Showing posts with label abdominal fat. love handle exercises. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abdominal fat. love handle exercises. Show all posts

Monday, April 5, 2010

Stand Tall for Long Term Health Benefits

Few people truly understand the importance to our health of standing tall.
Look at these benefits with improved posture:

1) Reduce Chronic Pain
Poor posture causes crowding of joint structures so that compression, tension and pain can occur. However with improved posture, optimal movement and efficency returns and the opportunity for the body to repair itself can occur.


2) Organs Function Better
All organs need some space to operate efficiently. Lungs, for example, can be effected badly from a hunched back (thoracic kyphosis) as impairment can occur regarding the ability to fully expand the diaphragm.

3) Improve Athletic Performance Now
Rotation of body parts must be optimal for peak performance. Obviously when full rotation can not occur due to poor posturre, one's athletic ability must be compromised. Power, agility, and speed can be therefore affected. Improved posture is so important to maximum athletic performance, and awareness of this can make a substantial difference over the long term.

4) Emotional State Improvement
Researchers have found a link between depression and stooped posture. How you carry yourself is a representation of psycho-neurological state which also effects emotions, beliefs and attitudes.

Simple Steps For Improving Your Posture Now

1) Getting a personalized exercise program tailor made to your own physique would have to be the very best way to go. Let the experts guide you with a program of exercises for better alignment and posture.

2) Work ergonomics can play an important part in improvement. Being aware of hunching over and stopping this occurring, taking regular breaks to move around, standing and sitting tall, regular healthy exercise are all obvious choices. Question is - they are so obvious but how is your posture and do you take notice of these key elements in your own daily routines?

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Inactivity Leads to Mental Decline: Why Won't We Simply Do a Fat Loss Fitness Routine?

Inactivity Leads to Mental Decline: Why Won't We Simply Do a Fat Loss Fitness Routine?


Startling new research shows that being a slob, over the long term, can lead to mental health challenges. Evidence presented recently by the University of Bristol research team shows that long term inactivity can lead to dementia and depression.


How does that make you feel? I feel a knot in the stomach hearing research like this. All around the western world obesity is growing. The figures are frightening. The uptake of diabetes is soaring which usually has a direct link to obesity and lack of exercise.


Currently only 35% of men and 24% of women reach the recommended weekly amount of physical activity.


Professor Nanette Mutrie, an expert in exercise and sport psychology at the University of Strathclyde, "It's only recently that people have begun to see the link between physical activity and mental health.


As a society when will we wake up and heed the call of the experts? Put simply, ten to twenty minutes of exercise three to four times a week really is not that challenging. Why don't we help ourselves to become fit and healthy? It really is not hard to do or difficult. Fat loss fitness routines are easy to do and are fun when you find the right one for you.


Look at resources such as this here. Truth About Abs
Simple to do and used by thousands of people with documented results.
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Fat loss fitness routines and a careful but simplistic view of eating healthy foods most of the time is the tonic for long term health.



Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Start Your Day With This Magnificent Secret

This inspirational video of only 2 minutes 34 seconds is one of the most powerful ways to start your morning and to remember you have the possibility of making every day great - if you believe it to be so.

Love handle exercises or any other fitness routine requires your mind to be focussed on what you want to become. Not what you are in the present. The secret is to build your ideal you and to live by the mantra,

I am the best me, I can be!

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Tip
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If the video stalls just pause it for a few minutes and then play


Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Love Handle Exercises: Strategy 1 - Side Bends

Love Handle Exercises: Strategy 1 - Side Bends

As part of your love handle exercises strategy, Side Bends are brilliant for conditioning the side of your waist called the obliques. I often do 70-100 of them side to side about 2-3 times a week and have noticed a definite decreasing in size and feeling that this exercise is very effective in getting results.

This exercise will get you huffing and puffing too, in a moderate way, if you do them quickly.
Flexibility and strength of the abdominal area will be your reward for repeated doses of this great love handle exercise.

How to perform effectively the Side Bend

The starting phase is to start with your feet shoulder width apart in a comfortable stance.

Then raise your right arm straight up so that your bicep is virtually touching on your ear.

Bend as far as possible to the left side in extreme fashion so that one arm is reaching way down past the side of your leg to the calf region and the right arm stays upwards close to your ear.

As you get this stretch as far as possible, rock back and forward once just a couple of inches before retracting back and changing sides as quickly as possible.

Go side from side and repeat this exercise for 50 - 120 times. Each time go for more repetitions and beat your best.

If you do this in fast (but effective) fashion, you will also get some aerobic benefit. This love handle exercise routine dictates normal breathing whilst taking part.

Whilst undertaking any love handle exercises, it is critical to see yourself in your minds eye (as thin and fit) and feel how good it is to be this way (even if you are not in reality). Visualizing your future success now is an important mind technique that will add fuel to your routine.

Do this Love Handle Exercises strategy stand alone or with any other fitness routine but for best results do it effectively without loss of form.

Good luck and get cracking. Only applied action ever gets results.

I struggled for many many years in losing weight and getting fit. Finally some bad news about my heart motivated to make big changes. I found this site also. It helped me with great love handle exercises, workouts and diet tips that are practical and easy to follow.

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Friday, November 30, 2007

Why excess abdominal fat is more DEADLY than you think

Below is an article contributed by Mike Geary, the founder of TruthAboutAbs.com . I thought this was an important topic to share with you because the reality is that most people simply don't realize how dangerous their excess abdominal fat really is to their health.

The Hidden Dangers of Your Excess Abdominal Fat - It's More Serious Than a Vanity Issue!

by Mike Geary, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer

Did you know that the vast majority of people in this day and age have excess abdominal fat? The first thing that most people think of is that their extra abdominal fat is simply ugly, is covering up their abs from being visible, and makes them self conscious about showing off their body.

However, what most people don't realize is that excess abdominal fat in particular, is not only ugly, but is also a dangerous risk factor to your health. Scientific research has clearly demonstrated that although it is unhealthy in general to have excess body fat throughout your body, it is also particularly dangerous to have excess abdominal fat.

There are two types of fat that you have in your abdominal area. The first type that covers up your abs from being visible is called subcutaneous fat and lies directly beneath the skin and on top of the abdominal muscles.

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The second type of fat that you have in your abdominal area is called visceral fat, and that lies deeper in the abdomen beneath your muscle and surrounding your organs. Visceral fat also plays a role in giving certain men that "beer belly" appearance where their abdomen protrudes excessively but at the same time, also feels sort of hard if you push on it.

Both subcutaneous fat and visceral fat in the abdominal area are serious health risk factors, but science has shown that having excessive visceral fat is even more dangerous than subcutaneous fat. Both of them greatly increase the risk your risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, sleep apnea, various forms of cancer, and other degenerative diseases.

Part of the reason visceral fat is particularly dangerous is that it apparently releases more inflammatory molecules into your body on a consistent basis.

If you care about the quality of your life and your loved ones, reducing your abdominal fat should be one of your TOP priorities! There's just no way around it. Besides, a side-effect of finally getting rid of all of that excessive ugly abdominal fat is that your stomach will flatten out, and if you lose enough stomach fat, you will be able to visibly see those sexy six pack abs that everyone wants.

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So what gets rid of extra abdominal fat? Is there actually a REAL solution beyond all of the gimmicks and hype that you see in ads and on commercials for "miracle" fat loss products?
The first thing you must understand is that there is absolutely NO quick fix solution. There are no pills or supplements of any sort that will help you lose your abdominal fat faster. Also, none of the gimmicky ab rockers, rollers, or ab belts will help get rid of abdominal fat either. You can't spot reduce your stomach fat by using any of these worthless contraptions. It simply doesn't work that way.

The ONLY solution to consistently lose your abdominal fat and keep it off for good is to combine a sound nutritious diet full of unprocessed natural foods with a properly designed strategic exercise program that stimulates the necessary hormonal and metabolic response within your body. Both your food intake as well as your training program are important if you are to get this right.

I've actually even seen a particular study that divided thousands of participants into a diet-only group and an exercise/diet group. While both groups in this study made good progress, the diet-only group lost significantly LESS abdominal fat than the diet & exercise combined group.

Now the important thing to realize is that just any old exercise program will not necessarily do the trick. The majority of people that attempt getting into a good exercise routine are NOT working out effectively enough to really stimulate the loss of stubborn abdominal fat. I see this everyday at the gym.

Most people will do your typical boring ineffective cardio routines, throw in a little outdated body-part style weight training, and pump away with some crunches and side bends, and think that they are doing something useful for reducing their abdominal fat. Then they become frustrated after weeks or months of no results and wonder where they went wrong.

Well, the good news is that I've spent over a decade researching this topic, analyzing the science, and applying it "in the trenches" with myself as well as thousands of my clients from all over the world to see what works to really stimulate abdominal fat loss.

The entire solution... all of the nutritional strategies, as well as training sequences, exercise combinations, and more have all been compiled in my Truth About Six Pack Abs Program.
Keep in mind that the point of this whole program is NOT abdominal exercises (that is only a very small portion of it). The main point of this program is showing you the absolute most effective strategies for losing your stubborn abdominal fat, so you can get rid of that dangerous health risk, as well as get a flatter more defined midsection.

If you follow the guidelines, you WILL lose your belly fat that has been plaguing you for years. This is not guesswork... it is a proven system that works time and time again for all of my clients on every corner of the globe that actually apply the information I teach. If you apply it, the results will come. It's really that simple.

The only reason most people fail in their fitness goals is that they have good intentions at first to adopt a new lifestyle, yet after a few weeks or months, they abandon their good intentions and slip right back into their old bad habits that gave them the excess body fat in the first place.

I want to help you succeed in finally getting rid of that extra abdominal fat that is not only UGLY, but also DANGEROUS.

Don't waste another day allowing that nasty abdominal fat to kill your confidence as well as contribute to your risk for MAJOR diseases.

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Train hard, eat right, and enjoy life!

Mike Geary
Certified Nutrition Specialist
Certified Personal Trainer
Author - The Truth about Six Pack Abs