Simple Steps for New Year's Success

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It’s New Year’s Resolution time! I can tell a lot of people made them this year because I’ve been inundated with questions on how to actually stick to them this time. We all joke about how quickly we abandon New Year’s Resolutions, yet we make them year after year for a reason. It’s natural to want to improve yourself, and it’s also perfectly natural to stumble along the way and fall back into old habits.

To help everyone get off to a fast start, I wanted to give some simple tips to help you ease into your resolutions. Everyone wants fast results, but starting too quickly is more likely to lead to abandoning your resolutions than to success. These are some simple behaviors you can adopt that will set the base for new habits later. Just because something feels hard doesn’t mean it works better, and these tips will show you how easy making positive changes can be.

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Our 7-Minute Workout app was always the best

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It’s been 5 years since the New York Times first reported on the wildly popular Scientific 7-Minute Workout. Like many other people, we used our expertise to build a convenient app version so you can take it anywhere. Unlike other app makers, we knew the exercises themselves were not magical, so we added in customization, adjustments for user fitness level and 200 unique exercises to make it much more useful long-term. Read more about the New York times follow up article showing why we we had it right all along and how to customize the 7-Minute Workout perfectly to your needs.

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BeatBurn Treadmill is a Fitness Essential

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It’s a busy time here at lolo getting ready for the New Year (crazy to think it’s almost here). I’m going to need to take a little hiatus from the blog in October to focus on other projects. I’ll do a little “best of” for this month and link back to some fan favorite articles that you may have missed. Since BeatBurn Treadmill has been highlighted as a top tier fitness app in Martin Bailey’s new book, The Useful Book of Gadgets, Gizmos, and Apps, I thought we could start off by pointing back to the research and theories that made BeatBurn Treadmill a Fitness Essential

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How long should you rest between sets?

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The human body is incredibly adaptive. You stress it with something like exercise and it quickly evolves and grows stronger to ensure it can more easily handle that same stressor the next time. The key is finding the right balance of work and recovery to stimulate the changes that you want without overdoing it. Training too little won’t provide enough stress to trigger adaptations, but training too much won’t give your body time to replenish and rebuild. The human body is amazing, but it has it’s limits. I want to go over some optimal rest recommendations to use during your workout, so you can hit your goal quickly without overtraining.

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