Archive for March 2010
Crack Your Cardio Comfort Zone
How to Get Results with your Cardio Routine. Crank Up the Intensity – Reduce the Time This is your formula for maximum fat loss. Trouble is, we start OFF doing this and slowly but surely, our results seem harder to attain. You’ve embraced the idea that Long, Boring, Steady State Cardio is just not going to cut it when real world fat loss is your goal.You changed your cardio routine up and are trying the interval style routine – something like this… 1 minute high, 1-2 minutes low. Perform for 10-15-20 minutes. However, as human nature will have it, we ALL tend to take the path of Least Resistance. This leaves us with a Less than Effective interval routine that can impact the length of time it takes for us to see results.It’s time to break out of your “Cardio Comfort Zone” and challenge yourself to see faster fat loss results. Signs you are In Your Cardio Comfort Zone:You can hold a conversation. You enjoy the show that is on TV. You are reading a book or magazine. 20 minutes has passed and you could go for 20 more.When it comes to Cardio and Fat Loss – Intensity is the Secret Ingredient. It takes intensity in EVERYTHING you do to lose weight, lose inches and burn fat. When your intervals are performed at an intense level, your body will spend the rest of the day expending energy to recover from the challenge you have given it. This is referred to as EPOC (excess post-exercise oxygen consumption) and it means that you consume a g
The Best Home Cardio Exercises
Having a healthy heart is not an easy thing to achieve nowadays. In the modern society, a lot of things we easily do are potentially endangering our hearts to succumb to plenty of lifestyle diseases. To add to that, people think that cardio exercise takes a lot of time and effort to boost the wellness of their hearts and bodies. The good news is you don’t have to worry about that anymore. There is a lot of fun and easy-to-do cardio exercises that you can do in the comfort of your own home.Jolly Jumping Jacks. This exercise not only works out your heart but also your entire extremities. Before you do this, make sure that no breakable object is within arm’s reach. To begin the exercise, stand uprightly on a non-slip platform. Next, move to jump at a comfortable height while moving your legs apart and clapping your hands above your head. You can do as many repetitions as you can tolerate or you can do this for a timed duration. When doing jumping jacks, be sure to make your movements quick and tight.Jump Rope Jest. If you don’t have a jump rope then you can still have a jump rope exercise routine using your creativity. You can use hand grips, or nothing at all, to simulate the traditional jump rope exercise. Start by assuming an upright standing position. Using your toes as the thrust point, jump and swing your hands in a circular motion as if you were holding a real jump rope. Remember to pin your elbows to your torso to keep your arm swings quick and snappy.
Mature Men and the Health Issue They Ignore
Too often, as we age, we tend to become quite leery of visiting our physicians for regular checkups. Unfortunately, though, we cannot always rely on the standard, “I feel fine – why see the doc?” Diseases, conditions, and chronic illnesses can wreak havoc on the health and even the life if they are not detected and treated early on. Any health related magazine or pamphlet will tell you, after a certain age, women need to have annual mammograms, pap smears, and the like, and men need to have annual check-ups, as well. In particular, the prostate must be kept healthy, and yet far too many men are reluctant to face this very real health issue.Prostate cancer affects millions of men the world over, and so many of these cases would have been prevented had the men heeded the advice of medical professionals. Why do men seem to brush off the need for this exam? Likely, it has to do with the personal nature of the exam itself, many men simply have a very real embarrassment about having their genital areas probed and prodded in a doctor’s office. Whether the doctor is male or female may also play a role, as some men are naturally uncomfortable having another man, albeit a doctor, a professional, examine these most private of areas, while others are genuinely skittish about having a female doctor do the same.It is quite unfortunate that this could prevent so many males in today’s society from addressing such an important health issue, but it is certainly t
Personal Training – Why Should You Get It?
Personal training is the exercise under the supervision of expert trainer to attain good health and physical fitness. It is a health profession which deals with attaining and maintaining fitness by working on the body. The exercise session usually last for an hour and the primary goal of the training is to have muscular strength and muscular flexibility so that all the joints and muscles in the body have complete degree of movement. The muscular strength and flexibility makes the whole body strong and resistant to strain and fatigue and this is the reason why personal training has great health benefits.The training is designed by expert trainers who have an extensive research carried out on the bodily and physical problems and the trainings are meant to work out these problems. Personal training is popular among youth for everyone wants to look attractive and gain ideal figure. It helps people attain fitness and gain the perfect body shape. Besides adding attractiveness, it adds strength and flexibility to the body which makes bones resistant to fracture and joints to dislocation.Health and fitness requires proper work out on the body and an excellent way to work on the body is by personal training. The training is designed by the trainer who determines the level of training required by considering the body condition, age of the trainee and medical history. All these things are considered when deciding the level and duration of personal training to be given.Personal training