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Does the GI diet have anything to do with the military? No, it is not the result of top- secret military intelligence. It is, however, another weapon in the battle against fat. If you use the GI diet, you might find that fighting your own battle of the bulge is a little easier.
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Addicted to Food: The Uncontrollable Craving
Do you occasionally binge on a bag of potato chips or half a package of cookies? If it is just occasionally, does that make you addicted to food? Since it determines what you will need to do to start losing weight, the answer to this question is extremely important. As serious and deadly as any drug addiction, food addictions are compared to nicotine or cocaine addictions by some medical professionals.
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Addicted to Carbohydrates: Is that You?
What does it mean to be addicted to carbohydrates? Estimates say that 75% of overweight people are carbohydrate addicts but most don’t know what that really means. Carbohydrate addiction is caused by too much insulin in the body, which creates a craving for foods high in carbs and for eating often. Other signs of addiction to carbs are fatigue, swings in mood, and headaches/migraines caused by the sugar dropping.
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What Is Your Ideal Maximum Heartbeat Level?
The purpose of the heart is to pump blood from the venous system into the arterial system. The total output of that pump is called cardiac output. It's measured in volume of blood per minute. Your heart rate is the main means by which you increase the circulation of blood.
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Walk Your Way To Perfect Health - Part II
Walking Helps Strengthen Your Bones More than 25 million people in the United States are afflicted with osteoporosis - a condition that can lead to painful fractures of the spine and hips. Regular walking, particularly if it includes some hills, can improve flexibility, balance and muscle strength, all of which help reduce fractures by 30 to 40 percent. Greater flexibility and muscle strength in your back reduces the chance of fractures of the vertebrae, improves posture and lowers the risk of curvature of the spine.
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Walk Your Way To Perfect Health - Part I
Walking Improves Your Heart Regular walking has many positive effects on the heart and circulation. For example, it strengthens and improves the efficiency of the heart and makes blood flow faster and freer around the body. But the most dramatic fact is that regular walking cuts your risk of a heart attack in half. Inactivity is a high-risk occupation. It has the same effect on your heart as smoking 20 cigarettes a day, having high blood pressure or a high cholesterol level.
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Learn How To Do Sprints For Increased Speed & Endurance
There are many ways to interval train. You can sprint very fast and then walk. You can sprint very fast and then slow down to a jog. You can sprint for just a few seconds or, by slowing down a bit, go for three or four minutes. Similarly, the rest periods between sprints can be brief or extended. By changing the four components of interval training (intensity of sprint, duration of sprint, intensity of rest, duration of rest) an athlete can train the specific energy system he needs to develop for his sport.
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How To Win The War Against Fat
Transforming food into fat seems all too easy for most of us. Losing fat is far more difficult, and to accomplish this we have only three alternatives: 1. Decrease food intake and keep activity constant, 2. Increase activity and keep food intake constant, or 3. Combine both approaches - diet and exercise.
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How To Best Protect Yourself When Walking Or Jogging In Cold Weather
In winter it can be tempting to curl up in front of the fire, but we actually generate more warmth by keeping active. Walking is a great way of maintaining body temperature in cold conditions. At an air temperature of 32°F (0°C), a person who is dressed for the conditions but motionless will feel no warmer than somebody who is in an air temperature of 14°F (minus 10°C) and walking vigorously. Exercise can help keep you warm even when you're back at home, as it continues to improve your circulation.
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Fitness Through Yoga: Exercise, Breathing & Meditation
The only way to lose weight successfully is to make a slow, sustained effort over months or even years. Similarly, the only way to prevent weight gain is to eat sensibly and maintain physical activity in a steady commitment indefinitely. This kind of commitment changes your life! You will start to gauge your success according to the long term – not the “I must loose weight by next week” short term mindset. You'll realize that such short-term dreams are unrealistic, because those first few pounds are only water loss and probably will be quickly regained. The real measure of success is losing body fat, and this takes a concerted, sustained commitment from both your physical and emotional bodies.
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Conditioning Your Heart Through Exercise
The best way yet discovered to lower the resting heart rate is, paradoxically, to make it beat faster during short periods of exercise. This exertion strengthens the heart so that it performs more efficiently at lower rates. This lowered heart rate is called the "bradycardia" of training.
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Can Sweating Too Much During Exercise Be Dangerous To Your Health?
Are you under the impression that by sweating while working out you will loose weight? Do you see people at your gym or out jogging who wear rubber suits or extra sweatshirts during the hot summer months, just to loose a few extra pounds? Well allow us to correct that myth.
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10 Fitness Tips For The Senior Citizen
For those men and women over the age of 55, a good fitness program should have three basic components: 1. Endurance exercises to condition the heart, lungs, and blood vessels and to induce relaxation. These begin with a carefully planned walking and/or jogging regimen, depending on fitness level.
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1. Exercising Too Much: Top athletes and their trainers minimize the possibility of over- training by manipulating the amount, intensity, and type of exercise. Typically they start the season with a lot of low-intensity work. As the season progresses, they exercise less often but more intensely. During this time the emphasis is on technique. Between seasons the players stay in shape with "active rest," engaging in low-key sports other than the sport they're training for.
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Aristotle helped define the standards of fitness 2,500 years ago when he taught that a thing that suits its purpose well is fit. Fortunately for us, the cardiovascular system, lungs, skeleton, muscles, endocrine system and all the other amazing components of the body function for our purpose: to live well.
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Most articles on fitness, when discussing routines and exercises will recommend consulting a physician first. That isn't just a means of covering the author against potential legal action. It's a recognition of the fact that exercise, done improperly, can be harmful and sometimes you can't get everything you need to know with a few web searches.
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It's a commonplace observation that as you age you have to work harder to keep the pounds off and to stay fit. One major reason is the inescapable biological fact that metabolism slows as we age. Inescapable for now, at least, until medical technology finds some safe way to alter it.
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The BMI (Body Mass Index) has become a useful tool in managing weight and body fat percentage in the last 20 years. Calculating it requires only simple arithmetic and can be performed by anyone. It's important because it provides an objective measurement that, combined with the appropriate scale for age and body type, helps someone manage their body weight more scientifically.
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It's an obvious truth that after giving birth most women's bodies make considerable adjustments. Broad hormonal changes are common and mood swings are not unusual. But one thing that many women will focus on (sometimes too much) is losing that weight and body fat gained during pregnancy.
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Proper weight management is about much more than simply focusing on a single number, your weight. There are other, very important, objective measurements to add to your intellectual toolkit - BMI, waist circumference, body fat percentage, muscle-to-fat ratio and others - in order to achieve a physical result.
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It’s a healthy body that can home a healthy mind. Fitness has been one of the prime considerations for the humans for ages. Several fitness programs have been developed for different kinds of works and sports. There are several procedures that can be devised and executed to tone the body muscles. They include running, weightlifting, exercise etc. These entire have different out comes and they require different level of skill and stamina. One of the basic requirements before going in for training is that of a good trainer. It is a great risk to try out the workouts by oneself. Every exercise has a different position and posture which when tempered with can result into sever damage to the body tissue.
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The body is very adaptable. Muscle groups work together in a graceful pattern that cooperate remarkably with one another. Remembering that the body is a complex machine that does not operate independently by muscle groups is helpful when attacking a weight training program. When one muscle group cannot handle the load, another will assist to make it easier.
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The Low Body Fat Secret Of Bodybuilders And Fitness Models
The secret to getting super lean – I'm talking about being RIPPED, not just "average body fat" – is all about mastering the art of "peaking." Most people do not have a clue about what it takes to reach the type of low body fat levels that reveal to see ripped six-pack abs, muscle striations, vascularity and extreme muscular definition, so they go about it completely the wrong way.
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Six years ago my daughter then 28 was taking regularly a very powerful pain killer for back pain. Her doctors had to monitor her usage because it could become addictive. One day I volunteered to go on a trip with a friend of mind to watch a demo of a simple machine that promised much with minimum output on the part of the user. When I tried this machine called a Chi Machine I had an amazing experience.
