Fitness Focus for the Fast-Paced

Posted on April 16, 2007 in Fitness by byronb

Unfortunately some people focus on car maintenance more than they do their own personal maintenance, and that’s a fact. Another fact is that the average life span of men and women is roughly 80 years, but the truth of the matter is that many men and women feel – and look - - closer to the age of 80 than they really are, mainly because the world is too fast paced today for people to keep up with their physical – and hence often mental - fitness.

Some ways to tell if people are prematurely again are if they have:

• Poor posture
• Dry, sagging skin
• Slow, unsteady walk (carrying around extra pounds)
• Painful joints
• Negative “self” images because of a poor real images.
• Moodiness and bouts with depression
• Too much stress, anxieties and worries
• Difficulty going up or down stairs, running lightly for a short distance and / or concentrating.

A sad thing is that when people feel so bad on the outside, they are probably doing bad on the inside. They are probably suffering from or beginning to suffer from clogged arteries, too much sugar and fat in their diets, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart and other diseases. And the number one reason for all these issues is lack of exercise in a regular manner.

Regardless of age, everyone should be including fitness into their daily schedules. In fact some fitness gurus like Denise Austin have designed some fitness routines that take only 1 minute, to help out with this dilemma. With her techniques and those of other fitness gurus, fitness participants should benefit greatly from regular fitness with improvements in life like:

1. Walking more lightly with a spring in your step
2. Enjoying increased energy throughout the day
3. Waking up refreshed
4. Feeling more positive
5. Sleeping better
6. Enjoying improved health and longer lives

Suggestions on how much time you should spend per week on exercise can be either 30 minutes, three to four times a week, or 20 minutes for five days per week.

Ace Your Fitness with Aerobics

One of the main ways to get fit fast is with aerobics, with the taking in of fresh oxygen we breathe every day. Since when we inhale oxygen, only small amounts of it actually reach our body’s organs and muscles, we need to take in a little more to be at peak fitness levels. And a way to do this is through aerobics exercises that boost our health while improving our oxygen intake, hopefully delaying the aging process in the meantime. And popular forms of aerobics activities are brisk walks, swimming, hiking and bicycling.

ABCs of Aerobics

Once you begin your aerobic exercises, your muscles will begin to want more oxygen and blood. And as your aerobics workout increases, your heart starts beating faster, and becoming more rhythmic, also enhancing the body’s metabolism.

As you begins burning calories, your body’s metabolism gets a boost. Your muscles work hand-in-hand with your metabolism, hence your metabolism works along with them to burn off excess fats and calories, helping you control your weight. Only when your metabolism slows, does your weight increase as it gains on your body, because your muscles lose their ability to burn calories as rapidly and efficiently.

According to physical fitness experts, if you work in approximately a half hour of aerobics each day, you can boost your metabolism plus loose weight at the same time. And in response, your health risks will diminish.

In fact, aerobics work outs boost your energy. So if you start to feel fatigued, take a brisk walk for a short while and boost your energy. Because aerobics can reduce stress similar to what happens is that endorphins, which are helpful with the boosting of energy and are considered a natural body painkiller for your brain, attach to your cell receptors, acting like morphine. When you experience pain from any injuries, these endorphins kick in, lessen your pain and practically give you a natural high. In a similar manner, aerobics can decrease anxiety up to half. So the more exercises you do, the more anxiety that leaves your body and mind.

Aerobics workouts can also help reduce cramps during menstrual cycles. Even during active flowing cycles you can workout, to help reduce cramping.

And aerobics is said to also help restore a youthful glow, reduce heart disease, cancer, diabetes, strokes, osteoporosis, depression and arthritis.

Aerobics exercises offer additional benefits. They also help regulate the body’s temperature, as well as helps put you go to sleep,  by tiring you out, facing one of the main problems people often face today, the inability to sleep well. Because when you complete aerobic routines, they help you calm down later and sleep well plus they help you reduce cellulite, as well as additional weight gain, and they help boost your sex drive – all aging issues that many people face. So overall, aerobics have many advantages.

Fitness and Diet

Fitness with aerobics and diet go hand-in-hand. Many people eat a variety of foods daily that they believe will help them to live better. However, many are poor choices.

Facts:
Lunch meats and packaged sausage have been tested and proven to present health risks. These products contain what experts know as nitrates, chemical radicals or compounds that include salt and ester. In addition, the products include nitric acids, with radical NO3. Note that these are preservatives to enable supermarkets to store the products longer than a few days. Plus nitrates are used in fertilizers also; hence the products also have additives.

Some of the products you want to be leery of are Italian sausage, bratwurst, liver sausage, Braunschweiger, turkey and pork sausage, duck sausage.

According to healthy food experts, you may want to avoid bringing home hormone, antibiotic-free, and range fed poultry and meats. Also you will want to avoid pheasant, veal, quail, duck, lamb, chicken, squab, pork, beef. (NOTE: This information is discussed within the parameters of the Schwarzben principles).

Cheese:
Healthy food experts note that the better cheeses that are available for you today are cream, feta, Queso fresco, cottage cheese, goat, Ricotta, Neufchatel, Mozzarella, Gjetost and Muenster.

Facts reported:
Smoked fish most often contains nitrates.

For Protein based food stuffs:
Shellfish and fish are choice.

Saturated vs. unsaturated fats issue:
Initially, according to health studies, if you avoid saturated fats, this can help you live a longer, happier and much healthier life. However newer studies have different results. According to these resources, when the studies were conducted to test the results of saturated fats, the main participants were consuming unhealthy foods, plus smoking cigarettes and heavily drinking and abusing using drugs, and so forth. But newer studies where the participants were living much healthier lifestyles showed that saturated fats can indeed improve cholesterol. In addition, these saturated fats can cause a decrease in your blood pressure, plus reduce heart disease.

Facts reported:
Excessive consumption of carbohydrates can increase your level of insulin. Hence a balanced diet should include roughly 50 to 80 grams per day of carbohydrates. And you also should eat carbohydrates including proteins and fats, plus whole grain foods, fruits and vegetables with starch and legumes as healthier choices than man-made carbohydrates.

Facts reported:
Crackers have too many additives that may also include some hydrogenate fats.

Recommended portions per serving:
Whole Wheat Matzo crackers: one half cracker
Rice Crackers: 1-4 crackers
Rusk toast: 1 ½ ounce of toast
Rice cakes: 2 rice cakes

Note that when you are considering a diet, diets are like fads. Everyone seems to think they have the answer to living healthy through diet, yet only your body knows what it needs. I recommend you take note and pay attention to your body’s demand. If your body agrees with the food it may be the answer to your prayers. On the other hand, if your body disagrees you may want to find a new food to test.

One of the foods on the marketplace low in fat is Chinese food. Most people believe that fat makes you fat, but the fact is our body needs a measure of fat to survive. We need balance. Fats build hormones, cells, and components of the brain. Since, fats do not stimulate release of insulin, thus fats is not what makes you fat. Overall, it is up to you to find the best diet that pleases your body, which can help you live healthier.

Healthier Eating Tips

The truth about better eating is this: only you know what is best for your body. So what you need to do is listen to your body and let it take control.

In other words, for the most part, you can eat pretty much anything you like as long as you exercise. The key is adhering to balanced diets. Exercise is the ruler, which if you exercise, no matter what you do you can increase life.

Yet you want to avoid harmful things that will lead to poor health. One of the worst things you can do is stop and start exercise. When you start, keep going.

To help you understand more about diet however, we can consider a few expert tips. According to experts if you eat five helpings of fruits and vegetables daily, you will expend your life.

NOTE: Juicers blended from juicers can reduce the intake of fruits and vegetables, which will save you money; as well the juices will give you twice the amount of nutrients you will get from a single fruit or vegetable.

Fruits and vegetables are high, thus who can truly afford to eat five helpings daily, yet the fact is fruits and vegetables is the healthier produce, since it comes from natural resources.

Notes:

• According to some experts eating too much fruits and vegetables can make you gain weight. The experts tell you to eat only half an apple a day, while superstitious beliefs lead people to believe that an apple a day will keep the doctor away.
• Another problem is dieters fail to stick with a plan. They will often jump track and binge eat, or will not eat at all. They will also change the balance of their diet. This is why many gain weight.
• One of the leading causes of weight gain is the not food you eat, rather it is the obsession behind the person. People obsess over gaining weight, rather than eat according to the body’s signals. Thus the only truth that come from diet experts this far is those that tell you to listen to your body. If your body tells you it is hungry, eat. If your body says it’s full, stop eating. If your body tells you it needs something, give your body what it needs.
• Obsessive eaters often gain weight, since they stress over weight gain rather than taking action to do something about. Often they will ignore their body signals and go on a binge eating plan. When the body is full, the obsessive eater will continue eating, thus disregarding the signals of the body, which adds to deeper problems.
• Another problem that leads to poor health is that many obsessive eaters will degrade their being. When you spend time degrading self, such as “I am fat,” you are wasting valuable time that could help you achieve a healthier living. The people, who achieve good health, thus are often instinctive eaters.

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