Improve Your Health Before You Get Sick
Many people look for ways to improve their health after they receive devastating news of a critical illness. The key to a healthy life is to improve your health before you get sick. Many people already participate in preventive medical procedures. They have tests taken, scans run and blood drawn to make sure they don’t have preliminary problems that could lead to a health crisis later. An annual physical is one of those procedures that helps find problems early. Real prevention starts by making lifestyle changes to help prevent serious conditions from ever occurring.
Obesity is one of the leading preventable causes of death and illness.
It used to be that cigarette smoking was the reason people passed before their time, but now, it seems the Twinkee and all the other junk foods have taken over that role. Excess weight and poor eating habits can lead to a number of serious conditions, such as high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes. It’s not just how much you eat, but what you eat that counts. Learning to eat healthier should be at the top of your list for changes to make immediately.
Healthier eating isn’t dieting.
Dieting doesn’t work. In fact, in some cases it can actually make it more difficult to lose weight. Extremely low calorie diets put your body into starvation mode, conserving calories and making weight loss more difficult. The worse problem with dieting, besides leaving you feeling deprived and hungry, is that diets always end and you go back to your old eating habits. Learning to eat healthier can help you prevent weight gain, insure weight loss and provide all the nutrients that your body needs to stay healthy.
Exercise not only builds strength and endurance, it also builds your immune system.
When you exercise, you stimulate the brain to create powerful antioxidants. If you’ve read much about antioxidants before you know they fight free radicals that can damage cells. This extra disease fighting power boosts your immune system and helps prevent serious conditions, which includes cancer and heart disease, but can also help you stave off minor illnesses too.
You’ll build endurance and strength with regular exercise, but also build flexibility. Flexibility increases your range of motion and adds to your functional fitness so you don’t injure yourself doing simple tasks.
Osteoporosis, thinning of the bones, can be prevented by doing weight bearing exercises on a regular basis. In fact, one study showed it slowed the process better than medications for it.
One study showed that a minute of exercise might increase your life by seven minutes or up to 14 for strenuous workouts. Of course, there’s a limit or everyone would live thousands of years.
Not only does regular exercise extend your life, it improves the quality of the years you gain.
Different Workouts For Different Body Types
It only makes sense to create different workouts for different body types. Each type of figure has its own set of special problems. You can classify body types in many ways, but the most common descriptors are ectomorph, mesomorph and endomorph. Someone with an ectomorph body type tends to have a thin build, with small joints and narrower hips. Think Audrey Hepburn and Whitney Houston when you think of this body type. The mesomorph build is wider at the shoulders and has a more muscular appearance with a narrower waist. These people have an athletic build. Madonna, Halley Berry and Jennifer Garner fit this style. People with the endomorph build tend to be thicker and have more difficulty losing weight. Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce are examples of fit endomorph.
A person with an ectomoph body type may seem like they have it easy, but that’s not necessarily so.
Those stick thin models may grace the pages of fashion magazines, but that doesn’t mean everyone with this body type appreciates the difficulty to gain weight, especially if that person is a man. It takes more to build muscle mass for this body type, so they have to work harder and often find additional strength training is helpful. Personal trainers are helpful in creating workouts that help build muscle tissue but refrain from burning extra calories.
The mesomorph body type person seems to build muscle by accident.
Whether a male or female, many people envy people with this body type. The mesomorph builds muscle tissue fast, but also adapt to the workout quickly. That adaptation means the muscle group becomes efficient at doing the exercise, cutting down the amount of calories necessary to do each one. That problem can be solved by creating a workout that’s varied frequently. A personal trainer will create a program that always keeps the workout fresh.
Just because it’s harder to lose weight, doesn’t mean endomorph body types don’t have benefits.
It may be harder for endomorphs to lose weight, but they definitely have curves and a lot of sex appeal. Exercises that help these people shed the extra pounds without losing muscle mass is important. While the endomorph will never look stick thin, that doesn’t mean they won’t look fantastic with the right type of workout.
Personal trainers not only consider the body type clients, he or she also look at other factors, such as level of fitness and overall lifestyle.
Getting nutritional help is important to achieving your personal goal. It’s not all about cutting calories, it’s about the type of food choices you make.
Just because an ectomorph has difficult gaining muscle tissue and a endomorph has trouble losing weight, it doesn’t mean they can’t. Trainers help you to be the best you that you can be, which in normally pretty terrific.
Looking great is only part of the reason to get the best help exercising. Feeling great and getting healthier is the primary reason. The improved appearance is just “calorie-free” gravy.
Reduce Your Risk Of Pain
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You can reduce your risk of pain when you workout by taking action before you start. Some people don’t even try to workout, because they’re plagued by so much pain. That’s unhealthy, but so is working out while you’re already in pain. Pain is the body’s way of reporting a problem. It’s as though the nervous system was the factory manager taking the message to the boss…the brain… that something needs to be done or the plant will close. You can get professional help to correct the issue so you won’t be laid up for weeks after a workout.
Consider Active Release Techniques to relieve your pain.
ART can help you. No that’s not the name of a man, but a technique. If you overuse your muscles it can cause small injuries, such as minor tears, called micro-trauma. When the body heals, it often forms scar tissue in these areas. As the scar tissue grows, it can pinch a nerve, tense the tendons and shorten or weaken the muscles making movement difficult and painful. It can cause a number of problems from shoulder pain to carpal tunnel, too. You don’t have to live with pain. ART often can help reduce and eliminate the problem.
Get chiropractic help.
One of the biggest benefits of using a chiropractor is not just the pain relief, but finding the cause of the pain. Chiropractic techniques include identifying the source of pain and the amount of damage, then recommending a plan of action. The plan might include ART or other alternative technique that provides relief without medication. Chiropractors also work closely with personal trainers to create recovery plans.
Get a massage before or after your workout.
If you’re already in pain, massage therapy can help reduce it and get you ready for exercise. You can also prepare the body and stimulate circulation with a massage before you hit the gym. However, you also will benefit from a gentle massage after a brutal workout. Finding the best type of massage, whether it’s Swedish, deep tissue or sports is often done with the help of a chiropractor.
Enjoy the benefits of a spa and the relaxation they can offer.
You don’t have to be in pain to avoid pain. If you’ve been injured working out in the past, consult a chiropractor to find ways to prevent it. Always tell your personal trainer about previous injuries as it might be due to muscle imbalances and helped with the right workout program.
A program of regular exercise might be just the trick to prevent back pain. Often weaker core muscles can be the culprit when it comes to back pain.
Be safe rather than sorry. Don’t suffer in silence, but seek out help. There are alternatives to medication, so even if another health care professional told you to “suck it up and live with the pain” that doesn’t mean you have to or should. It also doesn’t mean living half a life on pain medication.
Lean And Mean Meal Plan
You’ll learn how to create your own meal plan that will leave you feeling satisfied and happy, but still help you reach the weight goals you’ve set as you work with us to create a nutrition plan. Learning to make smarter decisions when it comes to food isn’t dieting. In fact, it’s nothing like dieting. Dieting requires that you stick to a strict eating regimen and often leaves you feeling deprived. Worse of all, diets always end and you go back to your old eating habits. That means you gain the weight back again.
Eating healthy doesn’t require you to starve.
Starving yourself is counterproductive. The body adapts and slows the metabolism, using even fewer calories. Eating healthy means making small changes, such as freezing a banana or two and throwing it into the blender as a substitution for ice cream. It’s creamy delicious and makes a great treat or dessert, but will fill you up, not out. When you’re planning a menu that includes a sandwich, use a wheat wrap to replace the bread.
Rejoice in the fresh splendid produce of summer.
Oh how I love fresh fruits and vegetables right out of the garden and crave those sumptuous tomatoes that don’t taste like cardboard. A delectable salad or snacks of fresh fruits and vegetables can add extra nutrition to your diet, while keeping the calorie count low. Buy fresh herbs for salads and add extra goodies, like berries and nuts. It’s delicious, filling and oh so good. If you notice those fresh veggies are close to the end of their shelf life, steam them for the next meal.
Start cooking differently.
You might be used to frying everything, but that’s not the way to lose weight. Once you start eating steamed, grilled and roasted foods, you’ll never go back to fried foods again. Rather than make the meat the highlight of the meal, find vegetable dishes that will have everyone asking for more. When you bake, use unsweetened applesauce to substitute for some of the oil or sugar in your baked goods.
Keep plenty of cut up fresh fruits and veggies in the refrigerator or other low calorie snacks. You’ll be amazed at just how refreshing an icy cold cube of watermelon is on a hot summer day. Whole watermelons tend to stay whole, since nobody wants the mess of cutting them. The same is true of cantaloupe.
Have plenty of bottled water ready in the refrigerator instead of sugary drinks. You don’t have to buy bottled water each time, simply sterilize and refill the bottles you’ve already finished. For a change of pace, make unsweetened ice tea.
So no to alcohol. It’s loaded with empty calories. It also tends to dehydrate you in the hot summer months.
Save calories when you eat a hardy breakfast. Add fresh berries to your pancake batter and smother them with fruit processed in the blender, rather than maple syrup. It’s extra healthy and super yummy.
Change Your Life
If you want to change your life, one simple way to start is with a program of fitness. While getting fit isn’t the answer to all problems, it can do so much for you when it comes to energy levels, health and improving your mental attitude that it’s a great place to start. If you’re under mountains of stress, a good workout is a great stress buster. Not only does it burn off the hormones created by stress, it replaces them with ones that make you fell good.
You’ll be building confidence as you become fitter.
The stronger you are physically, the more confidence you’ll develop. That’s one of the huge benefits of working out. You’re not only working toward a goal, but you’ll be seeing the results rather quickly, which helps you build the confidence to work toward other goals or stay on track with your fitness goals. Success breeds success and when you accomplish a fitness goal, you’ll develop more confidence to work on other areas. One study shows that when people start a workout program, they have a better self-image, even before they see results.
You’ll have more energy.
Having enough energy to make changes in your life can be a huge problem. That’s where becoming fitter can be a huge benefit. It’s so amazing, but the more energy you expend in exercise, the more energy you develop. You won’t notice the upswing immediately, but within a few weeks, you’ll start noticing how much easier it is to do everything and just how much more endurance you have.
You’ll think clearer.
Not only does exercise burn off the brain fog created by stress, it also helps you think better. It triggers the brain to create more cells and improves the neural pathways. You can listen to music while you workout to improve it even more. Regular exercise not only increases the blood flow to the brain, it improves cognitive thinking. Some studies show it helps prevent dementia and may be an aid to slow Alzheimer’s. It restores youthful levels of BDNF in the brain that can diminish with age. BDNF encourages brain plasticity and protects the neurons from injury. Clearer thinking is an important key to change.
You’ll feel fantastic after a workout because of the happy hormones it stimulates. Feeling good can help give you the lift you need to change your life.
You’ll love how you look and that makes you more confident.
You’ll sleep better at night after you workout. A good night’s sleep can give you the extra energy and clear mind to take charge of your life.
You’ll have better posture and more presence after just a few weeks of working out. People recognize that. More presence often leads to more respect.
Boost Your Spirit
When you workout on a regular basis you’ll not just be helping your body to be stronger and leaner, you’ll be giving helping your peace of mind in the process. You’ll boost your spirit with each movement as you burn off the hormones of stress and start feeling fit again. You’re never too out of shape or too old to start a program of regular exercise, especially if you work with a personal trainer. First check with your health care professional to insure you don’t have any limitations or if you do, make sure you tell the trainer what they are.
Get help with limiting pain and start a workout program.
If you have back pain or other chronic pain, massage or chiropractic help can get you back on the right course of exercise, so you can build those muscles and eliminate the problem forever. Pain not only drains you of energy, it also drains your spirit and makes life miserable. There’s no need to continue to suffer. Not only will you build your muscles, you’ll be building a whole new life of joy.
Excess weight can weigh heavily on your spirit.
Carrying too much weight can wear you out. If you’re even five pounds overweight, imagine how tired you’d be carrying a five pound weight all day. For those even more overweight, the feeling is magnified and even worse. Not only do excess pounds make you tired from the extra burden you carry, they also leave you feeling self-conscious. Society has taught us to feel ashamed of being overweight, which is another burden to carry. Eliminate it from your thoughts and start working out for “you” not for others. You’ll soon release the person that you were meant to be.
Eat a healthier diet.
You are what you eat. If you’re entire diet is junk food, you can’t expect your body to be healthy. It doesn’t have the right type of fuel. Eating a healthy diet isn’t dieting, but making wiser choices when it comes to food. There are so many delicious healthy foods, you’ll never go back to your old way of eating. You’ll also be amazed how easily weight comes off and doesn’t return.
Feel strong by being stronger. Whether you’re a man or woman, the feeling of strength is empowering. You don’t have to build big muscles to develop it either.
Have more endurance to enjoy everything life has to offer. Whether it’s taking a hike in nature or swimming at the local beach, becoming fitter means you’ll have the energy to enjoy it.
Walk taller. You’ll improve your posture and walk taller when you’re fit. Not only does that give you confidence, it improves your presence and makes others respect you more.
Get a burst of “happy hormones” from your workout. Exercising stimulates the brain to create hormones that make you feel good. In fact, some doctors recommend it as part of the treatment for depression.
Wear the right clothing for summer workouts. Lightweight clothing in lighter colors can help prevent the heat from overtaking you in the summer. Dress appropriately for exercising in the warm weather.
Buy something new or find clothes you already have that are a bit too tight. Use those as your guide to check your progress on your exercise program. When they fit well or become too loose, you’re making great progress.
Have fun while you exercise. While there are serious benefits for your body, you don’t have to be serious and somber while doing it. Make it fun and you’ll look forward to each session.
The key to any fitness program is determination and dedication. Stick to your program and you’ll see dramatic results that will keep you on the road to fitness.
Get Rid Of Cellulite
In order to get rid of cellulite, you need to first understand what it is. Everyone has the potential for cellulite because everyone has both fat cells and connective tissue. The strands of the connective tissue compartmentalize the fat, connecting it to the skin. In women, these fibers are in a honeycomb pattern, but in men, they form a criss-cross one. That criss-cross pattern prevents the skin from bulging and dimpling, unlike the honeycombed one that encourages it. The more fat you gain, the thinner your skin and the thicker the strands of connective tissue—which occurs with aging—the more prominent the dimpling and lumps become.
The right type of exercise program can help you reduce their visibility.
While you may never get rid of all cellulite, since it’s part of the body’s natural makeup, you will make it less visible and keep it in check with the right exercise program. Eliminating fat from the areas that are prone to the cellulite is the first step to having cottage cheese free thighs and a pucker free butt. Fat is softer than muscle tissue and takes more space per pound, working your body from all angles and insuring you use all the muscles in the area of cellulite can help reduce the fat and make the cellulite far less visible.
Eating right not only melts away fat, it reduces the visibility of the cellulite.
Eating fruits and vegetables can help you eliminate cellulite, but a tray of loaded fries certainly won’t. In fact, they may make it more noticeable. The healthier you eat, the more fat you’ll burn and some of it will be the lumpy, bumpy cellulite on your body. Eating healthier doesn’t necessarily mean following a strict diet, but definitely means making wiser choices when it comes to food. Sometimes small changes can lead to huge rewards, such as substituting Greek yogurt for sour cream or opting for an open face sandwich rather than one with two slices of bread. Both are minor changes but both save extra calories.
Massage can help eliminate cellulite.
You’ll stimulate the circulation just beneath the surface of the skin, where the cellulite lurks, with massage therapy and dry bristle skin brushing. It promotes circulation and helps release trapped toxins. It can also help break down the fat deposits to make them easier to eliminate, while providing a wonderful relaxing experience.
Getting plenty of fluid is a big aid in flushing out cellulite.
Adequate sleep is also important when you want smooth thighs and a the buttocks you’ve dreamed of having without all the lumps.
Some people are more predisposed to cellulite, so it’s harder for them to eliminate, but not impossible to see a great deal of improvement.
Using skin nourishing creams on the area with the cellulite can help build the thickness of skin, making cellulite less visible.
Avoid Illness
When you start on the road to fitness, you may hope to lose weight, look better and feel fantastic, but it’s also a way to avoid illness. The word disease can be broken down to “dis,” which means not and “ease” meaning at ease or the absence of difficulty. If you find everyday activities cause difficulty breathing and exhaustion, you definitely fit that description. You don’t have to continue feeling bad when there’s a way that will help you get healthier and stay healthier, while also slimming and toning your body, making you stronger and helping you lose weight.
A healthy diet adds to the body’s fitness.
You wouldn’t expect any machine to work properly if you don’t use the right fuel. The body is a magnificent machine, but just as any other machine, feeding it the wrong type of fuel can cause it to break down before it too quickly. You don’t have to diet to lose weight or eat healthier. All you have to do is make wiser food choices. Have a healthy snack of fresh fruit ready for those hunger pangs mid-day rather than turning toward chips or candy bars. Eat more fruits and vegetables and pass on processed foods. Those are things most people know, but did you know that wild rice or brown rice is healthier and lower in calories than white rice?
Working out on a regular basis can provide huge health benefits.
Studies show that not only does working out help prevent heart disease and diabetes, it also can prevent other serious conditions or slow their progress, such as osteoporosis, cancer and Alzheimer’s. It’s never too late to start a program of regular exercise no matter how out of shape you are. Make sure you always check with your health care provider first and then use the services of a personal trainer if you haven’t worked out before or have a health condition that requires extra attention, although to maximize results everyone can benefit from the help of a trainer.
You don’t have to suffer through a workout or allow pain to prevent you from exercising.
There are many alternative methods that control pain, without popping a pain pill that can leave you groggy and mask the pain. Finding the problem causing the pain has never been a strength for traditional doctors. However, chiropractic medicine, Oriental medicine, acupuncture and other alternative treatments do address the cause and help eliminate the problem permanently so you can workout with ease and comfort.
Avoiding illness means getting adequate sleep. Studies show people who don’t get enough sleep are at a higher risk for heart disease. Exercise helps you sleep better.
Learning the right way to do each exercise can help you avoid injury and maximize the benefits of the exercise. Personal trainers not only show you the proper techniques they watch to insure you do them correctly.
Obesity is now the leading cause of preventable illness and death. When you eat healthier and exercise regularly, you’ll never have a problem with obesity.
Stress is also a leading cause of illness. Working out is one of the best stress busters available.
Being Healthy Is The Absence Of Dis-Ease
Being healthy Is the absence of “Dis-Ease.” That is a logical statement that may lead you to question why the odd spelling of disease and why the quotes. Disease is composed of two parts. The prefix, dis, means not. The root word is ease meaning soothing or free from pain. If you’re in a state of disease, you’re not in a soothing or free from pain or illness state. Recently health care providers have found that keeping the body at its functioning best is the logical way to prevent illness. Anyone can understand that it’s far better to stay healthy than try to recover from an illness.
A healthy diet is the start of a healthy lifestyle.
In order to keep your body properly performing, you have to give it the fuel it requires. Not only does it take adequate vitamins and nutrients, it also requires other substances, such as phytonutrients found in plants. These nutrients are often neglected unless you eat a diet rich in colorful vegetables and fruit. Eating whole foods, foods that aren’t heavily processed, helps you too. Obesity is one of the leading causes of preventable illness and a healthy diet can help you lose weight and avoid that pitfall.
Regular exercise keeps everything moving.
Regular exercise can do so much for your body, from stimulating the immune system to keeping arteries clear. It increases circulation that sends oxygen and nutrient rich blood to every part of your body to help build cells and remove toxins in the process. Studies show that regular exercise can even help prevent serious conditions such as osteoporosis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
Misalignment, tight muscles and blocked lymphatic flow take their toll on the body.
If there’s a kink in a hose, the water won’t flow. Your body is a wonderful mass of circulating fluids that keep it moving with ease. If you’re misaligned, you won’t be at your healthiest. It can effect blood and lymphatic fluid movement, nerve functioning and even movement to create an uncomfortable, unhealthy body. Chiropractic care can help elevate this problem if it’s caused by subluxation. Massage therapy can loosen tight muscles and stimulate circulation for a healthier you.
Getting adequate sleep is an important part of good health. Studies show that lack of sleep can contribute to heart disease.
You won’t sleep well or even feel like exercising if your muscles ache or you have nerve pain shooting through your body. This is another reason massage and chiropractic help keeps you healthier.
A healthy lifestyle not only includes being physically healthy, it also includes good emotional health. Regular exercise helps burn off hormones created by stress and stimulates those that make you feel good.
Taking a few minutes for a quiet time alone each day will help you clear your mind and keep you healthier.
Stay Healthy
Rather than treating each ailment or serious condition as it arises, it’s better to stay healthy in the first place. While it may save money, pain, time and improve the quality of your life, it’s not always the easiest for busy people. Creating a plan to keep you body healthy takes a bit of time, but it can be the most important time you’ve ever spent that will affect your health for years to come.
Improve your diet.
You may already be eating healthy, but most people aren’t. Even if you eat a low calorie, high nutrient and fiber diet, there’s probably something you can improve. The road to healthy eating involves eating whole foods or foods as close to unprocessed as possible. Whole foods have more nutrients because they aren’t destroyed by processing. They also don’t contain chemicals many of the processed foods contain. Try to eat as many organic foods as possible. Some studies show that pesticides used in non-organic farming may end up in the fruit or vegetable and you end up consuming it.
Exercise regularly.
In addition to changing your eating pattern, regular exercise can be one addition to your daily life that makes a huge difference in whether you’re healthy or not and the quality of life you have. Exercise builds the immune system, increases circulation, builds the heart muscles, clears plaque improves all bodily functions, including elimination and breathing. It reduces the risk of serious diseases and makes them more controllable if you already have a serious condition.
Drink more water.
If you have a source of clean healthy water, drink it liberally. Many cities treat their water, which creates some concerns among purists, who may be right to be concerned. Drinking eight glasses of clear pure water each day can help flush the toxins out of the body and prevent dehydration. Replenishing your body with water each day is important.
Get plenty of sleep. Studies now show that lack of sleep can affect your overall health, particularly your heart health.
Do all types of exercises. While lifting weights can help prevent osteoporosis, you still need endurance training for your heart and flexibility training to increase range of motion and prevent injury.
Quit bad habits. In this case, its referring to overindulgence in alcohol, smoking and drugs. While a small amount of wine may improve your health, guzzling shot after shot of hard alcohol does quite the opposite.
Keep a good attitude toward life. Staying happy actually keeps you healthier. Exercise can eliminate stress and stimulate the body to create hormones that make you feel good.