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How You Can Avoid Getting Fat This Holiday Season

November 18, 2018 by Rob Denny 10 Comments

Follow These Tips To Avoid Getting Fat This Holiday Season

That time of year is upon us again. The holiday season full of fun and cheer but also makes it difficult to avoid getting fat. You worked hard to keep your body in top shape throughout the summer and now you’re worried that after a couple of weeks into the holiday season you will be rummaging through your closet to find your “fat” pants.

Well, this year doesn’t have to be like your previous experiences. By reviewing a few tips explored in this article, you can choose the ones that would best curb your holiday binging habits. When going to holiday parties and festivities you can be occupied by good company instead of worrying about how to avoid getting fat. With a little will power, determination, and distraction, you will be breezing through the holiday season enjoying healthy portions of your holiday favorites while maintaining the figure you worked so hard for.

Change Up Workout Routines To Lose Weight and Gain muscle

November 1, 2018 by Rob Denny Leave a Comment

Change Up Workout Routines To Lose Weight and Gain muscle

Your body is an incredible thing. It changes food into energy and raw building materials for your body. It regularly repairs itself. It enables you to do amazing things.

This amazing ability does bring some problems. The body’s ability to adapt makes losing weight difficult. Your body learns how to burn less energy when you use the same exercises.

The same concepts apply to gaining muscle. Your body will strain less as you perform the same activities. This results in smaller gains.

Bootcamp Workouts – Good Use To Mix Things Up

October 23, 2018 by Rob Denny Leave a Comment

Bootcamp Workouts – Good Use To Mix Things Up

Whether you are going to a gym to lift or working out in your garage, everyone likes to (and your body needs to) take a break from weight lifting. I wrote an article about resting your body for a week after a 4-6 week intense training effort but what if you just don’t feel like going back to weight lifting. It happens, so I’m told. For me, I’ve started my day off going to the gym 3 days a week to lift for so long I wouldn’t know what else to do with myself. But for those of you that are feeling burnt out, here is an intense but fun way to keep motivated. Many cities offer classes for bootcamp workouts but you don’t need to spend extra $. Some things you should know before starting-

• Bootcamp workouts can be done 3 days per week.
• You can use a bootcamp workouts each time, or you can pick 3-4 workouts and rotate
through them over the course of 4 weeks for targeted results.
• All exercises should be done at a controlled pace unless specified.
• All exercises are done for time rather than repetitions because of the differences in fitness levels across campers.
• If you need to make the workouts easier, simply reduce the number of times you go through a circuit (i.e. only go through a circuit once rather than twice) and take MORE REST between exercises and circuits.
• Be conservative. Focus on perfect exercise form.
• Each workout starts with a warm-up. Do NOT skip the warm-up.
• Finish each workout with stretching for the tight muscle groups.

Diet Tips and Exercises for Women That Work

October 13, 2018 by Rob Denny Leave a Comment

Diet Tips and Exercises for Women That Work

Whether it’s to shed those last few pounds from pregnancy, the creeping extra pounds of middle age or simply to improve your general health and energy levels, a healthy diet can provide the nutrition you need to reach your goals. For women diet tips must be simple and practical, so they can easily be integrated into a busy, daily schedule. Similarly, it’s easy to neglect your need for daily exercise when you’re busy from morning till night. Finding ways to incorporate health habits into your day will benefit both your physical health and your mental well being.

Fat Burning Tips – Use These Tricks Of The Trade

September 15, 2018 by Rob Denny 1 Comment

Fat Burning Tips – Use These Tricks Of The Trade

The key to a maintaining a well-toned physique and a healthy body composition is fat burning. There are many ways to approach fat burning, both in your diet and exercise routine. Each approach is effective on its own, but the best results come when you combine them, helping you to burn the most fat that you can at all times. Here are some useful fat burning tips.

STAY WELL HYDRATED
One important tip when it comes to fat burning is a very simple one: drink more water. Since our bodies are made up of over 50% water, being properly hydrated helps your body perform its most basic cellular functions better, like the transportation and burning of fat. The amount of water an individual needs every day varies depending on their activity level, but in general, you should drink at least one ounce of water per two pounds of body weight a day to stay sufficiently hydrated.

FOODS TO AVOID FOR FAT BURNING
Another good fat burning tip is to reduce your consumption of starchy carbs such as pasta, rice and potatoes. This should come as no surprise to anyone who has ever researched this subject, but it’s worth repeating because it’s a very important component of a fat burning regime. Consuming too many complex carbohydrates at once provides your body with more energy and glycogen stores than it needs, so it stores the excess as fat. This isn’t to say you should give up carbs altogether, but you should stick to 3-5 starch servings a day when you are trying to burn fat.

Stress – Effects And Ways To Stop It

August 12, 2018 by Rob Denny Leave a Comment

Stress – Effects And Ways To Stop It

Stress is defined as “a specific response by the body to a stimulus that disturbs or interferes with the normal physiological equilibrium of an organism.” Stress effects millions of people every day. It can be caused by physical, mental, or emotional stimuli. Physical stress is caused by things such as the burden of recent injury or illness that makes performing normal, daily activities extremely difficult or performing hard labor that is physically taxing and that demands more of you than you are physically able to do. Mental stress is a kind of stress that is often experienced by students who are over burdened by their course load or on the job when you under pressure to meet a deadline or to do extensive research. Perhaps the most common stress is emotional. This is caused by the death or illness of a loved one, a horrible boss, negative love relationship, the depression associated with a loss or illness, divorce, or a wide number of other factors.