Kustom Fitness - The 2008 Best

The 2008 Best |January 1, 2008

Introduction

Get ready for another year packed full of healthy fitness adventures... and by adventures basically we just mean hanging out in the weight room. But all the same, here is a list of the best fitness things for the year two thousand eight. Read up and make your New Years resolution to increase your fitness level (and then write that resolution down on your fitness profile).

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The 2008 Fit List

Best chest exercise
The push-up is becoming the favorite chest exercise among more and more trainers. It helps strengthen your core as you have to hold you body tight while performing the exercise and it poses a much lower risk of injury when compared to its free weight equal, the bench press. Disappointed to hear about such a simple exercise? Try this: Stuff a backpack full of weight plates, strap it on and prop your feet up on a chair (after making sure that it is stable, of course). Then perform the push-up on an incline with the extra weight of the back pack. Try several different angles and vary the distance between your hands as well.

Best protein bar
After some thought concerning the flavor, general quality of ingredients, and nutritional value; our favorite protein bar comes from Pure Protein. The company's bars have sufficient nutrients to build solid muscle after a workout and taste pretty good as far as protein bars go. The ingredients backed up the bar as well (we were a little disappointed with some of our other favorites once we took a look at the ingredients).

Best sports drink
Green tea possesses powerful antioxidants and just enough caffeine to get you going on your workout. Surely you don't really need yet another lecture on the benefit of antioxidants on the body, but this drink can really help you through your workouts. Right now it is not really clear whether the amount of caffeine you get through your morning cup of coffee is too much or potentially harmful to you. So play it safe by drinking tea instead which has less than half the caffeine as coffee, but so many more antioxidants (if two cups of green tea aren't enough to wake you up, then you should be getting to bed earlier). Drink a cup of tea before your workout and switch between tea and water during your workout.

Best home-gym component
One thing that every home should have is a pull-up bar. Pull-ups are another of 2008's best exercises and now can be done just as conveniently as push-ups with door-way pull-up bars. They have been growing in popularity over the past year (who knows when they first showed up) and caught our attention for this list. If you already have a place to do pull-ups whenever you want to, then you're set; but if you don't, then here is a little inspiration for you to look into getting a pull-up bar: People who even out their chest workouts with pull-ups are far less likely to have a training-related injury and have a tenancy to develop their muscles much more evenly.

Best mass-building exercise
Adding dead lifts to your mass-building routine can help you make serious gains. The exercise is compound and uses heavy weights; making it ideal for a great mass building exercise as it will involve more muscle fibers. Do a few sets near the beginning of your workout when you do legs and/or back.

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