January 3, 2010
- 5 Ways to Workout with Your Kids
It’s important to get a good workout in, to tone muscles, lose weight, and melt stress away. But sometimes it can be hard to find the time to get it all done. Especially when you factor in work, errands, and chauffeuring your kids from one activity to the next. And then whatever free time you [...]
December 24, 2009
- Exercises to Help You Beat Stress and Tame Anxiety
Everybody experiences stress every now and then. What’s important is how you deal with your stress. One healthy and proven method to fight stress, anxiety, and even help you fall asleep at night is regular exercise. Whether you need help to slow yourself down and relax or to get yourself up and moving, exercise can [...]
November 23, 2009
- Fitness Foods for Energy
There are certain foods that if you eat them before a workout, you’ll feel sluggish and unmotivated to work. These are generally processed “white” foods that give you a quick sugar high and than make you plummet, leaving you low and feeling…blah. What you want to eat before a workout are power foods-foods that give [...]
November 1, 2009
- Run For Your Life!
Or at least for your health. Running offers such tremendous health benefits that if you were really disciplined and the weather were always nice, there’d be no reason to spend money on a gym membership, or aerobics classes, or a home-gym machine, or really on any sort of workout.
Here are 5 reasons why you should [...]
September 16, 2009
- Stomach This: 12 Flat Ab Foods
Exercise is the best way to lose weight, right? So, where are those beach ready abs? No matter how much you exercise, no many how many crunches you do a day, the key to getting that washboard stomach lies in the right combination of diet and exercise. By eating the right foods, you can actually [...]
September 13, 2009
- Over Exercising with High Blood Pressure
One of the most effective ways of treating hypertension, or high blood pressure, is through regular cardiovascular exercise. Your heart is a muscle that requires regular exercise to make it stronger and make pumping blood throughout your body easier. The less energy it takes for your heart to pump blood, the less strain there is [...]
August 18, 2009
- The Importance of Stretching Before You Work Out
Here’s what will happen if you stretch before a workout: Your muscles will get thoroughly exercised and will grow, leaving you stronger and healthier. And here’s what will happen if you skip your stretch and head straight into an intense workout: Your muscles may be damaged during your workout and you will be left IN [...]
- What to Do if You Pull a Muscle
There’s one thing I’ll say about pulling a muscle, and that is: It’s no fun. It’s not as serious as a break, so you won’t get the sympathy that walking around in a cast will get you (not that I wish that upon anyone), but it’s just serious enough that it can cause severe pain [...]
- How to Deal with Muscle Strain
An intense workout will leave you feeling strong, happy, motivated, healthy, and in some cases, on top of the world. Satisfaction from a good workout (plus the happy endorphins that are released during physical activity) may make you forget about the painful side of working out—muscle strain. But when the high wears off and your [...]
July 26, 2009
- Food That Can Help Lower Your Cholesterol
If you’ve got high cholesterol, you probably have a long list of things you can’t eat – no more red meat, no more bacon, no more frying all your favorite foods in butter. Instead of a laundry list of things you CAN’T eat, you’re probably better of focusing on this great list of delicious food [...]
- Lower Your Cholesterol Through High Impact Workouts
Your doctor has been telling you that you need to be careful about your high cholesterol levels, and you’ve finally decided to start taking him seriously. It’s a good idea – High cholesterol can kill you if you don’t kill it first – here are some ways to use your workout time to fight it.
People [...] - Rock Hard Abs – Tips For The Gym
Harden your stomach and take a look at it. Chances are, at this point, you can’t see your abs. If you take a second to feel with your fingers, though, you likely have a six pack or something like it under those layers of fat. Your goal at this point should be to not only [...]
- Rock Hard Abs – Tips For The Kitchen
If you’re like most guys, you want six shiny bumps where that big lump of lard hangs over your stomach. At the very least you want to be able to take a walk down the beach without having to suck in your gut. It’s about time you did something about it.
Any workout plan for a [...] - Working Out with High Blood Pressure
If you’ve been told you have high blood pressure, you may think it’s time to kiss your workout days behind. These days, however, that doesn’t have to be true. Sure, certain exercises may no longer be right for you, but with a little adjustment in technique and stress, you’ll soon be back to your old [...]
July 9, 2009
- What is Really in a Cigarette…
In many instances, quitting smoking is just so much easier when you become aware of the ugly contents of the cigarette itself. Yes, I mean chemical content. Did you know that cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known cancer-causing (carcinogenic) compounds and 400 other toxins?? These include nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, as [...]
- Wisdom of Ayurveda for Treating Hypertension
In today’s world of science and technology, sometimes the most wise thing to do is turn to the old and ancient wisdom to seek the cures for today’s illnesses, such as hypertension. Ayurvedic medicine, or ancient Indian science of healing has long known that there are certain simple lifestyle changes which can be made to [...]
- Savory Veggies Lower Blood Pressure
It is known that certain dietary factors contribute to keeping a healthy and normal blood pressure, such as avoiding salt and eating plenty of high fiber vegetable, fruits and grains. But now, research has revealed that there is a certain flavor-enhancing compound found in all vegetables which could be one of the reasons why the [...]
- Exercise is Key for Health in Older Adults
We’ve talked a lot about the importance of exercise here for weight loss. But I have yet to discuss the benefits for the older generation, so I have chosen to write a post on this subject today. I want to throw a question out there: how many of our grandmas and grandpas or elderly loved [...]
July 5, 2009
- What To Do About Poor, Sore Muscles
What exactly is muscle soreness? Muscle soreness can be caused by muscle damage, tissue damage, muscle spasms which results in overall micro trauma resulting in a type of cellular damage. This may be the leading cause of overtraining and being uncomfortable for a few days after training. And continual cellular damage over and over to [...]
- Exercise Your Sex Drive
It is well know that exercise helps to keep your heart healthy, your body slim and your emotional state calm, but did you know that exercise is a powerful aphrodisiac too? Yes, though you may not feel so sexy after a major workout, you may be in for a surprise if you feel in the [...]