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Showing posts with label Body Fitness. Show all posts

Friday, 12 August 2011

Walking or Running For Weight Loss!!!

Walking is boring. It takes so long, and we believe that unless you don’t have a physical limitation holding you back from running, you should not be walking. Start running.

There are so many reasons to start running now- we’ve listed a few for you:

Burn calories while you rest: Running raises your metabolic rate, so you burn calories even while you rest. So you burn calories while watching TV, while sleeping, even while taking a shower!

Build great leg muscles: Running can build muscle in your legs- gives you great calves, quads and butt muscles- your way to look good in shorts :) Also, it increases in your body’s muscle. Muscle burns calories just to maintain itself, so your burn even more calories.

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Ideal Weight Loss

If you were given a choice to lose weight how much would you want to lose and what should be your ideal weight loss.It would make life comfortable if you know that how much weight you could lose within a month and after x months you would reach a desired weight. Suppose you lose 4 kgs a month and by the end of 6 months you would be able to lose 24 kgs. You could actually calculate the expected weight loss and set the time limits according to your own choice. Read this article on ideal weight to set target for your weight loss.

There are some important points that you should keep in mind while planning your ideal weight loss.

Body Composition Analysis: This is the first step towards Ideal weight loss. Body composition analysis gives you a report which tells you about how much fat and muscle percentage is there in your body at different parts. BCA also tells you what your daily caloric requirement is and how many calories you require to maintain the same weight. It also tells how much visceral fat is present in the body. BCA also includes on the basis of your height and weight to be more precise and effective weight loss.

Weight Management Tips

People who are overweight, weight loss is the most obvious first step and but once that has been controlled the most critical and difficult step is to manage the weight. Most people find managing weight more difficult than to actually losing weight. There are simple ways of weight management and we will share them with you through this article.

There is a basic logic behind weight imbalance i.e. you are eating more than you are burning. Simple to say but that is the biggest hurdle. Here are some easy tips on how to get started.

Watch what you buy to eat: Opt for more natural and fresh foods as they not only provide essential nutrition to the body but also keep you fuller for long. Even while shopping for packaged foods that claim to be made of natural ingredients read the ingredients carefully. Insure the first ingredient is natural and the main ingredient is the actual  food instead of sugar or some artificial flavouring used.

Exercise Tips For Different Body Shapes

If there are clothes available according to your body type then why not have personalized workouts that work the best with your individual body type. To make it simple we have divided the most common body shapes in women in four different categories.

The categories are: pear,straight, curvy and athletic.

Here are some easy tips to keep in mind when working out to get the best body shape.

Pear Shaped: Like an pear the body is wider from the base and thin from the top. This kind of body tends to show you heavy at the bottom. Tone up your arms and shoulders to increase in size and tone down the bottom to find the balance between bottom and top. Shift the focus to the top.

Best Exercise For Thighs

Legs are an integral source of power and hence need to be given equal if not more importance than biceps, chest and abs. Well exercising legs are especially critical for a good performance at any outdoor sport. Women have a higher tendency to put on weight on the thighs than men. Having said that it does not mean that men dont need to workout their thighs as much as women. Men especially need to pay attention to the legs first to maintain symmetry of the body shape as they tend to mostly focus on the upper body.

If you are looking at weight loss on thighs then you need to strike a balance between the diet and exercise to get the best results.

Below are some best exercises to help you burn fat from your thighs and toned them up too.

Running: If you feel that you have too much fat on your thighs and want to reduce it fast then running is one of the best exercise for burning maximum calories for fat loss and inch loss of the thighs. Do high intensity workouts like sprinting, german drills, step climbing, bur pees, hopping etc. Running also helps build leg muscles for faster burning of calories while at rest.

How To Tone Arms

Arms are the most exposed body part of most people- men and women. So, everyone wants toned arms. Women wonder how to lose arm flab. Men wonder how to get muscular arms. By doing a few simple exercises, you can easily get toned arms.

Note that there are two parts to your arms- biceps and triceps.


Burn More Fat From Exercise

Do you workout or exercise before breakfast? If you’re trying to lose fat, turns out you might be doing the right thing. Recent research says that to burn fat more effectively, you should skip the pre-workout snack.

European researchers found that cyclists who trained without eating burned significantly higher amount of fat than their counterparts who ate.

6 Steps to a Flat Stomach

Getting restless seeing your belly fat? Well you should be a concerned (see how belly fat is harmful). But since you’ve decided to take action, here are 6 simple steps you can take to reduce flatten your belly.

To reach your goal there are certain factors you should take into consideration while on your quest to a perfect flat belly.

Follow the following guidelines to kick start your efforts.

Wake Up and drink water:
Rehydrate your body with 500 ml of chilled water as soon as you wake up in the morning. Research shows that following this routine will boost your metabolism by 24% for an hour and a half afterward. Body performs well when it is hydrated. What’s more, a previous study determined that muscle cells grow faster when they’re well hydrated. You know what more muscle means…. higher
metabolic rate, and more fat burning.

Eat Your Breakfast: A recent research shows that people who miss their breakfast are more likely to have bulging belly by about 4 & 1/2 times to a person who has regular breakfast and breakfast size is inversely proportional to waist size. So have a good breakfast before heading out for the days work: have some oatmeal, fruits, yogurt, eggs, … or anything that you enjoy