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The Best Way to Walk on the Beach

Posted on November 29th, 2008 by

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Walking in the sand can burn up to twice as many calories as an average stroll -and it`s great for strenghtening your feet and ankles, according to Therese Iknoian, Author of Walking Fast (Human Kinetics, 1998). Be sure to warm up before walking and use these tips.

Walk on firm sand
The sand is firmest close to the water`s edge -giving you necessary ankle and foot support. However, weaving into the water and then back toward softer sand is great for calf toning.

Use your whole foot
Your toes should be splayed, so that you can use all of the muscles in your feet to go faster and control your gait. As you walk, your heels should strike the sand first.

Pay attention to your posture
In sand, “we tend to soften our posture and flail pur arms,” say Iknoian. Instead, keep your abs tight and your shoulders back. Hold your arms at a 90-degree angle while walking.

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Best Ever Low Back Stretch

Posted on November 28th, 2008 by

This shiatsu technique, done with a partner, uses gentle leverage for one of single best streches you`ll ever get, according to Marrianne Fuenmayor, director of the Motherland Society, an organization of volunteers who teach and perform shiatsu.

  1. Lie on your back with your partner standing near your fest, facing you. Have your partner stoop down and lift your legs by grasping the bottom of your heels.
  2. Your partner should stand slowly, stepping toward you until her arms are straight. With your feet in her hands, your parner should rock back onto her heels and lean back. Your work together as counterweights -your partner supporting your legs while you keep her from falling backward. Hold for 30 seconds.

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Give Yourself the Gift of Health This Holiday Season

Posted on November 26th, 2008 by
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov 26, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — Scientifically Proven Exercise Tips to Help You Beat Holiday Stress, Get Fit, Stay Healthy, and Live Longer
Scientific studies have found that exercise can decrease age-related macular degeneration, prevent or delay the onset of high blood pressure, improve your sex life, increase collagen to keep your skin younger, reduce coronary artery disease and stress, and improve overall wellness. In “Faster, Better, Stronger,” Eric Heiden, M.D., world-renowned speed skater, cyclist and orthopedic surgeon and his co-authors, outline 10 proven secrets to a healthier body in 12 weeks and highlight scientific research to support their techniques. Geared toward those 30 and above “Faster, Better, Stronger” offers training tips for every lifestyle from sedentary to very active.
“We wanted to offer people of all physical conditions an inexpensive ‘personal trainer’ that could help them reduce stress and improve their health during these pressure cooker days,” says Dr. Heiden. “Exercise, when done properly and in a specific order – combining flexibility, aerobic, strength training and balance – can help you beat weight loss and training plateaus, gain greater exercise benefits in a fraction of the time, live longer and improve your overall quality of life. Exercise really is one of the best prescriptions for staying healthy and this book guides you through the process and benefits, whether you are a competitive athlete or a recovering coach potato.”
Drs. Heiden and Massimo Testa met at Stanford University Medical School, where Heiden was a student and Testa his cycling team doctor. The two went on to develop the UC Davis Sports Performance Center and now continue their collaboration at The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital in Salt Lake City and cycling camps in Park City, Utah. Dr. Heiden is practicing orthopedic surgeon, team physician for the U.S. Speed Skating, and team physician and director of sports medicine for USA Cycling. Dr. Testa is one of the foremost cycling trainers and exercise physiologists.
“Using our medical expertise and knowledge of training competitive athletes, we have created a book that offers, simple, understandable and affordable solutions that can be personalized for each and every reader,” says Dr. Testa, a co-author. “We offer tips for fitness at the office, on a business trip or in your living room, as well as highlights the prescriptive aspects of exercise, the biology of movement and the importance of motivation.”
“Faster, Better, Stronger,” offers readers, self-assessment tools, diagrams of innovative exercises, and other straight talk on exercise and your health,” says Dr. Heiden. “Whether you are a working parent, a busy single professional, or retiree this book offers realistic and scientifically proven techniques for getting into shape and staying in good health.”
SOURCE Dr. Eric Heiden and Dr. Massimo Testa[Via marketwatch.com]

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Lose weight a la Valerie Bertinelli

Posted on November 18th, 2008 by

Valerie Bertinelli could be inspired everyone to lose weight. Valerie Bertinelli is star and she is celebrity client of Jenny Craig weight management companies.   Currently she is about to  launch her book name “Losing It — And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time.” In this book, she talks about losing weight, her failed marriage to a rocker and raising her teenage son.

valerie bertinelli will appear on Tuesday’s Talk Shows: Good Morning America Valerie Bertinelli; Marion Jones. (N) 7 a.m. KABC 54673

About Valerie Bertinelli (Wiki):

Valerie Anne Bertinelli (born April 23, 1960) is an American film and television actress best known for her role as Bonnie Franklin’s daughter, Barbara Cooper Royer, on the long-running television series One Day at a Time.

Bertinelli, who had slowly gained weight over the years, has lost a total of 40 lbs. as of January 2008, and has become a spokesperson for the Jenny Craig weight-loss program. She can be seen in Jenny Craig commercials along with Kirstie Alley and other celebrity Jenny Craig participants.

Celebrities who promote such things as weight-loss programs are often perceived to be in professional decline. However, although Bertinelli is compensated for her Jenny Craig appearances, she has stated that she considers herself a health and weight-loss activist rather than a hired weight-loss spokesperson, and that she continues to receive proposals for more conventional acting work. She is currently promoting her new autobiography, Losing It—And Gaining My Life Back One Pound At A Time, which culminates in a description of her Jenny Craig experience. (The book’s title contains a wordplay on One Day at a Time.)

You can check Valerie Bertinelli new commercial HERE

About Jenny Craig:

Since 1983, Jenny Craig’s comprehensive food/body/mind approach to safe, effective weight management has helped millions of people worldwide learn how to create a healthy relationship with food, build an active lifestyle, and develop a balanced approach to living. With its individually tailored weight loss program, personal consultants provide clients with one-on-one support, tips and motivation, and Jenny’s Cuisine(TM) help them learn proper portion sizes and mindful eating.

Based in Carlsbad, CA, Jenny Craig, Inc. is one of the world’s largest weight management companies, with 687 company-owned and franchised Centres in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Puerto Rico. (SOURCE Jenny Craig )

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The effects of caffeine after training and exercise

Posted on November 13th, 2008 by

Not all healthy people, even athlete that free caffeine because they are coffee drinker. Not absolute all of them but most of them. They may consump coffee when the going around in the weekend in free training, or maybe when they have a coffee break within their activities in gym.

A group of Australian researchers try to figured out about caffeine in the relation with the exercise. They published their result in ournal of Applied Physiology on May 2008. They focused on the effects of co-ingestion of caffeine and carbohydrate after hard training on muscle glycogen stores.

Seems that this is a bit OK drinking coffee particularly for athlete. “Endurance athletes often have to replenish muscle glycogen stores rapidly between training sessions, and consequently there has been a lot of research on recovery nutrition to see how we can boost muscle glycogen stores,” Researcher said.

John Hawley of the RMIT University in Bundoora, Australia proposed that since caffeine consumed during exercise and before exercise increase the availability of glucose, the same could be true when caffeine is consumed after exercise-induced glycogen depletion. In contrast, caffeine consumed at rest in untrained persons does not have the same effect.

Researchers decided to test their theory using highly training subjects. Cyclists and triathletes who were biking 12 to 15 hours per week completed a ride to exhaustion the night before the experimental trial. They consumed a low carbohydrate meal that evening, and again completed a short ride to exhaustion the next morning to ensure that muscle glycogen stores were extremely depleted. During four hours of recovery, subjects were provided with 4g carbohydrate per kilogram body weight from sports bars, gels, and carbohydrate-containing sports drinks. During recovery from the other trial, caffeine was added to the sports drink, providing 8mg per kilogram of body weight over the four-hour period.

Full story, go to: Velonews

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GlobalFit to Industry: How Gyms Can Encourage Non-Gym Activity

Posted on November 4th, 2008 by
PHILADELPHIA, PA, Nov 03, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — With their complicated equipment and perfectly sculpted “regulars,” fitness clubs can be intimidating to those who could benefit most from exercise. But that’s about to change, if one industry executive has anything to say about it.
“The fitness industry has a great deal of evolution ahead if it is going to serve a large percentage of the population well,” Frank Napolitano told ILAM Conference attendees, an international group of fitness leaders gathered for the annual meeting of the Irish leisure industry trade group.
The President and CEO of GlobalFit, a leading provider of healthy living benefits in the U.S., Napolitano observed that, “As an industry, we must learn to get out of our own way if we are to be truly successful in the mission of getting people fit and healthy.” To help us do that, Napolitano advised the path of least resistance — helping people gradually add activity to their everyday routines. And GlobalFit’s latest offering, Destination: You, does just that.
To be offered to consumers through both fitness centers and worksites, Destination: You combines validated activity tracking with an educational, motivational web interface designed to encourage increased daily activity among sedentary Americans.
The program’s innovative centerpiece is the activity tracker, which is poised to make pedometers a thing of the past. Using cutting edge technology, the tiny activity tracker clips to a shoe to accurately count steps, effectively distinguishing walking from running and other activities and calculating the distance travelled by each user.
Data collected by the tracker uploads effortlessly (like the electronic payment systems that speed cars through toll booths) to Destination: You’s fun, travel-themed website. The site features easy-to-read reports as well as community boards, educational articles, fitness calculators, and motivation and guidance from fitness icon Kathy Smith.
Napolitano said that Destination: You was designed for “the Middle 60%,” the majority of the population who are “neither fitness enthusiasts nor stubbornly inactive.” “The most meaningful result for this group is a lowering of their risk of illness or injury,” he continued. “Once we accept that not everyone wants the results you can get with a personal trainer, we can succeed in our mission — to serve everyone who wants to exercise.”
Napolitano’s comments were part of his address to the ILAM 2008 Conference and Exposition, held at Limerick’s Hilton Hotel last month.
About GlobalFit:
GlobalFit is a leading provider of benefits for healthy living. Readily accessible through employers and insurers, GlobalFit’s broad selection of programs, products and services have been expressly designed to create a healthier world. Since 1992, GlobalFit’s signature offering has been its gym network, the largest of its kind. The network now includes thousands of respected fitness centers, from well-known chains to independent facilities. GlobalFit’s latest corporate program, Destination: You, breaks new ground by combining step-based activity — effortlessly verifiable through cutting-edge technology — with education, community support and incentives to motivate large populations. For more information, please visit www.globalfit.com.

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