2 SIMPLE STEPS TO RIPPED SUMMERTIME MUSCLES Summer is on the horizon, and the time has come to kick back and relax under the sun and show off youyr muscles. It’s time for beach days, barbecues and pool parties, and for any serious weightlifter these activities also mean one thing: it’s time for the shirts to come off and to …
The Way to Health & Vitality
THE WAY TO HEALTH & VITALITY It’s time to start a Healthy life: your 7 days program How many times have you gone to sleep at night, swearing you’ll go to the gym in the morning, and then changing your mind just eight hours later because when you get up, you don’t feel like exercising? While this can happen to …
Getting Your Nutrition from Real Food is a Good Habit for Life
GETTING YOUR NUTRITION FROM REAL FOOD IS A GOOD HABIT FOR LIFE Many people think popping a multi-vitamin supplement to get their nutrients is just as good as what comes from real foods. They don’t realize that it is far better to get vitamins and minerals from natural foods and juices. Our bodies utilize the vitamins and minerals from real …
Benefits of Changing Your Workouts
BENEFITS OF CHANGING YOUR WORKOUTS Through routine exercise, your body gradually builds strength and endurance. However, if you keep your workouts TOO routine, those benefits begin to stagnate. Therefore, it is essential to periodically change your workouts so that your body will continue to reap the most benefits from your efforts. Why is change crucial? If you follow the same …
Is Exercise The Solution For Carpal Tunnel Relief?
IS EXERCISE THE SOLUTION FOR CARPAL TUNNEL RELIEF? Carpal tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is one of many musculoskeletal injuries listed under the broader terms of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) or Cumulative Trauma Disorder (CTD). A number of other injuries listed under these terms, but that are not exclusively caused by a repetitive strain injury or cumulative trauma disorder include Guyon’s Syndrome, …
Cardiovascular Training for Excellent Health
CARDIOVASCULAR TRAINING FOR EXCELLENT HEALTH Everyone on the planet has to have aerobic exercise. A healthy constitution and quality way of life requires it. It has a lot of perks and will make you perform improved in all areas of your life. So why should you do aerobic exercise? Aerobic exercise is beneficial to you by developing the lungs to …
Carbohydrates and the Glycemic Index
CARBOHYDRATES AND THE GLYCEMIC INDEX You may have heard about the glycemic index and wondered what it is all about. The glycemic index is a ranking of carbohydrates based on their immediate effect on blood glucose (blood sugar) levels. It compares foods gram for gram of carbohydrate. Carbohydrates that breakdown quickly during digestion have the highest glycemic indexes. The blood …
Importance of Cardio Training
IMPORTANCE OF CARDIO TRAINING Everyone has wondered at some point in time which cardio exercise is better. To put it in simple terms, both low and high intensity exercises will help you to burn off body fat. The question here is which is the most effective to burn off more body fat. When scientists first discovered that during intensive exercises, …
Cardio Exercise and Training Benefits that You should Know
CARDIO EXERCISE AND TRAINING BENEFITS THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW Cardio exercise and training cover a wide range of activities that allow the use of major muscle groups in the body in a continuous manner. But most importantly, the very aim of cardiovascular exercise and training is mainly to improve the heart muscles. For cardio training to be effective, it should …
Women Can Lift Weights Without Getting Bulky
WOMEN CAN LIFT WEIGHTS WITHOUT BECOMING BULKY Strength training or weight lifting is the lifting of weights and/or resistance in a prescribed manner as an exercise or in athletic competition. Notice I said weights and/or resistance. It doesn’t have to necessarily be a weight plate or a dumbbell. There are numerous TV reports, magazine articles, radio shows that explain all …