Posts Tagged ‘Fitness’

The Importance of Water

July 24th, 2010

Importance of WaterWater has an important role for health, fitness, concentration, and maintain the quality of life. Water also played a role in preventing various diseases, and optimize your physical abilities, because most of the human body contains liquid or water. Decrease 4 to 6 percent of the water in the body, will create headaches, dizziness and weak body.

Meanwhile, when it reached 12 percent of fluids that lost, then someone will be difficult to chew and need medical assistance. And more severe, if a person decreased water up to 15 to 25 percent, it would be fatal, because someone could have fainted. While the characteristics of a dehydrated person, for light dehydration such as, thirst, dry lips, dry throat, dry skin.

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Exercise and Snacks

July 17th, 2010

Exercise and SnacksWhen we eat back the calories that was already been burnt, Braun explained that, it will only bring new risks, which is a heart disease. Then, why the athletes are actually doing the opposite? “Because the purpose of exercise for an athlete is different from ordinary people”. Not only keeps the body healthy, but also there is an element of competition in it. That’s why they always got a different advice than us.

On the first phase of the research, the participants were asked to do walking exercise on a treadmill for an hour a day so that 500 calories could be burned. Then, the respondents were divided into two groups. The first group was given high-calorie drinks just after completing the exercise. The second group was given only water. The exercise that they were doing was successfully suppressing the insulin levels up to 40 percent.

However, these benefits are disappear instantly when the first group is consume that energy drinks. This makes Braun and his team become wondered whether this occurs because the type of calorie drinks that are provided. Therefore, a second study was conducted then. The respondents were asked to pedal a bike for 75 minutes and shortly after that, the first group was asked to enjoy the high-carbohydrate foods. While the second group was given low-carbohydrates food, but with the same number of calories like the first group.

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Secret of Healthy Living: Build Strength

June 23rd, 2010

yoga exerciseYou certainly could join a fitness club or gym. But there are several other cheaper options, more or less equally the same, it is simple, by using your body weight as resistance. The easiest way to do this is by doing yoga for one hour for a few days each week.

A class of yoga exercise (yoga class) is very good, but to save your money. I suggest buying some types of yoga tapes and play it. First, we recommend that you find out and see vcd / dvd tape of yoga from a local source and if you like it then you can buy. Or you can also buy them internet through Amazon, online selling site and try to check reviews which related to the product, and seek a product with high rating review.

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