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...toward Radiohead or Rocky, all songs eventually get tired. Now several new services promise to relieve the tedium with downloadable MP3 workouts. Among the best is iAmplify.com which puts a personal trainer in your iPod or other portable digital music player. Workout choices range from yoga and Pilates to cardio and strength training. Our pick: the Total Body Blitz. It's a 30-min. power-Pilates routine for $4.95 that's surprisingly challenging and doesn't require special gear. iAmplify plans to add video workouts in February. A good alternative site is Cardiocoach.com which offers sweat-inducing workouts geared...
...have to travel too far from your couch to get in shape. If you subscribe at Push.TV for $25 a month, you'll get a DVD with two routines tailored to your body type and exercise expertise, plus one extended cardio session. Each month you can update your fitness profile to make sure that your next disc will provide even more gain with minimal pain...
...students are probably still having nightmares about their chemistry midterm or dreaming about the cute girl in section at 7:30 a.m. on a typical Thursday, but not Chelsey S. Simmons ’06. Instead, Simmons goes to the Hemenway Gym at Harvard Law School to instruct her cardio-kickboxing class. “We’re going to walk up three steps, then left kick, back three steps, and then right kick,” she said last Thursday as she instructed the class. Every Thursday morning, Simmons teaches an hour-long session for Harvard students. Though...
...little late. We went to the deli across the street for our usual breakfast and arrived at the site around noon. We promised our dad we'd make a brief appearance at the cardio tennis media rollout. There was a huge tent with lots of reporters and bands. We did a few sound bites, and then met our dad who briefed us before we did our usual two-minute dog and pony show-which consists of explaining how we practice, the workouts we use, etc. All of these are high energy drills set to music. It was basically showcasing tennis...
This notion that fitness is chiefly a matter of numbers haunts me still and may be the force that pushes the cardio-bots to such extremes of self-absorbed exhaustion. Merely getting into shape is not their goal; they want to break personal records, racking up victories in some private race whose finish line is always receding. The authority figure whipping them along is not a teacher or the Commander in Chief but an overdeveloped sense of shame or pride that seems to fluctuate in direct response to the readouts on their elliptical machines...