12.02.07
Posted in Fitness, Health at 2:15 am by admin
As long as you breathe, you live. No breath, no life. Breathing takes place automatically, but it can also be controlled, regulated and directed at will. It is therefore both a voluntary and an involuntary function.
Proper breathing and good health are inter-related. Normally, children breathe well, with their abdomen. As they grow up and become adults, they lose or give up effective breathing due to their wrong body postures or due to stress, tension, or depression. Most people unknowingly get used to shallow breathing, which does not involve the abdomen. They do not fully utilize the potential of their lungs. They use only the upper and the middle portion of the lungs. That is, they use mainly the chest, but not the entire volume of the lungs during shallow breathing, which is not the most effective way to breathe for good health.
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10.04.07
Posted in Fitness, Food and Drinks at 3:50 am by admin
That familiar saying, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” sounds so positive and good. Yet there’s so much talk today about fitness programs, weight loss and beauty treatments, that it makes you wonder if that old saying is true or not. To help clear up this triangle of what real beauty is all about, this report will discuss what the real beauties are doing with regards to fitness clubs, weight loss programs and beauty treatments.
Note that this report is for educational purposes only. None of the information is intended to take the place of your physician’s advice. So consult your family doctor or other medical authority for that and other pertinent help.
Fitness Overview
Many believe that beauty is being as healthy and fit as possible - both physically and mentally - even if you don’t look like a movie star. Yet reports today show that a lack of even the most basic exercise and physical fitness is the main reason that there is an increasing rise in obesity cases plus other serious health issue including type 2 diabetes that can result from inactivity combined with obesity promote insulin resistance.
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10.02.07
Posted in Fitness, Food and Drinks at 3:49 am by admin
In order to lose weight it is essential that you eat fewer calories and that you burn off the excess of your recommended daily allowance each and every day. This means that you should stick to a sensible calorie controlled diet with sensible portion sizes while exercising and being active enough to burn off the food that you are taking in. However, when it comes to counting calories many people on or starting a diet have very little idea as to how many calories is the right amount. So how do you calculate how many calories are needed in your daily diet in order for you to stick to a sensible diet that allows you to lose weight?
The easiest way to do this and determine how many calories are needed is by assessing your calorie need by doing simple math and following the Harris-Benedict formula. This formula gives you your basal metabolic rate; this is the amount that your body will burn off the calories that you take in and is a good estimation as to how calories you should have per day.
Calculating your BMR
Your basal metabolic rate is the amount of energy that your body needs in order to function properly. Think of your body as being like a car needing gas in order to get you from place to place and for it to stop running out of gas and coming to a standstill. It can be surprising what we use the calories for, for example just breathing and other similar functions will use up around 60% of the calories that we ingest throughout the day. Other factors that have to be taken into account when figuring out what your BMR are your age, your gender, height and weight.
When calculating your BMR this is the formula that you should follow and it is different for both men and women, this formula also should only be applied to adults.
For women the formula is 655 + (4.3 x weight in pounds) + (4.7 x height in inches) - (4.7 x age in years)
For men the formula is 66 + (6.3 x weight in pounds) + (12.9 x height in inches) - (6.8 x age in years)
Step two of the calculation is based upon the amount of activity that you do, this will then lead to your BMR score and the amount of calories that you need per day.
If you don’t take exercise on a regular basis then BMR x 20%
If you take part in light exercise then BMR x 30%
If you exercise intently almost everyday then BMR x 50%
For those people who workout say in competition for sports or who have very demanding physical jobs then BMR x 60%
It is important that as you lose weight on your diet you should take this into account and recalculate using this formula in order to find your new BMR.
The number that you get from this formula is the number of calories that should be eaten on a daily basis in order to remain the same weight as you are. If you want to lose weight then you will need to eat fewer calories than the formula suggests.
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Posted in Fitness at 3:42 am by admin
Time to test your fitness knowledge! See how you stand up under pressure with these statements. Are they fact…or fiction?
Weight training isn’t good for women. It makes them bulk up and look like the Arnold Schwarzenegger contest competitors.
Unfortunately many trainers still preach this and it just isn’t so. Although most women probably do not want to have that professional body-building bulk, they wouldn’t get it with the basic weight lifting anyway that was added into their fitness routines. And science and medicine support this.
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