6 ways to fight stress this winter
November 11, 2008
Stress can raise blood sugar levels and can cause you to change your daily routine. Below I’ve outlined tips for managing stress and finding healthy comfort foods.
1. Learn to relax. Try deep-breathing exercises during which you close your eyes, consciously relax your
body and focus on your breathing for 5 to 20 minutes each day. [...]
40 - Minute Boxing Workout.
October 5, 2008
Because this workout includes short, intense bouts of high-energy activity it reshapes muscles, burns tons of calories and elevates metabolism in a way no other workout can.
Ideally, complete 3-4 times a week! (Well, at least once!).
So, get ready to go 6 rounds with my kick-boxing workout…
Round 1: Warm up (6 minutes)
Alternate one minute of step [...]
Lifestyle Diets
September 23, 2008
Diets don’t work. Popular diets have come and gone over the past few years, even decades, and these diets have focused on cutting down or even eliminating entire groups of food. People lost some weight initially, but, of course, gained the weight right back. A growing trend today, however, is the lifestyle diet.
Lifestyle diets focus [...]
Girls: Slow It Down To See Toned Muscles
September 3, 2008

A great way to challenge your workout and really get your muscles to bulk a bit is to spend more time on your actual movements. Instead of doing fast reps with small to medium weight to exhaustions try this technique: make your movements take 3-5 counts in both directions. For example, when doing a chest [...]
Jumping the Habit Hurdle
August 18, 2008

To get healthier you need to make some adjustments to your diet and lifestyle. You know it … but you can’t do it. Why? What’s holding you back?
On the road to a healthier life there are some hurdles to jump over. One hurdle is habit.
~ Is this hurdle too high? ~
Habit is a tough hurdle [...]
With Yoga, Getting healthy Is Now Easier Than Before
August 5, 2008

It is no secret that yoga promotes a healthful and balanced lifestyle. When practiced together with a calorie burning regime, it may show exceptional results in terms of weight control.
Practicing yoga will also encourage your metabolism, increasing the calorie burning process, but you should not see it as an all-encompassing method. In addition to losing [...]
Bend me, Stretch me
July 25, 2008

If you want to get fitter, or try to lose some weight, the first point of call is your diet. You decide what you should cut back on and what you should add to your diet to achieve your goals. The second thing that you will probably consider is a good exercise program. In most [...]
Walk And Burn Your Extra Calories
July 14, 2008

Do you want to lose some extra pounds, and yet are one of those who detest going to the gym, doing all those abdominal crunches and push-ups? Well, one of the best ways to burn those extra calories is taking up a walking regimen.
Once you start walking regularly, you will begin discovering how just taking [...]





