5 Heart Health Boosting Exercises
It’s a well proven fact that cardiovascular exercise is the key to improving the health of your heart. Many types of exercise will get your heart pumping and provide great heart boosting benefits. Here are five of the top exercises for the heart, plus a bonus. 1. Cycling Cycling uses large muscle groups in the legs to elevate your heart rate. Besides getting strong, shapely legs, cycling burns calories and improves your cardiovascular fitness. But another big benefit if you’re cycling outside is that being in nature and sunshine can have the...
read moreA Pain in the Neck!
Neck pain is so common among Americans that it’s estimated 70% of us have significant neck pain at some time. While all the causes for neck pain are too numerous to delve into here, one BIG reason for the rise in neck pain is all the time we spend on our electronic devices hunched over in a poor posture with our heads forward and down. This ailment is so common it’s been dubbed “TEXT NECK”. Your head on average weighs ~8 to 12 pounds which is a pretty heavy load for the small muscles and vertebrae of your neck to hold...
read more5 Ways to Avoid Weak Brittle Bones
If you think weak and brittle bones are only for the elderly or people with bad genetics –think again! As soon as you blow out the candles on your 30th birthday cake your bone mass starts slowly decreasing. Bone loss is easy to ignore because it’s sneaky and silent. Then for us women, around 50 and amid the hot flashes -it attacks with a vengeance! But whether you are still approaching or have already past the half century mark you can take action NOW to learn how to prevent Osteoporosis and avoid a future of brittle bones and...
read more4 Steps to Reboot Your Fitness
September always signals a fresh start, return to routines and re-setting goals for the remainder of the year. It’s the perfect time to reboot your fitness routine if you’ve been in a ‘lazy daze vacation mode’. Here are 4 tips on how to improve your fitness that are sure to get you back in action and motivated to stick to your workout regime. 1. Start with the WHY On the surface it’s easy to come up with the reasons behind our fitness goals and routine. We all want to lose or maintain our weight and look our best. ...
read more5 Ways to Add the Fun Factor to Fitness
Are you ready to Bust out of Boredom and mix up your fitness regime? Summer time is a great time to mix it up, challenge yourself and add fun exercise activities to your routine! If you’re feeling unmotivated by your exercise routine try these 5 tips for making it …well, less routine. 1. Make a Splash! There are so many options when it comes to exercising in the water. Not only is working out int the water gentle on your joints, it’s great for toning your muscles too. Go for a swim in a pool, lake or the ocean. Do a...
read more5 Best Wrist Strengthening Exercises
One part of the body that gets overlooked for exercising is the wrist. When it comes to strengthening the arm, people are more focused on the biceps, triceps and forearms. Exercising your wrist has lots of benefits, including strengthening your grip and forearms, as well as helping to prevent injuries, and these exercises listed below can be done in the convenience of the home or office. Let’s take a look at five wrist strengthening exercises. The only equipment you’ll need is free weights, curl bar, and a small exercise ball or gel...
read more7 Tips to Avoid Tendonitis
Weekend Warrior Syndrome Has the sunshine beckoned you outside to play? Are you feeling the effects of being overzealous in your exercising? You may have Tendinitis which is commonly caused from over doing it – too much, too soon. ‘Weekend warriors’, people that exercise hard, primarily on the weekends, are prone to tendinitis. Jumping into tennis and golf games in the spring after a winter off or engaging in an overly rigorous weight lifting routine will lead to tendinitis. Catching tendinitis early is the key to treating it...
read moreWAGs for CrossFit Training
It seems like every few years a new training regimen comes around that takes the workout world and gyms by storm. Last year it was TRX, a few years earlier it was Pilates, and now, it’s CrossFit Training. CrossFit is functional training using an array of exercises that combines aerobics, body weight exercise, gymnastics and weight lifting using barbells, kettlebells, dumbbells and sometimes uncommon things like a tractor tire. The exercises can include anything from sprints, pushups, pullups, box jumps, muscle-ups, jump rope and situps. ...
read more5 Tips for Safer Use of Mobile Devices -Part 2
We can’t seem to put them down! Kids, young adults, parents and seniors are plugged in. We text, play games, read email, text, scroll our music list, surf the net, text, tweet, post pictures to face book and text some more –all from the palm of our hand. We do this anywhere and everywhere. Minutes add up to hours. These hours combined with awkward wrist positions, prolonged grips and repetitive micro-movements increase your chances of developing hand pain from cell phone use which could lead to tendonitis and carpel tunnel syndrome. Our...
read more5 Hand Protection Tips for Texters
Are you addicted to your digital device? Handheld electronics often require repetitive motion on small buttons, awkward wrist movements and prolonged grasps. All these repetitive micro movements of texting, playing electronic games & tapping your tablet can take a toll on your hands. Have you experienced fatigue, soreness, stiffness, or hand pain from texting? If so you may have an overuse injury. To avoid ‘digital distress’ follow these 5 tips: 1. Check and realign your posture. Using tablets, laptops and hand held devices with...
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