Pedometer Walking: Stepping Your Way to Health, Weight Loss, and Fitness (Paperback)

Posted by | Posted in Aerobics, Health | Posted on 28-05-2009

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Pedometer Walking: Stepping Your Way to Health, Weight Loss, and Fitness

Mark Fenton, television personality and author of the best-selling “Complete Guide to Walking”, teams up with top exercise researcher, David R Bassett, to help readers get moving. These guys know what works, and they’ve got pedometers on the brain. During the last ten years, pedometer use has grown exponentially. ‘Step counting’ broke into the exercise vocabulary when Oprah started sporting her own pedometer, and the mania has only grown. Ten years ago there were five pedometers on (more…)

How to Double Your Energy Levels In Three Days

Posted by | Posted in Alternative Medicine, Drinks, Fitness, Food And Beverage, Health, Sports And Fitness, Weight Loss | Posted on 25-05-2009

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Roger Haeske asked:

Are you often tired, lethargic and feeling older than you should? Do you want to get more done and have the non-stop energy of a 7-year-old child? With this report, you’ll learn two easy ways to double your energy levels within the next three days.

Whenever I’m shopping or out walking in NYC, I notice, I’m always the fastest person by far. Everyone does things so slowly.

I literally move twice the speed of the average person and I don’t use any stimulants. I’m not trying to impress anyone, I just have so much energy, that my body wants me to use it.

What Bodily Process Wastes The Most Energy?

Digestion uses up the most energy out of all your bodily functions. You’re brain is the next biggest user of energy. What you eat can make a tremendous difference in your energy.

Certain foods are difficult to digest, the more processed, cooked, and complex the food, the more energy it takes to digest. What happens after eating a big holiday meal?

You get so tired that you start falling asleep in the middle of the afternoon. That’s because you ate so much food and so many different combinations of foods that all of your remaining energy is used up for digestion and you don’t have enough energy left to stay awake.

Raw Fruit Is The Ideal Energy Food

Fruit is predigested fuel or simple carbohydrates. Your body requires the least energy to digest them compared to any other food. The former director of nutrition for the US Olympic Team said “Fruits are miracle foods for athletes.”

Fruit provides your body with its ideal and preferred source of fuel, which is sugar. Every cell in the body is fueled by sugar. After sugar the body prefers fat and the least efficient fuel source is protein.

The simple sugar from fruit is completely healthy. Most people don’t know that your body cannot use complex carbohydrates or starches. Those starches first have to be broken down into sugar. This breaking down process depletes energy from the body.

Fruit is the most nutritious food on the planet. A diet rich in fruits and leafy green vegetables supplies you with virtually all of your nutrient needs, even protein and the essential fatty acids. We all know that fruits and vegetables are the healthiest foods on the planet. Why not eat more of them?

Action Plan

Make fruit your morning and lunch meals and watch your energy levels soar through the roof. Eat as much fruit as you need to feel full. You’ll have to eat much more than an average person eats. By lunch I’ve already eaten 8 to 10 bananas.

What Is The Second Energy Boosting Technique?

In high school, I started using an exercise that made my energy levels scream. Combine this exercise with eating more fruit and your energy levels will soar through the roof.

You’ll swear that you were taking uppers. Your body will beg you to exercise it more. The great thing is that you don’t have to drink coffee or take any stimulants to get this boost.

The other day I had so much extra energy; I decided to run sprints in my house. This was after I already did a great workout earlier in the day. I ran back and forth, from room to room. It was great fun, constantly changing direction, accelerating and stopping on a dime. I had more energy than a five year old.

This exercise is a specific way of doing aerobics. I’ve found that jogging for instance, which is an aerobic exercise, won’t give you this energy increase.

The key is to do exercises that keep you in the aerobic heart range, that build muscle and use all of your limbs in one exercise session. The exercise system I used in high school was Heavy Hands.

These days I use another exercise routine that gives me better overall results and I don’t need any equipment.

Owners of my Lightning Speed Fitness Program have already seen this in our member’s only forum.

Here is the exercise routine post from the forum.

Lightning Aerobics

Another great way to do cardio is to do a whole calisthenics routine in a special way. I call it Lightning Aerobics. You can use any bodyweight exercises to get a similar effect.

Start by doing a strenuous exercise like the Lighting Speed Exercise (LSE) or pushups. As soon as you get winded, take a short break until your heart rate is back in the lower to middle aerobic heart range (50 to 85% of your maximum heart rate) and then switch to another exercise. You have to watch that your heart rate doesn’t get too low or too high.

You must stay within the aerobic heart range throughout most of the routine. It’s ok to go above it for short periods. If you’re into the anaerobic heart range for too long though, you are going to be very sore the next day.

Today’s routine. 20 minutes

Three Sets of: 1. Pushups: 20 2. Lighting Exercise (LSE): 50 3. Jumping Jacks: 50 4. Jumping Lunges: 10 5. Superman Pushups: 10

Plus an extra set of pushups at the end and 10 mountain climbers.

I had so much energy today. My body was simply dieing to exercise.

Later on, I did a set of 20 Burpees. Man was I winded after that. Then I did several sprinting sessions in my house. I did a couple of handstand pushups, Hindu pushups, Superman pushups and two more sets of 50 LSE’s.

Doing Lightning Aerobics is important because it dramatically increases your energy levels by oxygenating every part of your body. Once you start using these techniques you’re body will beg you to exercise it on a regular basis. You’ll finally have enough energy to play and run for hours with your children or those of your friends.

Regain your youth and energy with these strategies.

Donot Waste Strength and Energy

Posted by | Posted in Aerobics, Health, Nutrition, Self Improvement, Sports And Fitness, Weight Loss, Wellness | Posted on 25-05-2009

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Dalip Singh Wasan asked:

Don’t Waste Strength and Energy

We eat to live on and that too hale and health and we also want that whatever energy is stored in our body, that could be utilized by in work which is profitable to us as well as to the society at large. We know that when we don’t eat properly, when we have no means of providing ourselves energetic food, when we are poor, when we are not utilizing hygienic processes at the house or at other eating places, when we are not getting proper treatment at the time of illness and when we are suffering from other long term disease, we shall turn weak and even we can die. If we actually want to keep our health, strength and energy, we shall have to take proper food, proper rest, proper exercise and proper rest. We shall have to turn punctual and a doctor of ourselves. We must know that prevention is better than cure and therefore, we must know some minimums about our own health. We must finish work in time and should not keep things pending because such pending works could create tension on our brain. Similarly we should try to live happily and without fear. We must believe in God and we must also believe that He would not do injustice with us. When we have stresses on our heart and soul we can’t enjoy life and once we have started living in a sad mood, it shall increase and sadness shall become a part of our life. And a sad man turns ill and weak and he loses all strengths. If we want to live on, we must keep our health sound and only then we shall be able to keep ourselves strong.

Exercising Your Body Keeps Your Mind Fit

Posted by | Posted in Alternative Medicine | Posted on 25-05-2009

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Gen Wright asked:

There is one therapy that can you help ward off addictions, depression, stress, anxiety and even Alzheimer’s, all the while keeping you strong, slim and feeling great. That mental-health “treatment” is of course a proper exercise program. Research reveals that exercise supports the intimate connection between the health of the body and that of the mind. Since exercise is the body’s key method of staying healthy it also appears to be crucial to mental health as well.

Our busy lives don’t come without stress which is just a build up of inactivity, of over thinking without release. Modern life has us performing constant intellectual thinking tasks and we need a reprieve from these. Proper exercise is the tool that will give you that release stimulating a healthy release of the body’s natural chemicals that have a soothing and calming effect.

If this stress is not dissipated thinking becomes disordered leading to “stinking thinking” which can then lead on to depression. These bad negative thoughts can soon be chased completely away with a good solid exercise session. Mood is quickly improved and the risk of becoming depressed is lessened.

The time spent on your exercise session is also a bit of “me” time. This can provide a time for reflection and some alone time to contemplate thoughts or problems. It can be a special time to re-center yourself and get in touch with the real you which tends to be put aside and lost in the busyness of our lives. You will feel more in control of your life.

Exercise will get you active in a productive manner which the human body is dependant on to be able to stay healthy and well. The brain will send out the good chemicals signaling a happy pleasant state of mind both during and after the exercise session. This will set you up for the day enabling you to deal more effectively with problems or challenges that otherwise might have caused you significant levels of stress.

The brain is the “muscle” of conscious intelligence and just like the muscles in the rest of the body develops and gains strength during youth. As we get older we can maintain the strength of our brain or we can allow it to degenerate and become weaker diminishing its capability and thinking power.

Your exercise program needs to contain at least 60% strength training exercise and is an important factor in maintaining mental fitness. When you exercise and raise your heart rate this increases blood flow to the brain which in turn leads to enhanced memory, and better intellectual capacity and mental function.

Another important benefit you will experience is that you will feel so much happier within yourself; which could be defined as an inner sense of well-being. This will in turn give you a better outlook on life, seeing your cup as half full rather than half empty. If you are not already appreciating all of the good things in your life then you just might start.

If you have previously been living a no exercise lifestyle you will feel a huge boost in your energy levels. Exercise gets your blood pumping, pushing life giving oxygen into every cell and system keeping you youthful and vibrant. There is nothing worse than a sedentary lifestyle to make you feel tired, apathetic and listless with low motivation levels. You simply don’t feel like being active.

Learn to lean on your exercise program to pull you up and out of this situation if necessary. Think of it as a tool to move you beyond life’s challenges and make it part of your mission for better health and well-being.