Walking Exercise
As you walk grasp yourself in the small of the back and feel how your entire frame responds to every stride.
Notice how almost all of your muscle are functioning rhythmically.
No other exercise gives us the same body harmony of movement and improved circulation. Brisk walking is the best exercise for almost everyone.
Your walking should never be done consciously, No “heel and toe” business. No getting there in a certain time.
Let it be fun and natural. Walk naturally with head high, spine and chest lifted up. You will feel elated, so you will carry yourself proudly, straight, erect and with arm swinging.
Vow to become a health walker and make the daily walk a fixed item on your health program all the year around, in all kinds of weather.
If the outer world of nature fails to interest you, turn to the inner world of the mind. As you walk, your body ceases to matter and you become as near poet and philosopher as you will ever be.
By end of the days, the healthy functioning of your muscles and quickened blood circulating with a sense of balanced harmony and happiness.
Gardening is another rewarding form exercise. It may give enough exercise in the open to help keep you in good physical condition.
But gardening may not prevent weight gain if there is too little movement and because you are bent over more instead of being erect.
Walking Exercise
Friday, November 06, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
What is Heart Rate?
What is Heart Rate?
Heart rate, also known as pulse, is the number of times heart beats per minute. The fitness evaluation should include a measure of resting heart rate – heart rate when we are sitting still.
Ideally, resting heart rate should be between 60 to 90 beats per minute.
It may be slow if the person fit or genetically predisposed to a low heart rate; it may be faster if the person fell nervous or have recently downed three double cappuccinos.
In addition to caffeine, stress and certain medications can speed up the heart rate.
To be sure, take heart rate first thing in the morning for three consecutive days and find the average to determine heart rates.
After a month or two of regular exercise, resting heart rate usually drops. This means that the heart rate has become more efficient.
It may need to beat only 80 times per minute to pump the same amount of blood (or more than it used to pump in 90 beats.) In the long run, this saves wear and tear on your heart.
The simplest place to take pulse is at our wrist. Rest middle and index fingers lightly on opposite wrist directly below the base of the thumb. Most people can see the fait bluish line of their or radial artery, place fingertips here. Count the beats for one minute.
What is Heart Rate?
Heart rate, also known as pulse, is the number of times heart beats per minute. The fitness evaluation should include a measure of resting heart rate – heart rate when we are sitting still.
Ideally, resting heart rate should be between 60 to 90 beats per minute.
It may be slow if the person fit or genetically predisposed to a low heart rate; it may be faster if the person fell nervous or have recently downed three double cappuccinos.
In addition to caffeine, stress and certain medications can speed up the heart rate.
To be sure, take heart rate first thing in the morning for three consecutive days and find the average to determine heart rates.
After a month or two of regular exercise, resting heart rate usually drops. This means that the heart rate has become more efficient.
It may need to beat only 80 times per minute to pump the same amount of blood (or more than it used to pump in 90 beats.) In the long run, this saves wear and tear on your heart.
The simplest place to take pulse is at our wrist. Rest middle and index fingers lightly on opposite wrist directly below the base of the thumb. Most people can see the fait bluish line of their or radial artery, place fingertips here. Count the beats for one minute.
What is Heart Rate?
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Formula to Good Health
Formula to Good Health
Most American today are overfed yet undernourished, which eventually leads to obesity and poor health.
The answer to those pervasive problem is simply to eliminate the low nutrient to calories ration foods like processed grains, sugars, fatty processed meats, soft drinks and packaged snack foods, and increase the intake of high nutrient to calorie ratio foods like vegetables, fruits, seafood and whey protein.
A diet with a high nutrient to calorie ration supplies with large quantities of beneficial vitamins, minerals and other antiaging phytonutrients, but at the same time it reduces your calorie intake.
If you want to lean, fit, vigorous, and brought and happy, you must do what you are designed to do. People usually eat until they are full or satiated.
If you consume natural high nutrient but low calorie foods like fruits and vegetables, you can eat more volume and thus will feel satisfied for a longer period after eating.
It is very difficult to get fit by eating vegetables and fruit.
If you also make sure to include healthy lean protein with each meal, you will stay full longer and be able to avoid cravings.
If you trying to lose weight and not feel deprived, subtle changes can lead to realm lasting results.
A study researchers tested whether they could fool people into thinking they were eating the same amount of calories even though they trimmed their intake by 800 calories a day.
They did this by “super-sizing” the portions of foods with high nutrient to calorie like vegetable and fruits.
At the same time they cut high calorie synthetic foods containing sugars and fats by about 25%.
As turned out, the participant did not even notice that they were consuming fewer calories because they were eating more food and staying full longer.
On the other hand, when the researchers cut calories by just decreasing portion sizes, participants complained they weren’t getting enough to eat.
In other word, you will feel less deprived and have better luck losing body fat if you increase your intake of fruits and vegetables and cut out processed high sugar and high fat foods, rather than relying on cutting portion size alone.
Formula to Good Health
Most American today are overfed yet undernourished, which eventually leads to obesity and poor health.
The answer to those pervasive problem is simply to eliminate the low nutrient to calories ration foods like processed grains, sugars, fatty processed meats, soft drinks and packaged snack foods, and increase the intake of high nutrient to calorie ratio foods like vegetables, fruits, seafood and whey protein.
A diet with a high nutrient to calorie ration supplies with large quantities of beneficial vitamins, minerals and other antiaging phytonutrients, but at the same time it reduces your calorie intake.
If you want to lean, fit, vigorous, and brought and happy, you must do what you are designed to do. People usually eat until they are full or satiated.
If you consume natural high nutrient but low calorie foods like fruits and vegetables, you can eat more volume and thus will feel satisfied for a longer period after eating.
It is very difficult to get fit by eating vegetables and fruit.
If you also make sure to include healthy lean protein with each meal, you will stay full longer and be able to avoid cravings.
If you trying to lose weight and not feel deprived, subtle changes can lead to realm lasting results.
A study researchers tested whether they could fool people into thinking they were eating the same amount of calories even though they trimmed their intake by 800 calories a day.
They did this by “super-sizing” the portions of foods with high nutrient to calorie like vegetable and fruits.
At the same time they cut high calorie synthetic foods containing sugars and fats by about 25%.
As turned out, the participant did not even notice that they were consuming fewer calories because they were eating more food and staying full longer.
On the other hand, when the researchers cut calories by just decreasing portion sizes, participants complained they weren’t getting enough to eat.
In other word, you will feel less deprived and have better luck losing body fat if you increase your intake of fruits and vegetables and cut out processed high sugar and high fat foods, rather than relying on cutting portion size alone.
Formula to Good Health
Friday, September 25, 2009
To Lose Weight with Soft Drinks and Fruit Juices?
To Lose Weight with Soft Drinks and Fruit Juices?
Many working men who want to lose weight fall into the trap of cutting back on alcohol and drinking soft drinks, such as cola, instead.
It’s not uncommon for such men to have up to ten – or even twenty – bottles of coke in a day.
Soft drink is often more of a problem for men wanting to lose weight than beer or alcohol.
Most people think of fruit juices as healthy and they are because they contain more vitamins than soft drink. But fruit is high in fruit sugars and when juice is separated from the fiber of the fruit, the bulk is reduced and it becomes easy to take in all the sugar and kilocalories from three to four pieces of fruit in one drink.
This might be fine for someone who’s not fat, but it’s not much use to anyone trying to solve a waist problem.
There’s no real need to drink fruit juices. The hype that says you must have orange juice breakfast is a bit of a con.
It’s better to eat a few pieces of fruit (say, three to four a day) and get your fiber intake up.
Fruit cordials are even worse because they have concentrated sugar in place of most of the nutrients of the fruit.
The obvious solution is to cut back on, or cut out, regular soft drinks, fruit juice and cordials.
The best alternative is water or mineral water. They have no calorie.
If you can’t stomach these and you really want a sweet drink, diet drinks are the next best thing.
They have no kilocalories, although some researchers have found that their artificial sweeteners might increase appetite so you end up eating more than you’ve saved by having the low energy drink.
Fat is a great insulator so an overweight man gets hot easily. When this happens, you sweat and then you need to replace the lost fluid.
If you replace fluids with alcoholic drinks, soft drink or fruit juice you’ll take in lots of energy.
If you have a high fat content in your daily food intake on top of this, you’ll get fatter, sweat more, drink more of these drinks and continue in a vicious cycle.
Alcohol is also a diuretic – it makes you lose more fluid in urine than the drink provides.
Far from rehydrating the body, alcohol causes dehydration as you’ll know from the amount of time you spend at the urinal in any pub.
If you’re going to drink alcohol, always drink water first especially if you’ve been sweating heavily.
Water is not a diuretic nor is it high in sugar.
To Lose Weight with Soft Drinks and Fruit Juices?
Many working men who want to lose weight fall into the trap of cutting back on alcohol and drinking soft drinks, such as cola, instead.
It’s not uncommon for such men to have up to ten – or even twenty – bottles of coke in a day.
Soft drink is often more of a problem for men wanting to lose weight than beer or alcohol.
Most people think of fruit juices as healthy and they are because they contain more vitamins than soft drink. But fruit is high in fruit sugars and when juice is separated from the fiber of the fruit, the bulk is reduced and it becomes easy to take in all the sugar and kilocalories from three to four pieces of fruit in one drink.
This might be fine for someone who’s not fat, but it’s not much use to anyone trying to solve a waist problem.
There’s no real need to drink fruit juices. The hype that says you must have orange juice breakfast is a bit of a con.
It’s better to eat a few pieces of fruit (say, three to four a day) and get your fiber intake up.
Fruit cordials are even worse because they have concentrated sugar in place of most of the nutrients of the fruit.
The obvious solution is to cut back on, or cut out, regular soft drinks, fruit juice and cordials.
The best alternative is water or mineral water. They have no calorie.
If you can’t stomach these and you really want a sweet drink, diet drinks are the next best thing.
They have no kilocalories, although some researchers have found that their artificial sweeteners might increase appetite so you end up eating more than you’ve saved by having the low energy drink.
Fat is a great insulator so an overweight man gets hot easily. When this happens, you sweat and then you need to replace the lost fluid.
If you replace fluids with alcoholic drinks, soft drink or fruit juice you’ll take in lots of energy.
If you have a high fat content in your daily food intake on top of this, you’ll get fatter, sweat more, drink more of these drinks and continue in a vicious cycle.
Alcohol is also a diuretic – it makes you lose more fluid in urine than the drink provides.
Far from rehydrating the body, alcohol causes dehydration as you’ll know from the amount of time you spend at the urinal in any pub.
If you’re going to drink alcohol, always drink water first especially if you’ve been sweating heavily.
Water is not a diuretic nor is it high in sugar.
To Lose Weight with Soft Drinks and Fruit Juices?
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