Archive for the ‘Men’s Health’ Category

My good friend, Jon Benson ( world-known trainer and fitness expert), has some really good info about what we should be eating before we work out. It will open your eyes to fallacies and fact….read his article…..

Eat THIS Before Your Workouts

One of the most common questions I get asked is:

“What should I eat before my workouts if I want to get rid of body fat?”

The answer? Read the rest of this entry »

You were so excited to get that shiny new piece of exercise equipment and vowed to use it regularly. Now, you are tired of walking or pedaling to nowhere and dread the thought of exercising. Use the following tips to make your workouts more interesting.

Music can help raise your energy and enthusiasm. Pick upbeat tunes for the main part of your workout, and use slower tunes to start off and end your routine. Or, you could just listen to your favorite radio station or CD. Audio books can be a great way to pass the time. If you are interested in the book, you may even look forward to your workouts so that you can find out what happens next. Read the rest of this entry »

Aromatherapy is a type of alternative medicine involving the use of essential oils that has been around for about 6000 years. It is a holistic therapy which means that aromatherapy practitioners consider not just your physical symptoms, but also mental, spiritual and emotional factors. Holistic therapy recognizes that these factors are essential to take into account as they all have a great influence over your health.

There are three main ways that the essential oils used in aromatherapy enter your body: Read the rest of this entry »

Yoga is a 6000-year-old form of exercise which not only disciplines the body but conditions the mind as well.

While the various asanas or exercises are the basic building blocks of the practice of yoga, the breath is its very essence of it. Some go so far as to say, “If you can breathe, you can do yoga.” One of the main reasons for this is that one of the main goals of yoga is to teach you to still and quiet your mind through the use of your breath. Read the rest of this entry »

Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle has been around a little while now and it is still a very hot topic. Is it a scam? For real? Let’s take a look at Tom Venuto’s book and course, and find out. This will be a little long in regards to a common post…but we need to look at the whole package. Okay…. Read the rest of this entry »

Seated oblique twists with medicine ball, sometimes called a Russian Twist, is a very effective exercise for strengthening the abdominal muscles, particularly the rectus abdominis, the external obliques and internal obliques.

How to do it right:

* Sit on the floor with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor.
* Contract your abs and sit at about a 45 degrees angle.
* Hold a medicine with both hands directly in front of you
* Contracting your abs, twist slowly from your torso to your right and touch the medicine ball to the floor beside you.
* Quickly, but smoothly, contract your abs and twist your torso and touch the medicine ball to the other side.
* Repeat for the desired number of reps.

Thanks to Elizabeth Quinn, About.com Guide and sportsmedicine.about.com

If you are one of the many people on the planet who would want to lose weight and keep your body free from fat, then you may well give up on ways to manage your possible choices to get you on the track to great weight loss. Thanks to technology and scientific discovery, you have many different choices to pick from when you start thinking weight loss. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a fitness and health site, so after a few queries into the subject of erectile dysfunction, its treatments for impotence and the viability of generic viagra…it’s time to touch on the problems and treatments. Erectile dysfunction can not only affect a male’s confidence, but it can also do quite a bit of damage to a otherwise healthy relationship between a couple. Read the rest of this entry »

Note:  My friend and fitness author Jon Benson shared this letter with me and gave me permission to share it with you.

If you ever needed another good reason to exercise, I’ve got one for you:

Exercise makes your brain bigger.

Actually this isn’t entirely accurate. To be more specific, exercise was found to increase brain size slightly, but far more important to increase “spatial reasoning.”

This is the ability to recognize patterns, remember phrases, numbers, and so-on. This was discovered by researchers at the Universities of Chicago and Pittsburgh.

It is also one of the most important factors to the prevention of Alzheimer’s and dementia.

My mom suffered with dementia the last ten years of her life. But unlike most dementia patients she was fully functional thanks to exercise. She drove and had a mind that was unbelievably sharp right up until an accident injured her beyond the ability to exercise.

After that, she mentally went downhill rapidly. Thankfully, she passed in peace… and she had ten wonderfully active years thanks to her willingness to take up weight training at the age of 71.

She eventually walked up to 3 miles per day and trained in the gym 3 days per week.

That kept her mind sharp, along with fish oil and N-Acetyl L-Carnitine, a wonderful brain nutrient.

Once again, we see the power of exercise. It increases the QUALITY of your life.

Quantity is no where near as important to me as quality.

One of the best ways to start exercising when you are over 40 is by using the routines covered in “Fit Over 40″.

This book profiles 53 different men and women, age 40 to 80, all sharing their workouts, nutrition plans, and mental empowerment techniques.

It is a MUST-HAVE for anyone wanting to begin exercising or improve their level of fitness after the age of 40.

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