Flat Belly Recipes
Recipes for a Flat Belly If you want to maintain or achieve a flatter stomach, you will have to kill those starchy carbs. Keeping off the carbs, especially sugars and starches, is the best way to get your belly down to size. Most people find the low carbohydrate lifestyle very hard to maintain. It can lead to overwhelming cravings for sweet stuff and a tendency toward binge eating. Unfortunately, the taste for sweet is genetically programmed into us. You can lose the taste for fats, (after years of dieting I can`t stand the taste of anything...
read moreWhat is Yoga ?
When I first attended a yoga class back in 1999, I went because I knew that stretching was important to keep from getting injured and I knew I did not stretch enough. I had also read that it would reduce stress levels and I was stressed out. I was rather surprised and slightly annoyed to find that the yoga class I had chosen to attend included a strong spiritual component and chanting. Chanting! Imagine that…. Fortunately, I had paid for several classes in advance because I probably would not have attended a second time. Chanting! What...
read moreThe Benefits of Rebound Exercise
Ok. It seems like I could not attract more attention if my hair was on fire when I run down the street in my Kangoo Jumps, (pictured right). They look like a ski boot with a big spring on the bottom. It`s pretty cool being six feet tall though even though dogs absolutely hate them plus it is difficult to get any exercise when people keep stopping you to ask what you are doing. I am exercising you turkey! I suggest you get really dark sunglasses and a pair of earphones for your Ipod that are the really gigantic over the ear type, the ones that...
read moreMuscle Confusion & Workout Results
Do you know people that work out four or five times a week and never seem to get any fitter looking? Maybe they even look worse year to year? Are you one of these people? The problem is that once the body gets used to doing something, it no longer responds by building muscle and you will even burn less calories as your heart rate no longer goes up into the effective range, (220-Your age x .90). If you have been doing the same workout for a while, (some people have been doing the same workout for years…..), you will not continue to see...
read moreChanging Habits and the Devil Within
Did you ever wonder how the giant chain gyms in North America, (ie Ballys and 24 Hour Fitness etc.), manage to provide such a vast array of expensive equipment and classes whilst charging members $39 per month? Imagine what the rent alone must cost on those huge spaces in downtown locations, never mind the electricity bills, the staff, cleaning people and group instructors. Here is how they manage to make money. They have room for about 1,000 people to use the gym but they sell 20,000 memberships knowing that 80% of the people will keep...
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