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New Year's Day is a time to do crazy things, and for a fitness-obsessed triathlete, there's nothing like starting things off with a bang by getting in a crazy New Year's workout.
Need some inspiration? Here's 10 crazy workout ideas to help you ring in the New Year with some very sore arms, but a very high sense of accomplishment!
#1: On December 31st: 100 Pushups or 100 Squats per hour from 8am to midnight
#2: Celebrate 01/01/2012 by swimming 1 mile, running 1 mile and biking 20.12 miles.
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Do you suppose that someone can predict what's hot, and what's not for 2012 in terms of fitness?
The answer is of course "yes."
For six years now, "the American College of Sports Medicine has surveyed thousands of trainers, fitness instructors, exercise-science experts and clinicians around the world to try and pinpoint the top fitness trends—those with real staying-power—for the upcoming year. Their survey generates a list of the top 20 trends with commentary and analysis from industry experts," according to Phillymag.com.
So what will be the hottest fitness trends next year?
Some of these trends you can propably guess.
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A couple of weeks ago Chrissie Wellington went for a little run back in the U.K. to help raise awareness and money for a local charity.
Of course when Chrissie goes for a very public run she's not the only one who runs. Check out the video below as 150 people showed up to train and run along with the 4X Ironman World Champion.
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Meet Arthur Gilber.
Arthur is retired and unlike many people his age this British triathlete spends his days doing charity work and yes swimming, cycling and running.
"I raise money for Musgrove Leukaemic Group Somerset which is really close to my heart. People are really generous and I really appreciate all their support," said Gilber.
Did we forget to mention that Arthur is 90-years-old making him mostly likely the world's oldest racing triathlete.
The former helicopter engineer is also a seven time British duathlon champion.
"I must be the world’s oldest triathlete - I’ve never met anyone else still doing it at my age. I started taking it all seriously when I was 68 - I was a bit late getting started so I’ve spent the years ever since then trying to make up for it," said Gilber."
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This Sheels (shoe store) commercial took us completely by surprise.
Normally the most inspirational commercial of the year is THIS one for the 2011 Ironman World Championships.
But this year, and perhaps because we've "been there and done that" so many times with the formulaic NBC coverage of the Kona Ironman World Championships...we think that the triathlon commercial (below) is this year's most inspirational tri commercial.
The best part of this video is that for almost 90 percent of the commercial, you don't really even know that it is a commercial. It could just be story of your triathlon training life.
Check it out for yourself below to see if you agree.
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He's a German Triathlon Olympian.
He holds the fastest ever iron distance race world record of 7 hours, 41 minutes and 33 seconds set at the Challenge Roth this year in Germany.
He's an Ironman Champ finishing second in Kona in 2010 and third in 2011...and now Andreas Raelert is also a cover boy with this photo in next month's issue of Outside Magazine.
2011 was certainly a good year for Andreas who is certainly one of Germany's best hopes for an Ironman World Championship Kona win in 2012.
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The 2012 Chevrolet Volt and the 2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid represent two family friendly cars that have a similar yet completely different way of saving fuel.
The Volt is both an electric car and a plug-in hybrid in that it can run on both electricity (about 40 miles) and gas.
The Camry is a more traditional hybrid in that cannot go a very long distance on just electricity but it use its electric motor in conjunction with the gas engine to go further on a gallon of gas.
So which is the better family car for the weekend triathlete?
Check out this video review (from our sister blog TFLcar.com) below to find out as they compare a two family friendly cars that both cost about 35K (after rebates) in another classic Mashup review.
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35-year-old Desiree Ficker has officially hung up her cycling shoes and swimming googles in favor of her running shoes.
The 2006 Hawaii Ironman World Championship second place finisher began her triathlon career in 1999. In her first year as a triathlete she qualified for Kona and her triathlon career was launched.
But running has always been Ficker's strength and love.
"My first love has always been running,” said Ficker who in 2008 was named by our readers as the Sexiest Triathlete of the Year.
"I began running at a very young age and I really want to see how fast I can get if I gave it my full attention. And I simply couldn’t do that if I was still training for the triathlon," she added.
According to RunTex.com:
"Always a strong runner, Ficker qualified for the 2008 US Olympic Marathon Trials by running 2:40:28 at the ’07 Austin Marathon in only her second open marathon, just three weeks after PR’ed in the 3M Half in 1:14:07. But in Boston at the Olympic Trials, she finished a disappointing 79th in 2:48:11.
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Step 3: Target Your Traps
It can be unflattering if you have a skinny neck that sticks up out of your t-shirt, even if the rest of your body looks good. If you have a skinny neck, the trick is not to work the neck muscles, but rather to target your trapezius, or 'traps' since working these muscles will naturally give you a more muscular and defined neck.
The traps are primarily responsible for 'shrugging the shoulders', so you'll want to include exercises such as dumbbell shoulder shrugs, dumbbell or barbell deadlifts, farmer's walks, or walking lunges.
When you perform these exercises, make sure that you are allowing your shoulders to drop, but instead imagine the tops of your shoulders touching the bottom of your ear lobes, which will help you to keep your traps contracted.
Step 4: Squeeze Your Shoulders
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