Category Archives: Fitness

Lose Weight with Dance as exercise

I’ve lost 28lbs in the last six months or so, and I’m looking – and feeling great, but there are some bits that need firming up, particularly around the stomach and waist area. Swimming is helping with all over toning, but it’s not addressing the midsection, so when I saw an advert for belly dancing classes, run by our local council, I decided to give it a go.

I live in a small village on the Costa Blanca, with a fairly large expat population. I assumed the class would be full of expats, as I couldn’t imagine the locals going in for something as sensual as belly dancing. How wrong can you be? There’s another English girl, and the rest of the class are Spanish, ranging in age from about 20 years old to around 60. At 57, I’m the second eldest in the class.

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Fitness Basic: Why muscles get sore

Our muscles give us sensations of pain when they are damaged and during their recovery period. Such muscle damage can occur from a number of causes that might be divided into four categories: acute onset muscle soreness (AOMS), delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), muscle cramping and muscle trauma (injury/wounding).

Muscles are composed of multiple muscle cells or fibers, the number of fibers being dependent on location and purpose of the muscle. While the number of muscle fibers in a particular muscle varies little between people, within each fiber may be a highly variable number of myofibrils parallel to each other. The more work the muscle cell is put to, the more myofibrils it will construct, as it is within these myofibrils that the contraction and release resulting in muscle function occurs.

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Improve Your Sleep Quality with Yoga

Sleep is an essential part of having a healthy and well balanced life. A good bedtime routine helps the body prepare for deep and relaxing sleep that is needed for our bodies to rest. Insomnia is a sleeping disorder basically characterized by inadequate time of good quality sleep.

The best management for insomnia is treating the underlying cause. Nowadays, yoga is one of the most famous practices to relieve stress, get a good night sleep, and be healthy. “Yoga” is a Sanskrit term which means union. Originated in India, yoga is the union of the mind body and spirit.

According to experts, yoga really helps to get a good night sleep with yoga’s stimulatory effect on the brain and the whole nervous system. Yoga allows better blood circulation in the brain which normalizes the sleep cycle. A minute of yoga practice is equal to a minute of the number of sleep required.

Below are some techniques you can do.

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Tips to Keep Fitness at Work

Keeping fit at work may seem hard, especially if you have a desk job in a cubicle. Nevertheless, it’s vital to be fit at your workplace. Only a fit person can pay his/her full potential in work.

Try some of the following tips to be fit at your workplace:

  • Take a good and healthy diet when you are at work. Fruits keep you active at work and vegetables are good for your eyes and skin. Always include a few walnuts and almonds. Five large human epidemiological studies, all found that nut consumption is linked to a lower risk for heart disease.
  • Always take lots of water when you are working. Water provides you essential minerals and oxygen in your body.
  • Do not sit idle on your chair for more than 30 minutes. Take a break after every 30 minutes and keep moving to help your blood circulations flowing.
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How to Quit Smoking

Smoking is such a foul habit. It smells, burns holes in your clothes and furniture.From the health side, there are health risks associated with smoking: cancer, emphysema, elevated blood pressure, the effects of second-hand smoke on loved ones the list goes on. If you are reading this article, chances are you are a smoker who wants to quit smoking, or you are concerned for someone who smokes.

The level of addiction is a factor that should not be underestimated when deciding how to quit.Quitting smoking will be probably the hardest thing you have ever done. The longer you have smoked the harder it is to quit. Luckily, there are many ways to stop. Some take pills. Zaban is one.Then there is Chantix. Being hypnotized helps some, others it’s a waste of money. However, to quit smoking, the most important ingredient is, quite simply, the desire to stop. Without this real, heartfelt purpose, a smoker’s chances of kicking the habit are virtually nil.

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