ExerciseTV has partnered with thePlatform to grow and expand the video offerings on its fitness destination site. thePlatform is working with ExerciseTV to publish free web video workouts, clips, and download-to-own fitness titles in support of the fitness network’s online storefront.

ExerciseTV boasts over 5 million views a month for its television on-demand offering and is one of the only places online where consumers can purchase and then download workouts to their PCs, iPODs and other portable video devices. Overall, thePlatform is handling the publishing and management of ExerciseTV’s original library of over 200 download-to-own fitness titles featuring many of the nation’s most popular trainers. The partnership will help ExerciseTV expand its viewership by syndicating the programmer’s original content to other destination sites. In addition, ExerciseTV has customized the look and feel of the site’s Flash-based players using thePlatform’s mpsPresent Player Development Kit.

thePlatform manages the entire logistics process involved in the publication of broadband video from the content owner to the consumer. thePlatform’s open system integrates with technology providers that span the online video ecosystem, giving media companies the maximum flexibility to design solutions unique to their needs. Customers of thePlatform benefit from a choice of pre-integrated partner technologies, including advertising campaign management and billing systems, content delivery networks, digital rights management, video formats, video player technologies and more.

thePlatform currently provides online video publishing and management for a host of well known consumer brands, including: BBC, CNBC, CBS’s College Sports TV, Court TV, Comcast, Gannett, Hearst, Helio, HIT Entertainment, PBS KIDS Sprout, Sony/BMG Music, Vongo, Telstra, Verizon Wireless and dozens of other companies.

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Starting Position: Kneel next to an exercise bench and place your right arm on the bench. Grip a dumbbell with your thumb turned up, and hold the dumbbell over the edge of the flat bench. Allow your wrist to bend down as far as possible.

Execution: - Exhale while curling the dumbbell up as far as you can, moving only your wrist.  Inhale as you slowly lower the dumbbell back down to the starting position.  Repeat on other side as required.

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by Kyle Oxenham

Olympic weight lifting technique is vital for proper form to achieve your full potential. There are two main Olympic lifts called the Clean and Jerk and the Snatch. For most people they will find the clean and jerk the easiest to learn out of the two, BUT the snatch is the most athletic movement in sports.

The Olympic weight lifting technique uses focus, speed, strength, stability, muscle, mental drive, and your Central Nervous System. The mental power of your mind will be the main force and success of your Olympic weight lifting technique.

Most Powerful Is He Who Has Himself In His Own Power!
Seneca (5 BC to 65 AD)

The power is in you to total master the Olympic weight lifting techniques, so start off with a small weight or just the bar until you are doing perfect repetitions. Even practice in your mind performing at your peak, think of how it feels, what you saw, your facial expression and ask yourself how you are going to perform today, the answer is that you are power, and you were made to succeed and conquer.

The power clean is the first exercise you should learn to master out of the Olympic lifts, so lets go into detail on developing perfect technique to avoid injury and to help you lift even more weight.

The power clean starts from the mid-thigh up to resting on your shoulders. There are a few stages to the power clean that you need to practice to learn the whole movement.

First stand with the bar in front of your ankles and at a bit less than should width apart. Grab the bar with an over hand grip right beside you ankles. Lift the bar off the ground with you legs, keep your back straight. When the bar reaches your mid-thigh pull up on the bar with you traps and explode up on your calves, this is called triple extension.

Now quickly pull up on the bar with you shoulders and arms so the weight continues to raise up to your shoulders, stick you elbows in and out in front of you to finish the move. For heavier weight you can jump under the bar, but this is move advanced like the Snatch.

Now once you are in the position with the bar on your shoulders you can squat down and explode using your legs to jerk the weight over you head, you should be able to lift allot more than a standing military press with just your shoulders.

Now you have the choice to let the weight down in control, or learn to drop the weight only if you have access to a proper Olympic weight lifting platform.

Now you know how to perform a proper power clean and jerk, one of the most athletic movements in sports and weight lifting. Take the time learn the technique with light weights until you master it.

You will gain power, strength, muscle, speed, and stability all from doing the Olympic weight lifting; it’s great for regular people and highly conditioned professional and Olympic athletes.

My name is Kyle, to find more weight lifting information and a free Weight lifting NewsletterOlympic Weight lifting

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Best Selling Author & Natural Bodybuilder Reveals The Proven Techniques He Used To Gain 70 lbs Of Muscle & Slash His Body Fat To Under 3% Without Over Priced Supplements Or Living In A Gym All Day…CLICK HERE

If you want your pooch to enjoy a longer, healthier life, s/he needs to get moving, too. You’ll find as both of you get fit, s/he is more enthusiastic, and will give you a challenging workout. If not, YOU give him/her a challenging workout.

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Starting Position: Place an exercise step on the ground and assume a push up position with your hands in the middle of it.

Execution: Walk your left hand off of the step while moving your right hand to the middle of the step. Bend your elbows and complete a push up. Walk your hands back to the starting position and bend your elbows to complete a pushup. Walk your right hand off of the set while moving your left hand to the middle of the step. Bend your elbows to complete a pushup. Walk your hands back to the starting position. Repeat as required.

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by keishon martin

You should first know that no amount of physical activity can give you your desired body if it is not coupled with bodybuilding nutrition and a total body workout. Actually, it is the bodybuilding nutrition that is the most vital factor in building the best body.

Women’s Weight Training Myth #1 - Weight training makes you bulky.

Due to the fact that women do not and cannot naturally produce as much testosterone (one of the main hormones responsible for increasing muscle size) as males do, it is impossible for a woman to gain huge amounts of muscle mass. Unfortunately, the image that may come to your mind is that of professional female bodybuilders. Most of these women, unfortunately, use anabolic steroids (synthetic testosterone) along with other drugs in order to achieve that high degree of muscularity.

In addition, most also have good genetics coupled with an unbelievable work ethic that enable them to gain muscle quickly when they spend hours in the gym lifting very heavy weights. Believe me when I say that they do not look like that by accident. Women who conduct weight training without the use of steroids get the firm and fit cellulite-free looking body that you see in most fitness/figure shows these days.

Women’s Weight Training Myth #2 - Exercise increases your chest size.

Sorry girls. Womens breasts are composed mostly of fatty tissue. Therefore, it is impossible to increase breast size through weight training. As a matter of fact, if you go below 12 percent body fat (which I do not recommend doing), your breast size will decrease. Weight training does increase the size of the back, so this misconception probably comes from confusing an increase in back size with an increase in cup size. The only way to increase your breast size is by gaining fat or getting breast implants

Womens Weight Training Myth #3 - Weight training makes you stiff and musclebound.

If you perform all exercises through their full range of motion, flexibility will increase. Exercises like flyes, stiff-legged deadlifts, dumbbell presses, and chin-ups stretch the muscle in the bottom range of the movement. Therefore, by performing these exercises correctly, your stretching capabilities will increase.

Women’s Weight Training Myth #4 - If you stop weight training your muscles turn into fat.

This is like saying that gold can turn into brass. Muscle and fat are two totally different types of tissue. What happens many times is that when people decide to go off their weight training programs they start losing muscle due to inactivity (use it or lose it) and they also usually drop the diet as well. Therefore bad eating habits combined with the fact that their metabolism is lower due to inactivity, and lower degrees of muscle mass, give the impression that the subjects muscle is being turned into fat while in reality what is happening is that muscle is being lost and fat is being accumulated.

Women’s Weight Training Myth #5 - Weight training turns fat into muscle.

More alchemy. This is the equivalent of saying that you can turn any metal into gold; don’t we wish! The way a body transformation occurs is by gaining muscle through weight training and losing fat through aerobics and diet simultaneously. Again, muscle and fat are very different types of tissue. We cannot turn one into the other.

Women’s Weight Training Myth #6 - As long as you exercise you can eat anything that you want.

How I wish this were true also! However, this could not be further from the truth. Our individual metabolism determines how many calories we burn at rest and while we exercise. If we eat more calories than we burn on a consistent basis, our bodies will accumulate these extra calories as fat regardless of the amount of exercise that we do. This myth may have been created by people with such high metabolic rates (hardgainers) that no matter how much they eat or what they eat, they rarely meet or exceed the amount of calories that they burn in one day unless they put their mind to doing so. Therefore, their weight either remains stable or goes down.

Women’s Weight Training Myth #7 - Women only need to do cardio and if they decide to lift weights, they should be very light.

First of all, if you only did cardio then muscle and fat would be burned for fuel. One needs to do weights in order to get the muscle building machine going and thus prevent any loss of muscle tissue. Women that only concentrate on cardio will have a very hard time achieving the look that they want. As far as the lifting of very light weights, this is just more nonsense. Muscle responds to resistance and if the resistance is too light, then there will be no reason for the body to change.

Women Should Train Hard Myth #8
I have trained with girls that train as hard as I do and they look nothing but feminine. If you want to look great, don’t be afraid to pick up the weights and lift hard!

Keishon Martin is the founder of KeyWorldWide Inc. which owns www.BodyGuidePro.com which has more info on getting in shape

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Starting Position: - Stand with your feet shoulder width apart and your knees slightly bent.  Grip a dumbbell in each hand and bend forward at your waist allowing your arms to hang down, palms turned up.

Execution: - Exhale while curling the weight up towards your shoulders, bending only your elbows.  Inhale while lowering the weight to the starting position. Repeat with as required.

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Starting Position: - Attach two handles to a single low pulley and squat in a wide stance in front of it. Grasp the handles with a narrow grip. Your trunk should be perpendicular to the floor and arms outstretched making the cable taut.

Execution: - Exhale as you pull toward your chest keeping your elbows moving back and to the sides as far as possible.  Inhale as you slowly allow your arms to return to the starting position.  Repeat as required.

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Starting Position: Sit on the edge of a flat exercise bench and grip the bench behind your for support.

Execution: Exhale as you pull your knees in towards your chest while keeping your upper body stable. Inhale as you slowly return your legs back down to the starting position. Repeat as required.

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