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March 19th, 2010 — Weight Loss Journal, exercise, weight loss, workouts
Yoga does not necessarily conjure up the images of a sweat inducing and calorie burning workout the way that boot camp workouts tend to, but you should not be fooled on the slow poses and the deep breathing exercises. Both personal trainers and doctors are agreeing that yoga is capable of serious toning and trimming [...]
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Understanding Metabolism The rate in which your body uses the energy stored in food, otherwise know as calories, is called your metabolism. The resting metabolism is the measure of calories needed for basic body function. Energy metabolism is the process by the body of breaking down the various nutrients and converting them...... -
Calorie Cycling – Is It a Sound Idea? There has been a lot of buzz lately about calorie cycling and whether or not it is an effective means of losing weight. For some, it has enabled them to lose massive amounts of weight. For others, it may just not work. Let’s take a look at the theories behind...... -
Is Swimming The Ultimate Exercise? When it comes to finding the right workout plan, it may be a good idea to consider giving swimming a try. As the nation watched Mark Phelps make history in 8 swimming events, more people started getting interested in just how good swimming can be for your body. As you...... -
Surfing and Wakeboarding for Weight Loss Are you looking for a way to lose weight that doesn't involve running, walking, aerobics or going to the gym? Most people would categorize surfing and wakeboarding as fun activities rather than weight loss activities, but this is not necessarily the case, because you can easily lose weight through surfing,...... -
How to Fuel Your Body For Exercise When you are trying to lose weight, it is very common to go on a strict diet and add in exercise on top of that. There is a problem with this however and you can end up feeling too exhausted to keep going. This usually leads to quitting your......
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March 12th, 2010 — activities, calories, cardiovascular, exercise, wellness
You need to have a good working understanding of exercise and how it affects your body in order to get the most out of it. If you exercise too little or too much, you may not be getting the intended benefits from the effort, which would make it a pointless effort all together, or may [...]
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Calorie Cycling – Is It a Sound Idea? There has been a lot of buzz lately about calorie cycling and whether or not it is an effective means of losing weight. For some, it has enabled them to lose massive amounts of weight. For others, it may just not work. Let’s take a look at the theories behind...... -
How to Fuel Your Body For Exercise When you are trying to lose weight, it is very common to go on a strict diet and add in exercise on top of that. There is a problem with this however and you can end up feeling too exhausted to keep going. This usually leads to quitting your...... -
Trim Your Waist By Avoiding These Pitfalls Nearly everyone wants to lose inches off their waist and there are many schools of thought on how to accomplish this. Many people believe that the best way to trim your waist is to do hundreds if not thousands of sit-ups or crunches, but in reality, this method will...... -
8 Easy Ways to Exercise Throughout the Day If you are finding that you don't have enough time to exercise due to a busy work or home life, there are techniques that you can use throughout the day that will accelerate your weight loss. Most of these can be done just about anywhere and only require a...... -
Books: Get Your Motivation Back! With January over, many people will be either be well on the way to making their new years resolutions or have already ditched them. If you're part of the first group, good for you! You deserve many kudos for sticking with your diet and exercise plan. If you're in the......
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March 4th, 2010 — Weight Loss Journal, goals, mental, motivation, nutrition, weight loss
1 – Mindset –
You can never really tell how important a can do attitude is going to be until you have one. A real desire to achieve your goals is a powerful foundation for weight loss success. Think about what you want to achieve, and think about why you want to achieve it. Think [...]
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Quick Tips for Healthy Weight Loss pt 2 Here is a handful of quick tips that will help you achieve healthy, natural and permanent weight loss. 1 - When we go to sleep at night, our bodies naturally go into what is essentially a fasting mode. This is another reason why we should never, ever skip our breakfast....... -
100 Calorie Diet Review The 100 Calorie Diet is a type of diet that was created by a pair of sisters, Tammy Trimble and Susie Trimble, and they lost more than 100 lbs following this diet plan that they have put together. They believe that by keeping track of calorie consumption in units of...... -
1200 Calorie Diet Review This is a diet that is based on consuming only 1200 calories in day is minimum considered safe for weight loss. This because in general, 1200 calories will still provide adequate nutritional intake for most people, while reducing calories to a level that most dieters strive for to lose weight....... -
How to Find the Diet That Works For You Once you're ready to take that step and go on a diet, there will literally be thousands of options available to you. There are a myriad of different diets out there and most claim that they have the secret to fast weight loss. It can be very frustrating to keep...... -
10 Essential Elements of Weight Loss Success pt 2 Continued from part 1, we are looking at the ten essential elements for weight loss success. 6 - Exercise - Daily activity is a really important part of the equation, along with including periods of structured, intense activity, or 'working out'. This should cover resistance training to build long, lean......
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February 27th, 2010 — Weight Loss Journal, exercise, injury
So much focus is given to warming up for exercise, that the cool down period at the end of a workout is generally ignored. If you are not taking the time to do this after each and every workout, you can experience muscle soreness and it can be difficult to stick to an exercise routine [...]
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How to Go About Losing Weight the Healthy Way The healthiest way for you to lose weight has nothing to do with crash dieting and it has nothing to do with bursts of sudden exercise. Your body likes changes that are slow when it comes to how you eat and how you exercise. For example, if you have not...... -
What Time of the Day is Best For Exercise? While there are many schools of thought on the subject of what time during the day is optimum, it generally boils down to whether or not you are capable of fitting in a workout during that specific time. We’re all on pretty tight schedules these days and sometimes, it is...... -
How to Stretch Properly Although most of us recognize that we have to stretch before we exercise there is a lot of confusion out there about how to actually go about it. If you’re not stretching the right way, you could actually be setting yourself up for an injury. Here are some great tips...... -
Cheap Ways to Exercise If your budget is keeping you from making a commitment to exercise, there are numerous free or low cost methods currently available. You don’t have to purchase an expensive membership at the gym, or buy expensive equipment for a home gym in order to get fit. Let’s go over some...... -
Are You Setting Yourself Up For Injury? If you are serious about exercising, just getting started, or even thinking about going to the gym, there are a few things that you need to know before you take another step. Exercise related injuries send thousands to the doctor and even emergency rooms every year and the sad truth......
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February 26th, 2010 — Weight Loss Journal, detox, exercise, gym, motivation, rewards
Deciding to dedicate yourself or commit yourself to wellness as well as weight loss is never going to be an easy decision to make, but it is still quite necessary in many situations. The reason why making such a commitment is not easy is because it takes building up motivation and finally getting up and [...]
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Sunday Roundup - Fats, Weight, and Stigmas Welcome to another edition of the Sunday roundup. This issue has a lot in regards to weight-loss, weight-gain and fat. Enjoy! The Fitness Health Network presents: Fat Man Unleashed asks Rise in Obesity Related to Quick Weight Loss Diets? Lazy Man and Health talks about Chewing the Fat. Speaking of...... -
Do You Own Your Body? If you are struggling with your weight and your self esteem, there are many different things that you might find that you are not doing. Whether it’s wearing a favorite outfit, going to a gym to exercise or even just having fun, many of us end up self exiled hermits...... -
Veterans Roundup Welcome to another edition of WL's Sunday Roundup. WL extends its gratitude to our nation's Veterans. Thank you for all you've done for us! Below are links to many articles of interest. Search for some weekend reading under the FHN, reader, web, and carnival sections. Enjoy! The Fitness Health...... -
Book Review: The You On a Diet Diet "You: On a Diet" appeared on Oprah Winfrey's show and then immediately exploded, primarily because it offers a fun and light hearted approach to losing weight and getting healthy. The "You: On a Diet" diet uses metaphors, comics, images and other fun icons as a way to explain how the...... -
Start Making Lifestyle Changes It is common knowledge that making lifestyle changes can have a big impact on how much weight you lose and your chances of keeping it off over the long term. What isn’t as clear is how to effect those changes, especially if you are trying to lose weight on your......
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February 25th, 2010 — caffeine, hydration, sodium, water, wellness
As summer gets closer, many of us are taking our exercise routines outside. It’s a great time of year to get out and enjoy nature, but this is also the time of year when the risk of dehydration becomes very real. If you have ever been seriously dehydrated, you know how awful it feels. You [...]
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Easy Exercises To Do During the Holidays Just because you plan on traveling during the holiday season, that does not mean you cannot keep exercising to keep yourself healthy. Here are some tips for easy ways to exercise during the holiday season. If you are traveling during the holidays, planning ahead can really make all the difference...... -
How to Get Exercise When You Don't Have Time Just because you do not have a lot of time on your hands, that does not mean that you will not be able to sneak exercise in to your daily schedule in order to get healthier and lose weight. Most people think that if they do not have an hour...... -
Working Out with Your Dog Both you and your dog need exercise in order to live long, healthy lives. You can kill two birds with one stone by adapting a workout routine that works for both you and your four legged companion. There are a wide variety of different ways that you can work out...... -
Dieting Fun? Don't Laugh It Can Be! Most of look at dieting as a drudgery, as something that should be dreaded, and as such, many of us either fail at getting started, or can’t stick to it. What if you could change that mindset and look at dieting as being fun? How would that impact how you...... -
5 Steps to Cool Down the Right Way After Exercise When most of us finish our workout the only thing we want to do is stop and relax. However, if you suddenly go from working out to sitting like a lump, you are increasing your chances for injury and post-workout pain. Just as you warm up before you exercise with......
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February 10th, 2010 — Weight Loss Journal, exercise, workouts
Most people know what resistance bands are, but do not realize how effective these exercise tools can actually be at building strength and helping to work off weight. How can a series of rubber tubes or bands actually do anything, right? It is time to lose this attitude because resistance bands and tubes are actually [...]
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Working Out in the Waiting Room When people are busy, it becomes harder to find time for the purpose of exercising. But luckily, there are some hidden gems of time that we all have in our lives that will allow us to get a quick and effective workout in, turning wasted waiting time into effective workout...... -
Calories in and Calories out One of the simplest possible ways that you can look at weight loss is on a calories in and calories out basis. What this means is that you need to burn as many calories as you are consuming in order to maintain your weight, or burn more than you are...... -
Coming Back After an Injury Injuries are an unfortunate part of exercise for many people, and in some cases, one bad injury can completely derail your plans for weight loss and getting fit. However, there are certain techniques that you can use to ensure that you’ll keep losing weight and getting healthier, even if you...... -
How much Exercise is Necessary? You need to have a good working understanding of exercise and how it affects your body in order to get the most out of it. If you exercise too little or too much, you may not be getting the intended benefits from the effort, which would make it a pointless...... -
8 Easy Ways to Exercise Throughout the Day If you are finding that you don't have enough time to exercise due to a busy work or home life, there are techniques that you can use throughout the day that will accelerate your weight loss. Most of these can be done just about anywhere and only require a......
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February 8th, 2010 — Weight Loss Journal, exercise, injury, wellness
Did you know that approximately 60% of all people who run end up getting injured? The numbers can go even higher for those that exercise without stretching properly. A big portion of these injuries occur in the knee, which has led to the term “Runner’s Knee.” This is an injury that can affect anyone, even [...]
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Understanding Functional Training One of the latest crazes in the exercise world is functional training. If you're not familiar with this, it targets what you do, and helps you do exercises that will make you better at it. This is a great way to lose weight, since you'll be able to incorporate...... -
Tennis for Weight Loss When most people think of weight loss, they immediately start to think about running mile after mile, sweating to outdated aerobics videos, or otherwise engaging in activities that they simply do not enjoy. This is not necessarily the case anymore, however, as people are beginning to see the virtue in...... -
How to Keep Fit When You Are Injured It happens to the best of us. You’re rolling along on your new diet and exercise plan and you’re starting to see results. You’re pumped, you’re on top of the world and then bang – an injury. At this point, you’ve got two main choices. You can give up, convinced...... -
4 Heart Healthy Exercises If you want to get on the road to a healthy and full life, you need to focus not only on losing weight, but also doing exercises that are going to benefit your most powerful organ, your heart. It may be tough at first, but it's important that you...... -
3 Tips on How to Avoid Diet Stress Dieting can be very stressful in many ways. It's never easy to start depriving yourself of food, and you'll undoubtedly experience not only physical stress but some emotional stress too. While it's hard to completely avoid all stress in your life, there are ways that you can make your......
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January 22nd, 2010 — Weight Loss Journal, exercise, gym
Why spend all that money on a gym membership when you end up making up excuses not to go every week? Why not build your own home gym where you can work out comfortably in your own home? Here is part one of a three part guide to building your own gym at home.
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8 Easy Ways to Exercise Throughout the Day If you are finding that you don't have enough time to exercise due to a busy work or home life, there are techniques that you can use throughout the day that will accelerate your weight loss. Most of these can be done just about anywhere and only require a...... -
4 Excuses to Not Exercise and 4 Ways to Change That Let's face it, when it comes to starting an exercise plan, few of us actually enjoy it. Who wants to get all tired and sweaty when it's so much easier to sit on the couch and languish? This causes most of us to make excuses and find ways to...... -
Is Your Exercise Routine Giving You A Headache? If you are finding that you develop consistent headaches or migraines, the answer may be in your workout, or more importantly, how you are working out. It is actually quite common to get a headache a few hours after exercising. This is due to the fact that sudden stress on...... -
100 Calorie Diet Review The 100 Calorie Diet is a type of diet that was created by a pair of sisters, Tammy Trimble and Susie Trimble, and they lost more than 100 lbs following this diet plan that they have put together. They believe that by keeping track of calorie consumption in units of...... -
Review: If I'm So Smart, Why Can't I Lose Weight? - Tools to Get it Done According to Brooke Castillo, author of this book, intelligent and accomplished men and women often have intense difficulty losing weight and getting healthy. One of the main reasons that it is believed that this happens is because these people have not spent enough time developing their level of emotional intelligence.......
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January 17th, 2010 — Weight Loss Journal, activities, alternative ideas, exercise, workouts
The best way to benefit from weight loss and exercise is to make it simple. When you make small, regular changes, they will actually add up to much more serious weight loss improvement than what you would achieve by making too many changes at once. There are a wide variety of healthy workouts that you [...]
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4 Heart Healthy Exercises If you want to get on the road to a healthy and full life, you need to focus not only on losing weight, but also doing exercises that are going to benefit your most powerful organ, your heart. It may be tough at first, but it's important that you...... -
Do You Own Your Body? If you are struggling with your weight and your self esteem, there are many different things that you might find that you are not doing. Whether it’s wearing a favorite outfit, going to a gym to exercise or even just having fun, many of us end up self exiled hermits...... -
5 Steps to Cool Down the Right Way After Exercise When most of us finish our workout the only thing we want to do is stop and relax. However, if you suddenly go from working out to sitting like a lump, you are increasing your chances for injury and post-workout pain. Just as you warm up before you exercise with...... -
Coming Back After an Injury Injuries are an unfortunate part of exercise for many people, and in some cases, one bad injury can completely derail your plans for weight loss and getting fit. However, there are certain techniques that you can use to ensure that you’ll keep losing weight and getting healthier, even if you...... -
One Hundred Pushup Challenge -- Knee Push ups, 1 Handed Knee Pushups, and Full Push ups Well if you haven't heard by now then you aren't paying attention to the Health and Fitness blogosphere... Everyone is doing the 100 push up challenge at 100 push ups. It is a 6 week training program geared toward a final test where 100 consecutive pushups are completed. (My first......
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