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Improve Your Muscle Strength A Few Minutes A Day – It’s Ok To Aim Lower With Your New Year’s Exercise Resolutions

11Dec

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Improve Your Muscle Strength A Few Minutes A Day – It’s Ok To Aim Lower With Your New Year’s Exercise Resolutions

One of the most popular new year’s resolutions is to exercise more. Many of us set ambitious goals requiring a big, regular commitment, but then abandon them because they’re too much to fit in. Plans to exercise more in the new year are often broken within a month. So how can we exercise more regularly in the new year? If the aim is to build long-term fitness and health, the exercise must be sustainable. It may be achievable to resolve to do an extra few minutes of muscle-strengthening exercises every day. Our research suggests even one muscle contraction a day, for five days a week, can improve muscle strength if you keep it up for a month. Why do we need to exercise? Physical activity guidelines recommended we perform 150 minutes of moderately intense exercise a week, as well as at ...

12Dec

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Get Your Cardio In At Home

Physical activity guidelines issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommend at least 150 minutes per week of moderate-intensity cardiovascular activity. Harvard Medical School suggested breaking those 150 minutes into segments: “30 minutes, five days a week — for all adults, even the elderly and disabled.” However, all gyms, and many parks and walking and hiking trails, temporarily closed in late March and early April due to COVID-19′s stay-at-home mandates by U.S. governors. No problem, expressed verywellfit.com in “9 Ways to Get a Great Cardio Workout at Home. ” Many basic exercises exert the right amount of energy to healthfully elevate one’s heart rate: ‒ Jump rope: Variations include jumping on one foot, alternating feet, crossing the feet, jumping with hig...

14Dec

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Yoga And Astrology

What is yogini yoga? Yogini yoga is a mystical yoga formed when Jupiter and Ketu combined in a house in a horoscope. Who are yoginis? Yoginis are enlightened women possessing spiritual knowledge, exuberant passion and having deep mystical insight. In several tantric cults yogini is referred to an initiated female who takes part in spiritual -sexual -tantric rituals. Or they are the mystical yogic sexual attendants. The women having extraordinary command on the power of vegetation, fertility, yoga, magic, life and death are considered as yogini. Jupiter and Ketu as mystical planets: Jupiter is a dev -guru, who removes the ignorance and darkness by throwing the light of wisdom. It is planet of righteousness and justice. The higher attributes of mind and the uplift of the soul a...

Exercise Boredom? Hit Refresh On Your Fitness Routine

12Dec

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Exercise Boredom? Hit Refresh On Your Fitness Routine

(BPT) - With summer in full swing, it’s time to enjoy more sunshine, warmer temperatures, and extra time with family and friends outdoors. Yet, with so many vacations and barbecues on the books, it’s easy to take a detour from your fitness goals and resolutions (remember those?) for those more ‘fun’ options. If you want to breathe new life into your exercise goals and find meaningful strategies that help you feel motivated to make health changes all year long, you're not alone. Katy Neville, Head of Fitness Programming for Amazon Halo, wants to help by sharing her top tips for re-committing to your wellness journey. Try a program with a path in mind Working towards a new fitness goal can be exciting, but knowing how to kick off and actually sticking with it can be more challenging. Pick...

12Dec

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The Amazing Benefits Of Pilates

There are many exercise you can do but few focus on the core, breathing and control like Pilates. Pilates is a physical fitness system developed in the early 20th century. It is practiced all over the world especially in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The Principles of Pilates Breathing: Full inhalation and complete exhalation are encouraged and deemed important when doing Pilates exercises. Pilates felt that this encouraged the intake of oxygen and the circulation of this oxygenated blood to every part of the body. Pilates breathing is described as a posterior lateral breathing into the lower rib cage. Pilates instructors try to properly coordinate this breathing practice with movement. Concentration: Intense focus is imperative and considered more important than the ...

12Dec

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What To Consider While Exercising During Pregnancy

While exercise is often said to be safe to do while pregnant, with so much information out there, it can be hard to figure out just how much exercise you should do – and if there are certain exercises to avoid. Exercise is good for the mother and her baby, but given all the changes that happen to the body during pregnancy, it is advisable to take it a bit easier when exercising. One of these changes is how our cardiovascular system functions. Because the baby needs a constant supply of oxygen to develop – and because of how quickly it grows – the mother will experience a 45-50% increase in blood volume to carry this much-needed oxygen to the baby. The mother’s heart rate also increases to ensure the baby gets enough oxygen. This could put an extra strain on the woman’s heart and lungs w...

12Dec

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10 Great Benefits Of Pilates

Have you been going to other exercise classes and want to try something different? Do you suffer from a bad back and need to find an answer? Read this article to find out about the 10 benefits of Pilates. Benefits of Pilates 1: Pilates Creates a Strong Core By careful training and precise control over the smaller muscles in the lower abdominal region and lower back region Pilates is able to improve your core stability. This can result in better control of the small spinal joints during movement of the spine and better control of the pelvis and hip regions. This can have many beneficial effects including improving pelvic stability, lower back pain reduction, better control of the bladder and stronger pelvic floor muscles. Benefits of Pilates 2: Pilates improves relaxation By slowing down ...

Men, Women, Kids And Adults In Developed Countries Are All Moving Less – A Boom In Fitness Trackers Isn’t Leading To A Boom In Physical Activity

12Dec

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Men, Women, Kids And Adults In Developed Countries Are All Moving Less – A Boom In Fitness Trackers Isn’t Leading To A Boom In Physical Activity

Worldwide sales of fitness trackers increased from US$14 billion in 2017 to over $36 billion in 2020. The skyrocketing success of these gadgets suggests that more people than ever see some value in keeping tabs on the number of steps they take, flights of stairs they climb, time they spend sitting and calories they burn. The manufacturers of these devices certainly want consumers to believe that tracking fitness or health-related behaviors will spur them on to increase their activity levels and make them healthier. Our analysis of research published over the past 25 years suggests otherwise. We are professors of kinesiology – the science of human body movement – at Boise State, the University of Tennessee and the University of North Florida. To learn whether and how physical activity ha...

The Cultural Obsession With Six-Pack Abdominals

10Dec

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The Cultural Obsession With Six-Pack Abdominals

The cultural obsession with six-pack abdominals shows no signs of abating. And if research into male body image is to be believed, it will likely only grow, thanks to social media. Today, there’s an entire industry centered on obtaining – and maintaining – chiseled abs. They’re the subject of books and social media posts, while every action movie star seems to sport them. Pressure is also mounting on women to sport six-pack abs as body ideals for athletic women have evolved. All of this raises the question, when did the six-pack craze start? It may seem like a relatively recent phenomenon, a byproduct of the fitness culture boom in the 1970s and 1980s, when Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rambo reigned, and men’s muscle mags and aerobics took off. History proves otherwise. In fact, Western c...

11Dec

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Are Our Exercises Aging Us?

Do I look younger because I'm black? To answer this complicated question, it would be cool to let you know why I am addressing this question. A while back I was asked by a client why I look younger than my age, this client had concluded that me looking younger had to do with my background or race. So, I said that's interesting because I know quite a few people of the same race that don't look younger than their years. She believed that there were always "exceptions to the rule". This got me thinking and observing closer and I discovered that this was in fact not the case. If anything it was coincidental that a certain number of black people she had met did look youthful. I even argued the fact that dark skin hid certain blemishes or wrinkles that lighter skin didn't. Which was true, an...