Showing posts with label workouts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label workouts. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

4 Best Weight Loss Exercises For You


There’s no getting around the fact that in order to lose weight safely and permanently, you need to eat healthy food and get plenty of exercise.



Whatever your weight loss exercise of choice, the key to efficient weight loss is to avoid your body adapting to your weight loss program, whether it is your nutritional or exercise program: vary the mode, vary the place you train, vary the workout, vary the time of day, vary the intensity of the workout, vary the duration, vary as much as you can.


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                            - The Greatest 5 Lower Abs Exercises

1. Flexibility Exercises

This type of exercise should be done before doing anything strenuous. The body’s flexibility can be improved by carrying out a series of mobility exercises for the joints. Each joint should be exercised in turn and can be stretched or moved to just beyond its point of resistance. For improvement to take place, the stretch should be held for 8 to 10 seconds, and the mobility exercises should be carried out for at least 10 minutes.
it is cheap and easy to do, little equipment is needed, exercises can be done alone, not a lot of space is needed

2. Running

Running is an ideal exercise for weight loss: It doesn't require any equipment, other than a decent pair of Running shoes, and you don’t need a gym membership to do it.
 Running is one of the most efficient methods of burning calories. For every mile you run, you burn approx. 100 calories. Highest calorie burn and cheap as chips. All you need is a pair of quality running shoes. Plus, if you stick with it, you’ll get hooked, making weight loss and weight maintenance easy.

3. Swimming

 Swimming can be a great weight loss exercise, Thus, less stress is placed on joints – low-impact. Brilliant for those with injuries. Swimming in cool water also means your body burns calories heating itself.

4. Cardiovascular Exercises

Cardiovascular exercises are also called aerobic exercises. If your goal is just to lose weight, then these are the best types of exercise for you. Cardiovascular exercises mostly require you to move, in a manner that can feel like dancing. However, all activities that will make your heart race can be considered cardiovascular exercises. Activities like running or cycling can make your heart beat faster after a certain point is reached. When your heart starts working harder than it normally should, then you should expect that you are burning calories. Cardiovascular exercises normally involve doing and repeating certain movements, until your heartbeat increases.

If you are serious about losing weight and are going to invest your time in exercising, do your best. Push yourself – everyday. If you are not going forward, you are heading backward.






Friday, October 24, 2014

Exercise At your Desk to get a Flat Stomach


Desks, office chairs, and cubicles don’t have to get in the way of getting in shape or working out a few kinks. In fact, you can even use them to your advantage. Just don’t get caught.

You can't go to the gym? You can have a workout in your office! You will be amazed at the results that can be achieved by implementing these simple Stomach exercises in the privacy of your office.

Chair exercises for lower abs



Sit in a chair with good posture. Pretend there is a band that stretches from the bottom or your spine to the top of your head. Place your feet on the ground, hip-width apart, directly in front of you.

  1. Sit with perfect posture on the front edge of your chair with your back straight and your neck relaxed.
  2. Raise your knees toward your chest and then slowly lower them back to the floor.



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Knee Extensions

To do a knee extension strengthens the front of your thigh, also known as your quadriceps.  To do this exercise, simply straighten you knee joint and squeeze your quads for 2-4 seconds, then releasing. I recommend 10-12 times on each side.

  • Make sure your posture is straight and tall
  • Keep your other leg bent for stability
  • Breathe!


Alternating Leg Lifts with cross Body Crunch


  • Sit in a Chair
  • Sit up tall
  • Chest is lifted
  • Lift right leg with knee bent
  • Lace hands behind the head
  • Take left elbow towards right knee
  • Switch sides

Do not do this exercise if you have chronic back problems. It requires a twist, which is helpful for building abdominal muscles, but can compromise existing problems. Always keep your stomach muscles contracted for the full duration of the exercise.



If you have a private office: 

In a straight firm chair, sit with your feet flat on the floor. Crosses his arms over his chest (similar to the movement that would make a crack in the ground) bend the chest down and toward your knees until you feel your abs tighten. Return to the starting position and repeat. Just be sure to keep your arms below the shoulders.

Remember that we are human beings, built to move, walk and be mobile. Most of us however are relegated to a desk and computer so make sure to take time to do good for your body!

Fitness Routine Should Be Something You're Excited To Do



Information is power and will help you in your life's journeys. If the journey that you are currently on involves fitness, you will find this article will make you quite powerful indeed. Take the time to read on and learn some tips about how to go about reaching your fitness goals.

In order to improve fitness levels when biking, try cycling with just one leg. The benefit of this is that you are able to focus on the important part of your leg stroke, that being the even distribution of workload among all of your leg muscles. This trains your leg for the upstroke and allows the minor, smaller muscles to get a greater workout.

Also Read This: - Do you Need Eat Before Jogging in the Morning
                            - Why Sodium is Harmful To our Health?
                            - The Greatest 5 Lower Abs Exercises

Challenge yourself. Increase the amount of exercise that you do every day or every other day. You will eventually hit a plateau in your exercise routine and not be doing yourself any good when you get used to what you do normally. They always say 'no pain, no gain'.

Being fit isn't all about lifting weights. Cardiovascular exercise plays an important part of fitness as well. Activities, such as jogging or cycling, can get your heart pumping really fast, in order to burn off excess fat. It gives your muscles a workout and increases leg and core strength.

For sleeker looking arms, try exercises designed to improve your posture. Most posture exercises work all the major muscles in the arm, allowing them to be strengthened and toned. Try extending your arms until they're at shoulder height, with your elbows bent and palms up. Hold this position for at least 5 seconds, then release and repeat. Performing this exercise at least 3 times weekly should have you standing straighter and leave your arms looking great.

If you're cycling, whether one a stationary bike or a real one, try to keep your speed between about 80 RPM and 110 RPM. You'll be able to go much longer before you get tired and you won't put as much strain on your knees. You can figure out your RPMs by counting the number of times your right leg comes to the top of the pedal in ten seconds and then multiply that by 6.

Once you commit to your fitness plan, do not let an injury keep you out of the game. If you get the okay from your doctor, there are always ways to work around an injury and get in some sort of a workout. Working muscles that are not injured will burn calories and help keep you fit while you heal.

When starting to workout, get a daily regiment going. After you know how to do everything and what muscle group to work out, try improving the speed of your workout. By that time you should be doing your workouts faster, which forces your muscles to work harder and improve strength.

To maximize the benefits of your bench-press routines, try to squeeze the bar inward when you are doing your presses. This will cause more of your chest muscles to work harder. Change to squeezing outward when doing the close-grip version of a bench-press to work your triceps much harder.

In order to avoid injuries, you should give your shoes an expiration date. You can use a pair of shoes for about 500 miles before it is time to replace them. To figure out when you should set your shoes expiration date, divide 500 by your weekly mileage. Write the expiration date on your shoes when you purchase them to be sure that you do not forget it.

If you want your kids to get more exercise, try making it a competition. Buy everyone in your family a pedometer. Each day mark down how many steps each person has walked. At the end of the week, tally the totals up and see who the winner is. Come up with a good prize for the winner - a new toy, an extra desert, or getting to choose dinner for the night.

Achieving your fitness goals is going to make you feel great! If you apply the helpful tips, given to you in this article to your life every day, you will likely find that getting fit is not as difficult and time consuming as you once thought that it was.



Sunday, October 19, 2014

The Greatest 5 Lower Abs Exercises


we got a lot of questions about Stomach Exercises in our facebook page and twitter, I'd write an Article about 5 Great Stomach Exercises but I didn't focus on Lower Abs, in this Article I'll share with you 5 of the Greatest Lower Abs Exercises.

Here are 5 of the most effective Lower Abs Exercises. In fact these five exercises are free from all that annoying routine of sit-ups that are super exhausting and not that effective.

These 5 Lower Abs Exercises can be carried out in a circuit fashion for an outstanding abdominal exercise that will assist in burning belly fat exclusive of forcing any stress on your lower back.

1. Planks 

 This move really engages the core and it's one I had to work up to being able to do. Lay on your stomach, toes tucked beneath you. Place forearms flat on the ground shoulder width apart. Sucking in your tummy raise your body from the ground and hold for 30 seconds. Do this two times daily.



2. Hanging Knee/Leg Raises

 This is an advanced lower abs exercise that requires something that you can hang from, such as a pullup bar.



  1. Begin by holding onto an overhead bar and hanging loosely in the air. Actively pack your shoulders down onto your ribcage so that your shoulders are not elevated up near your ears. It will feel like a strong muscular contraction to get your shoulders down, much like the start of a pullup. If you’re facing a mirror, you should see little “diamonds” of air between your arms and neck. This is your starting position.
  2. Exhale and slowly lift your legs up in the air in front of you, folding at the hips. Try to time the depth of your exhale with how high you lift your legs. The higher you lift, the more you exhale. If your strength levels allow, do these with straight legs. If not, simply bring your thighs up to your belly until you can practice with extended legs.
  3. Once your legs are as high as you can lift them, pause for a moment to regain control of the movement. You should have very little or no air in your lungs.
  4. Then, allow your legs to lower under control until you are hanging again. Do not swing up or down, as this will negate the effects on the lower abs.
  5. Perform 1-3 sets for 10-20 slow repetitions.

3. Torso Twist

A- Sit on a chair with your feet flat on the floor and Grasp a Ball in front of you, (or a bag of flour) at chest level, with your arms extended.

B- With your hips square and abs tight, breathe out as you slowly rotate your upper body about 45 degrees to the right. Return to the center and repeat on your left side. Complete 10 reps.





4. Captain's Chair


All you need to do this exercise is a chair.
(works the lower rectus abdominis)

  • Sit on the chair with your spine straight and shoulders relaxed.
  • Keep both hands beside you with your palms by the side of your hips, facing downward.
  • Inhale deeply.
  • Now as you exhale, bring both your legs upwards such that your knees are close to your chest. Hold for 5 seconds. Don’t bend forward and arch your back.
  • Bring down your leg slowly and Repeat Moves 1-4 once more, you're done.

5. Cross body mountain climbers

The cross body mountain climbers is the final exercise for this circuit. Rather than what you do with the regular mountain climber workout where you bring your knees to your chest, the twist to add to help work the lower abs muscles will be that with the revolving you are going to convey your knee to the converse elbow. The integration of the rotation element basically allows for better and effective Lower Abs Exercises.

Easier option: Do the move for 20 seconds; rest in position (A) for 20 seconds; continue the move for another 20 seconds.

Works: Cardio, abdominals, chest, shoulders and triceps





These are some great starting moves to help tighten that pesky pooch. Most women I know have difficulties with this region, and it's no surprise considering regular crunches don't really engage all your abdominals. The best part about this pooch punishing workout is that you don't have to go to a gym to do it! Try it out and share it with your friends, and tell us What are your favorite lower abs exercises in a comment?







Wednesday, October 15, 2014

today's workout Butt Lift (Bridge)




  1. Lie flat on the floor on your back with the hands by your side and your knees bent. Your feet should be placed around shoulder width. This will be your starting position.
  2. Pushing mainly with your heels, lift your hips off the floor while keeping your back straight. Breathe out as you perform th
    is part of the motion and hold at the top for a second.
  3. Slowly go back to the starting position as you breathe in.


Variations: You can perform this exercise one leg at a time.


Sunday, March 16, 2014

Do you need to Eat before Jogging in the Morning?



to do some stomach exercises you need to jog first, but after that you need to ask this questions, do I need eat before jogging? if I need that, what should I eat? a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 2003 concluded that people who skip their breakfast are four and a half times more likely to be overweight than those who regularly eat their cereal or eggs.

as saying "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" is especially true for runners. breakfast not only will help you to recover from exercises, also it can help you lose weight and keep it off .
read this : 5 Great Stomach exercises

what to eat?

If you take a run longer than 30-minute Columbia Health suggests to eat a small snack containing protein and carbohydrates first, like a banana with a little peanut butter.
Making wise choices for breakfast. Choose grains and foods low in salt and fat in general. You can try high fiber cereal, smoothies, oatmeal, a healthy breakfast sandwich or egg whites.

Why?

When you first wake up in the morning, you will be a lack of energy. This is because your body burns calories even when you do nothing at all. After a full night's sleep, you may have burned a thousand food calories without doing something more intense dream. For some people, this means it is the ideal place to start exercising without refueling time. Weight loss self-proclaimed gurus as Ti Caudron say that because you are running out of fuel at this stage, whatever working out you do will go toward burning fat. Therefore, it is best to avoid eating before running in the morning, if your goal is to lose weight as fast as possible.

"It's a contradiction, but you really do need the calories to perform well," Barbara Lewin, R.D., L.D., a sports nutritionist who works with professional and Olympic athletes, said in an earlier interview about sports drink alternatives. "The calories are what's enabling you to work out at your best. If you're not well-fueled, you're not going to work out as hard."

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Friday, March 14, 2014

5 Great Stomach Exercises

5 Great Stomach Exercises

Who doesn't want a flat stomach? the majority of people involved in weight loss believe that it's all about the calories. If you burn calories more than you take in, you lose weight. If you take in more calories than you can burn, the body gains fat. While this piece of logic may make sense, it is only partly true. What burns calories nonstop is actually the lean muscle mass underneath body fat that allows more intake of calories without weight gain.

Below are the great five variations of Stomach exercises as ranked by the study:

The Bicycle Exercise :

the best way to address the six pack and obliques. To do this: 
  • Lie on your mat and place your hands behind your head, supporting it lightly with your fingers. 
  • Bring your knees toward your chest and lift the shoulder blades off the floor without pulling on the neck. 
  • Turn left, bringing the right elbow towards the left knee, straighten the other leg. 
  • Switch sides, bringing the left elbow towards the right knee. 
  • Continue alternating sides in a move to "pedal" for 1-3 sets of 13-17 repetitions.
The Bicycle Exercise

Chair Leg Raise :

The captain's chair is a training framework that allows you to do hanging leg raises. There are two arms of the chair on each side to support the weight of your body as you lift the legs that are either bent or straight. Doing a straight leg raise in the captain's chair is much more difficult and is something you have to work up to completion.
 to do this right you should follow this steps:

  • Do not let your back arch as you exercise.
  • Do not swing your legs. Lift them.
  • Make sure your movements are slow and controlled. Your movements should come from your ab region, not your upper body.
video by Danny Navar


Gym ball crunch :

Sit on the Gym ball. lie back on the ball and relax with your hands behind your head and knees and hips bent. Hyperextension gently contour of the ball. Hold plate behind neck or on chest with both hands or use no weight.

watch this exercise in this video with Scott Herman

The Super-Plank :

You want to upgrade your plank without moving? it is simple bring your elbows forward and closer. Bring your heels together, and make sure your body is in a perfectly straight line. Now hang your core and glutes as hard as possible. and you done: do this for 20 seconds if you can, you have done your training six times more efficient.

step 1. Hand walkout: 

The Super-Plank
Bend your hips 
so your hands and feet are closer to the ground.

step 2. Hand walkout:

The Super-Plank
With feet rooted in place, slowly walk your hands forward until your body forms a straight line from head to heels, then return to starting position.

Bench Leg Crunch:

This is another effective exercise for the Stomach and the oblique method. It is similar to a regular crunch, but the legs are up, forcing to use your abs to do all the work and adding intensity exercise.
  • lie on a flat bench or a table, gripping the other end behind your head for support.
  • extend the legs straight up with knees crossed until they are almost vertical.
  • Lower and repeat for 1-3 sets of 13-17 reps.

Bench Leg Crunch




Sources for this article include:
exercise.about.com/od/weightloss/u/weightlossbasics.htm
www.mensfitness.co.uk/exercises/abs-workout/172/bench-leg-raise

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

4 Great Tips on Treadmill Workouts

4 Great Tips on Treadmill Workouts

Treadmill workouts can be done at home. This makes them a favorite for weight management and staying in tip top physical condition. You do not need to drive to the fitness center unless you desire to do so - or even wait for perfect weather conditions. You can securely workout in the day or even night. Most treadmill models are also designed for easy storage.

However, despite their many advantages, many people think of treadmill workouts as an inferior option to running compared to the open road. You might not like them, but treadmills provide a great option for maintaining fitness : The soft belt is easier on joints than concrete or pavement. Running on a treadmill instead of on harder surfaces like pavement decreases your odds of a stress fracture by about 48 percent, one study revealed.

Your treadmill workouts always accomplish the preferred distance and you cannot cheat on speed. I recommend you take a closer look at treadmill workouts. Only then will you see the special advantages of this form of exercise. A few methods to get the best from your workout sessions on your treadmill:

1- Establish The Scene For Your Treadmill Workouts

Put on a really good pair of workout shoes and also a loosely fitting workout attire that is light enough to prevent you from overheating during your treadmill workout. Place a container of your favorite exercise refreshment in the mug holder. Lastly, play some good workout songs.

Remember to drink plenty of water during your workout so you won't become dehydrated. Use a water bottle that is small enough to hold with one hand. And also, always keep the water or drink as cool as possible. Keep a towel around to keep your face, hands, and head as dry as possible.

If earbuds or perhaps headsets annoy you, using a treadmill rather than running on the street has a major benefit, as you may utilize your regular home hi-fi. Select a mix that possesses slower tracks for your warm-up period and faster beats for increased speed. Listening to music as you workout can help you extend your treadmill workouts as well as reach greater intensities. Thus, it would be wise to increase your usage of treadmills. You can also watch your preferred television program or movie during your workout session.

2- Incorporate Interval Training Into Your Treadmill Workouts

When using a treadmill, you control the landscape. Spend some time utilizing a reasonable slope as well as some using a greater one. Switch between high speed and slow tempos to increase endurance as well as shed even more calories. You can additionally create larger and stronger muscles by adding walking lunges and holding small weights in your hands while working out. This form of interval training can easily change your treadmill workouts from being dull and difficult to more fascinating workouts that can be completed in a shorter period of time.

3- Choose Longer Treadmill Workouts

Your normal running speed will certainly feel a bit easier as well as slower on the treadmill than on the track. As an example, you could hit a heart rate of 170 beats per minute running a 9 min kilometer outdoors, however only approximately 140 beats every min for a similar workout on the treadmill. Recompense by devoting a little additional time on the treadmill to develop your endurance. You will burn additional calories, also. Depending upon your body weight and level of fitness, a 30-minute treadmill routine can easily burn about 310 calories if you sustain that 8 min kilometer pace. You can burn 460 calories by increasing your treadmill workout to 45 minutes.

4- Go Higher, Not Faster

As you enhance your speed as well as durability on the treadmill, it may be tempting to increase the intensity of your exercise by boosting the rate. Instead, use a component that your treadmill has that running courses are short of. Improve the intensity through establishing a steeper slope. This enables you to use different muscle groups while making your workout a lot more challenging. There is actually documentation that a slight slope on your treadmill could lessen the threat of injuries.

For all of these exercises, remember to jog slowly for 5 minutes to warm up and for your cool down. Stretching before and after your treadmill workouts is also a good idea.

The take home point is: Consider the benefits of your present workout devices as opposed to their disadvantages. By doing so, you will get additional satisfaction out of your weight loss training as well as better end results. Treadmills have one-of-a-kind advantages over other training resources. So, learn how to maximize your treadmill workouts.

Download this Treadmill spreadsheet if you'de like to try it.

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