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		<title>Children With ADHD Benefit from Healthy Lifestyle Options as First-Line Treatment</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health and fitness advice Children With ADHD ScienceDaily (Jan. 24, 2012) — Every year between 3 and 10 percent of school-age children in USA are diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Increasingly, families are using natural or complementary therapies to improve their child&#8217;s attention or behavior, and often seek advice from an integrative pediatrician, [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Children With ADHD</strong></p>
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<p>ScienceDaily (Jan. 24, 2012) — Every year between 3 and 10 percent of school-age children in USA are diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Increasingly, families are using natural or complementary therapies to improve their child&#8217;s attention or behavior, and often seek advice from an integrative pediatrician, according to a new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.</p>
<p>&#8220;Many parents are reluctant to put their children on medication for ADHD, and instead want to first try healthy lifestyle options to help promote optimal focus and attention,&#8221; said Kathi Kemper, M.D., professor of public health sciences and pediatrics at Wake Forest Baptist, and lead author of the study.</p>
<p>Published in the January issue of the journal Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies, the research is the first to study what parents who seek natural remedies for their child&#8217;s ADHD are actually using or interested in learning about from an integrative pediatrician. The growing field of integrative pediatrics covers not only complementary therapies, but also focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, lifestyle coaching and coordinated team care.</p>
<p>In the study, the researchers reviewed intake forms, physician reports and laboratory studies for 75 new patients seen in an integrative pediatric clinic over a year and a half. Most of the patients (87 percent) were referred by their primary care physicians and the rest were referred by specialists. Among the patients, 31 percent of the families had concerns about ADHD, but only 13 percent of the children were taking medicine for the condition.</p>
<p>The data suggest that these children often suffer from several chronic health conditions, receive care from multiple, diverse specialists as well as primary care clinicians, and take a variety of medications and supplements while avoiding ADHD medications. &#8220;Although it was a small study from one practice, we believe that it reflects an emerging trend among pediatricians and primary care providers,&#8221; Kemper said.</p>
<p>The Wake Forest Baptist researchers showed that most families with ADHD children were interested in information about diet, exercise, stress management and sleep. Physician recommendations focused on health promotion information, dietary supplements, such as multivitamins/minerals and omega-3 fatty acids, and referrals to specialists.</p>
<p>&#8220;For example, if your child has trouble concentrating in his mid-morning math class, be sure he eats a really good breakfast, or try having him go to bed an hour earlier to see if that helps,&#8221; Kemper said. &#8220;If your child can&#8217;t sit still to do homework when he gets home from school, have him go outside to shoot some hoops and then try doing homework. I recommend using low-risk, healthy lifestyle approaches first before resorting to medication.&#8221;</p>
<p>For parents interested in finding an integrative pediatrician, Kemper recommends the American Academy of Pediatrics&#8217; website under the Section on Complementary and Integrative Medicine for a list of board-certified integrative pediatricians.</p>
<p>The above story is reprinted from materials provided by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, via Newswise. </p>
<p>Perhaps your child has just recently been diagnosed with <a href="http://shortquik.com/adhd/" title="ADD or ADHD" target="_blank">ADD or ADHD</a> and you’re smartly scouring the internet looking for sound, proven advice on how to manage or cure this problem and give your child <strong>all the advantages he or she deserves in life</strong> . . . </p>
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		<title>How Do Bodybuilders And Fitness Models Get So Lean?</title>
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By Tom Venuto, CSCS, NSCA-CPT<br />
<a href="http://www.burnfat-feedmuscles.com" title="Burn fat feed muscles" target="_blank">Burn fat feed muscles</a></p>
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<p><strong>QUESTION:</strong> &#8220;Tom, on your <a href="http://www.burnfat-feedmuscles.com" title="www.burnthefat.com" target="_blank">www.burnthefat.com</a> website, you wrote: &#8216;Who better to model than bodybuilders and fitness competitors? No athletes in the world get as lean as quickly as bodybuilders and fitness competitors. The transformations they undergo in 12 weeks prior to competition would boggle your mind!</p>
<p>Only ultra-endurance athletes come close in terms of low body fat levels, but endurance athletes like triathaletes and marathoners often get lean at the expense of chewing up much of their lean muscle.&#8221;</p>
<p>There seems to be a contradiction unless I&#8217;m missing something. Why do bodybuilders and fitness competitors have to go through a 12 week &#8216;transformation&#8217; prior to every event instead of staying &#8216;lean and mean&#8217; all the time? If they practice the secrets exposed in your book, shouldn&#8217;t be staying in great shape all the time instead of having to work at losing fat prior to every competitive event?&#8221;</p>
<p>ANSWER: Thanks for your question. There&#8217;s a logical explanation for why bodybuilders and other physique athletes (fitness and figure competitors), don&#8217;t remain completely ripped all year round, and it&#8217;s the very reason they are able to get so ripped on the day of a contest&#8230;</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t hold a peak forever or it&#8217;s not a &#8220;peak&#8221;, right? What is the definition of a peak? It&#8217;s a high point surrounded by two lower points isn&#8217;t it? Therefore, any shape you can stay in all year round is NOT your &#8220;peak&#8221; condition.</p>
<p>The intelligent approach to nutrition and training (which almost all bodybuilders  and fitness/figure competitors use), is to train and diet in a seasonal or cyclical fashion and build up to a peak, then ease off to a maintenance or growth phase.</p>
<p>I am NOT talking about bulking up and getting fat and out of shape every year, then dieting it all off every year. What I&#8217;m talking about is going from good shape to great shape, then easing back off to good shape&#8230;. but never getting &#8220;out of shape.&#8221;</p>
<p>Makes a lot of sense, doesn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s an example: I have no intentions whatsoever of walking around 365 days a year at 4% body fat like I appear in the photo on my website. Truth be told, that is day of contest condition.</p>
<p>Off-season (when I&#8217;m not competing), my body fat is usually between 8 &#8211; 10%. Mind you, that&#8217;s very lean and still single digit body fat.I don&#8217;t stray too far from competition shape, but I don&#8217;t maintain contest shape all the time. It takes me about 10-12 weeks or so to gradually drop from 9% to 3.5%-4.0% body fat to &#8220;peak&#8221; for competition with NO loss of lean body mass, using the same techniques I reveal in my e-book.</p>
<p>It would be almost impossible to maintain 4% body fat, and even if I could, why would I want to? For the few weeks prior to competition I&#8217;m so depleted, ripped, and even &#8220;drawn&#8221; in the face, that complete strangers walk up and offer to feed me.</p>
<p>Okay, so I&#8217;m just kidding about that, but let&#8217;s just say being &#8220;being ripped to shreds&#8221; isn&#8217;t a desirable condition to maintain because it takes such a monumental effort to stay there.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s probably not even healthy to try forcing yourself to hold extreme low body fat. Unless you&#8217;re a natural &#8220;ectomorph&#8221; (skinny, fast metabolism body type), your body will fight you and you&#8217;ll always be hungry.</p>
<p>Not only that, anabolic hormones may drop and sometimes your immune system is affected as well (and I hate to say this, but sometimes &#8211; for some people &#8211; even the, uh&#8230; &#8220;reproductive functions&#8221;&#8230; decline a bit when you&#8217;re that lean).</p>
<p>Hey, I&#8217;m just being honest. It&#8217;s just not &#8220;normal&#8221; to walk around all the time  with literally NO subcutaneous body fat.</p>
<p>Instead of attempting to hold the peak, I cycle back into a less demanding off-season program and avoid creeping beyond 9.9% body fat. Some years I&#8217;ve stayed leaner &#8211; like 6-7%, (which takes effort), especially when I knew I would be photographed, but I don&#8217;t let my body fat go over 10%. Thats &#8220;the line&#8221; I draw &#8211; it&#8217;s like a personal &#8220;rule&#8221; for me.</p>
<p>This practice isn&#8217;t just restricted to bodybuilders. Athletes in all sports use periodization to build themselves up to their best shape for competition.</p>
<p>Is a pro football player in the same condition in March-April as he is in August-September? Probably not. Many show up fat and out of shape (relatively speaking) for training camp, others just need fine tuning, but none are in peak form&#8230; that&#8217;s why they have training camp!!!</p>
<p>There&#8217;s another reason you wouldn&#8217;t want to maintain a &#8220;ripped to shreds&#8221; physique all year round &#8211; you&#8217;d have to be dieting (calorie restricted) all the time. And this is one of the reasons that 95% of people can&#8217;t lose weight and keep it off &#8211; they are CHRONIC dieters&#8230; always on some type of diet. Know anyone like that?</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t stay on restricted low calories indefinitely. Sooner or later your metabolism slows down and you plateau as your body adapts to the chronically lowered food intake and reduced body weight.</p>
<p>But if you diet for fat loss and push incredibly hard for 3 months, then ease off for a while and eat a little more (healthy food, not &#8220;pigging out&#8221;), your metabolic rate is re-stimulated.</p>
<p>In a few weeks or months, you can return to another fat loss phase and reach an even lower body fat level, until you finally reach the point that&#8217;s your happy maintenance level for life &#8211; a level that is healthy and realistic &#8211; as well as visually appealing.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s how we physique athletes do it&#8230;</p>
<p>Bodybuilders have discovered a methodology for losing fat that&#8217;s so effective, it puts them in complete control of their body composition. They&#8217;ve mastered  this area of their lives and will never have to worry about it again.</p>
<p>If they ever &#8220;slip&#8221; and fall off the wagon like all humans do at times &#8230; no problem! They know how to get back into shape fast.</p>
<p>Bodybuilders have the tools and knowledge to hold a low body fat all year round(such as 9% for men, or about 15% for women), and then at a whim, to reach a temporary &#8220;peak&#8221; of extremely low body fat for the purpose of competition.</p>
<p>Maybe most important of all, they have the power and control to slowly ease back from peak shape into maintenance, and not balloon up and yo-yo like most conventional dieters.</p>
<p>What if you had the power to stay lean all year round, and then get super lean when summer rolled around, or when you took your vacation to the Caribbean, or when your wedding date was coming up?</p>
<p>Wouldn&#8217;t you like to be in control of your body like that? Isn&#8217;t that the same thing that bodybuilders and fitness/figure competitors do, only on a more practical, real-world level?</p>
<p>So even if you have no intention of ever being a bodybuilder, don&#8217;t you agree that there&#8217;s something of value everyone could learn from physique athletes?</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t model yourself after the huge crowd of &#8220;losers&#8221; who gobble diet pills, buy exercise gimmicks and suffer through starvation diets like automatons, only to  gain back everything they lost! Instead, learn from the leanest athletes on Earth &#8211; natural bodybuilders and fitness competitors&#8230;</p>
<p>These physique athletes get as ripped as they want to be, exactly when they want to, simply by manipulating their diets in a cyclical fashion between pre-contest &#8220;cutting&#8221; programs and off season &#8220;maintenance&#8221; or &#8220;muscle growth&#8221; programs.</p>
<p>Even if you have no desire to ever compete, try this seasonal &#8220;peaking&#8221; approach yourself and you&#8217;ll see that it can work as well for you as it does for elite bodybuilders.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested in learning even more secrets of bodybuilders and fitness models, visit the Burn The Fat website at:<br />
<a href="http://www.burnfat-feedmuscles.com" title="http://www.burnfat-feedmuscles.com" target="_blank">http://www.burnfat-feedmuscles.com</a><br />
Train hard and expect success,</p>
<p>About the Author:</p>
<p>Tom Venuto is a fat loss expert, lifetime natural (steroid-free) bodybuilder, independent nutrition researcher, freelance writer, and author of the #1 best selling diet e-book, Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle: Fat-Burning Secrets of The World’s Best Bodybuilders &#038; Fitness Models (e-book) which teaches you how to get lean without drugs or supplements using secrets of the world&#8217;s best bodybuilders and fitness models. Learn how to get rid of stubborn fat and increase your metabolism by visiting: <a href="http://www.burnfat-feedmuscles.com" title="burn fat feed muscles" target="_blank">burn fat feed muscles</a></p>
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		<title>Does fitness offset fatness?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health and fitness advice. Fitness Article by Howard LeWine, M.D., Chief Medical Editor, Internet Publishing, Harvard Health Publications These days, most adults are overweight, not active, or both. If you could change just one—become active or lose weight—which would be better? At least for men, being more fit may have a bigger health payoff than [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.health-fitness-advice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/FitnessCouple-walking-on-trail.jpg"><img src="http://www.health-fitness-advice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/FitnessCouple-walking-on-trail-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="FitnessCouple-walking-on-trail" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-70" /></a>Health and fitness advice.<br />
Fitness</p>
<p>Article by Howard LeWine, M.D., Chief Medical Editor, Internet Publishing, Harvard Health Publications </p>
<p>These days, most adults are overweight, not active, or both. If you could change just one—become active or lose weight—which would be better?</p>
<p>At least for men, being more fit may have a bigger health payoff than losing weight, according to a new study of more than 14,000 well-off middle-aged men who are participating in the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study. Researchers followed their health, weight, and exercise habits for 11 years. They estimated how physically fit the men were by calculating their metabolic equivalents (METs) from a treadmill test.</p>
<p>Compared with men whose fitness declined over the course of the study, those who maintained their fitness levels reduced their odds of dying from cardiovascular disease or any other cause by about 30%, even if they didn’t lose any excess weight. Those who improved their fitness levels saw a 40% reduction.</p>
<p>Body-mass index (BMI), a measurement that takes weight and height into account, was not associated with mortality. The results were published in the journal Circulation.<br />
What is “fitness”</p>
<p>Fitness is a measure of how well your heart, blood vessels, blood, and lungs supply your muscles with oxygen during sustained exercise. It also takes into account the ability of your muscles to use that oxygen.</p>
<p>The most straightforward way to gauge fitness is to use a treadmill to measure peak exercise capacity. That means you run on a treadmill as its speed and incline are progressively increased until you can’t go any further. Exercise capacity is usually measured in METs. One MET is the amount of oxygen you use when sitting still or sleeping. The number of METs at peak exercise capacity is determined by a formula based on your speed and the incline at your peak.<br />
Make a leap</p>
<p>Maintaining a healthy weight and being active are two of the best things you can do for your health. But what if you are overweight and inactive? This study and others suggest that getting more activity is the best place to start if you want to improve your health.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter where you are starting from. If your fitness is low today, you can boost it with regular physical activity that challenges your body. That means working your body hard enough to speed up your heartbeat and breathing. If you need help getting started, a Special Health Report called Exercise: A program you can live with, from Harvard Medical School, can help.</p>
<p>If you don’t regularly work your heart, lungs, and muscles, then any increase in activity is great. Burning an extra 300 calories a week, the equivalent of raking leaves for an hour, can improve health. And with exercise, more is usually better.</p>
<p>If you already carry extra pounds despite ramping up your exercise, this study—and hundreds before it—suggest you still want to try to shed them. Getting down into a healthy weight range is good for long-term health.</p>
<p>Maintaining fitness and a <a href=" BMI http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/" title="healthy weight" target="_blank">healthy weight</a> is the winning one-two punch. </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[health and fitness advice Many children aren’t getting enough vitamin D, and that puts them at greater risk for health problems. Researchers pored over data on more than 3,500 young people between 12 and 19 years old. Those with the lowest levels of vitamin D were twice as likely as their peers to have high [...]]]></description>
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<p>Many children aren’t getting enough vitamin D, and that puts them at greater risk for health problems. Researchers pored over data on more than 3,500 young people between 12 and 19 years old. Those with the lowest levels of vitamin D were twice as likely as their peers to have high blood pressure and 2½ times as likely to have elevated blood glucose levels,  even when the effect of body fat was discounted. Youth with low D levels were also 54 percent more likely to have low HDL (“good”) cholesterol levels. The study’s authors caution that the research is preliminary; parents shouldn’t resort to supplements right away. Instead, a good way of getting more vitamin D is by spending 15 minutes a day in sunlight or drinking milk or juice fortified with the vitamin.<br />
Source: Pediatrics, published online Aug. 3, 2009</p>
<p><strong>Doctors Double Vitamin D for Children</strong><br />
Boston Globe<br />
(10/13/2008 )<br />
By Oberholzer, Leigh Hopper</p>
<p>New data suggests that a lack of vitamin D can play a role in diabetes, autoimmune diseases, and some cancers. As a result, the American Academy of Pediatrics is doubling the amount of vitamin D it recommends for infants, children, and adolescents to 400 IU a day, starting in the first few days of life. The academy recommends vitamin D supplements for breast-fed infants and partially breast-fed infants. The supplements are also recommended for non-breast fed babies and children who drink less than1 liter per day of vitamin D-fortified formula or milk. Earlier in 2008, researchers at Children&#8217;s Hospital Boston discovered &#8220;suboptimal&#8221; levels of vitamin D in 40 percent of 380 otherwise healthy infants and toddlers. In the past, the chief source of vitamin D used to be sunlight, which allows vitamin D to be manufactured in the skin, but doctors say many people are now not outdoors long enough to get the right amount of sunlight, or they cannot absorb sunlight because of sunscreen use. Doctors do not recommend that people sunbathe or visit tanning salons, however, because there is no right amount for a given individual.</p>
<p>(http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2008/10/13/doctors_double_vitamin_d_for_children/)<br />
<strong><br />
Vitamin D and Diabetes</strong><br />
<strong>Looking for links between the sunshine vitamin and diabetes</strong><br />
By Andrew Curry</p>
<p>Sun exposure is a tricky thing. No one wants too much, of course, but too little can also be a problem. That&#8217;s because sunshine encourages skin cells to produce vitamin D, a substance that keeps bones strong and may play an as yet undetermined role in warding off a variety of other ailments.</p>
<p>There was a time when lack of vitamin D was a problem only for people living in the far north, where months could go by with no more than a few hours of weak light a day. For the rest of the world, simply spending time outside was sufficient to keep the blood&#8217;s D levels healthfully high. &#8220;In the right location, less than half an hour outside can give you all the vitamin D you need for a week,&#8221; says Susan Harris, DSc, a researcher at Tufts University.</p>
<p>But these days—between office jobs, television, long commutes, and, of course, sunblock—regular sun exposure is hard to come by. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t till industrialization that we started spending all of our time inside,&#8221; says Harris. &#8220;Now … we depend more on dietary sources [of vitamin D], of which there are few—and most of us don&#8217;t get enough.&#8221; Fortified foods like milk and cereal, in addition to fatty fish like salmon and mackerel, can make up for some of what we’re missing, but most of us also need either appropriate sun exposure or vitamin D supplements.</p>
<p>In addition, some people have a harder time producing vitamin D than others. &#8220;Skin pigment acts as a natural sunscreen—it protects the skin, but also reduces vitamin D production,&#8221; Harris says. The darker your skin, in other words, the harder it is to get enough vitamin D, one reason African Americans seem to have lower levels of D than other Americans. In fact, in a 2004 study published in the journal Diabetes Care, University of Auckland researcher Robert Scragg showed that non-Hispanic blacks in the United States had significantly lower levels of vitamin D than whites and Hispanics. Scragg showed that high vitamin D levels were associated with low diabetes risk—for some. &#8220;In that study, the protective effect of vitamin D is seen in Caucasians, but not in non-Hispanic blacks,&#8221; Harris says.</p>
<p>Harris is one of a growing number of scientists examining the role of vitamin D in the body. While it has long been known to influence skeletal health, over the past two decades more and more researchers have begun to appreciate the many other roles vitamin D may have. &#8220;People have gone from looking at deficiency diseases like scurvy and rickets&#8221;—afflictions caused by the lack of vitamins C and D, respectively—&#8221;to looking at more subtle deficiency effects,&#8221; Harris says.</p>
<p>It turns out that there are vitamin D receptors almost everywhere in the human body—even in the islets of Langerhans, the structures in the pancreas that produce insulin. For people with type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes, it seems that vitamin D allows the body to secrete more insulin. At the same time, there&#8217;s evidence that vitamin D may increase insulin sensitivity.</p>
<p>To sponsor an ADA research<br />
project at the Research Foundation&#8217;s Pinnacle Society level of $50,000 or more, call Elly Brtva, MPH, managing director of Individual Giving, at<br />
(703) 253-4377, or e-mail her at<br />
ebrtva@diabetes.org.</p>
<p>With the help of a grant from the American Diabetes Association, Harris is taking a closer look at whether vitamin D supplements might in fact help African Americans avoid developing diabetes. She has set up a study examining the links between vitamin D and diabetes in about 100 African Americans age 40 and older. To research people at high risk for developing diabetes, she specifically recruited subjects who were overweight or obese but not diabetic. Half of them are given a placebo, half a vitamin D supplement; over the course of 12 weeks, she measures things like insulin secretion, glucose control, and insulin resistance in the two groups to see if taking vitamin D supplements makes any difference.</p>
<p>Pinning down exactly what makes vitamin D work is made even tougher by related factors: &#8220;confounders,&#8221; in academic jargon. Take, for example, the links between vitamin D levels and diabetes. Are people with high levels of vitamin D less likely to develop diabetes because of the vitamin D, or because their lifestyle gets them out of the house or office? &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to know if it was the vitamin D. The same things that affect vitamin D, like being outside, can affect health in other ways,&#8221; Harris says. &#8220;Maybe it wasn&#8217;t because of vitamin D; it was because they were more active.&#8221; To avoid confounding her results, Harris didn&#8217;t ask participants to change their lifestyle in any way.</p>
<p>If it turns out that vitamin D supplements can help prevent type 2 diabetes in African Americans, it wouldn&#8217;t necessarily mean it&#8217;s a universal panacea. &#8220;But if we see an association here, I would absolutely want to repeat the study with other groups,&#8221; Harris says. The ways in which vitamin D works remain a mystery, but that doesn&#8217;t bother Harris. &#8220;Vitamin D is big,&#8221; she says. For now, she just wants to know whether vitamin D can help people; figuring out why can come later.<br />
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		<title>Aquasize To A Flatter Stomach!</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Swimming</strong> is a very great exercise however and whenever you do it. But as well as using the water for<br />
fun and relaxation you can use your time in the pool to help you in that search for a flatter<br />
stomach.<br />
More so than air, water provides great natural resistance. Moving through it takes effort and<br />
can exercise your muscles more fully but more safely than many other types of exercise. It<br />
offers a low-impact way of exercising making it better for your joints and the exercise of choice<br />
for many age groups.<br />
Try these exercises the next time you are in the pool and see what we mean. Remember to<br />
consult a medical professional before starting any new exercise routine, and make sure that you<br />
do warm up properly;<br />
<strong>The Dig and Jump</strong><br />
This involves two movements, one targeted at your lower body and the other at the upper.<br />
Begin by standing in water of a depth above your navel and your chest. Then place your feet at<br />
least shoulder width apart and jump so that your knees come to the pool&#8217;s surface then force<br />
them back down again and repeat the moves (picture a frog jumping while you are doing it and<br />
you&#8217;ll get the idea). This is great for exercising the lower body and this includes the abdominal<br />
muscles.<br />
The second part is to work the upper body. To start make a separate scoop with each hand.<br />
Place your hands low in the water then bring them to the surface and out to one side. Start by<br />
doing one hand first for three minutes then the other. Work alternate sides to maintain a<br />
balanced workout. Once you are comfortable with it do both hands at the same time to exercise<br />
the entire stomach region at once.<br />
Set realistic targets as you work towards your health and fitness goals. Don&#8217;t over exert yourself<br />
leading to injury. Start slow, know your limitations and build on them incrementally. As you<br />
increase endurance and strength you can vary the speed and length of the workout, and even<br />
add water gloves to increase resistance. It is important however not to compromise on the style<br />
of movement in order to increase reps or speed. It&#8217;s better to do something well rather than<br />
quickly.<br />
Health&#038;Fitness Advice<br />
<strong>A few additional tips for exercising your midriff</strong><br />
First, a balanced diet is essential to any fitness regime. It&#8217;s no use working hard only to undo all<br />
of the great work with a poor diet.<br />
Secondly, stay hydrated not only when exercising but in your general daily life. A good rule of<br />
thumb is to take your body weight in pounds, divide it by 2 and aim to drink that number of<br />
Ounces of water per day. This will maintain a healthy balance.<br />
Third, get enough rest. Get plenty of sleep but also the right kind of sleep. Sleeping on your<br />
stomach for example may make it difficult to do certain types of stomach exercise. Try to sleep<br />
in a number of positions. Also, it may sound strange to say so but take adequate rest from<br />
exercise. Be sure to schedule in rest days to any training schedule. Your body needs to<br />
recover so your muscles can rebuild.<br />
By following this you will already be on the way to a toned, flat stomach.</p>
<p>By <a href="http://www.health-fitness-advice.com/author/dghearwx/" title="dghearwx" target="_blank">dghearwx</a> </p>
<p>How to Lose Inches of Pure Fat<br />
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		<title>Count Down To Fitness Success And Keep Your Motivation Drive Alive</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dec 1, 2011 By dghearwx Article by By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com health&#038;fitness advice There are many fantastic ways to get focused and motivated to begin a diet or exercise program, but often the most difficult thing to do is keep that drive and ambition alive for more than a few weeks and see [...]]]></description>
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Article by By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS<br />
<a href="http://www.burnfat-feedmuscles.com" title="www.BurnTheFat.com" target="_blank">www.BurnTheFat.com</a></p>
<p>health&#038;fitness advice</p>
<p>There are many fantastic ways to get focused and motivated to begin a diet or exercise program, but often the most difficult thing to do is keep that drive and ambition alive for more than a few weeks and see your goal through to completion.</p>
<p>Within just weeks of starting, many people have already hit their first snag or setback, and as a result, have slipped backwards in the mental focus and motivation department. Setting goals in writing is an essential step to success, but how do you stay focused on them? One technique I have used ever since my very first bodybuilding competition 18 years ago, is&#8230;</p>
<p>The &#8220;contest countdown calendar.&#8221;</p>
<p>I have used it ever since, through 28 competitions and it will work for you too, for any fitness goal.</p>
<p>I purchase a desk or wall calendar &#8211; the type that shows each week stretching horizontally across the page with an open block of space for each day.</p>
<p>After I set my goal and place a deadline on it, I do NOT stop there. I take out my calendar and start counting backwards from my target goal deadline to the present day.</p>
<p>T-minus 117 days&#8230;.</p>
<p>T-minus 116 days&#8230;</p>
<p>T-minus 115 days&#8230;.</p>
<p>I also fill in my workouts for the entire 3-4 month period, which is the typical length I allow for my mid-range goals like contest prep.</p>
<p>you would be shocked &#8211; pleasantly so &#8211; just how focused this keeps you. Even better still, you get MORE and MORE motivated with each passing day you countdown because the deadline is getting closer</p>
<p>Deadlines are absolutely critical to your success. Little gets done without deadlines.</p>
<p>There is a saying in management and psychology that &#8220;work will always expand to fill the time allowed for it&#8217;s completion.&#8221;</p>
<p>Remember term papers in school? when you were given a term paper assignment and you had the entire semeseter to do it, did you run home that first night and get crankin on it?</p>
<p>How about after a week? two weeks? A month? TWO MONTHS?</p>
<p>probably not, eh?</p>
<p>If youre like most people, you put it off until the last minute and you barely got it turned in on time. In fact, there are always a few people who pull all nighters the night before!</p>
<p>Alas, the power of the deadline!</p>
<p>In your fitness endeavors, if you dont have IMPENDING deadlines that give you that twinge in your stomach that says &#8220;take action now, or else!&#8221; then you find it very easy to say to yourself, &#8216; I have plenty of time so this one cheat meal doesnt matter&#8230; it doesnt make much difference at this point if I skip this one workout&#8230; I have time to make it up&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>And then, just like the term paper, you are scrambling at the last minute to reach your weight goal. But in the case of a your body, the consequences are more severe and painful than just a bad grade or late penalty.</p>
<p>Inevitably, you succumb to crash dieting and overtraining or other unhealthy fast-weight-loss madness, which eats up your own muscle like a hungry cannibal and sends you spiraling into the dark pit of metabolic damage and the inevitable plateau and weight gain that follow.</p>
<p>But the solution is so simple: Count your way down to success!</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t stop with setting goals. Put your goal countdown on paper, review your goals every single day, AND know, every single day, how many days there are until your target goal date. You will stay more consciously focused and even better, your unconscious mind will go to work for you in keeping you motivated, on track, and on schedule. You&#8217;ll come in for a landing on your goal deadline date like an F-16 landing on an aircraft carrier.</p>
<p>I just did my countdown calendar earlier this week&#8230; T minus 117 days til my next bodybuilding competition, and thanks to this simple but powerful technique, I&#8217;m already focused like a laser beam and have been making steady progress without so much as a hiccup&#8230;</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t under-estimate this simple technique&#8230; Give it an honest test&#8230; because it&#8217;s often the simplest motivational techniques that are the most powerful of all!.<br />
<em><strong><a href="http://www.burnfat-feedmuscles.com" title="Burn fat feed muscle" target="_blank">Burn fat feed muscle</a></strong>s</em></p>
<p>About the Author:</p>
<p>Tom Venuto is a natural bodybuilder and author of the #1 best selling e-book, &#8220;<a href="http://danggent.burnthefat.hop.clickbank.net" title="Burn the Fat,Feed The Muscle" target="_blank">Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle</a>,” which teaches you how to burn fat without drugs or supplements using the little-known secrets of the world&#8217;s best bodybuilders and fitness models. Learn how to get rid of stubborn fat and turbo-charge your metabolism by visiting: <a href="http://danggent.burnthefat.hop.clickbank.net" title="www.burnthefat.com" target="_blank">www.burnthefat.com</a></p>
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		<title>Teaching Kids Fitness Training</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Today, kids fitness training is important more so than in years past, because kids do not always have the exercise or healthy meals that they need. This has become a problem with obesity and poor health conditions. Some fitness centers even offer the services of a personal trainer for children.</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
There is another way to keep kids healthy without spending money on personal trainers and fitness centers. Most recreation departments and schools have programs set up during the year for kids to workout, play group games, and just do things that interest them.</p>
<p><strong>Recreation Department Activities</strong></p>
<p>&#13;<br />
Recreation departments offer after school, evening, and weekend activities for kids and families. This is the perfect time for kid fitness training to begin. There is no time like the present to start a healthy lifestyle for children. </p>
<p>Since kids usually only go to school where they sit in a classroom except for gym class, they may need some extra-curriculum activities where gym teachers work with the child doing some form of fitness training. This may be gymnastics, swimming, or even some sports game such as indoor volleyball, golf lessons, or basketball.</p>
<p><strong>School Programs</strong></p>
<p>&#13;<br />
Schools recognize the need for kids fitness training and offer activities such as football, baseball, volleyball, soccer, and golf as a way to get them involved with sports and fitness. These activities also require traveling if the kids are performing in sport activities. The children learn responsibly, fitness, and how to eat healthy. They also learn about things in life other than video games, drugs, and drinking.</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
There is also cheerleading and band for fitness. Most parents do not consider band a fitness program, but it is because the kids have to learn how to breathe properly and practice good posture. Bands also perform for parades and other events that require movement.</p>
<p><strong>Kids Fitness Training Centers</strong></p>
<p>&#13;<br />
If school programs and recreation department programs are not what you want for your child, you can check with many fitness centers that offer programs for kids. These programs are geared more towards cardio and strength training. They are all monitored and assessed while the kids are enrolled. Children will also receive diet and nutrition advice and learn about lifestyle choices. </p>
<p>&#13;<br />
Kids will have to keep on a routine to see a life change. Parents also need to be supportive and make sure that they continue to attend sessions.</p>
<p><strong>Karate and Other Type Programs</strong></p>
<p>&#13;<br />
Karate is another form of fitness training that teaches the kids life values and another form of art. With these programs, the children learn self-discipline, which is needed to maintain a healthy lifestyle. These programs are beneficial for all kids that need some fitness and discipline in their lives.</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
As you can see, there are many ways for children to stay healthy. Kids fitness training does not have to mean exercise per say, it can be karate, sports, or even band instead. As with any activity, they have to learn how to be healthy to stay fit.&#13;</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>
 Why should you start a fitness program? A fit healthy body will help you live longer, keep energy levels high, stress in check, and you&#8217;ll feel incredible. A fitness program doesn&#8217;t mean you have to have washboard abs</p>
<p>
 There is a diminished point of return with all things, and this is no less true with body strength. Getting and staying in good shape does not have mean hours spent in the gym or running up and down the stairs of a pro football team stadium. But it does mean establishing and keep a routine for ensuring that you get enough exercise to elevate your heart rate for about 20 minutes per day (on average) and muscle strengthing to keep your body strong and flexible.</p>
<p>
 Getting there is not as hard as it sounds, and once you establish the pattern you are likely to find that you enjoy it enough to actually look forward to it. Exercise is often times its own reward and motivation. That said, there are some good tips for getting you to that place. Following are a few steps and pointers to consider as you develop your fitness training routine.</p>
<p>
 First, plan ahead. You don&#8217;t have to completely rearrange your life to establish a fitness routine, but you do have to make sure you have the time set aside to do so. Pick a time will work for you most days; doing this will help you establish a pattern, which will help you maintain the practice. Second, consider working with a trainer, especially in the beginning.</p>
<p>
 A trainer can help you determine your baseline strength, cardio fitness level and flexibility and can help you create a fitness plan designed for your specific needs. Talk with your trainer about your goals: some people want to be much stronger and others just want to establish healthier routines. A bootcamp personal trainer will ensure you&#8217;re moving in the right direction. Consider what type of workouts you like and pattern your fitness workouts around them. If you love to play tennis, biking, running, work those activities into your weekly routine.</p>
<p>
 The more you enjoy the physical activities, the more likely you are to keep up the routine. There are occasions when you can&#8217;t find someone for other activities, the gym will always be there for you. The important thing is to keep the routine of getting regular exercise.
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		<title>The 7 Breakthrough Components Of Fitness Training Programs For Skinny People</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article by Kim Johnson If you are sick and tired of people telling you you need to put on weight, it&#8217;s time to tell them to shut up. Not literally, you can hardly tell your grandmother that but you can do so more subtly, like actually putting on some quality weight. No, I don&#8217;t mean [...]]]></description>
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<p>Article  by Kim Johnson</p>
<p>If you are sick and tired of people telling you you need to put on weight, it&#8217;s time to tell them to shut up. Not literally, you can hardly tell your grandmother that but you can do so more subtly, like actually putting on some quality weight. No, I don&#8217;t mean to say you have to start eating like the Incredible Hulk. You need to approach quality fitness training programs and get on some lean muscle mass. The fitness training programs will not only get your immediate surrounding to buckle up but you&#8217;ll also feel better about yourself and more confident when you have a look in your mirror every morning. If your genetics are not fantastic, you don&#8217;t need to mourn. There are amazing things you can achieve with the fitness training programs specialised for you people.</p>
<p>For people who just can&#8217;t seem to put on weight very easily, there are fitness training programs that show a few distinct characteristics. In this article, we will cover those.</p>
<p>1. For starters, whatever you are eating currently, force yourself to ingest twice that amount. That will be a good start and an easy one as well. If you are currently eating an egg for breakfast, most fitness training programs will require you to top that up with one more. If you eat two slices of bread, make that four.</p>
<p>2. Eat as much as you can. Here is your golden rule, I said it. An average person spends 2-3 hours eating per day, you know what you have to do? That&#8217;s right, time yourself. Make sure you eat adequately or your fitness training programs won&#8217;t work. We all know breakfast is important, but for you, it&#8217;s even more so. Most fitness training programs for skinny people require that you make sure you have a heavy breakfast no later than 15 minutes after waking up. Orange juice and cheese and toast won&#8217;t do. You need real food.</p>
<p>3. You have any small plates at home? Glasses maybe? Get up now and put those out of sight. If you go through the popular fitness training programs out there on the market, you&#8217;ll notice they always advise bodybuilders to adopt big eating equipments. It apparently induces you to eat more and you need that. Get yourself a big cup, a huge plate, big bowls and you&#8217;ll see results with your fitness training programs. </p>
<p>4. Never ever train on an empty stomach. That&#8217;s perhaps a sure way for you to make fitness training programs backfire. Did you ever wake up and head to the gym equipped with just a protein shake? If you did, make sure you never go down that path again. Common sense is a good compliment for fitness training programs. Use it sometimes. I understand it&#8217;s not always easy to digest real food in the mornings but a man has got to do what he has to do.</p>
<p>5. The type of food you should eat. While most fitness training programs require people to watch out on their calorie intake, your fitness training programs will work in the reverse mode. You will be required to eat calorie loaded foods as far as possible and then spend those in the gym. Some of the best choices you can make include rice, potatoes, fruits and veggies, steak, cottage cheese, eggs, flax oil, avocados and very importantly, peanut butter.</p>
<p>6. Prior to your workout, try to gulp down a calorie-rich drink. For best results, most fitness training programs stipulate a mix up in a simple 2:1 ratio of carbohydrate to protein. You quite literally gain a few extra hundred calories per day almost instantaneously. However, only use this tip if you have a high intensity training waiting up.</p>
<p>7. If you eat all day, you will most probably throw up. Well tough because that is the only appreciable way you can use to push your body&#8217;s threshold. Just keep one thing in mind. If you don&#8217;t eat, you won&#8217;t grow. It does not get any simpler with the fitness training programs out there.</p>
<p>Do your part and the fitness training programs will do the rest. You have the ability to gain ten pounds of solid weight in no more than four weeks but you need to welcome reliable advices when you come across them and you just did.
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<p>In this article we talk mostly about the nutrition components a person having a hard time gaining weight should implement in their daily regimen. The tips in this article can help you pack on more muscle than ever before.</p>
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 People have been hunting numerous things for many years now &#8211; including fitness. Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, the writer of the book &#8220;Aerobics,&#8221; was the one responsible for allocating everyone&#8217;s attention to fitness initiating from the year 1960s when he published the book &#8220;Aerobics&#8221;. From the 60s up to now, health and fitness has become a leading unit of every person&#8217;s daily concerns.
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 Nevertheless, the usual American buddy and gentlewoman&#8217;s health has worsen speedily. However, we have to admit that the situation when it comes to health and fitness are rapidly getting worse &#8211; even if we can hear and read about fitness, health, and diet in all types of media within realm of possibility everyday.
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 Today, usual American youngster and girl are getting NOT more healthy but LESS healthy instead. Why is it occurring?
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 Really you might not be familiar but something else has been arising that could elucidate more about this ambiguity more. The lifestyle of the ordinary American has also been developing. The nature of the type of work that he does is amongst on the top of the list. What is more the number of hours spent working has grown.
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 Innumerable people are now taking trades that request lesser physical activities and spends much time with those. This in turn leaves them less free time to do stuffs they like such as interests or physical activity. On top of this plenty of young men and babes are so tired after their long hours of work that they do not feel obliged to join in in any physical activity. They treat it as an epidemic.
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 The result that we may get from this are: out of shape body, being unhealthy, and by any means getting obese.
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 It is right these days that we hit them with the fitness gimmick infomercials. We hit them almost every hour through the TV, in the magazines and through word of mouth. Today there are so several fitness machines, coaches, and patterns accessible everywhere but these will all make your head spin. Each demands you to spend many hours on using their methods to retrieve your health and fitness.
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 The truth is that this is not absolutely the solution. We do not have that much time to spend to these types of fitness styles. It has been failing for 40 years and it is time for us to take a much smarter approach towards fitness. Most people don&#8217;t have that much time that they can spend to continually go through all the fitness regimes proposed by the fitness industry. And that&#8217;s the fact. A huge percentage of people, most likely around 95%, drop out. It doesn&#8217;t work.
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 To solve the difficulty we need a more fruitful fitness training regime that only craves you to spend less time and at the same time makes you restore your health much faster. It sounds like a unattainable, but in fact some of the simplest science based fitness guidelines recommend an approach that does just this.
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 On the next two decades, fitness productivity will be the current mantra. Indubitably this will renew everyone&#8217;s lives, so what you need to do is to start becoming trained more about this quick home workout and how fitness can be obtained without exerting too much time and effort.
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 Do you know that 4 Hour Body can help you reclaim your health and fitness you? Learn more at the FitnessProductivity.com site.
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<p>Written by <a href="/people/tristendavison">tristendavison</a><br />Fitness Professional</p>
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