Lack of Exercise

I have never met a healthy person or centenarian that lives a physically inactive life. Exercise is essential for a healthy metabolism, proper energy circulation, and the expelling of cellular wastes. Being overweight and inactive is a surefire path to rapid aging and a host of diseases. Cardiovascular exercise is the key to speeding up your metabolism, burning excess calories, and fighting body fat. Brisk walking, hiking, jogging, swimming, bicycling, stair climbing, the options are endless for cardio health! Exercise for 30 minutes at 60-80% of your MHR (you find this number by subtracting your age from 220). Regular exercise is also the key to preventing non-insulin dependent diabetes, which is the fastest growing disease in industrialized countries throughout the world.

You can stave off rapid aging to your muscles, joints, and tendons by practicing exercises that extend your range of motion; some options include tai chi, qigong and yoga. Check out simple tai chi moves that you can learn easily in, Harmony Tai Chi. Also, moderate load-bearing exercises are essential for bone density and muscle strength. Don't forget when you are exercising to always warm up and cool down properly to avoid injury.
 

Did you know....Poor diet probably affects your health more than anything else you do. When you eat a poor diet--fatty, processed, or fried foods and simple sugars, you invite rapid aging by burdening your body with chemical additives and trans-fats and depriving your body of essential nutrients. On the other hand, when you eat the whole natural foods, you prevent disease and improve organ functioning.

Your diet should consist of a wide array of colors and balance or organic sources of lean protein, complex carbohydrates, whole grains, legumes, nuts, fruits and vegetables. Numerous studies show that the different pigments in the skins of fruits and vegetables are powerful antioxidants that are crucial for maintaining health, preventing cancer and protecting against environmental toxins.

Quick Tip....Avoid fatty foods, processed or fried foods. Keep dairy to a minimum because most are high in saturated fat. Keep all candy, sugar, soda and all refined sugars out of of your diet. You truly are what you eat.

Why Indoor Aerobic training does Nothing for Your Rear End!!

The only way to add shape and tone to a muscles is to exercise it. stress it out and stimulate it. If you don't use it, you will lose it, in theory! We all know that squats, lunges and leg presses will give us that shape and tone we want for our backside, but wouldn't it be great to get those same benefits when you do your aerobic workout -- especially when we know so many of our clients, both male and female, are looking to add shape and tone to their rear ends?

Treadmills, stair steppers, elliptical machines and stationary bikes are great for aerobic conditioning and are highly recommended, but those machines don't activate or stimulate our hamstrings and glutes enough to add shape and tone to our butt muscles. Almost everyone wants a nice, shapely, toned bottom, and strength training will definitely address that when properly performed. But did you know that all your hours on those indoor aerobic machines add nothing to your glutes?

When you walk, jog or climb stairs, you stimulate all the muscles of the lower body. The continual contraction of the quadriceps, hamstrings and gluteus are what moves us down the road or track. The various exercise machines that are designed to simulate running, climbing and biking are great for the aerobic part of the workout, Unfortunately, they end up doing all the work we want our hamstrings and gluteus to do. This is why they are not great for adding tone and shape to our bottoms.
 

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