I. BASIC FITNESS TUTORIALS & TIPS

Here are some hands-on tips for everyone as well as some basic information useful for beginners:

• The Importance of Eating Right
• Fitness Tips (Very comprehensive information!)
• Fitness Fundamentals
• 40 Fitness Training Tips (as posted on a message board)
• Training Tips (44 short ones)
• Various Fitness & Training Tips
• and more...

II. WARM-UP TUTORIALS

Before doing any kind of workout, warm-up is required. Read here in detail why this is important and also how you could perform this exercise:

• Warm-up (Fitness Tips)
• Warm-up/Cool-Down - Why Me? (Article)
• Warm Up Exercises (Golfer; Detailed)
• Warming Up Before Working Out (Bodybuilding)
• Warm Up, Cool Down during exercise
• Warm Up Tips: Back Pain and Stretching
• and more...

III. STRETCHING TIPS & EXERCISES

Once you are warm enough, you may like to stretch your body to the limits. Here are some tips about it:

• Stretching Basics and Tips
  
• 6 Basic Stretching Exercises (with drawings)
  
• The Basic Five (Stretching exercises with drawings)
  
• Regular stretching can help prevent injuries (Runner)
  
• Stretch For Health (Stretching Tips)
• Stretching and the Warm-up Exercises (Amateur Wrestler)
• Flexibility Can Make You Faster - 5 Stretching Exercises (with images)
  
• Stretching (Tips)
  
• 17 Stretching Exercises
  
• About Stretching Exercises
• Stretching (Exercises)
• and more...

IV. MAXIMUM & TARGET HEART RATE

Knowing everything about your heart rate is important in order to prepare your training zones. We have found many good tutorials explaining the details:

• Introduction to Heart Zone Training Using a Heart Rate Monitor (Hands-on Tips & Practical advises)
• How to Determine Your Maximum Heart Rate (Definitions and very detailed tutorial)
• Target Heart Rates (AHA Recommendations)
  
• Calculation of Maximum Heart Rate
• Maximum Heart Rate Stress Tests (Tutorial)
• Understanding Your Training Heart Rate (Nice tutorial)
• Finding your maximum heart rate and setting target zones
• Training Heart Rate ("..You can calculate your own training heart rate using the Karvonen Formula, but first you'll have to determine your Resting Heart Rate, Maximum Heart Rate and Heart Rate Reserve..")
• Determining Target Heart Rate (Aerobic)
• How to Determine Your Target Heart Rate (Tutor)
• and more...

V. ONLINE HEART RATE CALCULATORS

Following the understanding of the heart rates you need to calculate your maximum and target heart rates. There are countless calculators for it on the net and we have selected the best ones for you. Select the one which fits your style and requirements:

• Heart Rate Calculator (an easy tool: enter the age and get calculated: Maximum Heart Rate, Target Heart Rate per minute and Target Heart Rate count)
• Target Heart Rate Calculator (with detailed report!)
• Training Heart Rate Calculator (2 Calculators - for beginners & advanced training levels & tips)
• Exercise Heart Rate Calculator (Two-In-One)
  
• Figure your target heart rate with the Karvonen Formula (Tutorial with calculator)
• Heart Rate Calculator (Type age, resting heart rate & select gender and then do the calculation. Nice done)
• and more...

VI. HEART RATE MONITORS

You know now your heart rates required for your particular sport but you need to monitor them. Here are tutorials, tips and products to inform and help you:

• Get More Out of Your Heart Rate Monitor (Article)
• The Problem with Heart Rate Monitors (Article; Runners)
• Heart Rate Monitors (Cycling Performance TIPS. Comprehensive information)
• Heart Rate Monitor Gives You Permission To Slow Down. (Article)
• Heart Rate Monitor Training (Q & A)
• Pulse Heart Rate Monitor (Software application)
• Heart Rate Monitors (Products, [$])
• Pulse Meters & ECG Monitors [$]
• Heart Rate - Target Zone - Time of Day
  Comparison Chart (related to models)
• and more...

VII. ONLINE CALORIE CALCULATORS

Besides of using heart rate calculators you might also like to know how much Calories you are actually burning during your workout. Here are some useful online calculators:

• Calorie Calculator (Calculates the number of calories burned for 158 activities)
• Nutrition Calculators (based on pounds, feet & inches)
• A Calorie Calculator
• and more...

VIII. ONLINE BODY MASS INDEX CALCULATOR (BMI)

Another important piece of information is your body mass index (BMI) which tells you if you are overweight in relation to your height. Read the tutorials and calculate the BMI for yourself:

• Body Mass Index (BMI) ("..is a popular tool currently used by health professionals to screen individuals for their degree of obesity. It is based upon a relationship between weight and height, excluding frame size and muscle mass" - Nice calculator with results are explained)
• Online Clinical Calculator (Body Surface Area & Body Mass Index - Also a nice calculator with calculation guidelines)
• Body Mass Index-for-Age (Article: "..BMI is Used Differently with Children Than it is With Adults..)
• A complete BMI calculator (Nicely done result interpretation)
• BMI (Info, Table & Calculator)
• BMI for Adults (Article)
• Useful BMI Tables
• Body Mass Index Calculator ("..Calculate your Body Mass Index and compare yourself to other women of the same height and age..")
• and more...