Health and Fitness – Fitness Made Easy

Yoga is an ancient and comprehensive form of spiritual self-discovery.

Yoga therapy is the art and science of healing according to yogic principles. It uses specific techniques designed as a form of therapeutic intervention specifically directed at an individual’s interrelated systems for balance and harmony.

Yoga therapy aims to calm the nervous system, which, optimally, helps to balance the body,mind, and emotions. This in turn helps to reduce or eliminate physical pain and mental and emotional suffering.  Read more...

When you stand in front of the mirror, what do you see?

The first thing that many men tend to focus on is their bellies. After that, the areas of most concern are the biceps, shoulders, and chest.

While vanity fuels much of the attention that we give our bodies, there are other reasons for keeping them strong. We don’t think of needing upper-body strength in a lot of things we do, especially if we have desk jobs. But once we get outside or start doing sports or hobbies, having it contributes immensely. Also, the more efficient we can make our upper bodies, the less energy we will expend. We’ll have a greater quality of life.  Read more...

Walking has never been accorded much respect. Traditionally, it has been considered useful locomotion but infective exercise. Worse, it is decidedly lacking in glamour. People shaped like bowling balls walk.

This is many peoples attitude to walking.

People who walk 3 miles a day, 5 days a week, at a 5-mile-an-hour pace produce the same cardiovascular gains as joggers running at an 8 to 9 miles-an-hour pace. Indeed, jogging at a moderate pace will burn 400 calories an hour; race walking will burn about 600. The fact is, walking is much better exercise than most people believe.  Read more...

Let’s deal with the weight loss issue right off, because if we don’t, you might bypass one of the best exercises around.

Swimming, tradition has it, is not a good way to lose weight – an enduring piece of misinformation that admittedly isn’t dispelled by newspaper photos of Hindenburg-size marathon swimmers stumbling from some frigid ocean.  Read more...

Many people have tried Running, and many people have hated it. The roots of this displeasure can be traced to the running boom of the 1970′s, when running proponents, caught up in a near orgiastic buzz, loudly pronounced that the best approach to running was longer, faster, and harder, and they did exactly that – until succumbed to debilitating injuries.  Read more...

Five kilometres  rounds out to about 3.1 miles.It’s the shortest of the distance races, but it’s long enough to give people, especially beginners, a good challenge.

Making running a 5K your goal can be an excellent motivational tool. The eight weeks leading up to the 5K is the best time to train your body to be able to perform well on race day. While many runners sign-up for 5K’s to compete for first place, a lot of people do it just for fun. It is a group fitness event that can provide people with the incentives they need to stay healthy and workout regularly.  Read more...

Just thought I would share this must watch mountain biking video for extreme biking enthusiasts.

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Easy Fitness – Cross-TrDespite its scientific pedigree, cross- training is just a spiffy word for mixing up your exercises. The best way to achieve solid weight loss and sound fitness while remaining a grip on your sanity.

If you want to gain all the benefits of exercise, and there are lots of them: strength, endurance, health, a lean look, you’ll have a much better chance of covering all the bases by doing different activities.  Read more...

The hardest part of exercise is just getting started. Once you’ve began it gets easier and easier.

Everyone of us has a collection of habits. Who we are and how we look are in many ways a product of those habits.

The only way to redefine yourself , to start achieving leanness rather than merely worrying about overweight, is to acquire a new set of habits. How do you do that? By doing things over and over again until they become your new habits.  Read more...

Many people regard a bowl of cereal with milk and sliced banana and a glass of orange juice as the ultimate breakfast. Believe it or not, this breakfast contains 325 to 500 calories, with only 10 grams of protein.  Read more...

No doubt, cycling is a fat burner. A 165-pound man cycling down the road fan an hour at a fairly leisurely 13 miles an hour will burn about 690 calories.

Stationary bikes aren’t bad either. But for many people, traditional riding – either in a gym or on the streets – is about as dry as these statistics.  Read more...

Crunches, sit-ups and other stomach exercises won’t necessarily guarantee that you’ll achieve stomach fat loss. It doesn’t hurt, but just because you do a thousand crunches a day, doesn’t mean that you’ll lose all of the fat around your midsection, and nowhere else.  Read more...

If you have heard about race walking, you probably imagine overweight athletes waddling like ducks, taking mincing little steps and not making much progress.

You would be wrong. For starters race walkers don’t waddle; the hips move forward and back, not side to side. Second, it provides an excellent exercise option. If you’re serious about walking, fitness, and calorie burn, race walking is the way to go.  Read more...

Strong women really do stay young…with strength training.

Women build up their muscles in response to weight training, but it is usually seen in the form of firmness and muscle definition. Very few women can build huge, bulging muscles through a weight training routine, even if they want to.

They don’t have the right hormones. But they’ll increase their health and fitness levels, and look younger!  Read more...

Experts say there is no magic to exercise You get out of it what you put in. That doesn’t mean you have to work out for hours each day. It just means you need to work smart.

That said, experts agree that not all exercises are created equal. Some are simply more efficient than others, whether they target multiple muscle groups, are suitable for a wide variety of fitness levels, or help you burn calories more effectively.  Read more...