Body Building for Weight Loss

Moving your muscles against resistance helps them grow and get stronger. Having more muscle mass also means that you burn more overall calories, which can help you lose more fat. Resistance training has profound effects on your bones and joints, and helps to prevent osteoporosis (loss in bone mineral density), sarcopenia (loss of muscle mass), and lower-back pain, assuming you use proper exercise form.

Body Building for Weight Loss 

We're proponents of lifting weights, but we get that going to a gym can be really intimidating, especially if you're new to fitness. The best way to fit lifting weights into your lifestyle is to start small. Buy a couple dumbbells and try someat-home workouts a few times per week.

You can also try one of our free trainers. Choose your goal and get started! In each trainer, you'll get exercise and nutrition plans. You'll get to know our exercise and recipe databases so you can feel comfortable training in the gym and cooking healthier food

Interval training can also be a very effective fat-loss tool. It's pretty easy to incorporate into any fitness plan because it can be applied to a variety of settings, and different types of equipment can be used. Choose an activity that you can do at a high intensity (greater than 80 percent of your maximum heart rate) for 30-60 seconds, then follow it with 30-60 seconds of rest. HIIT works best if you do it for about 20 minutes. So, for example, bike hard for 30 seconds, then rest for 30 seconds. Continue in this fashion for 20 minutes, and don't forget to add in a warm-up .

You can use the bike, elliptical, or treadmill. Or you can do bodyweight exercises like air squats and jump rope. Choose whichever equipment and exercises you like best, but try to keep a 1:1 work/rest ratio and go for at least 20 minutes.7

At first, this work/rest ratio may seem really difficult, but after you get stronger and fitter, you'll be able to go harder during those work periods, or even lengthen them.

Health and Beauty

*Health and Beauty*

Health & beauty as we all should know go hand in hand: When you are healthy you just feel beautiful!
In today's world being healthy, and staying healthy can be a challenge.
With our air, water, and food constantly changing we struggle to maintain our good health and good looks.

Health and Beauty

           

The days of clean air, pure water, and plenty of organic fruits and vegetables are becoming a distant memory.
Today more than ever we have to take supplements and vitamins to enhance our food intake for proper nutrition
to remain healthy, or to restore our health.

Even maintaining a healthy weight is more of a challenge.
As you may know, when we get past age 30 we start losing our ability in most cases to just quickly shed those extra pounds; and if we don't make a real effort to eat right, and work out, we pack on the extra pounds pretty fast, which is the real reason most people fall victim to disease.

The most common diseases like high blood pressure, diabetes, & heart disease, have all been reversed by people making that life style change in the way they eat, and has allowed them to put down excessive medication use.

Most people would be surprised at how a brisk 30 minute walk 5 to 6 days a week could help improve or maintain health.
You may be saying, people always say that, that's because it is true.

So here we are a third way through another year, and how many people are sticking to their vow to lose weight, & get healthy? A lot I hope.
After all there is no shortage of good lifestyle change diets, nor good workout routines available for us to use.
However, walking is an easy way to get started, and walking reduces stress.
You can work your way up to a more advanced workout pretty quick if you choose to.
And never let yourself tell you you can't do it.

Now what about Beauty?
There's an old saying that says "beauty's only skin deep".
Ha! what a bunch of baloney.
I mean I we understand the intent, & purpose for that saying, sure, because some people feel that only looks are everything, and wouldn't get to know the beautiful inside of someone.

However, with that being said, people generally feel good when they look good.
Those who value their health, most often times value their looks too.
Which gets us back to my first statement, when I said "health and beauty go hand in hand".
How you define beauty may be totally different from the next person, but if you put your body health first, by drinking plenty of clean water, eating right, walking, or working out, then your body beauty will flourish as well.

To sum things up I would like to say, we live busy lives, and with our world constantly changing the best way to be the best you is keep it simple.
If you haven't already done so, start incorporating small daily changes that you can stick with to be healthier.
Before you know it, you'll be your totally healthy, beautiful self.
Last but not least, maintain, maintain, maintain!