Healthy Body,Fitness

Healthy Body Secrets

Improve your fitness Get Stronger and Faster - The secret to a healthy body is simple and actually not too difficult, but all the same it does take daily discipline. In addition, it doesn’t need to cost you a lot of money. There are five areas of focus that will keep your body in shape, healthy, flexible, and strong.

1. Aerobic Exercise - simplest way to meet this need is walking. Walking is the one of the best exercises for your body. The wear and tear on your joints is lower than jogging. Be sure to start off slower to warm up and increase speed slowly after about 3-5 minutes. To increase the intensity, simply lengthen your stride a bit and speed up your pace. The other strategy for increasing intensity is to increase your speed for short bursts of time. (see workout below) If you prefer, jogging is also good if it doesn’t bother your knees. Just know that walking is just as good if you go fast enough. No big investment needed. All you need is your sneakers, and maybe not even that if you walk on the beach. 30 minutes per day every day has been shown to be the optimal amount of exercise. If you don’t have time all at once, the same benefits are derived even if you break it up into 3 X 10 minute or 2 X 15 minute sessions.

2. Stretching - important age marker is your level of flexibility. Yoga is a terrific way to keep your body flexible. If you don’t have time for a full yoga session, try to make sure you do 5 minutes of stretching each day after your aerobic exercise. To ensure you get most areas of your body, try a sun salutation, some seated twists, and a hip opener.

3. Balancing - Balance, along with flexibility, is something that we lose with age. Practice this a little bit every day and you’ll be less likely to lose it. Yoga, again, is another great way to build and maintain balance. There are several yoga poses you could use to increase balance. Try one each day. A simple one you can do is to stand on one leg and grab the foot of the other leg to stretch the hamstring in the front of the thigh. As you build your balance over time try to touch your toes with your other hand while maintaining balance. It is helpful to keep your eyes focused on one point. Do this for 15-60 seconds on each leg.

4. Strength Building - You can certainly join a gym and lift weights. But another less expensive option, which is just as good, is simply using the weight of your own body for resistance. The easiest way to do this is to do an hour of yoga a few times per week. A yoga class is great, but to save money, I recommend buying a few different yoga tapes and rotate them.

5. Deep Breathing - This is very important and here’s why. Your lymph system relies on the contraction of muscles and breathing to move the fluids of the lymph system around the body. Why is this so important? The lymph system “has three interrelated functions
(1) removal of excess fluids from body tissues,
(2) absorption of fatty acids and subsequent transport of fat, as chyle, to the circulatory system.
(3) production of immune cells.” So, how do you get your daily dose? Aerobic exercise, yoga, and/or try The Deep Breathing Exercise 2-3 times per day. Here’s how - Empty your lungs completely by pulling in your stomach while you exhale. Take a deep breath in. Hold for twice as long as it took to breathe it in. Exhale for 4 times as long as it took to breath it in. Do this 10 times. Enjoy the rejuvenation!

Health and Physical Fitness

Health and physical activity tips including information on men's and women's health and wellness including advanced nutritional products for the immune system, joint health, weight loss and general health. All five components of fitness and health: strength training, weight management, cardiovascular exercise, nutrition, and flexibility training are discussed in the Online Muscle Fitness section of the site.


The Top 20 Lessons For Living Longer

You are probably sick of hearing "new" studies telling you to do this or eat that to live longer and feel like you did in your twenties.Despite all the medical advances available today, the most effective and the most practical advice to living a long and healthy life can be found in our past. Here are the top twenty time-tested healthy habits that have survived for centuries to increase the quantity and quality of our life.

1. Eat mostly plants.
(Have meat as a side dish instead of the main dish)

2. Put family first.
(Time with family is priceless)

3. Take a walk.
(Our legs are meant to move us, so move)

4. Drink a glass of red wine daily.
(It's been a practice for centuries, it must be good)

5. Reduce and manage stress.
(Stress kills, so avoid it or deal with it)

6. Have a purpose.
(Be excited when you wake up each morning)

7. Get outdoors.
(We came from nature, go back for a visit)

8. Be grateful.
(Appreciate what you got and you will get more)

9. Have fun.
(Do things that you enjoy)

10. Maintain a healthy body weight
(Move more, eat less)

11. Get regular exercise.
(Push and pull heavy things)


"The Truth About Fat Loss, How To Finally Lose That Beer Belly"

Sean is a Certified Personal Trainer and a proud and busy Dad. Sean has been involved in the health and fitness industry for over 15 years and have appeared in High Performance Muscle Magazine, been on health and fitness radio shows and was selected as a sponsored athlete by one of the top supplement nutrition companies in the world. His popular Dad Fitness fat loss workouts have helped Dads around the world lose fat, gain muscle, and get lean in less than 3 hours per week. For more information on the Dad Fitness workouts that will help you burn fat without spending hours in the gym.

Having a Purpose in Life Enhances Your Mind and Body Health

You come into this life not knowing what you are here for. Giving time, you settle on something to do. Sometimes, it takes you forever to find your purpose in life. So far as you find it, it doesn’t matter how long it took you and what position in life you occupy. After all who is competing with you? We all come with different agenda and missions.Some people find their niche quickly. Others take a lifetime.

At the end of the day we all find something to keep us busy enough to contribute to the tapestry we’re all weaving to make this world a better place to live.It therefore doesn’t matter what position you occupy in this world. You should attend to your work with the seriousness the job demands so you can help make this place you call home a better place than you met it. After all you have only one chance to contribute to this world.