Start Losing Weight Today!

There’s no real secret to losing weight other than eat less and exercise more. I can almost hear a lot of your say; “But I have no time to exercise!” This isn’t entirely accurate because there are lots of exercising opportunities if you only think outside the box.

Consider these few ideas.

1. Park your car the farthest away from the store or mall. A few extra steps will go a long way to adding some great exercise to your daily life. It never ceases to amaze me when people will continue to circle a parking lot looking for a close parking space so they can go into an exercise club. We all need to be aware of exercising opportunities that will get us away from sitting behind a desk in front of a computer and out and about.

2. Take the stairs. Look for opportunities to use stairways, instead of elevators and escalators. Stairs are a good cardiovascular workout can be found in any building higher than one floor. If you work in a multi-story building and cannot climb all the stairs to your office, start with one or two flights and work up from there. The key point is to start today that exercise to your life

3. Do your own vacuuming and housecleaning. If you’re like most of us and have children, you’ve no doubt outsourced some of the more mundane housecleaning chores like vacuuming. Consider taking that job back, as part of your exercise routine. Think about it, moving an object back and forth across the carpet offers a good exercise for your upper body. Simply vacuum one room using your right hand then switch to the left in the next room. Add to this that you’ll no doubt be bending to pick up stuff left by the kids, and you have a good opportunity for exercise.

4. Gardening is another exercise that shouldn’t be ignored. Mowing the lawn, like vacuuming inside the home, can give a great mini workout.

Adding little things like these exercise opportunities to your life can help increase your metabolism and generally make you feel better. No matter what the weight loss program were diet plan you prefer, all require exercise for success. Every extra activity that you add to your daily routine will help burn calories. Burned calories translate into more weight lost over the same period of time.

The adage to simply eat less and exercise more is the basis for all weight loss plans and programs. Although many products have been designed that promise fast and easy weight loss, they only work to help support the eat less and exercise more mantra.

Don’t make the mistake of wanting to lose weight without the commitment to make the changes necessary in your lifestyle. 95% of the people who are successful with their weight loss program that do not work on the lifestyle changes will end up gaining all their weight back.

If this is you, don’t become discouraged or disillusioned. Maintaining a healthy weight is a lifelong commitment that many of us work at daily. If you cheat on your diet or your weight loss isn’t what you expected for the week, or you just took that close in parking space, don’t beat yourself up about it. Successful dieting is long term in one day does not a failure make

Abigail Franks
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"finally! How to Eat Stop Exercise"

“Finally! How To Eat Stop Exercise”

Scientific Research Proves That Eat Stop Exercise Will Help You Lose Weight, Burn Stubborn Body Fat, and Naturally Boost Growth Hormone - All While Preserving Your Lean Muscle and Metabolism

Discover why one simple change to the way you eat and exercise will make you forget about every other super-complicated weight loss, diet, and exercise program

“This Article will question everything you’ve ever been told about eating and exercising for body fat loss. Natalie’s FREE Article turns the industry upside down and shows you how to eat normally, while making one slight, easy change that could be the missing link in your body fat loss, exercise, and nutrition program.”

Are you ready to improve your body, your health and your life?

Then Let’s Get Going…

Dear friend,

If you’ve found this site then you are probably looking for a great weight loss and body fat burning program and may have already heard about Eat Stop Exercise. Most likely, you’ve read about Eat Stop Exercise somewhere on the internet and are curious about what this Report and E-book is all about and who wrote it.

Well let me be right up front with you, My name is Natalie Pyles and I wrote Eat Stop Exercise to help people understand the amazing weight loss and exercise results they can get by using a simple combination of flexible periods of intermittent fasting and weight training.

Now, I know what you are thinking, ‘Did he just say fasting?’. Yes, Fasting. But, before you read any further, let me assure you, with Eat Stop Exercise, your metabolism will not slow down, you will not lose muscle, your workouts will not suffer, and you will not become a ravenous eating machine.

You will simply lose weight, quicker and easier than ever before.

I understand this may seem a little confusing, after all everyone has heard of things like ‘starvation mode’, and the benefits of eating multiple small meals during the day.

So how can so many people be raving about the Eat Stop Exercise program if it involves short periods of intermittent fasting? Wouldn’t they all just go into starvation mode and stop losing weight?

In reality, many of these so called “diet and exercise truths” are actually incorrect. They are all based on the principle that you must keep eating to lose weight. This idea has never made any sense to me, yet the diet industry keeps on trying to convince you that in order to lose weight you must keep eating!

There are literally billions of dollars being spent every year on weight loss, diet, and exercise books It seems like a new book comes out everyday telling you what you need to eat and how to exercise to start losing weight.

I’ll be the first to admit that many of these programs will work, at least for the first month or two (as long as you are restricting your calories and constantly exercising), but none of them can promise long-lasting weight loss. They are simply too restrictive, too complicated and let’s face it, some of these diets can consume your life. You can spend your entire day planning and preparing your meals!

Trust me, if you want to lose weight this sort of obsessive compulsive eating is simply not needed. Eat Stop Exercise outlines the real reasons behind why people are successful at losing weight and burning body fat without following some ridiculously difficult weight loss and exercise program.

In fact, I created Eat Stop Exercise to be an “ANTI-DIET” for people that are sick and tired of trying to measure out and eat 6 small meals per day. If you are frustrated and overwhelmed by trying to follow the rules of “bodybuilder style nutrition”, then Eat Stop Exercise is for you.

Did you know?
~Short-term fasting does not decrease fat burning enzymes. In fact, scientific research Clearly shows that the exact opposite happens - Short-term Fasting increases the activity of fat burning enzymes.~

You see, I have spent my life studying nutrition, exercise,  and weight loss, and I have taken a very unusual path that ultimately led me to writing Eat Stop Exercise.

For starters, I have an honors degree in nutrition sciences and nursing. So I understand the classic academic approach to how we should eat. I spent four years of university studying all of the typical ‘eat less calories than you burn’ type of stuff you need to know to become a dietitian.

Now here’s were it gets interesting, right after university, instead of becoming a naturopathec doctor, I started working in the weight loss industry. From managing & Owning 2 very successful sports nutrition stores to consulting start up companies, manufacturers and top fitness companies, I have seen the inner working of the industry that only a privileged few have ever seen.

Sure, a lot of people like to talk about supplements, but how many have actually helped design some of the most popular products on the market? You can talk all you want, but until you have actually worked on the inside, you really have no idea how the weight loss and supplement industry works.

During my time in the industry part of my responsibilities included traveling the world learning about potential cures for obesity (weight loss supplements are big money, so the first company to come out with a new ingredient that actually worked would be making billions).

From China, Germany, Scotland, England and all over North America, I have had the privilege of meeting some of the world’s greatest minds in nutrition, exercise and weight loss.

Not only have I been lucky enough to travel the world but I have also had unlimited access to state of the art exercise physiology equipment, the kind of equipment that would make many University laboratories green with envy.

With this equipment I was able to conduct multiple body composition tests on numerous athletes and top level bodybuilders and monitor them while they dieted and tried new experimental weight loss programs.

We’re talking cutting edge stuff.

In fact, it was these experiments that ultimately led me to leave the industry and pursue graduate studies in human biology and nutritional sciences.

Many of the experiments I conducted had results that were VERY different from what I expected, and I soon realized that if I were to truly understand nutrition’s role in weight loss, then I would have to start from the very beginning and study what happens to the body when it goes without ANY food.

Believe it or not, Eat Stop Exercise is actually all the research from the scientific reviews I completed in top notch schooling.

That’s right, my research was on ‘The Metabolic Effects of Short Periods of Fasting in Humans and its Potential Application in Weight Loss’, so in essence when you read Eat Stop Exercise what you are really reading is an easy to read version of my experience and education!

I paid over 10,000 dollars to gain this information, and now you are getting it for 333 times less than what I paid!

Aside from being a nutrition and exercise professional, I am also an athlete. I have competed in (and won) NPC Fitness contests and played all types of competitive sports.

In fact, I have been a weight room junkie my whole life. If I believed that Eat Stop Exercise caused you to lose even an ounce of muscle, I would never have published it.

As you can see, my background is pretty unique. How many other people are there in the world, who have worked in research and development for the weight loss supplement industry for almost a decade, left that industry to study the metabolic effects of short periods of fasting, and who are avid weight trainers, and then decided to share this information in the form of a book?

I may very well be the only person in the world with this type of experience, and it is this experience that makes Eat Stop Exercise so unique, and so unlike any other nutrition and exercise book in existence.

Eat Stop Exercise is not about eating certain amounts of food in certain food groups, nor does it push any special ‘rules’ on you about what you can and can’t eat and when and why to exercise. What it does show you is the simplest, easiest way to lose weight with the combination, and all of the science facts that support it.

And here are some of the great benefits that Eat Stop Exercise can offer you:

You don’t have to worry about food all day. Eating every three hours, cycling your protein and your carbs, measuring your glycemic index, I don’t think any of these things are needed for solid long lasting weight loss. With Eat Stop Exercise you can forget about all of these obsessive compulsive eating & exercise habits.

Your metabolism will not slow down and you will not go into “starvation mode”. With Eat Stop Exercise you will clearly see the research behind why short periods of fasting will NEVER cause you to go into starvation mode. Your metabolism will stay just as high as it ever was (In fact, some research suggests it may even go higher!)

You will not get light-headed and cranky! In actuality its a myth that not eating causes you to become cranky or light headed. From my experience it is actually a mental ‘addiction’ addiction to eating that makes most people get cranky when they don’t eat. Eat Stop Exercise can help you to break the ‘food addiction’ that causes this reaction.

You don’t have to avoid going to restaurants with your friends. Eat Stop Exercise is flexible. Spending months hiding from your friends because you are on a restrictive diet is a thing of the past. Now you can enjoy the freedom to live normally (and still lose weight through exercise and sensible eating) with Eat Stop Exercise.

You will save money. Eat Stop Exercise won’t ask you to start drinking goat milk or rice milk or any other expensive food that you really don’t like. With Eat Stop Exercise you will learn why you don’t have to spend any extra money on “special foods, diet pills, and exercise”.

You will boost your body fat burning hormones. With Eat Stop Exercise you will reap the benefits of naturally increasing the exact same hormones that celebrities are paying thousands of dollars for in an attempt to stay lean, muscular and young looking.

You will not have to take any weird supplements or eat special foods. Let’s face it. A good nutrition and exercise program should not ever have to rely on supplements to help you lose weight.

You will still have great workouts. Think not eating for a couple hours is going to ruin your workout? Think again. You can still have amazing body fat burning and muscle building workouts while following Eat Stop Exercise.

You will not lose ANY of your hard earned muscle. Eat Stop Exercise will show you the scientific facts behind why a lot of what you are told about dieting and muscle loss is nothing more than diet industry scare tactics.

You will lose weight, and this weight will be all body fat. With the Eat Stop Exercise program, weight loss is steady and consistent, and the weight you will lose will be body fat.

You don’t have to avoid carbs, or fats. Forget about eating canned tuna and low fat cottage cheese for days on end, and Eat Stop Exercise was designed to work in the real world, so that people can eat real foods.

You don’t have to eat mega-doses of protein every day. Do you think you need to eat 50 grams of protein every 2-3 hours so you can gain muscle mass. Think again. With Eat Stop Exercise you’ll learn the real truth behind muscle mass and dieting. Goodbye expensive gross protein shakes.

You will not have to take any weird cleansing products or laxatives. Eat Stop Exercise is an advanced intermittent fasting program that is based on real world science. There are no weird potions or laxatives involved.

You can follow the diet you like best. With Eat Stop Exercise you can follow any style of eating you like, after all, Eat Stop Exercise doesn’t tell you what you can and can’t eat, that’s all up to you.

You will be productive. With Eat Stop Exercise, you won’t go into a super low productive funk like what happens with some traditional diets. In fact, many people have told me that they are their absolute most productive on their fasting days!

You will have energy. With Eat Stop Exercise you will not feel tired, cranky or lethargic. In fact, I’m guessing you will feel energized and alert.

And most importantly, you will not waste any of your precious time!

Unlike other diet e-books Eat Stop Exercise is not complicated, and it is not hard to understand. It is not full of filler, it is not 300 pages long and it is not 10 pages of diet advice and 200 pages of recipes. What Eat Stop Exercise does have is a simple and effective way to lose body fat that is easier than anything you have ever tried before!

Try it You won’t be sorry!

Your Friend In Health & Fitness,

Natalie Pyles

Fitness & Weight-loss Expert, Nutritionist, Wellness Coach, Author,& Speaker

Natalie Pyles
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The Positive Mind - a Key to Successful Weight Loss

The powers of positive thinking are tremendous when it concerns losing weight. If you continue to hold on to negative thoughts, your weight loss efforts could come to a grinding halt. On the other hand, it should come easily to you if you harness the energy from you positive thoughts. Allow me give you an example.

Chances are you consider yourself to be fat; you may even hate yourself for that very reason. Believe it or not, this is the reason why you are unable to lose the weight. Now, reverse that thinking, think yourself to be thin instead. Just suppose the positive affect it can have on your weight loss goals? Your whole outlook and mental attitude can determine your goals. This article reveals the steps to developing a positive mindset and outlined are two key steps that will help you unblock your weight loss barrier.

1. Determining Why You Want To Lose Weight.

Determine the reason why it is you want to lose weight? Are you doing it for yourself, for your health and wellbeing? Is it merely because you are no longer able to endure the snide remarks from work colleagues, maybe you keep getting rejected by the opposite sex, or is it the longing to look like your favorite celebrity?

No reason is the wrong reason to lose weight and whatever your reason, make sure you own it. Compose a complete list stating exactly why you want to lose weight. No matter how big, or how small your reasons are, make sure you jot them all down onto a piece of paper. This is the first step to breakthrough the barrier.

Once you have your list, make a few copies and post them around your house, in your car or anywhere you are likely to see them. The kitchen is an area where you are most likely to break from your healthy eating plan, so make a point of posting a list on your refrigerator and pantry doors to discourage you from breaking from your healthy eating plan. These lists serve to remind you of your goals and the reasons why you wanted to lose weight in the first place.

2. Setting Realistic Goals

You now know why you want to lose weight, therefore it is time to set yourself some realistic goals to work towards. Now in order to set a weight loss goal you need to know how much weight you want to lose. To do this you will need to determine your ideal body weight, and then subtract that figure from your current body weight.

Now that you know your goal you can set yourself a time frame. It is important to be realistic here. If you have a lot of weight to lose you can’t expect to achieve the figure of a supermodel in just a few short weeks. Setting unrealistic goals for yourself will only lead to disappointment, and inevitably your weight loss efforts will come to a grinding halt. For safe and permanent weight loss it is recommended that you lose no more than 1 - 2 pounds per week.

3. Using The Power Of Visualization

Visualization is a very powerful tool that can assist you to work towards your weight loss goals. Every morning before you get up visualize yourself at your desired body weight. Picture your new body, picture yourself wearing a brand new outfit, take notice of how it feels to have lost all of the weight. To assist you with your visualization exercise you may also find pictures of fitness models, celebrities or anyone whom you feel has the body you desire, and then place a picture of your face onto this picture.

The visualization method should not be underestimated as it is a great motivational tool used not only by people wanting to lose weight but also by many of the top athletes and fitness models.

Remember, it is impossible to lose weight overnight. It takes time to transform your negative thoughts into positive ones. Be true to yourself because you are losing weight for yourself, no matter what your underlying factors are, you are doing this is for your health and total wellbeing. So be patient and embrace each positive change in your life as it comes.

Kelly Yuile
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Set Your Mind for a Successful New Years Resolution

The fresh beginning of a New Year is a great time for you to state your New Year’s Resolution. However, so many times when people make resolutions they simply aren’t successful. The fault may not be in your execution but in the way the way the resolution was formed.   You can succeed if you construct a resolution with a few smart steps.

A list of resolutions is fine, but work on one at a time. Otherwise the effort needed is too great, and you may get discouraged. So work on one resolution at a time; choose realistic goals and make sure there is a way to measure your progress.

Your goal should be specific and stated in the present tense. “I will exercise more” or “I will make more money” are not specific enough.  If you exercised for five extra minute a week, you will be exercising more but it won’t make a difference.  If you are more specific, your mind will deliver what you want. State the goal the way you want it and as if you have already obtained it.  “I am exercising thirty minutes a day, everyday” or “I am making x dollars a month.” If you use future tense, you are putting things into the future, and that is exactly where they will remain. State the resolution in the present state and act as if you have already resolved it.

Resolutions should be stated in the positive. So don’t say “I want to stop eating sweets” or “I no longer want to be poor.” The mind will have to process the negative in order to understand the goal. For instance, if you state “I no longer want to be poor.” Your mind will first form the idea of being poor, before it can reverse the image. Your mind will take you in the direction you tell it, whether it’s positive or negative, so put the positive tense first.

Avoid statements like “I will try to stop smoking.” If I told you I would try to attend a party, would you really expect me to show up? Probably not. Why would you expect your mind to take a command seriously when you use the word try? Simply put, you are not or you are doing it.

Make sure you are doing something for you and you alone. Resolving to do something for a family member or society is a sure way of setting oneself up for failure. Is it from your heart? Is it meaningful to you? You want it and what are you willing to do for it? Be responsible for the goal you are setting. Make sure it is possible for you to achieve it. Don’t make a resolution to prove something. Make a resolution that is attainable and self-initiated.  Remember there is always a bit of discomfort in change because you are reprogramming a past behavior. This is only temporary. As you work through the difficulties, the positive changes will occur.  The discomfort is very small compared to the pay-off.

And understand that if you are making the same resolution year after year it, your past failures could be the result of a previous conditioning.  What you are failing to do in the present is most likely based on something you learned in the past. There is a seed of hope here: if you can learn it you can unlearn it.

So instead of ‘resolution’, make this a year of ‘revolution’. A series of small changes, with each new achievement building on the previous incremental successes. With achievable, present, positive and meaningful resolutions you can start the new year with success.

Lee Betchley
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Saving Money On Treadmills - Get the Facts

If you’re set to invest in a serious piece of indoor exercise fitness equipment, like a treadmill, then help is here. Treadmills are simple to use, but can be dangerous in the wrong hands or around children. One of the most popular, if not the most popular, pieces of home exercise equipment today is the treadmill.

With treadmills you need to watch out for the impact involved when your feet hit the belt; your body absorbs up to two and a half times your body weight. Check out the amount of horsepower (HP): HP determines how fast and hard the motor will work - the lower the number of the HP, the less the motor will be able to handle. The word treadmill originally designated a type of mill which was operated by a person treading steps of a wheel to grind grain.

The deck is the belt area on which actual running, jogging and walking take place. A heart rate monitor enables a treadmill to automatically adjust the speed and/or the incline to keep your heart rate within the most optimum zone. The more expensive treadmill models will offer a selection of preprogrammed exercise routines.

Display panels should be easy to read and straightforward to operate. A heart rate monitor is a very good, useful feature to look for on a machine. Some excellent features, like heart monitors and safety keys that automatically stop the treadmill if you slip, will contribute to the enjoyment and safety of your treadmill workout or help add motivation.

A pre-programmed workout registers your heart rate without being connected to the treadmill by a cord or wire. Notice that some treadmill heart rate monitors clip onto an ear or, for more accurate readings, strap onto the chest.

Keep in mind that what feels right to you may not accommodate others around you as comfortably. When your equipment is up and running, get the right lubricants and cleaners to take good care of it. You’ll probably want to buy a unit with a motor that delivers 1.5 to 3 continuous, not peak, horsepower.

Be aware the better quality treadmills can cost as much as $5000 and have a lot of bells and whistles you don’t need. To make sure that your treadmill is sturdy and comfortable and doesn’t operate noisily, start it up, step on it and test it out before you buy, if possible. It’s important to set a strict budget and then stick to it.

Your club commercial machine may be may be a good choice in a home version; you’re already familiar with its features and probably are comfortable using it. If you’re planning to use a treadmill purely for walking you’re not likely to need an expensive top-of-the-line machine. Warranties can last for ninety days or a lifetime, read the fine print.

The taller a person is the longer their stride so you’ll need to choose a treadmill with a longer and wider belt. You’ll want a treadmill with an aluminum or high alloy steel frame that’s strong enough to support the heaviest runner who’ll be using it.

The first thing to consider when shopping for a home treadmill is what you need it to do for you. Make sure to add the cost of shipping when buying a treadmill online; quality models can be heavy and shipping will cost more, but some manufacturers do offer free shipping.

As you increase your fitness levels, a quality treadmill will continue to assist your exercise needs as you progress to light jogging or to running. To get even more workouts, think about making your treadmill into a walking, working office by adding a mini-platform to the side rails.

Make sure to see your doctor or naturopathic doctor before you start any new fitness or exercise program. Selections of preprogrammed exercise routines are not essential to obtaining a good workout from a treadmill, but they do help to provide motivation.

And remember, home exercise treadmills are a large investment financially and in your fitness and much thought and preparation should go into the purchase of any new treadmill. Take time to do your research, the same way you would any major purchase and buying a treadmill won’t be difficult. So now you know just what to look for when buying a treadmill.

Helen Hecker
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Some Successful Internet Marketing Strategies

Man lives in hope. So do most Internet Marketers especially those new to Internet Marketing. Some of the strategies they adopt seldom yield the results and the success they are striving hard to achieve. As long as there is enthusiasm and hope that something, somewhere, sometime will click, these free easy and simple strategies will continue to be popular among them. What then are these strategies?   1. Traffic Exchange:   One begins to wonder how successful these traffic exchanges are for marketing your products. There is no doubt that some surf and view the websites seriously but most members of these exchanges surf only to get credits so that their own website too would obtain exposure proportionate to the credits they had earned for surfing. For more info login to:www.outsource-beginners.comThese visitors are mere passers by doing some window shopping and not serious targeted visitors yet the newbie’s will spend hours clicking away.   2. Reciprocal Link Exchange:   Some internet marketers agree to be your reciprocal link exchange partner but after a while resort to unethical practices, either (a) by removing your link from their link directory, or (b) by inserting a the reel=”no follow” tag which tells search engines that this link is spam and it’s not to be followed thus enjoying the advantage of a one way inbound link and traffic from your site while you loose a reciprocal link and traffic too. Similarly exchanging links with sites that have a higher PR. than yours but having no relevancy to your site is unproductive since search engines give credit only for linking with quality relevant sites. The traffic generated from those sites will be minimal and the whole exercise will be a waste of time.   3. Safe Lists:   This is an “opt in” process where you cannot be accused of spamming. Here the internet marketing strategy is that in exchange for submitting your own ads. You have to agree to receive e-mails from the other members in the list, promoting their products. The problem here is that everyone is vying head over heels to promote his or her own product or services. There are only sellers and no buyers. The smart internet marketers have a separate e-mail especially for this purpose and delete all the thousands of e-mails they receive without even reading a single.   4. Posting in FFA’s:   Advertising in FFA. Or Free for All Pages is again one of the free internet marketing strategies that attract many new internet marketers. There are different categories and thousands of ads. Are posted everyday by them with the hope that their ads. Will be read by the visitors and that they would click on the links and visit the respective websites. Unfortunately this seldom happens since almost everyone is an advertiser and furthermore these ads. Remain visible only for a few minutes and disappear from view as new ads. Are added; yet the temptation to post ads. In FFA’s continues.

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5. Posting in Classifieds:   There are thousands of free classifieds sites in the internet but only a few stands out with high traffic. For details visit to :www.internet-marketing-online-goldmine.comThese sites have several pages for each category of products and services to be advertised. The problem again is that every internet marketer is anxious to promote his business but only a small percentage really visits these sites exclusively to learn about products and make purchases.

sunilrana
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Can Yoga be the Perfect Exercise

There are so many new television commercials on products and videos on improving ones health and well being. There’s one exercise program that has always been a low impact exercise that not only improves your physical state but also improves your mind. This exercise program is yoga. When one is practicing yoga regularly they begin to sense an improved feeling of well being and postive energy.

The practice of yoga consists of stretches, movements and poses which provides stimulation to many of the joints, ligaments and tendons, some of which are rarely used for any extended period of time. Once the body gets used to this stretching one will begin to see and feel the benefits of increased flexibility to your entire body.

Yoga is also a great way to tone your body. Through the stretching of the muscles, moving in a slow precise manner and holding the body in certain positions one will experience the benefits of a more toned and firmer body.

An additional benefit that many do not realize is that yoga also stimulates your glands and organs. Yoga has been proven to stimulate the prostate gland for better prostate health.

The gentle stretching of your muscles and joints when doing yoga maximizes blood circulation in your body enabling your body to eliminate toxins, provide oxygen to your body and in turn increases energy.

Yoga is an great exercise which aids with all aspects of your life both psychologically and physically. Yoga has been used to improve sleep, decrease pains, improve energy, range of movement and also has many mental heath benefits.

Yoga builds strength in your spine, increases your endurance and lowers your stress producing hormones which cause pre-mature aging. Yoga also reduces the acidic conditions within your body which allows the body to absorb more oxygen. Some of the psychological benefits of yoga are an improved nervous system, better concentration, a decreased feeling of depression and anxiety, and a better mood.

Yoga when practiced regularly will put your body in a positive healthy state. This in turn puts your mind in a positive healthy state which helps to keep your body looking and feeling good. Yoga allows your body to continually rejuvenate which increase your positive energy and feeling of well being. You will notice improved posture through a straigher back, elongated hamstrings and an overall feeling of focused energy and a confident state of mind.

So if you desire to not only live a longer life but also to improve the quality of your health, you should be considering adopting the exercise of yoga into your exercise routine. An exercise like yoga provides all the benefits of a low impact program, providing the firming and flexibility of the body along with the benefits of the mind, and spiritual connection through the focused energy and deep breathing, enabling the body and mind to resonate at an optimal level of health.

As the entire planet looks to find improved ways of living and to increase their health and well being, yoga will grow in popularity as a low impact exercise able to deliver the increased well being within your body, enabling all to find better health and improve their quality of life.

Douglas Alp
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The Presidential Fitness Challenge

Designed by the United States government,the Presidential Fitness Challenge encourages everyone, especially children to take up regular exercise routines to ward off illness, disease and obesity. Considering that 58 million Americans are overweight, and a large percentage of illnesses and diseases are caused due to lack of exercise or an unhealthy eating plan, this is a great attempt to get people moving. Those who choose to enter the challenge and demonstrate an excellence in physical activity will be rewarded with an achievement medal.

The Challenge focuses less on the type of activity you choose, and more on how well you are performing and how motivated you are becoming by the time you complete the process. According to the challenge, every individual must participate in some type of physical exercise for a definite period of time every day, 5 days a week, for 6 weeks.

The amount of exercise varies from child to adult, children should exercise for an hour, while adults, can reduce their time to 30 minutes a day, however elders are encouraged to exercise more, if at all possible. Activity levels are recorded and considered for the award after a thorough analysis and comparison with other performances.

Every fall and spring, students in grades 3-5 take part in the Presidential Fitness Challenge. For them, the challenge usually involves five rounds that test the student’s physical abilities against different benchmarks. The purpose of this process is to test their endurance and to motivate the students to improve from challenge to challenge by the time they complete the five parts.

In the five parts, those who score more than 90% improvement in each area will be awarded the Presidential Fitness Award, and students who achieve 50% or more in each of the five sections are rewarded the National Fitness Award. The five parts in the Presidential Fitness Challenge include:

Curl-ups or Crunches: Students lie flat on their backs with their feet firmly attached to the floor, and then raise their backs completely off of the ground for a short duration of time. The challenge in its whole is about how many curl-ups one can make in a minute. This exercise tests and builds abdominal strength and endurance.

Distance Running: A one mile run where the time taken by each student is noted. For 8-9 years, the distance is half a mile. The purpose of this challenge is to measure the cardiovascular endurance of each student. Students are encouraged to improve their time as each week passes by.

Sit-n-Reach: Students sit with their feet against a sit-n-reach box and stretch themselves to reach as far as possible along the measuring line. This is to test flexibility. Repeatedly doing this exercise will greatly improve flexibility.

Shuttle Run: This challenge measures the time taken by each student to run 30 feet from a starting line, pick up a bean bag from the other end and then bring it back to the starting point. This process is repeated twice. The participant’s coordination and speed is tested in this challenge.

Pull Ups: Students are required to do as many pulls ups as they can in a given time. This tests the upper body strength of every participant.

The performance of every student is recorded daily, for each challenge, and the best of the performers are rewarded at the end of the challenge.

Adults can participate in the challenge as well, however the plan undergoes some modifications. The goals are similar to that of children, and the same frequency has to be maintained, but, as mentioned earlier, only 30 minutes is allowed instead of an hour. Also, since adults are no longer in school and have no one to test them, they are expected to keep a log of their progress and monitor themselves for improvements.

Scott White
http://www.articlesbase.com/fitness-articles/the-presidential-fitness-challenge-140532.html

The Secret to Successful Fitness Resolutions

New Year’s resolutions are easy to make but can be hard to keep, especially when the goal is to substitute new habits for old.

Another year is here and you are standing up on December 30th making a promise to get fit and healthy again.  Do you remember making that same promise last year and maybe even the year before?  If so, have you done anything about it?  Are you ready to do something about it this year?

Well, I can tell you as a personal trainer I know that we all have the right intention to lose weight and get healthy but struggle to make time for ourselves as well as the other 100 things that need to get done.

Here are some tips that will help turn things around for you as another new year begins:

1. Small Goals:  Make a 10-day promise to yourself. This could mean eating less, going to the gym, taking your supplements and scheduling the time to do it everyday.
2. Be Realistic:  Healthy weight loss per week is about 1-2 pounds. Don’t get discouraged when weight is not moving as fast as you wanted it to. Remember that muscle weighs more than fat; scales may be deceiving.
3.  Professional Guidance:  I suggest that you start with a personal trainer to guide you in the right direction to reach your goal.  A recent study found that people who are new to exercise do better when they have some professional help.
4. Keep Journal:  I find that most of my successful clients maintain a journal of their daily food & exercise habits.  This helps you understand your positive habits and potential problem areas that you can focus on.

Don’t give up. The key is perseverance.  If you fall off the wagon, don’t quit your program. You still have the rest of the year to continue.  As you know most people don’t follow through with their New Year Resolutions however by following these simple tips you can be the exception.

Nadia Ellis
http://www.articlesbase.com/fitness-articles/the-secret-to-successful-fitness-resolutions-674279.html

Exercise the Key to Reducing Weight During Menopause

Exercise Physiologist Maryanne Long from an Australian women’s health club, says scientific research has long shown that exercise can slow the physiological aging clock and explains that while strength training is essential for women of all ages, it is especially beneficial to women going through menopause.

“Studies have shown that lifting weights two or three times a week increases strength by building muscle mass and bone density. Strength training is also crucial to weight control, because when you have more muscle mass you consequently increase your metabolism. Muscle is active tissue that consumes calories while stored fat uses very little energy. Strength training can provide up to a 15 per cent increase in your metabolic rate, which will aid weight loss and long-term weight management which will help to keep your weight down during menopause,” Ms Long said.

Gina McElroy has been a regular member of a women’s gym in QLD for the past five years, and now at age 50, she is testament to how strength training can help women to survive the trials of menopause. “My personal trainer has guided me in my strength training one to two times a week since I joined the gym. It has helped me to lose 8kg and also enabled me to compete in running events that I previously never had the strength to compete in,” Gina said.

She explains how the regular exercise not only helped to reduce her blood pressure and keep her waistline trim, but she says it has had an amazing impact on her mood. “As any woman who goes through menopause knows, your moods can swing from one extreme to the next, but for me, the exercise really helped to lift my mood and overall health and wellbeing,” she said. “I can’t imagine how I would have survived without making exercise a daily part of my life.” Recent findings from the Garvan Institute have found that women suddenly halve their physical activity levels just prior to menopause resulting in weight gain.

“It’s important the women, especially over 50 years of age should incorporate three types of activities into a weekly fitness plan which includes aerobic exercise, flexibility training, and strength training. Many women may find a personal trainer to be helpful in getting started, maintaining motivation and to ensure they are training correctly,” Ms Long said. A 12-month study conducted on postmenopausal women at Tufts University in the US showed that women who lifted weights two days per week saw one per cent gains in hip and spine bone density, 75 per cent increases in strength and 13 per cent increases in dynamic balance with just two days per week of progressive strength training. The control group actually had losses in bone, strength, and balance.

Some women may need to consult a doctor, physiotherapist or exercise physiologist about the type of exercise best suited for them.

Ted Brumby
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/exercise-the-key-to-reducing-weight-during-menopause-690462.html