Archive for the 'Exercise' Category

Yoga Fights Fat

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

This is great news for yoga fanatics and anyone curious about burning fat without spending hours in the gym!
Yoga helps your body to burn fat. Yes, you read me correctly.
The results of a study by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center concluded that practising yoga helps to promote weight loss. The reserchers focussed […]

Weight Gain Caused By Being Office-Bound

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

Medicine.net reports that spending hours at your desk is likely to cause obesity. A study of 1600 full-time workers of both sex concuded that a those who sepend more than six hours a day sitting at their desk were 68% more likely to be overweight or obese.

How to get in shape in 5 days

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

Doing simple resistance exercises such as squats and press-ups is a really effective way to change and improve your body shape in a short amount of time. By working slowly and methodically on each repetition you will gently tone your existing muscle, build new muscle and raise your heart rate. You should repeat each exercise until you cannot complete another repetition. This principle of “exercise to failure” means that you are working within the boundaries of your body every time you train.

Don’t Take A Vacation From Exercise!

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

advises on the importance of taking a break every year, but warns that this should not be an excuse to let yourself go!
“Exercising away from home, whether on business or vacation, is not about trying to gain muscle or lose fat as much as we are just trying to maintain what we have. It’s […]

Exercises you can do at your desk

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

I did a new workout that involves lots of challenging wrestling moves and it has worked muscles that I haven’t worked in a long time. So now I’m in need of a good strech. I stumbled across these exercises, which I have just completed, and I must say, they’ve taken the edge off my aches!