How To Prevent Diet Relapses

February 12, 2010
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Anyone can have a diet relapse.  But you can certainly prevent it by following these simple steps to help keep your body healthy and fit:

1. Weigh yourself regularly.  Limit your increase in weight by 3 to 5 pounds.  If you go beyond that limit, then it’s a signal that you need to act immediately before the pounds build up again.
2. Ask yourself why your weight is increasing.  Look objectively at what brought the relapse.
3. Be positive.  It doesn’t mean you’re a failure just because you gained weight.
4. Remind yourself of all the hard work you did to lose the weight, and how disappointed you’ll be if you go into relapse.
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Why Sports Are Good For You

February 9, 2010
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Playing sports is not only a fun activity; it is also an effective workout routine to keep your body and health in check.

When you engage in sports like soccer, football, basketball, hockey and baseball in an early age, you develop stronger bones and muscles and a toned body.

Sports increases other physical activities like stretching, running and jumping that increases your use of energy.  This will give you an effective full body workout.

Playing sports will also make you feel happy and healthy.  Sports generate happy molecules in your body that triggers you to be happy.  This will contribute to your mental well-being and positive energy.

You also get healthy when playing sports…

Too Much Sitting Could Lead To Early Death

February 9, 2010
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If you spend your days sitting behind an office desk and in front of the television, your body is in danger of too much sitting.  According to a study, you can increase your risk of having health problems when you sit around too much.  Although it is very important to give your body a rest by sleeping, being inactive while awake can be harmful to your weight, blood circulation and heart health.

An increase in pounds will surely happen due to long hours of inactivity.  You will not burn off the calories you get from what you’ve eaten.  The study done by the Pennington Biomedical Research Center studied over 17,000 Canadians…

An Effective Way to Burn Belly Fat

February 8, 2010
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Unless you’re a fitness instructor, an athlete or a model, then you definitely have some problems concerning belly fat.  There are a lot of exercises and diet programs out there making it hard to figure out which one really works to burn that nasty belly fat.  Don’t waste your workout time by running or jogging, sure it will burn calories but it will not build a better and toned body

The best way to burn belly fat is: bodyweight exercises as a warm up followed by strength training supersets to build the muscle and the last is interval training.  These three steps only require 45 minutes of your time everyday.

Perform 5…

How To Keep Your Body and Mind Fit

February 8, 2010
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Being fit increases our physical strength and helps our mind become stable.  Staying fit doesn’t only make our bodies look good; it also protects us from diseases like cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and osteoporosis.

You can start being fit by adding a little bit of physical activity in your daily routine.  Try fitness exercises like running, swimming and cycling.  Once you get the hang of it, change your routine to help you keep motivated and keep you from being bored.  Your body will also adjust to the routine after a certain period of time making it less effective for your body so it is suggested to change your routine from time…

Exercises That Burn More Calories

February 4, 2010
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The most effective way of burning calories and losing weight is to exercise daily.  A lot of products out there promise faster results in a few days only to find out that you have been fooled.  So stop taking the easy way out and start exercising.  Be patient because it will take a lot of time and work but you’ll be satisfied with the results.

To help you choose, here is a list of exercises that burn more calories than any other physical activities.

1.  Running.  You burn more calories when you run.  But if you have been running for the same distance for a long time, change your routine.   Your body…

Exercising Will Burn More Calories

February 3, 2010
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When you want to burn the calories, you need to exercise.  There are a lot of physical activities out there but you need to choose the one that will burn the most number of calories.

Aerobic exercises or cardio exercises burn the most number of calories.  Aerobic exercises refer to physical activities that need oxygen to be delivered to all the muscles in the body by way of blood and lungs.  Aerobic exercises doesn’t only help burn the calories, it also strengthens the cardiovascular and respiratory system as well as the whole body in the long run.

Here is a list of exercises that is sure to burn a higher number of…

Must Have Foods before Exercising

February 1, 2010
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The food you take before working out is as important as the work out itself.  You have to consider the food you will take that will go with the type and intensity of the activity.

The training period includes longer workout time and demands intense activities.  You need to provide your body with adequate amount of fuel and nutrition to keep going during training.

According to studies, the best time to eat is 2 to 4 hours before training and then another meal 30 to 60 minutes before exercise.  Carbohydrates are needed to increase the level of blood insulin that will provide strength and energy during training.  Choose food items that are…

Get Motivated by Exercising with a Partner

February 1, 2010
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Working out alone can be a little bit boring.  Motivate yourself by finding a partner to work out with.  Research shows that 45% of women who exercise with a friend are more likely to hit the gym than those who exercise alone.  So here are some routines designed for two by Elizabeth Hendrix Burwell, co-owner of High Performance Fitness in New York City.  You will get a better body and get to bond with your work out partner as well.

1. Stand while facing each other about an arm’s length apart; grasp hands. Lunge to the left side (your partner’s right side) and lower until your butt hovers above ground; pause…

Why Losing Weight Quickly Doesn’t Work

February 1, 2010
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Losing weight is very hard to accomplish.  When you are determined to lose weight, you do just about anything to lose it quickly.  But losing weight too quickly just to get that great body can pose some serious problems.

Losing weight too quickly can mess up your metabolism because you will lose more muscle with the fat.   Messing your metabolism could lead to plateau and relapse.  The weight loss will also be temporary because you are likely to gain weight again.

In losing weight, the most important thing to get rid off is the fat.  Your weight loss should come from fat loss or mostly fat with a minimal loss in lean…