Archive for April 1st, 2009

by Tracy Benham

Depending on where you live, spring is almost over and summer is here!. Either by now, your New Year’s resolution to become more fit is an ingrained part of your daily life, or it was forgotten as quickly as the leftover fruitcake from Christmas. Either way, it doesn’t matter nor does it matter if you made any resolutions at all. Today is a new day and new possibilities.

Whether you think you can or you can’t you’re right applies to living healthier and becoming more fit. If you think you can, you will find a starting point. Choose a starting point and begin. If you think you can’t become healthier or more fit, you are going to be one of the many who choose to think about the concepts, but you are not going to ever find that starting point.

Ah, but as I was saying, spring is upon us and with the change in season comes the advent of spring fever. It feels like new hope, as if everything old is new again. Like that expansion in your waistband: it’s only a few miles of walking and no brownies for a while say three to eight weeks.

Most people find it takes about three to four weeks to start forming one new habit. Don’t expect to nail this overnight. According to various studies, it takes 30 -60 days for the acquisition of a new habit.

In three to eight weeks, your brain will have a sticky note on the bulletin board of your memory, and you won’t have to think about making that new activity /change in eating habits a priority.

I don’t know about you, but for myself and many of my clients, when there is a decision to change eating habits, it’s something that must be a central conscious thought. Here’s an example: One of my clients decided to cut mayonnaise/salad dressing down in his diet. To do this, he could have other condiments like mustard or ketchup on his daily lunch sandwich, but no mayo/salad dressing. When he first started out, he reported that he reached automatically for the mayo when he went to make my sandwich for the next day’s lunch. He not only had to remember he wasn’t using mayo on sandwiches any more, but he also had to remind myself why just so he could stay motivated.

After a couple of weeks, and a few different kinds of mustard, he still had to remind myself to grab the mustard, but he no longer needed to pep talk me into doing so. Yes, he missed the mayo at first. But he reported he was beginning to enjoy the various mustard’s more and this is big he was feeling good about sticking to a change, however small it was.

That’s all success is; little steps along the way to achieve your overall goal. C’mon, it’s spring anything is possible.

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by Abhishek Agarwal

Senior body building an activity that will prove very beneficial since it helps to create a healthier senior citizen and it also improves condition of the organs and heart, and also can prove to be means of prolonging their life, and another advantage in senior body building is that it aids in making an elderly person appear almost ten years or more younger and hence contribute to the feelings of happiness and also improves their confidence levels.

The Best Means

There is enough evidence to prove that senior body building does contribute to enhanced health, even though its still needed to know about means that will aid formation of muscle mass although nothing is novel about such means by which everyone can get good results.

Nothing suggests that senior body building is by any means different to what the other people do but obviously there is a definite need to do the exercises slower and steadier, and incase suffering from certain health issues, must consult a medical person first and foremost. For seniors building the body, it is needed to obtain professional advice before going any farther, in any case, it’s better to place safety first in anything that you take up.

If you are sure about wanting to indulge in things like senior body building, then it would require lifting the correct amounts of weight which will cause the muscle to fail and in turn require the use of more intensity and this may cause your muscle to break or rip. Anyway, once the muscle heals, you will find it to have got more mass and this will improve even more if coupled with proper diets which includes consuming a very high content of proteins. Which in turn means you have to eat a gram or more of protein for every pound of the body weight and on a regular basis and even though this is a lot of protein, but you will still get to your goals by consuming protein supplement and also in addition, you also have to eat vegetables which aid in healing of the muscles and sometimes so does eating certain fruits.

Hence, despite the saying that there are no great methods for senior body building, but there is anyway the need to lift weights in the correct manner and this being the case always remember to sport a good weight belt that will prevent any hypertension and also lift weights only when there is spotter present who will ensure your not getting hurt.

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