background preloader

Fitness

Facebook Twitter

How to Change Your Life: A User’s Guide. ‘You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.’ ~Mike Murdock By Leo Babauta Start with a simple statement: what do you want to be? Are you hoping to someday be a writer, a musician, a designer, a programmer, a polyglot, a carpenter, a manga artist, an entrepreneur, an expert at something?

How do you get there? Do you write your intention on a piece of paper, and put it in a bottle and launch it to sea, hoping it will manifest? Do you set yourself a big goal to complete by the end of the year, or in three months? I’m going to lay down the law here, based on many many experiments I’ve done in the last 7 years: nothing will change unless you make a daily change. I’ve tried weekly action steps, things that I do every other day, big bold monthly goals, lots of other permutations. If you’re not willing to make it a daily change, you don’t really want to change your life in this way.

So make a daily change. How to Turn an Aspiration Into a Daily Change You get the idea. 8 Pool Exercises That Burn Fat Fast. One of the easiest and most effective pool workouts is water jogging. At high intensity, this popular exercise can burn 17 calories per minute — more than on land. It also makes you stronger. Sanders advises her clients to jog for one-to three-minute intervals in waist-high water, then alternate with less cardio-heavy water exercises. “It lets you keep the number of calories burned high, but doesn’t require the endurance to jog for more than several minutes at a time,” she says. Ready to jump in?

1. Climb the pool wall like Spiderman climbs buildings! How to do it: While standing in water at the side of the pool, stabilize your upper body by sweeping your hands back and forth as you run your legs up the side of the pool and then back down to the floor. 30 Minutes to a Sleek Physique: The No-Equipment Workout You Can Do Anywhere. Core Workout. 1. You can strengthen your core without moving a muscle. Whereas most muscles propel you, your core resists movement—for instance, to protect your spine when you twist your torso. So don't be surprised by how hard it is to stay still in this core workout. You're conditioning your core to do its job more effectively. 2. 3. Side Bridge Lie on your side with your forearm on the floor under your shoulder to prop you up, and your feet stacked. Plank with Diagonal Arm Lift Assume a modified pushup position with your feet shoulder-width apart, forearms on the floor.

Single-Leg Lowering Lie on your back with your legs extended straight up. Transform Your Body! Prescription for Type 2 Diabetes: Cardio Plus Weights. Diet and exercise is the mantra for good health in any population, not least in patients with Type 2 diabetes. Now a new study suggests that when it comes to exercise, the combination of aerobics and weight lifting is better than either activity alone at lowering blood sugar in diabetes patients. That doesn’t mean double the time spent exercising, however. The study found that doing both types of exercise — some days spent doing cardio, and other days lifting weights — was effective, even if patients’ total exercise time did not differ. To figure out which type of exercise was most effective, researchers recruited 262 sedentary adults with diabetes for a nine-month study.

The researchers found that participants in the combination group were able to lower their blood levels of HbA1C (an indicator of blood sugar) by 0.34%, compared with the aerobics- and weights-only groups, who lowered their HbA1C levels by 0.24% and 0.16%, respectively. Weight Loss Counseling. Home - KCFit.Net. Swole.me - The automatic diet planner. Exercise Finder, health - divine.ca - Page 3.