Studies have shown that exercising for at least 30 minutes 5 days a week produces the most beneficial results. The point is that exercise can cover a wide range of activities as long as your heart rate rises to an age-appropriate level and stays there for most of the exercise period. So what kind of…
Category: Health Fitness
Prioritize Carbohydrates the Right Way in Your Diet
When we think of healthy eating, people think ‘carbs’ is a dirty word and won’t eat them at all. But it’s a bit more complicated than that. Do you know what carbohydrate foods are? To deepen the knowledge of carbohydrates, let’s know What are carbohydrate foods?s, and how they affect our body. To start from…
Female Body Types Explained: How To Go From Endomorph To Hourglass
Endomorphic women are usually short with soft, round bodies. Blessed with thick arms and strong legs, endomorphs take leg exercises like the squat naturally. Endomorphic women who want to achieve an hourglass figure find that their bodies are difficult to improve and maintain because they get fat very easily. Achieving an hourglass body is a…
bodybuilding fat loss
Regular exercise and fat loss are good for you and will help make you healthier, but they won’t cause the definition and toning of your body that you can get from using bodybuilding exercise routines. For women, these routines will not add bulk or make you look like a professional wrestler. They will give you…
Metabolic Booster: How It Helps You Lose Weight Faster and Safer
The body’s metabolism is the key to any successful weight reduction. The faster the metabolism, the faster excess weight can be shed. To boost your sluggish metabolism, you need a metabolic booster that works. A ‘simple’ metabolic booster is exercise, but there are also metabolic products that can help you increase your metabolic rate. What…
The used elliptical machine – Is it worth it?
Does it make economic sense to buy a used elliptical machine? Sounds like a good way to save money… right? For example, if you can buy a used Precor EFX 5.23 elliptical cross trainer for $1999 plus shipping on Amazon, while a new one would cost you $2999, wouldn’t that be a good deal? Precor…
Weight loss: try to eat only lunch and dinner
There is an endless variety of diet techniques out there. It has come to a point where anyone who wants to advertise or promote their eating strategy has to go to great lengths to get attention as there are so many varieties of weight loss plans. This often means pushing ideas that are far from…
HIIT: The latest on weight loss
I know there are a lot of recent articles on high intensity interval training. However, I believe that most of them do not fully and/or clearly explain this type of training. I hope this article will help remedy this situation. I know most of us have been told that when we’re in an aerobic state…
How much protein do we need?
How much protein does our body need? The body needs only 25-30 grams per day. We need protein for healthy tissue, growth, and repair, not as a fuel source. Protein is made up of 23 amino acids. Of these 23 amino acids, 8 are called essential amino acids. These 8 cannot be manufactured by the…
My opinion on cardio
My personal beliefs in cardio are very varied. I find that cardio does a lot of different things to my body; some affect me well and others don’t affect me as much. I will share with you my personal experience with cardio. First of all, you better explain what cardio is. Cardio in my books…