America’s Obsession with Abdominal Machines
The multi-million-dollar home abdominal machine infomercial market absolutely amazes me and proves how uneducated most of the public is about fat loss, nutrition, and spot reduction. If they come out with one more ab-roller, ab-tracker, ab-rocker, or ab-cruncher I’m going to flip. If you think an [...]
EXERCISE!
The Many Health Benefits of Exercise
Just as there are at least 20 diseases and conditions directly attributable to being overweight, there are a large number of health benefits that are directly attributable to exercise.
By improving your physical fitness, you can effectively:
Lower your triglyceride levels
Increase your levels of “good” cholesterol (HDL)
Lower [...]
Weight training’s many benefits are achieved by men and women of all ages who participate in it. I refer to weight training as the fountain of youth. It reverses the effects of aging. Weight training used to be associated with big, hulky, bodybuilders. Now, it is part of a good health/fitness program.
As we grow older, [...]
OBESE CHILDREN USUALLY BECOME OBESE ADULTS
Childhood obesity is associated with various health-related consequences. Obese children and adolescents may experience immediate health consequences and may be at risk for weight-related health problems in adulthood.
Psychosocial Risks
Some consequences of childhood and adolescent obesity are psychosocial. Obese children and adolescents are targets of early and systematic social discrimination.39 The [...]
Pre-diabetes is a serious medical condition that can be treated. The good news is that the recently completed Diabetes Prevention Program study conclusively showed that people with pre-diabetes can prevent the development of type 2 diabetes by making changes in their diet and increasing their level of physical activity. They may even be able to [...]
Regular workouts may help fight off colds and flu, reduce the risk of certain cancers and chronic diseases, and slow the process of aging.
A growing body of research is showing that regular exercise can boost your body’s immune system, increasing the circulation of natural killer cells that fight off viruses and bacteria.
Regular exercise has also [...]
72 Year-Old Man Body Building Every Day
Strength training in seniors is important because it enables them to do things we take for granted, such as performing household chores, carrying groceries, climbing stairs, and other daily tasks. It helps to maintain bone mass, bone density, and mobility, which decreases the possibility of developing osteoporosis and [...]
In spite of what you hear on TV, calcium supplements have little to do with the strength of your bones. So, what controls bone loss? Hormones and exercise.
Bone building is hormonal. In women, estrogens are the main regulators of bone health and breakdown. Progesterone controls the rate of new bone deposition. But the [...]
Train Your Brain With Exercise
Anyone with a brain exercises these days, but did you know exercise can return the favor and train your brain? Not only is exercise smart for your heart and weight, but it can make you smarter and better at what you do.
Exercise is really for the brain, not the body. It [...]
Fighting Depression: Exercise increases Serotonin
First of all, what is serotonin? Serotonin is a chemical that helps relay signals from one area of the brain to another. Serotonin is manufactured in the brain. That’s where it performs it’s major function. However, 90% of our Serotonin is in the digestive tract and in the blood.
It is believed [...]
10 YEARS OF DIET AND EXERCISE CAN KEEP DIABETES AT BAY, STUDIES FIND
Olga Leon could be the poster child for a decade-long, nationwide study on pre-diabetic patients. At 74, she pumps iron at Don Shula’s Athletic Club in Miami Lakes.
She strides the treadmill, lifts weights, does aerobics and Pilates.
She eats six eggs for [...]
How to Prevent Heart Disease
The steps to take to lower their risk for heart disease and heart attack.
Prevent and control high blood cholesterol
High blood cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease. Preventing and treating high blood cholesterol includes eating a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol and high in fiber, keeping a [...]
One thing for sure, you should never work out more than ninety minutes. You don’t need more than that. If you are training hard and focusing, your body becomes less anabolic; that is, receptive to muscular growth, after one and a half hours in the gym. If you find that your workout takes longer than [...]
The 4 Most Important Rules of Weight Training
Technique is extremely important when lifting weights. Most of the time, and especially for beginners, you want to get a full range of motion on each and every exercise. You also want to perform your repetitions with a steady, controlled speed—upwards and downwards or [...]
How Strength Training Reduces Osteoporosis
Weight-bearing exercise is one of the most effective remedies against osteoporosis.
The last thing you want to consider is to take a drug to improve your bone density, as without question, that is more likely to cause long-term harm than benefit.
Your bones are actually very porous and soft, and as you [...]
This weekend it happened again.
In 16 minutes 3 people lost their lives at the Detroit marathon.
Thirty-six-year-old Daniel Langdon collapsed at about 9:02 am on Sunday between the 11 and 12-mile markers and 65-year-old Rick Brown collapsed at 9:17 am, near where Langdon went down. One minute later, 26-year-old Jon Fenlon collapsed just after finishing [...]
STRENGTH TRAIN WHILE LOSING WEIGHT
The solution to all of this, the strategy I want to focus on here, is to engage in strength training while you are losing body fat. If you do this, then you will be able to maintain the muscle mass that you already have underneath your body fat while you are [...]
Body Building For Beginners
OUR COMMENTS:
This is a good basic primer for beginners. The most important point is that you need to learn the science of weight training and nutrition BEFORE you start so that you will SUCCEED at your goals.
Starting to workout before you know how to is like driving from LA to NYC [...]
More women than ever are participating in weight training regimens. Knowledgeable women understand that lean muscle burns fat. Muscle is the body’s most efficient calorie burner. That’s a beautiful thing—naturally burning fat as you build muscle.
Many women worry excessively about their weight. Ladies, stop worrying about how much you weigh and focus instead on [...]
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