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When you plan for weight loss and want the best way to lose weight, you’ll no doubt come across a program that promises you a quick weight loss. Many weight loss programs will include a diet that consists of protein shakes for breakfast and lunch with a moderate meal at suppertime or diet pills that promise to control your appetite and burn off fat. The problem is you end up being hungry all day long and then you cheat. The best way to lose weight is by following a regimen of a healthy diet and increased physical activity. This will allow you to lose weight safely.

The fact is – following a healthy diet is the best way to lose weight. Your body needs a certain amount of calories each day in order to have enough energy. Food is your body’s fuel. If you think the best way to lose weight is to starve yourself or eat only cantaloupe, think again. The best way to lose weight is to provide your body with enough food from all of the food groups to allow your body to function properly and burn off stored body fat when you do any physical activity and it is how you lose weight safely.

When you exercise, it plays a key factor in your weight loss. When you are active, your body needs more fuel. Choosing an aerobic exercise to lose weight will increase your heart rate and burn off more body fat and is the best way to lose weight for many. There are approximately 3,500 calories in a pound of fat. You simply have to make sure you eat a moderate amount of calories and burn off more fat than you’ve consumed. However, if you do an aerobic activity, you will burn off stored body fat and see why it is part of the best way to lose weight. An aerobic physical activity combined with a healthy diet is the best way to lose weight.

Many consider eating five to six small meals each day to be the best way to lose weight. The fact is this method has been proven to increase the body’s metabolism naturally. This means that your body will be burning more fat while you do your normal daily routine and it is part of the best way to lose weight. Many times you’ll see products that tell you they will speed up your body’s metabolism. However, many of these products don’t work and they often come along with side effects. However, if you add in a physical activity, a healthy diet, and consuming the five to six small meals each day, you’ve really discovered the best way to lose weight.

Wherever you go, you will run into advertisements for a new weight loss program, guaranteeing you weight loss and claiming to be the best way to lose weight. While these methods may work, they are short-term. So when you plan for weight loss, the best way is to follow a healthy diet, eating five or six small meals each day and combine this with an aerobic physical activity. It will not include taking diet pills and going on a fast. The best way to lose weight will help you take the weight off and keep it off.

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Dietary fads seem to come and go on an alarmingly regular basis as well. The low fiber high fat diets of yesterday give way to low fat low protein diets, and the wheel just keeps rolling, with too little thought given to what foods are healthy. In a desperate effort to loose weight, people search for ways to drop those extra pounds without any effort — the trouble is, this is an empty promise guaranteed to disappoint and lead to dangerous yoyo dieting.

In this day of super processing and super convenience, more and more people are coming to the conclusion that highly processed, calorie laden foods might not be the healthiest choice over the long term.

This belief is being born out by the rising rates of cancers, heart disease and other life threatening conditions all over the world. Moreover, when developing countries adopt a Western diet they are being forced to confront startling rises of the same deadly cancers, heart disease, stroke and other illnesses so well known to the civilized world.

It’s easy to see why many of us are searching for healthier alternatives, both in what we eat and what we use to treat our health problems. We read the conflicting studies. We hear about prescription drug recalls and side effects. It’s hard to know what to do or where to turn, and why more and more of us are searching out our own answers.

It’s this that’s fueling the rising interest in superfoods and what they can do for our body, our mind and our spirit — without harmful side effects, expensive prescriptions and multiple doctors’ visits.

The superfoods you’ll learn about here are loaded with antioxidants and other vital nutrients that research is showing help to fight off (or improve) a growing list of dangerous, life-altering diseases, including cancers and heart disease. What’s more, superfoods are thought to give you energy and keep your body healthy and thriving, even showing some ability to fight off the aging process.

If you do decide to give these foods a try, you’ll find it’s never been so easy to add one of more of these wonderful, tasty and readily available foods to your regular menu.

When you do decide to add a superfood to your diet, you need to pay special attention to the manufacturing of the item in question.

How the food is harvested, handled and prepared, as well as the quality of the manufacturing process which has a direct impact on the nutritional benefits that will be delivered to you.

Improper harvesting, shoddy manufacturing or poor quality affects the safety and nutritional value of the food. It will not deliver the benefits you should be getting. You should also talk with your own doctor or other members of your healthcare team about your plans to add superfoods to your diet. Be prepared for skepticism and in some cases, outright bias. Have your facts ready —do some homework on the condition you’re trying to treat as well as the food you’re considering and bring this with you. Listen to your physician’s feedback and opinion and consider how you will move forward with care.

If you do go ahead, be sure to find out all you can about the most current (well designed and well documented) scientific research as well as the effective doses for the condition you’re trying to treat. Look for studies that appear in journals you recognize as the most reliable sources for current research. Be wary of studies sponsored by manufacturers or others you don’t know.

You’ll want to research manufacturers as well, looking for those who process and handle a superfood using set standards. Companies that have been in business for a while tend to have track records that can be checked. A great price may be a bad bargain in the end, as you’ll be buying a substandard food without the nutrients you expect to be getting. Whether you’re shopping at a local retailer or online always, always check the label of anything you’re considering before you use it so you know what you’re putting into your body.

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This section is devoted to those activities that are mostly devoted to actual building of muscle and require more strength than the ones previously listed. It’s fool-hearty to believe that none of these activities cross over, because they all do to some extent. However, there are some activities, such as rock climbing that, while the heights and danger might stimulate the heart more than actual repetitive muscle exhaustion, it’s a much more strength-based activity.

ROCK CLIMBING

A challenge to your senses, all manner of adventure sports are a fresh approach to fitness and an excellent way to cross-train your body into ultimate fitness. But don’t let the term “adventure” frighten you. Rock climbing may adventurous, but when calculatedly learned and practiced, it can be something that is far more beneficial to the whole musculoskeletal system than it is perilous. It’s greatest benefit is the strengthening and conditioning of the entire body, with an emphasis on upper body power.

Without a doubt, rock climbing emphasizes coordination and strength. The two, in fact, are highly interdependent. Upper body strength is key here, but having an overall balance of strength is a plus. Conditioning is something is that required in addition to performing and practicing movements on a regular basis. This, too, is interdependent for the actual ability to climb at all, let alone enjoy climbing or setting goals in the outdoors. So what does that mean? A rock climbing gym is really the only place to start in a sane and safe manner. This isn’t a sport to be undertaken lightly. Unlike hopping onto a mountain bike or donning a pair of running shoes and hitting the local track, rock climbing requires a ton of skill, and practice. It is a synergy of many different attributes and abilities put together to compile a total picture of capability, strength, balance and calculated mental and physical agility.

Have we scared you off yet? Don’t be scared. A rock climbing gym is a great place to enjoy the sport, and acquire skills that, even if you never venture out on to an actual rock, you’ll be able to benefit from. Though, why wouldn’t you want to test your skills under a blazing 80 degrees, and enjoy the elements and freedom of climbing against a backdrop of the great outdoors?

Rock climbing works just about every muscle in the upper body (pectorals, deltoids, forearms, biceps, triceps, rectus abdominus, serratus, intercostals, latissimus dorsi, spinal erectors and teres major) as well as a few in the lower body (hip flexors, trocanter, quadriceps, hamstrings, and calves). It is probably the single most demanding total body engagement one can find in any strength-based activity.

Indoor climbing gyms have popped up all over the country—either as a part of a larger gym or as a separate entity that offers nothing but climbing to its members. Classes are necessary as it’s a skill that is impossible to pick up by osmosis!

Cost of classes and/or gym membership:

For a gym like Gold’s Gym in Portland,OR where rock climbing comes as part of a total body package, (CALL 503-222-1210) you can get in on one of their specials and pay as little as $299 a year at certain times. Rock climbing isn’t taken as seriously as in a ‘climbers-only’ gym, but it’s affordable and is a great way to get your feet wet in the sport to see if you like it. For a rock climbing only gym like Dyno-Rock Indoor Climbing Gym in Arlington, TX you pay a monthly fee ($45) and then pay a class fee for instruction ($10) and a rental fee for equipment ($6 for harness, carabener, shoes, and chalk bag).

Buying your own gear:

For a simple gym kit (harness, belay, carabener), without shoes, you can pay between $75-$120 for your own gear. Shoes are about $60-$120. If you’re going outside, expect to pay a lot more for all the gear you need because, let’s face it, it has to be good!

Advantages:

You can rock climb indoors and out. You have the ability to be completely safe indoors or take more chances outdoors, depending upon what you want. You’ll feel more free as a human being than you ever have. You can choose this over standard strength training any day you are working upper body if you join a combined gym.

Greatest peril:

Falling and overuse injuries to hands, fingers, wrists, shoulders and neck

Disadvantages:

It takes a long time to become proficient at this sport, and it isn’t cheap!

Benefits:

Build unbelievable strength in your upper body and have a sense of agility unmatched by any other sport. Your mental acuity will soar. Your concept of “fear” as you currently know it, will be short-listed.

Best places to Rock Climb:

Ready to grip it and rip it like the big boys? Of Gateway’s Top10 Best Places to Rock Climb, the top nine are located in South Africa. Number one? The steep sandstone faces on Table Mountain in the Peninsula Mountain Chain in South Africa. Here in the U.S.? California’s Yosemite National Park or Tuolumne Meadows in California’s High Sierras.

KAYAKING

This is one of those cross-over sports that requires both strength and endurance. However, we put it into our strength category because of the amount of upper body muscle it requires in order to engage in it.

Kayaking can be done on a lake, river, or in the ocean. If you don’t have access to one of these, it likely isn’t a good choice for you. However, with the diversity of land and many natural bodies of water found in the U.S., it would be hard to believe that there isn’t a body of water someplace near your home to provide you with recreational and fitness opportunities.

In fact, the sport of kayaking is growing in popularity so much that the price of kayaks have absolutely gone through the roof! An entry-level inflatable kayak starts in the neighborhood of about $250. You can find them at Costco in the late spring and early summer or at a sporting goods store. They only go up from there. $699-$999 buys you a single-man kayak built for recreational paddling of all skill levels, either an ocean or fresh water model. The greater the stability and lighter weight the materials, the more expensive it gets. $1000 and upward buys a serious kayak for higher ability level and more competitive conditions. When we say “upwards”, we were shocked to find that kayaks can actually sell for $10G’s! Yeah, the price of a pretty flashy speed boat, complete with motor and leather seats. (Drool)….

But the truth is, while kayaking can be expensive, it doesn’t have to be. Nor does it have to happen in Class IV rapids to be beneficial to your strength and endurance levels. It’s a great upper body workout for anyone. For fitness purposes, kayaking is actually better suited to still water, such as is found on lakes. Rivers provide their own challenges, and certainly, it requires strength, endurance and calculated choices in order to navigate successfully and safely. However, if you’re purely into the enjoyment of being out on the water and getting your strength needs met, kayaking is a great way to do it!

Equipment needed:

A kayak of some kind, a cart with wheels to get it from car to water, plus an oar, swim gear and a change of clothes, as well as a floatation device/ life preserver

Muscles worked: Latissimus dorsi, lower pecs, deltoids, serratus, intercostals, obliques, biceps and triceps

Advantages:

Can be a great way to get out of the gym and burn calories along with building upper body strength. Calms the mind, and is a great way to fish and view wildlife.

Disadvantages:

Kayaks are bulky and require roof racks. They can be quite heavy, depending upon the model, and require two people to lift and carry them. You can only kayak year ‘round if you live in a place where the water doesn’t freeze over in winter.

Benefits:

A great fitness tool, they can develop the back and shoulders like nothing else. There are no limitations to when you can kayak—it’s a great summer activity in the early morning, heat of the day or at twilight

Best places to see the world from a Kayak:

Alaska, Hawaii and the South Pacific. http://www.alaskaseakayakers.com/, OR http://www.kayakkauai.com/

EXTREME OUTDOOR WORKOUTS –

Obstacle Course Racing & Fitness Boot Camps

If you live near an army base, you may have seen the obstacle courses that armed forces must train on to prove that they can sufficiently persevere in combat out in the field. Cargo nets, body hurdles, tire tracks, rope grids, walls, beams and bars, etc. are all a part of these courses. In fact, if you follow women’s fitness, you probably know that competitions such as the Galaxy or Tri-Fitness competitions, require that a woman compete on a course just like that in order to test her physical fitness in addition to her aesthetic appeal. Trust us, these aren’t your average T&A shows! While these girls may look like cute little “Hooters” honeys, they’re actually fitness gorillas capable of serious ass-kicking.

This interest in military type training emerged several years ago and it’s become a full-blown industry unto itself. The only problem is, there aren’t a lot of obstacle courses available and open to the civilian public. So serious course runners have begun to build their own courses in their own back yards. Let’s face it, climbing a wall with just your own two feet and a hemp rope isn’t exactly for the mild mannered.

To quench the appetites of those interested in learning how to pursue this kind of ‘serious fitness’, many camps have sprung up to give weekend warriors their fix on hardcore fitness. These camps include work on an actual obstacle course, along with personalized “You’re scum soldier” kind of ear-barking that would leave even the most Semper-Fi’ed individual shaking in his mother’s army boots.

The great thing that comes out of this is a kind of physical culture and training regime is a work ethic that most people can take back into the gym with them, and get much better results. At these camps, such as outdoor fitness boot camp “Camp Technique” in Los Angeles, weekend inductees (maggots?) engage in everything from super circuit training, to advanced stretching techniques, to weighted ball training, to “weak point trainingԅ in order to realize that what they originally thought was a hard training session was more like wetting the bed in their sleep!

Obstacle Coursing can compliment any training routine and satisfy a number of training goals, if not compliment what you’re currently doing. It’s an excellent all around type of strength, endurance and agility training tool. It also has the power to transform the body into a sleek, fit machine in under 6 months, provided you follow a good diet in addition. But it’s not for the weak of heart. It’s best that you use obstacle course work, or super-circuit type training for a compliment to an already strong physical fitness program.

Attending a camp is just a great way to get started.

Cost of camp:

$150 per person/ per day or packages of $500 for a week

Cost of Use of Course:

If you’re lucky enough to have one in the area that you can run. Use of it can be as cheap as $5 a time. (Kissimmee, FL, Orlando, FL, Venice, CA, and locations in Ohio and Texas, as well as several others springing up in a town near you).

Cost of Building own course:

$500 for a simple set of old tires, a cargo net and a few over-under hurdles, to $5000 for a complete course on acreage, complete with wall, bars sunk into a permanent foundation and rope grids.

Muscles worked:

ALL!

Equipment needed:

Clothing you can move in, water, gloves with tacky grip, good athletic shoes with cushion for concussion, ball cap, visor or sunglasses

Advantages:

Can get you into shape like nothing else. A true combination of strength and cardio in one. Can really cut down time in the gym once you’re fit enough to go

Disadvantages:

Not a lot of obstacle courses are available to civilians; you’ll have to build your own unless you live in a few select places where obstacle courses and civilian fitness go hand in hand.

Benefits:

You can transform your body in a short time, your strength will increase by 20%, on average, within the first 1-2 months. You can count it as a full body workout, or upper body workout, and skip the gym that day. It will push you past any result you could get in the gym within the same time frame.

Best Fitness Camp:

Platoon Fitness (www.platoonfitness.com) with classes and camps in Philadelphia, NYC, Boston, Jersey, and now in Europe, in the U.K.

Can’t Attend a Camp?:

Pick up Andrew Flech’s book “The Official Five Star Fitness Boot Camp Workout”

About The Author

Dane Fletcher is THE Training Authority and writes exclusively for GetAnabolics.com, a leading provider of Bodybuilding Supplements and alternatives to Steroids. For more information, please http://www.steroidpimp.com.

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The Woman Golfer And Improving The Short Game
 by: Sean Cochran

The short game for the professional, amateur, junior, or woman golfer is an integral part of golf. A good short game can be the difference between a good score and great score. Often times golf fitness exercises, the woman golfer, and short game are not connected. The reality is golf fitness exercises can be a great benefit to the short game of any woman golfer.

The short game does not necessarily require the power associated with tee shots where golf fitness is a benefit, but rather in a different set of requirements. The short game requires a great deal more finesse. Finesse in terms of finite control of the distance, spin, and carry of every shot. This type of finesse requires more motor control from the nerves and muscles of your body. Increasing the motor control (i.e. the ability of your body to execute finite actions) can occur through the utilization of golf fitness training.

The specific type of golf fitness training that can improve the motor control is classified as balance training. This type of golf fitness exercise trains both your nervous and muscular systems of the body. As a result these exercised improve the interaction of your nerves and muscles. One of the benefits of this type of golf fitness training is the ability of your muscles to control movement more efficiently. As a result the ability to control finite movements becomes much easier. This lends itself to improvement in your short game.

In addition to improving the motor control of the body for short game shots, balance training can in addition improve your “feel”. Feel is a term used to describe the ability of the woman or any other golfer to know where their “body is in space”. This concept explains how a golfer can feel the club head, know the position of the body, be aware of weight shifts, and body angles. All of which are important aspects of developing a good short game. Balance training exercises within a golf fitness program can improve the “feel” within in your short game.

One of my favorite balance training exercises for golf is the airplane rotation. Before performing this or any other golf fitness exercise, make sure you are in good health, and cleared by your physician. Begin this exercise by placing your feet together, bend at the hips so your back is flat, and chest is parallel to the floor. Extend your arms straight out from the shoulders, keeping eyes focused on the floor. Lift the right foot off the floor and balance your weight on the left foot. Once the weight is balanced on the left foot, extend the right leg back from the hip. The right leg should be parallel to the ground. Attempt to keep the right leg straight throughout the entire exercise. Begin the exercise by rotating the left arm downward towards the floor. At the same time, rotate the right arm upward. Continue to rotate to a position where the left hand is directly above the left foot, and the right hand is pointing straight up. Return to the starting position and repeat.

Outside of improving motor control and “feel” golf fitness exercises can benefit the short game and woman golfer in another area. It is well known short game shots require “more” from the hands and forearms. Short game shots require acceleration of the club head through the ball, bouncing the club on sand shots, and at times moving through thick rough.

All of which ask more from these body parts. As a result increasing the strength in the hands and forearms can benefit the short game. Golf fitness exercises can do just that! These types of golf fitness exercises develop increased levels of strength in the muscles of the hands and forearms. As a result the ability to hit chips and pitches from the rough, the bouncing of the club in heavy sand, and accelerating through the shot becomes much easier.

Some easy to perform hand, wrist, and forearm golf fitness exercises to improve your short game are ball squeezers and towel wringers. Both of these simple to perform golf fitness exercises will improve your strength in these integral parts of the body for the short game. As with airplane rotations before attempting these or any other golf fitness exercise make sure you are in good health and cleared by a physician.

Ball squeezers can easily be performed with either a tennis ball or racquetball. Simply place the ball in your palm and squeeze with your fingers. Hold the “squeeze” for 2 seconds and release. Repeat for 10-15 repetitions and proceed to towel wringers. Grasp a towel in your hands and “wring” the towel. Perform the wringing of the towel in both a clockwise and counterclockwise direction. Again, perform 10-15 repetitions of this golf fitness exercise.

To summarize, the short game for the woman, junior, amateur, or professional is of great importance. Improving your short game can mean the difference between a good round and great round of golf. The finesse required in the short game can be improved through the utilization of golf fitness exercises. Balance exercises within a golf fitness program are the type of exercise that can improve the finesse of your short game. Additionally, the short game requires high levels of hand, wrist, and forearm strength. Simple to perform golf fitness exercises can improve the strength in these integral parts of your body for the short game. So remember, utilize balance and strength exercises in a comprehensive golf fitness program to improve your short game.

About The Author

Sean Cochran is one of the most recognized golf fitness instructors in the world today. He travels the PGA Tour regularly with 2005 PGA & 2004 Masters Champion Phil Mickelson. He has made many of his golf tips, golf instruction and golf swing improvement techniques available to amateur golfers on the website http://www.bioforcegolf.com. To contact Sean, you can email him at support@bioforcegolf.com.

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For many years I searched high and low for a fitness training program which would meet my needs. It didn’t have to be anything spectacular, just a program that would retain my interest and participation so that I could get into better shape.

I spent a good amount of time looking for and found fitness training program guides which would retain my interests for up to a month, but there was always some stumbling block. As an example outdoor training can be great when the weather is cooperative and nice. But in a Midwest winter it can drop to freezing temperatures and be miserable. Or during the summertime, it could be hot humid and close to 100°, and who wants to work out in those conditions?

There is also the issue of high-impact workouts taking its toll on the body. While I’m not the most athletic person I’ve had some physical ailments since I was a child. This translated into simple exercises like jogging and swimming putting an undue amount of stress on my joints which were already in somewhat of a bad shape.

Another attribute of your typical fitness training program that didn’t quite work out for me was the aggressive weight training. Thanks to my physical condition, I couldn’t put it too much stress on my wrists, elbows or shoulders without suffering from an undue amount of pain which would eventually become nearly unbearable. Therefore a fitness training program that focused on weight work, push-ups, would be both too strenuous and too likely to cause me an injury.

Taking all these factors into consideration I designed a fitness training program for myself. I included the important parts of a fitness training program which are threefold: Cardiovascular training, strength training and flexibility training.

After working with several different types of cardiovascular training, I discovered that using an exercise bike was the best for me. The stress on my joints were minimal, I was able to adjust the resistance, I could pedal for up to an hour without suffering cramps or any other swelling. I now ride my bike anywhere from 10 to 15 miles five times a week.

As I incorporated strength training I realized I would have to use lower weights and do more repetitions. Curls, triceps, situps and leg lifts round out my strength training program. I usually do my strength training workout for about 15 minutes after my bike ride.

And lastly, stretching. It’s an incredibly important and frequently overlooked part of fitness training programs. Simple stretches on both your arms and legs, as wells were torso, will keep you flexible, limber and agile for a long time.

I encourage you to listen to your body and devise your own training program that will suit your interests, needs and workout goals. No matter what limitations you have, you will be able to find a training fitness program that works for you.

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