A healthy diet along with adequate physical activity is the key to a healthy life. It is common knowledge that proteins are the ‘go to’ food these days to gain muscle mass and size. Carbohydrates provide the much needed energy. However, what gets neglected in this equation, are fats. Fats are an equally important component of a healthy diet and if neglected, may cause serious health complications.
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It’s quite often seen in gyms that people just walk in and start working out immediately. They don’t really warm up before the work out and/or don’t do any kind of cooling down exercises post that. If asked why, the most common explanation seems to be that they don’t have enough time, and also don’t consider warming up and cooling down an important part of the workout routine. All they want is to start the workout and leave as soon as possible. Lets try to see what warming up and cooling down mean, and how and why are they important to your workout.
Source: The National Jewish Website.
There is almost no disease that exercise doesn’t benefit. As such, just because you have a heart disease doesn’t mean that you have to sit around and do nothing. In fact, with regular exercise (greater than 150 minutes a week), you may hasten your recovery, improve heart function and even get off of some of the medications you’re on. Cardiovascular benefits of exercise include: The body mass index (BMI), or Quetelet index, is a measure of relative weight based on an individual’s mass and height. It is defined as the individual’s body mass divided by the square of their height – with the value universally being given in units of kg/m2. It is used as a simple index of weight-for-height that is commonly used to classify underweight, overweight and obesity in adults.
This article first appeared on the Skinny2Fit website.
There is one thing that gym-goers love, they love to work their chests as this is one aspect that shows their progress off. However in truth it is not the most important body part you need to work. What is far more important and far more integral to having a superb body (and a healthy and fit one at that) is solid back support. That’s right, the back is important to support that perfect chest of yours and to the overall feeling that your body looks great. In fact, most trainers agree it’s important and comes before giving that ego-bench pressing for your pecs, delts and the other muscles. It doesn’t matter if you are bulking up for beach season or just shaping up what you already have, the matter of fact is a strong back deserves all the focus in your training regimen. |
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