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Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
How to use Social Media to achieve health and fitness
Here are 5 Best ways to use Twitter to Improve your Fitness, Lose Weight and be Healthy
5. Follow Inspirational People
Coincidence that Lance Armstrong is one of the Most Followed people on Twitter
4. Tweet About your Diet and Food Intake
Like Anybody Really Cares ?You'd be surprised! Twitter is currently the hottest social network or micro-blogging network on the internet.
Tens of thousands of people are joining each week and even more people are starting to tweet regularly.
You may find some useful information from fellow Twitterers and some people may send you tweets of encouragement or even advice.
Even if you don't have too many followers, start tweeting regularly about your food intake. Just like a dietitian's first request of creating a food journal you will start being more aware of the good and bad choices you make at the dinner table which could translate to not only a slimmer waist, but better overall health.
3. Join a Twitter Fitness Social Community
Are your so-called Friends Holding your Back ?
If you have tried to organize your friends with Twitter, email or even old fashioned talking face to face and nothing has gotten done why not find new "friends?"
In this era most people have more virtual, social network "friends" than people hang out with so why not find some "friends" who will benefit your health and fitness?
2. Have Your Personal Trainer Tweet
A Few Hours with your Trainer a Week is Not Enough !
If you are a personal trainer, have worked with a personal trainer in the past, or would consider working with a personal trainer you should know that the actual training sessions are only a small part of the whole picture.
The toughest job for a personal trainer is to keep their clients accountable for diet and extra exercise (usually cardio) during the week.
This job can be made a lot easier by Twitter. If you are tweeting about your diet and exercise with your trainer monitoring your regular updates of "what are you doing ?" you will be less likely to cheat on meals and skip your exercise sessions.
If you have a personal trainer, show them the light and urge them to get on the Twitter train and start tweeting.
1. Connect with Friends for Group Activities
The More the Merrier !
Exercising in groups has many advantages over exercising alone.
By exercising with a group you are less likely to skip out. You are more likely to exercise longer and most importantly you are more likely to have fun.
By using Twitter and encouraging friends to tweet regularly, it will be easier to get in on activities with your friends.
If you don't have anything planned in advance, check your twitter updates and the chances you can find a friend going for a hike, run, bicycle ride, or trip to the gym is likely and you are more likely to get a great workout and enjoy doing so which in the long run will be the best of the top 5 ways to use Twitter for health and fitness.
Coincidence that Lance Armstrong is one of the Most Followed people on Twitter
4. Tweet About your Diet and Food Intake
Like Anybody Really Cares ?
You'd be surprised! Twitter is currently the hottest social network or micro-blogging network on the internet.
Tens of thousands of people are joining each week and even more people are starting to tweet regularly.
You may find some useful information from fellow Twitterers and some people may send you tweets of encouragement or even advice.
Even if you don't have too many followers, start tweeting regularly about your food intake. Just like a dietitian's first request of creating a food journal you will start being more aware of the good and bad choices you make at the dinner table which could translate to not only a slimmer waist, but better overall health.
3. Join a Twitter Fitness Social Community
Are your so-called Friends Holding your Back ?
If you have tried to organize your friends with Twitter, email or even old fashioned talking face to face and nothing has gotten done why not find new "friends?"
In this era most people have more virtual, social network "friends" than people hang out with so why not find some "friends" who will benefit your health and fitness?
2. Have Your Personal Trainer Tweet
A Few Hours with your Trainer a Week is Not Enough !
If you are a personal trainer, have worked with a personal trainer in the past, or would consider working with a personal trainer you should know that the actual training sessions are only a small part of the whole picture.
The toughest job for a personal trainer is to keep their clients accountable for diet and extra exercise (usually cardio) during the week.
This job can be made a lot easier by Twitter. If you are tweeting about your diet and exercise with your trainer monitoring your regular updates of "what are you doing ?" you will be less likely to cheat on meals and skip your exercise sessions.
If you have a personal trainer, show them the light and urge them to get on the Twitter train and start tweeting.
1. Connect with Friends for Group Activities
The More the Merrier !
Exercising in groups has many advantages over exercising alone.
By exercising with a group you are less likely to skip out. You are more likely to exercise longer and most importantly you are more likely to have fun.
By using Twitter and encouraging friends to tweet regularly, it will be easier to get in on activities with your friends.
If you don't have anything planned in advance, check your twitter updates and the chances you can find a friend going for a hike, run, bicycle ride, or trip to the gym is likely and you are more likely to get a great workout and enjoy doing so which in the long run will be the best of the top 5 ways to use Twitter for health and fitness.
Friday, 2 April 2010
Basic High-Low Aerobics Movement
This video demonstrates the basic movement! I have to say they are the most basic ones, but the mixture of these basics can make so much fun choreography! I'll show you more videos on some great choreographies, I might be in it too ;-)!
Why is Aerobic Fitness So Important?
Most people know that exercising is good for the body. What you may not know is how important it is to having a healthy body. Aerobic fitness regardless of how you look is extremely important. Many think that if you are thin you are healthy and if overweight, you aren't. What really matter is if you are getting the proper exercise to gain the benefits from it.
Many people die each year from conditions and diseases that simple exercise could prevent. While aerobic fitness is not the end all to perfect health, it does positively affect many different health areas. First of all, it can lower your blood pressure. While a better diet can help this as well, adding it with exercise makes a much larger difference.
For people later in life, especially women, aerobic exercise will strengthen your bones. The impact will help with improving bone density while the muscle mass will help hold the body together a bit better. The heart will be challenged and improve its overall health. There are many different types of heart disease that aerobic fitness deals with and prevents many of these issues.
It will decrease the chances of getting diabetes and certain types of cancers. These are hard to treat once you have them so preventing them does quite a bit of a good for your overall health. This type of exercise will help you regulate your body temperature much easier especially in more extreme environments. A healthier body can deal with these issues much easier.
You can lose weight which will make you feel better about yourself and give you quite a bit more confidence. There are many later in life conditions that won't be as bad like arthritis, joint issues, flexibility issues, and others. You improve your chances of keeping your independence the more physically fit that you become in the long run.
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Becoming Toned With the Insanity Cardio Program
At the end of each week that I had done the Insanity work out DVD, I had measured around my calves, thighs, hips, waist and arms.
I wanted to measure every factor, to see if I was losing any weight and fat. And, if I was, I wanted to know at what rate the fat and pounds were shedding. I also took before and after pictures so I could compare and visually see if this work out DVD was living up to its claims.
It is definitely a mental boost to see that the numbers are shrinking everywhere, but it is also the opposite if you are trying to gauge this every single day. The change is way too subtle overnight, so you don't want to become consumed with analyzing each day.
It took about three to four weeks before I could see that within 30 days I already lost a good amount of fat. I could see that each week showed some steady but small progress, and I kept showing up to the TV each day with a different Insanity DVD.
I didn't fill in my jeans anymore, and they became too big and loose for me. I got so hungry all the time because my body needed so much energy as it was burning calories throughout the day. If I didn't eat something within two hours, my entire body would became angry and growl fiercely.
I'm so glad that I didn't have to think too hard about what I could eat because Insanity came with a nutrition plan book! Loads of choices, loads of recipes and substitutes, and no thinking on my part. I had so much to follow for all of the 5-6 meals I needed to feed myself each day.
That's what I love so much about this work out DVD program--it encouraged a balanced nutrition by actually providing a whole section of materials on it. Visual materials that took away the hard thinking process of what I needed to do to eat right.
I'm happy to use this nutrition guide. Not only because everything was so tasty, but because there were whole grain carbs in many of the meals. The guys making this entire program knew their nutrition facts well, and didn't promote any fad diet. Just a proper meal with the right balance of healthy carbs, proteins and fats. No gimmicks. Just proper fuel.
I got to enjoy so many veggie and egg-white omelettes with whole grain toast, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with cottage cheese, shrimp pastas. Yum.
Beth Prager is a work out DVD fan. You can be too, if you check out her free reviews on some home exercise programs. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=B_Prager |
2 Intense Cardio Training Exercises For Crazy Fat Loss!
Intense cardio is a sure way for you to annihilate the body fat. If you are looking to lose your love handles, shrink your waistline, and improve your overall fitness then raising your level of perceived exertion through intense cardio training is the way to go. This is why I have included 2 hard hitting cardio strength training exercises here to drastically enhance your level of fitness and speed up your fat loss progress!
Intense Cardio For Fat Loss!
1. Dual Kettlebell Swings: If you have read any of my other material then you know that kettlebell swings are the staple of what I consider an effective cardio strength program. However, to intensify this particular exercise and to give it a little more of an upgrade in intensity then try swinging 2 bells at the same time. Dual kettlebell swings are a tremendous way for you to get a hard hitting workout to drastically speed up your metabolism by engaging much more of your stabilizing muscles while giving your heart quite the workout.
To execute this drill you will need the availability of a pair of bells of moderate intensity. Place them on the ground between your feet with your stance at about slightly wider than shoulder width distance apart. From here squat down to pick up the bells with both arms. Next, you are going to engage your hips and core by forcefully flexing and then extending at both your hip and knee joints to create the momentum to swing the bells back and forth like a pendulum. The key to this movement with your hips and knees is to make sure that it is continuous and that there is no pausing or stopping between each swing. After only executing a few of these reps you will see why this is an intense cardio workout.
2. Uphill Kettlebell Farmer's Walk: If you are looking for another dynamic and slightly different way to train your body and enhance your cardiovascular fitness program then uphill kettlebell farmer's walks are a great way to start. To begin, simply find a flat sidewalk, trail, or road that has a slight increase in the grade. Start at the bottom of the hill or trail holding a kettlebell in each hand. From here you are simply going to walk up the hill while holding the kettlebells. You are simply toting the bells uphill for a total body workout. This is a great cardio workout program and you will be shocked at just how challenging this exercise can be with just a pair of moderately heavy bells.
If you haven't already started to include kettlebell farmer's walks and dual bell swings into your fat loss cardio program then you are missing out. Get your body in shape for the summertime by starting now. Remember that most anyone can train hard, but only the best train smart!
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What Kind of Workout Will Help Me Lose Fat Fast?
If you are intending to start a fitness program to kick-start your lose fats efforts, do you:
- Sign up for a gym membership
- Put on your running shoes and start running in the park nearest to your home or
- Purchase some VCDs and follow through the program?
Actually, any of these 3 options is good for a start. To achieve success, you will need to put in consistent and focused efforts. For those of you who wants to lose fats fast, you will need to engage in cardio exercise for 5 to 6 times a week with each session lasting preferably about 30 minutes to 45 minutes. Cardio exercises train your heart and some of the often touted benefits of doing regular cardio exercise include:
- Boosting metabolism which helps you burn calories and blast those fats!
- Strengthen your heart and lungs; increase lung capacity and enabling your heart to utilize oxygen more efficiently
- Improve stamina
- Increase lean muscle mass
- helps relieve stress
Cardio exercise also known as aerobic exercise includes running, swimming, biking, aerobic classes and such activities usually involve using the same large muscle group for a sustain period of duration. It is thus vital to include the cardio component in your workout activity to ensure it helps you maximize your fat loss efforts!
If you prefer to avoid the sun and workout indoors, most of the gym offers a myriad of cardio equipments such as the treadmill, cross-trainers, steppers, arc trainer, stair-climbing machine and stationary bikes to name some of them. Having a variety of options also helps to reduce boredom, so be sure to make good use of them if you have access to the gym.
I am just wondering if you do take note of the people around you when you are working out in the gym. Is it a common sight to see people reading a book whilst working out on a stationary bike or flipping the newspaper while walking on a treadmill? Some people may even have their eyes fixated entirely on the big LCD tv screen that they obviously seem to be more interested in the tv program than their workout program.
You may then ask "what's wrong with that? It gets boring after I hit the start button on the equipment after 5 minutes! Doing some reading helps fight boredom and I get read the news at the same time, call it multi-tasking."
Are you one of those who share similar thoughts? I think many of us may experience this after working out on the same piece of equipment from time to time. This brings me to my next question. Are you putting in enough efforts to torch those calories? (fats around your body that you wanted so much to burn off?)
It may seem simple enough to hop on a stationary bike or any other piece of cardio equipment and start peddling hard for the next 10 minutes but you will soon realize that it is too exhausting for you to carry on. You may then ask, "so how hard am i suppose to work out then?"
I will be sharing with you more on this topic in my next article/post. It may be useful for people who are just starting their workout program or have been clocking in hours in the gym but achieve no results. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jo_Chan |
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