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The more you want to use it, the more we would recommend that you go for high quality treadmills.

When you understand the basics of a quality treadmill, then it will be easy to find one that is perfect for your home and budget.

Long or short workouts determine the quality of motor you need for your treadmill.

I usually end my treadmill routine with about 15 minutes of quality stretching.

Researches have shown, that during exercising most people forget to breath deeply or they are unable to integrate their breathing pattern with the exercises causing them muscle pain and fatigue after the workout.

Vote in this week's poll: How do you feel about exercise?
Trying to convince someone of the importance of exercise is probably a lot like trying to teach kids the importance of learning things math and English. Some day, they appreciate those things but, until then, they usually think it's a big waste of time.

Exercise is sort of the same way. Until you feel the benefits for yourself, you may understand intellectually why it's important but that does nothing to motivate you to actually do it. I've had clients who claim to hate exercise and I can talk about how great it is until I'm blue in the face, but no one likes a blue-faced trainer who talks too much.

The truth is, you have to exercise for awhile before you experience the many, many perks - More energy, better sleep, a sense of self-satisfaction and, of course, losing weight. Many people give up before get to that point. Maybe it's frustration, maybe it's confusion, maybe they really do hate to exercise - or, it's all of the above.

I'm curious about you? How do you really feel about exercise? Do you have a love/hate affair or perhaps there's no love there at all? Maybe you're on the other side, someone who loves physical movement and couldn't imagine your life without it. Vote in this week's poll and tell us about it.

Vote in this week's poll: How do you feel about exercise? originally appeared on About.com Exercise on Monday, July 26th, 2010 at 05:00:49.

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Dealing with Stinky Gym Clothes
It is H-O-T here in Chicagoland and the natives are dropping like flies. I like it oven-hot, but even I had to turn around on my run the other day to finish up in the cool air-conditioned heaven of my basement.

Even sitting around can cause excessive sweating when it gets this hot and, if you're exercising, you're probably soaking through every tee shirt or sports bra in your wardrobe. To fight the stink:

• Clean Out Your Gym Bag - When a husband leaves his gym clothes in his bag for days on end, a fermentation process begins to occur in which stink molecules multiply more rapidly, thus requiring his wife to use a gas mask and rubber-tipped tongs to remove said stinky clothes. Removing stinky clothes immediately can prevent this fermentation process while also improving your marriage. Not that I'm talking about anyone in particular.
• Wash Your Clothes As Soon As Possible - There are a number of suggestions out there for un-stinkifying your clothes (see below) but, whatever method you choose, wash your clothes as soon as possible to avoid permanent funk.
• Try Other Methods of Washing - You may have clothes that seem permanently stinky, as may be the case with sweat-wicking fabrics since they seem to hold onto odor more than cotton fabrics. Some options:
  • Soak your clothes in vinegar before washing them
  • Mix baking soda with your detergent
  • Try a specialty detergent. Running Guide Christine recommends WIN Detergent for getting the stink out
• Get new clothes. You may find that some clothes get stinkier and stinkier, no matter what you do. Use that as an excuse for a new workout wardrobe.

4 Things You Don't Know About Weight Loss
The single most common question I get (aside from "How do I get flat abs?") is: "Why am I not losing weight?" Since the ESP nodule located in my forehead doesn't always work when I want it to, I don't have a good answer to this question. It may be because they're eating too much, not exercising enough, or both. It could be a medical problem, a mental issue or the fact that they aren't holding their mouths right.

The simple answer is that weight loss problems are usually the result of a calorie-in/calorie-out problem, but what you may not realize is that there could be a different way to look at things, a way that may make you more successful. That's what I'm talking about in my latest article, 4 things to look into if you're frustrated with your lack of progress. They not be things you've considered before, such as ditching the scale, reevaluating those weight loss calculators you're using or even forgetting about weight loss altogether. Yes, I said it and I'm not taking it back.

Check it out and leave your own comments about your weight loss experiences. Did you find success by focusing less on the scale and more on your health? Have you found a way around weight loss frustration? Tell us about it!

4 Things You Don't Know About Weight Loss originally appeared on About.com Exercise on Thursday, July 15th, 2010 at 05:00:35.

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