Can’t Lose Weight and Lost Interest?
November 6, 2009 · 1 Comment
To lose weight is not easy and there are some valid reasons why most people, lost interest in their diets. Most of the reasons can be found in, why most of us went on the diets in the first place. It is never a bad idea to lose extra weight to look better and feel healthier. Read more
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Build A Better Body With Cardio Kickboxing
November 4, 2009 · 1 Comment
If you’ve admired those well-toned celebrity bodies gracing the red carpet, you may be seeing the results of cardio kickboxing. Carmen Electra, Pamela Anderson, Magic Johnson and Shaqille O’Neal are among millions of people around the world who are hooked on cardio kickboxing. The hugely popular Tae Bo exercise routines are among the many forms of this type of intense workout.
If you’ve seen a cardio kickboxing session, you’ve probably been left thinking that such intensity could only result in pain, injury, exhaustion and a bucketful of sweat. You could be right. If you can endure the ache and exhaustion, however, you will see incredible body-chiseling results.
Cardio kickboxing combines the powerful benefits of aerobic exercise with boxing and martial arts movements. The dance-like grace and high energy of an aerobics class is blended with the thrill of martial arts and the tough-as-nails action of boxing. The result is a fun and beneficial form of exercise. Cardio kickboxing tones and strengthens the muscles, but that’s not all; it can also sharpen your reflexes while increasing balance, speed, flexibility and coordination.
Cardio kickboxing is also an excellent stress reliever. When you feel that the weight of the world is on your shoulders or you just can’t take the pressures of your professional or family life, take some time out and kick your life up a notch. You deserve to take a healthy break, and cardio kickboxing is a fun alternative to your regular boring exercise routines.
Cardio kickboxing is hard work, but it will pay off. In just one hour you can burn up to 1,000 calories. If you constantly hold in your bulging tummy and cover up your saggy arms and dimpled thighs, you’d be surprised at how quickly cardio kickboxing can help you burn through that fat.
While there are countless benefits to a cardio kickboxing workout, there are also some downfalls to consider. The most important negative to keep in mind is the serious possibility of injury. You need to know how to complete the moves, and you must be careful to protect yourself from possible injuries. In order to get the greatest benefits, and avoid the potential dangers or cardio kickboxing, be sure to discuss the exercise program with your doctor or health practitioner. This is especially important if you suffer from health problems, or have undergone orthopedic surgery.
Once your doctor has given you the go-ahead, it’s time to find a qualified cardio kickboxing instructor. Be sure that your instructor has certification through a qualified fitness organization. When you and your instructor are ready to being, start exercising at least three times a week, or as advised by your exercise team.
Attitude is everything when taking on any new challenge. Be prepared to succeed, but don’t set yourself up for disappointment. You’re not going to walk out of your first class with a butt like Carmen Electra, or kicking butt like Jackie Chan. Success will take time and effort, but you will achieve it.
Cardio kickboxing is more than exercise; it’s also dedication, motivation, commitment and seriously hard work. Not one other single form of exercise or martial arts delivers the same kick-ass benefits that you can achieve through cardio kickboxing. You’ll beat stress, lose fat, shape your body, tone your muscles, burn through calories, regulate your heart, bust out of monotony and gain the skills and confidence you need to defend yourself. Wow, cardio kickboxing is one serious package. No wonder the world’s hottest celebrities and most powerful athletes name cardio kickboxing as their exercise of choice.
Don’t shy away from the hard work. Embrace the power, focus on the results and try cardio kickboxing. It can feel great when you sweat by the bucket, because you’re seeing your body change and feeling your muscles grow. Try it. Stretch and jump. Box a little harder and kick a little higher. Cardio kickboxing gives you the confidence, health and energy you need to bring out your hidden dynamo.
About the Author:
Contributor Mabel Dugmore is an essayist for several popular Internet magazines, on healthy lifestyle and postpartum doula topics.
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The Birth of Aikido
November 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The name ‘Aikido’ is created by the permutation of three characters in the Japanese language. ‘Ai’, which means ‘joining’; ‘ki’, which means ’spirit’ and ‘do’, which signifies ‘way’. These three characters really sum up the essence of Aikido as a type of martial art: ‘the joining of the spirit to find the way’. It was only in the period from 1930’s to the 1940’s that the name Aikido was formally accepted as the name of this martial art variety.
Aikido employs methods that do not fatally harm or kill not like different types of martial art. The techniques and skills being taught are simply meant to distract attention or immobilize people. This is perhaps the explanation why most people prefer Aikido, because of its focus on peace and tranquility as opposed to violence and hostility. In deed, Aikido instructor, Morihei Ueshiba, believes that to be in command of aggression without causing any harm is the art of peace.
Ueshiba, who is also called Osensei, which signifies ‘Great Teacher’, developed Aikido from the principles of Daito-ryu aiki-jujutsu. He integrated the ways of the ‘yari’, the spear; the ‘juken’, the bayonet; and the ‘jo’, which is a short quarterstaff. But what finally distinguishes Aikido from other kinds of martial art is the fact that its practitioners can strike while empty-handed. Proponents need no weaponry for their protection.
As a young child, he was much into physical fitness and conditioning. This was because of his promise to avenge his father’s attackers. In due course, his studies and actions led him to the discipline of the various martial arts. He studied a few of them. He even has qualifications for fencing, fighting with spears, etc. He has learned it all. This is perhaps the explanation why Aikido is such a disparate and multi-disciplinary type of martial art.
Yet despite his knowledge, he remained discontented. He felt that there was still something lacking. It was then that he turned to the religions. He studied under a religious guide, Onisaburo Deguchi of the sect named Omoto-kyo in Ayabe. Deguchi trained him to take care of his psychic development. He then pooled his spiritual beliefs and his mastery of the different martial arts and Aikido was formed.
His relationship with this fascinating spiritual leader Deguchi also paved the path for his introduction to the elite political and military personnel as a martial artist. Because of this association, he was able to launch Aikido and even pass on his knowledge to students, who have, in turn, developed their own methods and movement in Aikido.
Aikido is a blend of the different styles of jujitsu as well as some of the techniques of sword and spear fighting, of which Ueshiba was an expert. To obtain an general picture, Aikido combines the joint locks and throws of jujitsu and the techniques of the body necessary when fighting with swords and spears.
Oriental in origin, it was brought to the West by Minoru Mochizuki when he visited France in 1951. He introduced the Aikido techniques to students who were studying judo. In 1952, Tadashi Abe came to France as the official Aikikai Honbu spokesperson. Then in 1953, Kenji Tomiki toured throughout the United States while Koichi Tohei stayed in Hawaii for a full year where he set up a dojo. Aikido then spread its influence in the United Kingdom two years after and in 1965, it reached Germany and Australia. At present, Aikido has centres all over the world.
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Making Exercising More Fun
October 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Nothing beats waking up in the morning with the thought of going to the gym to lift weights or jog on the treadmill. After a hard days work, the gym is one place you don’t even want to think about. Sometimes, even the thought of exercising at home with your own equipment can be less than desirable.
Sometimes, just trying to get and stay motivated to exercise on a regular basis can be a challenge. No matter how you look at it, exercise can be downright boring and even tedious at times.
So, you may be wondering just how you can get the motivation you need to exercise on a regular basis. If you’ve been wondering what you can do to make exercise more fun, you’ll find some ideas below that just may help to make exercise more fun and a little
bit easier.
First things first, you should exercise with a friend. You can challenge each other, help each other out, keep each other motivated and on track, make each other laugh or just make a game out of your exercise programs.
You can also try something different. If you go to the gym each and every day and use the same piece of equipment or use the same piece of equipment at home, you should try mixing things up. Reverse your routine or just change the order of your exercises.
Go to a city park that has playground equipment and use the slide, climb on the monkey bars, do pull-ups, hang from your knees, just let your imagination guide you. You don’t always need to follow a strict routine, just get out there and have fun working
your muscles.
An outdoor circuit in the park is also something you can try. There are some parks that have circuit courses set up with a planned course where all you have to do is walk or jog to each station and then follow the instructions. If there isn’t a planned course, then you should do a combination of jogging and walking, picking a distance of a couple hundred feet. Jog 100 feet then drop and do a couple of push-ups, walk the next 100 feet and then drop to do sit ups.
You can also ride a bike around your neighbourhood or hike on a hiking trail. A walk in the park or around your neighbourhood is also a great way to get some exercise. Doing yoga in the park or on a beach is also a nice and relaxing way to exercise both your body and your mind.
Playing a competitive sport is also something you can try. A lot of cities have team activities such as softball, volleyball, tennis, soccer, and so on. These types of activities will not only provide you with good exercise but they will also help you to meet new people as well.
When you exercise, try to picture your muscles getting bigger. Research has shown that if you focus all of your thoughts on the muscles that you are working, they will respond better. Try to watch them work with each repetition as your muscles contract and relax.
As you can tell, there are plenty of ways you can make exercise more fun and interesting. You don’t need to follow the same routine day after day, as you can do many other things to get in some exercise.
The important thing is that you should always try to incorporate exercise in any various form into your everyday life and make these habits the kind of habits that will last a lifetime.
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Benefits of Fitness Videos
September 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The fitness video has grown in popularity right alongside the workout scene and the rise of the VCR. As more and more people hit the gym and more and more people purchased VCRs, there came a realization of the availability in the marketplace for instructional videos that would allow those who were interested in working out at home the opportunity to do so.
Today, the fitness video is most often purchased in DVD format and the market is flooded with different varieties of videos meant to appeal to people of all fitness levels and with many different interests. Each year sees another crop of videos – each heralding the coming of another fitness craze.
No matter what you choose to do as an exercise program, there is a fitness video for you. You can choose cardiovascular exercise such as step classes, dance workouts – including jazz, ballet, hip-hop, belly dancing, and even strip aerobics; kickboxing; and boot camp. For weight training you will find a bevy of instructional videos meant to walk you through effective weightlifting that will speed results and prevent injury. And the ever-growing popularity of yoga and Pilates has spawned a whole new style of fitness video designed to instruct viewers and make them feel as though they are getting one-on-one training. [Continuing Reading This Story Here]
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Strengthen Muscles for better Mobility
September 3, 2009 · 2 Comments
Strengthening your muscles by exercising regularly, will give you more mobility both now and in later life. In the last exercise we looked at the hip rotation, this time we’re going to try the gliding and gracious wave exercise.
The wave exercise will strengthen muscles, especially the front and inner, uppermost legs, tummy, buttock mounds and calves as well as stretches the back.
Exercise method:
- Kneel on a soft cushion, exercise mat or thick towel, that’s large enough to protect your legs from the knees down to your feet.
- Place your knees approximately 40 centimetres apart and stretch your arms up over your head.
- Once your arms are stretched above your head, clasp your hands together and try to stretch your torso and neck, as though you’re trying to make your body longer. Stretch until you feel it in your lower back.
- Keep on stretching while you at the same time lower your behind approximately 10 centimetres.
- Squeeze then your buttock muscles and swing your pelvis slowly upward, at the same time swing your arms forward a little.
- Hold this position while you count to three.
- Using the strength in your upper legs, slowly go back up to the starting position, while you still have your pelvis in the upward position.
- Try to keep stretching your back while doing this powerful wave exercise.
Repeat this exercise twice a day for five days and gradually increase.
This exercise is generally suitable for people of all ages however, as always if you are in doubt as to whether these exercises are suitable for you, please consult your doctor.
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