Sweatin' with the Socialists

This exercise video that will keep you up on your feet for hours to the voice of your favorite president Barack Obama! Join Nancy Pelosi as she leads you through thousands of annoying, exuberant clapping exercises to the voice of President Obama. Spring into action as Pelosi keeps you on your feet during this highly engaging video.

The Jump-Rope Cardio Workout

Men's Fitness tells how to burn three times as many calories with the single best piece of cardio equipment.

Old-time boxers knew what they were doing. According to the Compendium of Physical Studies, jumping rope for 10 minutes can burn as many calories as jogging at an eight-minute-per-mile pace. No wonder many fitness experts call the jump rope the best all-around piece of exercise equipment you can own. Here are five reasons to learn the ropes: Read more

Is Yoga Really Enought to Keep You Fit?

For those who don't like aerobics or lifting weights, the practice of yoga has benefits well beyond flexibility and relaxation. Recent research shows that yoga may also improve strength, aerobic capacity, and lung function.

When it came to the fitness benefits yoga can or can't provide, yoga teacher John Schumacher had heard it all. A student of B. K. S. Iyengar for 20 years and founder of the Unity Woods studios in the Washington, D.C. area, Schumacher was convinced yoga provides a complete fitness regime. But many people, even some of his own students, disagreed. Yoga might be good for flexibility or relaxation, they'd say, but to be truly fit, you had to combine it with an activity like running or weight lifting.

Schumacher just didn't buy it. Read more

Commando Cardio Bodyweight Workout

Cardiovascular fitness is an important component of overall fitness, but cardio doesn't have to mean running, swimming, or cycling. If you don't like typical aerobic activities or they're inconvenient, you can use bodyweight exercises or calisthenics to get an equally good cardio workout.

This is the basic "Commando cardio" a full blown intense bodyweight workout! Remember...this is the easiest workout version.

If these body weight exercises have you confused, you can see most of them in video on our main exercise descriptions page. Read more