More than five years ago, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) published ‘Guidelines for School and Community Programs’ to promote physical activity in children and teenagers, in hopes of helping them develop lifelong exercise and physical fitness regimens.
If you, as a parent, understand and embrace these guidelines, you can work with your school [...]
Often times stress will manifest when we carry over yesterday’s concerns into our present day concerns. An accumulation will almost always end up in a high stress level. Therefore, we must be able to “dump” all of our concerns from the previous day or days and concentrate wholly on our today.
Stress Busting Tip [...]
Yoga’s power to create a state of mental and physical well being may also be put to good use for taking off excess weight. Yoga promotes a healthy and balanced life style and when combined with a calorie burning program may show exceptional results. Practicing yoga will also increase your metabolism, increasing the calorie burning [...]
What is it that creates change in our lives? In many cases, even most cases, it comes down to two things, either Inspiration or Perspiration.
In order to lose weight, become fit and healthy, to become lean and muscular, most would agree that it will take some “perspiration”. Exercising and sweating in [...]
Check out the infomercials on TV this weekend and you will see a dozen or so pieces of equipment, DVD’s, diet plans, funky belts that you wear, balls, slides, gadgets, contraptions, you name it, all devoted to one body part-ABS.
Apparently the whole world wants sleek, firm, sculpted,6 pack abs-Awesome Abs. No other [...]
The popularity of Yoga and Pilates has exploded in the past few years. Yoga and Pilates are both great for conditioning your body and improving flexibility and strength. Both Yoga and Pilates are performed with bare feet. But there are some big differences between the two.
Pilates was developed in [...]
Exercise and nutrition advice comes to me everyday in my e-mail. Does it come to you too? But the crazy thing is all of the conflicting information I receive. What really is the truth?
Do cardio to lose fat. Lift weights to become lean. Too much cardio will cause you to lose [...]
A new study has shown that lifting weights just 2 times per week can decrease bodyfat and keep your heart healthy.
The study included 164 obese and overweight women, from age 24 to 44. The group was divided into 2. The first group took part in a 16-week program of supervised strength [...]
