Posts Tagged ‘Fitness’
Fashion magazines with beautiful models sporting body accentuating clothes are everywhere. Men and women alike look at these and wonder how they too can look like that.
Some believe that the reason these people are in the magazines is because they already had the nicely toned bodies. And through years of hard work have achieved it and are not reaping the benefits.
Yes, having wonderful abs is now all the rage in the fitness world. Instructors and dietitians at the gyms have turned flat abs into a multi-million dollar business.
There has recently been an addition to the diet rage, and a new sensation. Straight from the Amazonian rain forest come the Acai berry. It’s a power-packed little berry, that has both a cleansing and slimming effect on the body.
Well, enjoying holidays then do it in a healthier way, and instead of worrying about weight problems just concentrate on some simple ways to keep you fit and steady during holidays.
Jennifer Ventrelle, a dietitian from Rush University Medical Center, says: “If you restrict yourself to some unachievable diet plans during holidays, it means you are setting yourself for personal torture. You definitely need something achievable when it’s about losing weight during holidays.”
In a recent press release, Craig Ballantyne, a certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and fat loss expert and whose health articles frequently find space in Men’s Health and Oxygen magazines, revealed certain secrets to attain a flat tummy and Abs. As an expert trainer in the field of men’s health, Craig promises optimum results without spending long hours on workout.
He has enlisted certain abdominal exercises which could be done at the comfort of home to burn fat in the tummy area along with focus on lower Abs. Contrary to the popular belief, he says that spot reduction of fat and working out the lower abs could be easily done without visiting a Gym in time for summer. His amazing lower abs workout promises to give one utmost fat burning and body-sculpting results in minimum time. He has devised certain special abdominal exercises which could help in flattening the lower abs.
“The Journal of Neurology” has recently published a new study which brought up an interesting link between increase in the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia decades later, if you are in your 40s and have belly fat. Dr. Randolph, author of “From Belly Fat to Belly Flat” also commented about this new finding and said that ‘Estrogen Dominance’ can be taken as that missing link which seems to be playing important role.
C.W. Randolph, co-author of the newly released best selling book “From Belly Fat to Belly Flat” says that he is not surprised by the results of this study. He further adds that the traditional medical community took long to establish the link and the most unfortunate thing is still many doctors and patients are unable to understand the underlying causes of neurological function, being impaired due to weight gain and storage of fat in the belly area.
Are you stranded in a remote place without any facility for keeping you fit? Or are you too much tied up with a hectic schedule and feeling irritated with not being able to maintain the daily exercise routine? Here is the answer to keep you fit and fine, and in tune with the adage “Health is Wealth”.Take some time and check out on the latest physical fitness guide called “XFit” that is available for download to cell phones and other mobile devices. This full, complete body exercise program is the brainchild of Joel Lenorovitz and Jason Ryer.
What triggered the development of such a program? The answer is that one of the co-founders of the program was volunteering on a service at some remote village that has no access to any gym. In order to keep up to the fitness regime, the playing cards were used. Exercise was assigned to the cards beforehand-for example, Ace for Abs, two for push-ups, three for lunges and so on so forth. It was called “The Deck” and soon spread like wild fire and everybody caught up the fever and became the ultimate in convenience in working out. ‘The Deck’ concept was being transformed with graphical representation and text description of specified exercises. It soon developed into an effective and convenient workout.
The idea to make it easy and to stay fit; this program is ideal instead of spending money in a health club membership or by buying latest equipment. This program comes for a free download with six exercises in any of the mobile devices such as BlackBerry, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia etc. Though the program comes with 50 exercises, one needs to buy a key-code for $24.95 to unlock the workout. But before the purchase, one needs to check out if it works on the specific mobile device.
The next obvious question that comes in mind is how does it work? Once download to the mobile device, the program gives the basic instruction to prepare one to use the program, including the basic navigation and the warm up exercise. Next, the workout begins with the first exercise, target the body region and read the instructions. The intensity levels of the workout are divided into-beginners, intermediate and advanced.
At home, or at work, at vacation or just about anywhere one can pull out the device and make use of the time to get in shape and feel fresh.
Again, man is not to be satiated and be complacent, he is in the journey to explore more and discover the new. “XFit” is now being developed to be used into as many different devices as possible and also to be in the hands of many people. A program that promotes a healthy lifestyle is soon going to grip the entire world with its additional features such as Yoga, Pilates, free-weight, stability ball and other exercise methods to expand the fitness routine and make it an every man’s best companion.
