Sep 25

4 Top Tips for Warming up Before your Home Workout

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If you’re juggling responsibilities and are pressed for time, it’s easy to be a bit impatient and want to get straight into fitness regime, especially if you’re working out at home.  It’s still vital to recognise the importance of warming up and cooling down, however. This helps to prepare your body for exercise and assists with your recovery afterwards.   Why Warm-up? Warming up allows you to exercise more efficiently. It slowly increases the heart rate and helps you avoid injury. This because it stops the intense exercise coming as such a shock to your system. Depending on whether you prefer to hit the gym or workout at home, you can find four top tips to make sure you’re warming up effectively.   1. Use dynamic movement as a warm-up for exercise The best way to warm up before taking part in physical activity is to perform low-intensity, dynamic movements that are similar to the main type of activity that you will perform. Here are three examples: You’re going to jog three miles. First, do some dynamic movements to warm up: walk slowly, gradually speeding up for about five minutes. If you’re about to do a set of bench presses. […]
Sep 25

These Dumbbell Exercises Should Help You Keep Your Shoulders In Proper Shape

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As individuals perform their workouts every day, they must not forget to add some exercises for their shoulders as a part of their daily workout routine. The looks of individuals can be changed completely by performing shoulder exercises every day. If individuals can sculpt strong shoulders through their workouts by making them stay in proper shape, it can improve their fitness levels in general. Moreover, by doing the various shoulder exercises, individuals would be able to improve their overall posture. Following are some of the dumbbell exercises that can be performed by individuals to keep their shoulders in proper shape:   1. Alternating Dumbbell Front Raise: This is one of the shoulder exercises that actually targets the muscles in your shoulder, particularly your front deltoids. It only involves unilateral movements and with the shoulder muscles being sensitive, it is necessary to train carefully instead of going for training heavy. It is better to use weights that are light, so that individuals would be able to achieve better results. Moreover, the deltoid muscles that comprise of anterior deltoid, posterior deltoid and lateral deltoid require you to focus more and train these muscles adequately. Equipment Required: • A pair of Dumbbells How […]
Sep 25

6 Most Effective Tricep Exercises

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Batwing arms causing you the blues? Use these tips for toned triceps and say goodbye to fly away arm flaps. Best of all – equipment is optional, so no excuses.   Push-ups This humble exercise may not be the latest craze on the exercise scene. It has been around seemingly always and remains a go-to for good reason – it works. Push-ups are a bodyweight exercise that get results without fancy equipment. You’ll target not only your triceps but also your chest, core and biceps. Push-ups build bone and burn calories, too. Add at least two sets of ten to your routine if you are a beginner. Increase that number as you gain the strength needed to maintain proper form for the duration of the set.   Standing tricep kickbacks You’ll start to feel this one pretty quickly. To begin, hold the weight on your right side and lean slightly forward with knees softly bent. Move your upper arm until it is parallel with your torso and bend your lower arm to bring the weight midline. Straighten your arm fully to extend the weight behind your back in ski pole fashion. Return to start and repeat for the desired number […]
Sep 25

The Contribution of Mind-Body Practices to Emotional Health

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Emotional health is a state of positive psychological functioning and is vital for living a life of balance and contentment. People who are emotionally healthy are in control of their moods and behaviour, which helps them to meet the challenges of career difficulties, family conflict, or life dilemmas. However, many individuals have experienced emotional disturbances and disorders during their life. Emotional disorders are highly intertwined with leading causes of illness and disability, such as heart disease or stroke, leading to a high family and social burden due to increased healthcare costs. Therefore, it is an important public health issue to encourage more research into the field of mental health. It is well established that mind-body practices, as an alternative and complementary treatment, have shown beneficial effects in the alleviation of anxiety, depression, and other psychopathologies. Recently, considerable efforts have been devoted to the field of mind-body training-induced emotional effects, to unravel the significance of alternative and complementary techniques in the prevention and treatment of emotional disturbances and disorders. These mind-body practices include Tai Chi Chuan, yoga, Baduanjin, and Qigong. Given the accessibility of mind-body practices among individuals of all ages, there is potential in the application of regimens with empirical […]
Sep 25

Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle

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Physical fitness is not the sole basis of being healthy; being healthy means being mentally and emotionally fit. Being healthy should be part of your overall lifestyle. Living a healthy lifestyle can help prevent chronic diseases and long-term illnesses. Feeling good about yourself and taking care of your health are important for your self-esteem and self-image. Maintain a healthy lifestyle by doing what is right for your body. If you want to be a well-rounded, healthy individual, here are a couple of staying healthy tips that may help you do just that: Maintain a regular exercise routine No, you do not have to force yourself into intense workouts at the gym but you need to keep as active as possible. You can stick to easy floor exercises, swimming, walking, or simply keep yourself moving by doing some household chores. Do what your body allows you to do. What is important is that you continue exercising. Give at least twenty to thirty minutes a day to exercise at least three to five times a week. Have a routine; see to it that you have enough physical activity each day. Be conscious in your diet No, you do not have to force […]
Sep 25

Top 4 Exercises Ever For You To Do

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If you don’t want to head to the gym then you can try out some other workouts which are not extensive in nature but at the same time produces good results if performed properly. These workouts are enough to do wonders for your health and they will help you to improve your balance, keep your weight in control, prevent other health issues which you might be facing, take a look.  Swimming – you might call swimming as the best workout for your muscles. The buoyancy of the water will support your body and take the strain off from your painful joints so that you can move them a lot freely. Swimming is also known to improve your mental state and so it will instantly put you in a better mood.  Tai chi –this Chinese form of martial art is known to be very beneficial for the body as well as for the mind. Tai chi is comprised of a string of graceful movements which transition smoothly from one to another. It is actually good for older people because for them the balance is an important component of maintaining fitness.  Strength Training – if you think that strength […]
Sep 25

The Only Workout That You Will Ever Need To Do!

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If you want to know what is the single most effective workout that you can do then you are in the right place. If it is executed properly then the following workout will make you stronger and build you an altogether better physique than what you are having. So what is this super-effective workout routine? Take a look. The basic workout you need to do • Barbell squats, you can do for 10 rounds maximum and then take 60 seconds to rest after it. • Up next is medium width, with pronated grip pull ups, 10 RM and then take a break of 60 seconds. • Barbell deadlift comes next, 10 RM followed by a rest of 60 seconds. • The last thing for the workout is Dips, 10 RM, after which you can take a 120 seconds rest. Things to keep in mind while you are doing the workout The repetition tempo should be 4 seconds with a 0-second pause while you are at the bottom of the movement. 1 second explosive positive and 0-second pause while you are at the top of the movement. You are going to do 10 repetitions maximum. Make sure you pick a weight […]
Sep 25

The Top 5 Things You Need To Drop To Remain Happy!

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Everyone wants to remain happy in their life but not always they get what they want. so its time for you to stop looking here and there and take a peek into yourself to know what are some of the things you can let go of, in order to stay happy. No idea what they are? We’ll list you 5 things here without which you are going to be better off. • Toxic friends – your surroundings greatly influence your happiness and the anchors that are actually putting you down could be people in disguise as friends. Its time you cut on those toxic friends and find positive friends who will lift and inspire you at every step in your life. • Attachment to results – don’t you do everything for the expectation of results? Yes but that makes you vulnerable. So whatever you do in your life, do it irrespective of the results that you want. so let go of the attachments and you will be better off and enjoy your progress. • The constant chase for money – everyone is running after money and it indeed is important to lead a life. But make sure you only get […]
Sep 25

Fitness Is Never Limited To A Certain Age

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The phase of your life which you are going through may decide your exercise routine, but it should never be your age! Attention to good health should never concern your current age. Good family fitness is always influencing to kids as well as aged people. Work it out, kids! The top things among good encounters in a kid’s life are to get inspired by his parents as a role model. So why not make the best out of it? Be the hero of fitness and weight lifters in the eyes of your kids get them in habits of working out from the early days. Give swimming lessons as well as outdoor gaming experience to your child so that the body and mind can get expanded. Get on the wheels teens! Teenage is the greatest time when the body and health develop and evolve at the highest rate. Joining the gym might be the best fitness approach a teen could make. Join the nearest gym today, consult your diet with your trainer, and follow a proper workout routine. Go on sprints, cardio, long runs, jumping jacks, make sure you do not allow fat muscles to grow inside your young sweet belly. […]
Sep 24

Quit smoking, increase fibre intake and more: 6 tips for a healthy heart

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Instead of making huge changes, you will be able to improve your heart’s health by making some small changes. Once you have successfully adopted those changes, you won’t find it hard to stick to them A healthy heart is integral to a healthy life. Moderate exercise-like activities such as walking at a moderate or brisk pace, yoga, tennis, basketball, bicycling, dancing, and recreational swimming are beneficial for our heart’s health. Vigorous physical activity helps to reduce the risk of heart failure, but even a high amount of exercise may prove to be harmful. Heart is the pump that provides oxygen and nutrients to the tissues in your body, so taking care of it is essential. But not only exercise, other lifestyle changes are also important. Making heart-smart choices at home, grocery, and at your favourite restaurant helps in reducing the risk of getting heart disease. Instead of making huge changes, you will be able to improve your heart’s health by making some small changes. Once you have successfully adopted those changes, you won’t find it hard to stick to them. Here are some of the changes that you should make for a healthier heart: Don’t take juices and processed fruit […]
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