Did you know that experts tell us that two 15-minute workouts can give us same exercise benefits as one 30-minute workout?

Here's where a home treadmill can help:

A treadmill allows you to split your workouts up into mini-workouts and still burn just as many calories!

Maybe you want to go for a 15 minute wake-up walk in morning. Maybe it's a 20-minute light jog at lunch. What about a 10-minute power walk just before dinner to curb your appetite or fight night-time boredom?

Whether it's 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 or 20, it all adds up in weight loss. With a treadmill, YOU'RE in charge of your workout time.

#4: A Home Treadmill Gives You Benefit of All-Year-Round ANY Time Exercise!

Ok, here it is - one of MOST IMPORTANT benefits of having a home treadmill:

CONVENIENCE, CONVENIENCE, CONVENIENCE

If you live in northern climates you know that walking or jogging in snow and ice is NOT fun. What about when it's raining? Scratch exercise off list!

A home treadmill can be one of best exercise comforts around because you can use it regardless of weather or time of day.

AND you can also exercise in any type of clothing that you want (no worrying about wearing that ratty t-shirt to gym!).

#5: By Using Large Muscles in Your Legs, A Treadmill Helps You Burn MAJOR FAT Calories

A recent Woman's World article made startling claim that, contrary to popular belief, gentle walking is one of BEST ways to burn fat!

Why?

It seems that gentle walking allows your body to go STRAIGHT to fat stores for energy instead of first depleting your sugar (glycogen) stores (used by your body for quick energy).

Not only that, there's been countless studies including one by American Medical Association, that rank a treadmill as #1 cardiovascular machine for losing weight and burning calories.

Working larger muscles in your legs burns maximum calories which means more weight lost. You can even increase your calories-burned by walking uphill which uses even more muscles!

Given all their benefits it's no wonder that treadmill sales have continued to skyrocket over past five years with more and more people starting their own fitness and weight loss programs at home.

So if you want to lose weight and get into great shape, a treadmill can be an excellent investment to help you to achieve your goals. No matter what you decide be sure to have fun and make your health a priority!

Kathryn O'Neill is the chief editor for Treadmill Review

Next be sure you let them be active in planning and preparation of meals. Let them give their input. Take time to talk to them about foods you are making and they are eating. And please don’t tell me you don’t have time, make time or in all honesty why did you have children!

Yes, we want our children to be active and involved. However, one big caveat here is to limit number of activities your children get involved with. Too many children today join everything to please their parents and they are exhausted! So be realistic with their time just as you would be with yours. Be sure to emphasize to your child that they don’t have to be involved in everything. Emphasis that if they do too much they are going to make compromises in one or more activities and that isn’t fair to that particular group. Talk to them about down time. Be sure they know it is OK to relax. We need balance in our life and only way to be sure we do is to do everything in moderation and get that down time for ourselves. Relaxing restores our balance which is so very important for healthy living.

So let’s start today to show our children that Healthy Eating + Activity = Healthy Lifestyle!

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