Posts Tagged ‘Fitness’

Healthier With The Right Treadmill

December 7th, 2010

cross trainer elliptical exercise machine 2 Healthier With The Right TreadmillBeing healthy is now become the crucial needs for modern people. Just look how crowd the fitness centers (gym) are these days. For those who are very busy, exercising at home with a variety of sporting equipment become a choice.

Treadmill is one of the most popular exercise equipment that many people have in their homes. Compared to other cardio equipment, treadmill burns more calories. One mile brisk walking on the treadmill is able to burn about 100 calories. Another advantage of the treadmill is able to adapt to various levels of training and speed variations from walking to running. However, the price of this equipment is quite expensive.

Therefore, we have to consider carefully before buying this equipment. One of the things that determine the comfort of a treadmill is the belt. Choose the one that has long surface so that allows us to adapt. Like other electronic equipment, the more the features then the better that treadmill. For example, there is speed variations, steep grade, monitor that describe the heart rate, and easy to operate.

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The Importance of Water

July 24th, 2010

water 04 The 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.

Exercise and Snacks

July 17th, 2010

just for mom postpartum exercise 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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