YOGA MANTRA – A healthy you resides in a flexible body!
There are tones of benefits of having and maintaining a flexible body and the collective effects can be very beneficiary in years to come! Increasing flexibility will help reduce the aging process. Stretching also assists in shaping your posture, allowing you to have a more youthful tone as you age.
Yoga’s Role In An Excercise Regime
Practiced in India for literally thousands of years, yoga is a system that has the potential to transform an individual at every level: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual! It works at the very root of a problem and helps the body to bring itself back into equilibrium.
The goal of yoga is a state of ‘samadhi’ [...]
How to beat a beer belly
The cause of that growing gut is usually a lot simpler: Eating too much and exercising too little. Unfortunately, having a beer belly isn’t a trivial concern. “Abdominal obesity,” the fat that collects around the middle, increases a man’s odds of developing heart disease, diabetes, some types of cancer, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, high cholesterol, and other health problems.
Stay in Shape using 6 Healthy Tips
March 23, 2009 by Jason Weber
Filed under Fitness
1. Portion control! There is no reason to pile food on your plate! Just take a reasonable amount, and you should be good! Overeating is a huge problem in America because we don’t know when to stop!
2. Eat slowly. I know when you are really hungry that can be hard, but if [...]
Retaining Your Muscle Mass
February 19, 2009 by Anita Fernandes
Filed under Fitness
Increasing your muscle mass also improves your metabolic rate whereas body fat has a very low level of metabolic activity. Nutritionists regard muscle as the furnace that burns in the body and this is what you should be aiming for. If more weight loss programs focused on retaining muscle mass people would be unlikely to put the weight back on rapidly once they finished the program.
