10-Minute Yoga Supersets: Better than Another Hour of Yoga This year, after 15 years of yoga practice and transforming my body, I found myself hitting a plateau. Though my practice regularly involves power moves like jumping forward into Crow Pose and holding Warrior Pose for a long time, my muscle tone seemed to be stuck on autopilot: never decreasing, but never really going to that next level, either. My body, it seems, has become accustomed to the level of my practice. Whether it’s in weight loss or athletic training goals, hitting a plateau is normal. It’s the balancing point that happens any time the body gets used to what you’re asking of it, especially if you don’t ask any more. If you’re not getting out of bed some mornings a little sore and able to pinpoint the muscles you’ve worked the day before, then you might benefit from a shake-up, too. To move past the plateau, I could have just started practicing more. I know what some of you are thinking: “This chick owns a yoga studio and practices a ton … I don’t have that much time.”
Smile Into Your Organs: | Rejuvenation Lounge “A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks” Charles Gordy I love the idea that smiling is used as a healing and meditation practice by many ancient cultures. Taoists believe that holding a smile on your face and directing it inwards towards your organs and inner body, is the key to good health and longevity. Traditional Balinese healers know that a smile washes away bad energy and recommend smiling meditation as a simple way to calm the mind and bring health to the soul. Photo by stuck in customs: How to smile on the inside: I was first introduced to the Taoist exercise called the “inner smile” about 15 years ago. Each week we were guided to smile on our face, really feel the smiling energy and then imagine ( in our minds eye ) sending the smiling energy into each of our organs. Now, this might sound super easy, however some weeks – to my surprise – some organs simply refused to receive a smiling breath. Smile into your organs and dissolve negative emotions: .
7 Foods that Speed Weight Loss Leftover Halloween candy, Thanksgiving dinner, holiday sweets—with so much delicious food floating around this time of year, who wants to think about dieting? Not me! Trouble is, this is exactly the time of year we undo all that hard work we did to get fit last spring and summer: Americans gain (on average) a pound during the holidays each year, according to the National Institutes of Health—which may not seem like a lot, except we also tend to hang on to those yearly pounds, and they can add up (10 pounds in a decade!). Weight loss food: cheese Women who ate an ounce of full-fat cheese (picture a wedge about the size of your thumb) daily gained fewer pounds over time than their less-cheesy peers, a study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows. These immune system boosters will keep your body in peak condition while burning off the pounds. Weight loss food: almonds Check out these delicious and healthy lunch ideas for kids. Weight loss food: coffee Weight loss food: peppers
How to Run Beginners Guide Health Running & Jogging Share this page on: Send to a Friend via Email Your suggestion is on its way! An email with a link to: was emailed to: Thanks for sharing About.com with others! Most Emailed Articles Email to a FriendEmail to a FriendEmail to a FriendEmail to a FriendEmail to a Friend Discuss in my forum How to Start Running - The Absolute Beginners' Guide Easy Steps to Learn How to Run By Christine Luff Updated March 31, 2014 Photo by Chase Jarvis Top Related Searches10k training schedulebeginner runnersstretches for runnerswarm up stretchesbeginner runnermaintaining good health Starting a new running habit can feel overwhelming to a beginner runner. Getting Started: Before you even take your first steps, here are some important basics you should know. Beginners' Training Schedules: When you're first getting started with running, it's helpful to follow a schedule. Learn to Run Schedules and Programs: How Far Is a 5K Race?
Vegan Project I recently picked up one of my favourite cook books to date, Vegan Diner by Julie Hasson. Fancied up comfort food is my specialty and diners are my weakness, so I snatched this book off the shelf at Chapters and headed to the kitchen to test it out. My first go was this quinoa burger recipe. I don’t make burgers very often, and thought that should change with the summer bbq-ing season not far ahead. They were delicious! Ingredients: (Makes about 6 burgers) 1/2 cup diced yellow onion 3 cloves garlic 12 ounces chickpeas (about 1 1/2 cups), canned or homemade, drained 1/2 cup quick oats (not instant) 1 1/2 cups cooked quinoa 1/4 cup minced fresh parsley 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning or favourite spice blend 1 teaspoon smoked paprika 2 tablespoons Bragg Liquid Aminos or soy sauce 2 tablespoons chickpea flour (I used coconut flour) 1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste Freshly ground black pepper, to taste Brown rice flour or wholewheat/all purpose flour, for dusting Olive oil, for cooking Sauteed maple onions:
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Fitness Advice, Workout Videos, Health & Fitness | Bodyrock.tv Hi BodyRockers, Today Freddy and I are starting to pack for our move and we are crazy busy. With everything that we have to do today, I didn’t have time for a full workout, but don’t worry because I put together this savage little 6 minute full body routine that will rock you out. Freddy & I will be back this weekend with new BodyRockers, a new diet challenge and possibly a life post if we actually do anything interesting besides packing! Enjoy your training! Zuzana & Freddy Jump Squatmax. reps during 10 secondsSide Pike Jumpmax. reps during 20 secondsMountaing Climbermax. reps during 20 seconds Get your gear for this workout here: Interval TimerGet your equipment here Instructions: This workout is 6 minutes long Super Intense Interval Training. There are 3 exercises that you will be going through until you complete all 12 rounds. 10 seconds of Jump Squats 20 seconds of Side Pike Jumps 20 seconds of Mountain Climber … and repeat until your timer tells you that the 6 minutes are over. Jump Squat
What can 28,000 rubber duckies lost at sea teach us about our oceans? In 1992, a shipping crate containing 28,000 plastic bath toys was lost at sea when it fell overboard on its way from Hong Kong to the United States. No one at the time could have guessed that those same bath toys would still be floating the world's oceans nearly 20 years later. Today that flotilla of plastic ducks are being hailed for revolutionizing our understanding of ocean currents, as well as for teaching us a thing or two about plastic pollution in the process, according to the Independent. Since that fabled day in 1992 when they were unceremoniously abandoned at sea, the yellow ducks have bobbed halfway around the world. The charismatic duckies have even been christened with a name, the "Friendly Floatees," by devoted followers who have tracked their progress over the years. "I have a website that people use to send me pictures of the ducks they find on beaches all over the world," said Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a retired oceanographer and Floatee enthusiast. Also on MNN:
Best Foods to Improve and Boost Your Metabolism, Lose Weight Remember the days when your metabolism was like a caffeinated mouse in a wheel? Yeah, me neither. If you aren’t one of those lucky gals who can eat whatever she wants and burn it off thanks to an annoyingly fast metabolism, look to these helpful foods to boost your metabolism. (And check out this post on additional tips to speed up a sluggish metabolism.) Grapefruit This diet super fruit (above) lowers the insulin levels in your body that trigger your system to store fat. Green Tea Green tea is the main source of epigallocatechin gallate, known better as EGCG. Yogurt The high levels of protein present in natural yogurt require a lot of energy to be processed. Almonds Almonds’ essential fatty acids help raise your body’s metabolism. Coffee Coffee has caffeine, which does give you a boost. Turkey This protein-rich meat builds lean muscle tissue, which causes your body to burn extra calories and raises your metabolism. Apples Spinach Beans Jalapenos Broccoli Oatmeal Soy Milk Curry Cinnamon
You Know You Want Sexy Abs! | healthkicker The next month or two of work on Xanga 2.0 is going to be busy, so I wanted to share with everyone a roadmap of how we’re thinking about things! We’re dividing the work on this project into four basic phases. Phase 1. Data migration As described here, we’ve imported over every account that we have on Xanga over to the new system so that anyone who could sign into Xanga can still sign into Xanga 2.0. Finally and most important of all, we’ve imported over 2 million blogs from the old system. * We’ve archived the blogs of the hundreds of thousands of blogs where the user has logged in in the past 5 years and has at least two subscribers. * We did an additional set of archives for 200k users who had logged in the past year and had at least 10 blogs. * We’ve also archived the blogs of every single user that’s ever been premium at any point in the past… And of course, a lot of you guys archived your own blogs using the old Xanga archive generator. Phase 2. Phase 3. Phase 4.
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