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Don’t Let Your Exercise Get Stale

Don’t Let Your Exercise Get Stale

Another way to vary your fitness routine is by changing from exercise machines to free weights / dumbbells or visa versa. For cardio exercise, move from the treadmill to the stepper, elliptical or bike. With cardio workouts, I like interval training because it does just that, it vari Continue reading


 

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Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes

Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes

In spite of that, in today's inactive world where almost every indispensable job can be carried out online, from the ergonomic chair in front of a computer, or with a streaming line of messages from a fax machine, exercising can be a hard argument to win over.

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Exercise – Hydration before, during and after physical effort

Exercise – Hydration before, during and after physical effort

Water is involved in all the metabolic processes, so not providing the body with enough liquid can have as a consequence perturbation of the bio-chemical reactions, which directly influences the effectiveness of the training and even the practitioner's state of health.

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Exercising Properly

Exercising Properly

Anaerobic on the other hand, burns sugar as the main source of fuel. Despite common myths, exercise doesn't have to be drastic in any way to provide massive benefits. Even if you choose light exercise, you will still burn fat.

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Fitness made simple: Stair Sprinting

Fitness made simple: Stair Sprinting

A simple exercise that anybody can perform at home or the park is called Stair Sprinting. The name is pretty self explanatory. All you have to do is run up and down the stairs between several floors; the more floors, the better off you'll be.

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Get Some Exercise

Get Some Exercise

While you may be thinking "that's easier said than done", you may be surprised to learn that exercise isn't necessarily about "no pain – no gain". Regular physical activity can become an enjoyable part of your day with long term benefits to your diabetes and you Continue reading


 

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Home Gym Full Body Training Routines

Home Gym Full Body Training Routines

But what do you do when you don't feel you have the energy to stop by the local gym on your way home? Or may be you don't have the time for a workout at the gym. You can only use 20 – 30 min.

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How to Increase Your Energy Levels with Some Aerobic Exercises

How to Increase Your Energy Levels with Some Aerobic Exercises

Scales have a tendency to do that, right? Okay, this is highly unlikely. But don't you ever feel that way? Our weight tends to fluctuate up and down, but it never seems to reach that low number we're looking for. One day you think you dropped four pounds, but the next day it&#3 Continue reading


 

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Keeping Yourself Fit After 40

Keeping Yourself Fit After 40

Part of the reason for this is, after 30, we begin to lose muscle to what is known as atrophy (muscle shrinkage due to disuse). We also begin to lose bone density leading very slowly to eventual osteoporosis. Muscle is active tissue and therefore burns calories. When we start to lose m Continue reading


 

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My Running fitness programme

My Running fitness programme

Modern life results in many factors which can cause depression and anxiety in the normal person, life pressures, work, relationships, image and general well being all come into context. Today we are barraged within the media by articles and glossy altered images of beautiful people des Continue reading


 

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