friends want me on. Remember, it's my plan or the highway. You will have to make some sacrifices with the food you eat but, it shouldn't be too time consuming to follow or write down. Be prepare for setbacks and failures. Not all diet plans work for everybody. The purpose of this blog to show you what I'm doing and to give you an honest no (blank) assessment of the results.

Believe in your plan when no one else does. I've lost weight before but, I was much younger. What worked for me then may not work for me now.

Keep it real and it will happen for you.

Last, It takes time to change what you let get shipwrecked! Your body loves to store fat, it's not going away anytime fast. There is no magic pill out there that's going to shed pounds fat. Don't cheat, no surgery please! Be strong and cowboy up! Are you ready? I started my mission on February 1st 2009. My goal is to lose 32 pounds by labor day, my realistic goal is to lose 12 pounds by Memorial Day and keep it off. Here is some of my planned cardio-vascular exercises that are fun to do, not boring and that you can live with them.

I'll discuss how maintaining my journal of my activities helps me stay on course to my weight loss goals.

Please follow your doctor's recommendations concerning diet and exercise.

Bicycle riding, kayaking, hiking and snow shoeing are some of the physical activities you can do to get shipshape. I'll discuss what other things I've been doing that work and give you my SITREP (situation report) on my next posting to this blog.

Here are my current stats as of February 1st 2009

5"8", weight 248 lbs on a mechanical scale and on the digital scale weight 234 lbs.

waist size 40"

What's your your plan?