To reap all the great benefits of fiber, you should get about 30 grams a day. You can eat vegetables and fruits that are naturally high in fiber, or look for with fiber-fortified foods like yogurt. Some people even take fiber supplements such as Fiber Choice. What's your strategy?
Brides-to-be are always looking to tone up. From my experience they want to work their arms and abs to look stunning for their big day. Here is a great video workout from the folks at ExerciseTV designed for brides. It combines arm work, ab work and easy to do at home cardio moves.
Even if you are not walking down the aisle this summer, these workout suggestions are great for getting you beach ready as well.
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June marks the start of Summer, which means your workouts may be heating up. I don't know about you but I love exercising in the Summer. Something about getting extra sweaty makes me feel like I'm really getting in a good workout. Keep motivated this June with the help of my must haves.
Being physically active means sometimes accidentally hurting yourself. Forbes has ranked the top ten hazardous sports, based solely on the number of injuries reported from emergency rooms in 2006. Take this quiz and see which sports you might want to avoid if you are trying to stay in one piece.
Helpful tip: the numbers used in the ranking do not take into account the varying participation rate of the sports, so the more people playing the sport the higher the number of injuries. So, yes, this might also seem like a popularity contest.
If you have a bike then you are probably already enjoying taking it out for long rides on the weekend. We tend to stick to the same route and it can get a little boring. The problem is that you don't want to end up 20 miles from your home only to realize that you've got to ride 20 miles back.
Bicycling.com has thousands of routes that will solve the problem. All you have to do is enter your location and it will bring up a list of possible routes for you to chose from, complete with distance, elevation, and calories burned if you maintain a certain speed. I looked it up for my town and discovered some great routes that I would have never been able to figure out on my own. I plan on trying one soon.
When teaching Pilates, I have been accused of sounding like a drill sergeant. That's what happens when you harp on people's posture day in and day out. Good posture is important for both looking and feeling your best. A frequently repeated "fact" is that standing up straight can make you look ten pounds lighter. Slumping adds not only odd stresses to the spine but can make a body appear heavier, not to mention shorter.
More than just looking long and lean, having good posture is important for the health of your bones and joints. Proper alignment decreases undue wear and tear on the soft tissues, ligaments and cartilage that surround and protect your joints, especially your spine. Plus, if you are slouching you are smooshing (yep, that is the technical term) all your internal organs. It is bad for digestion; your stomach and intestines need plenty of space.
Finding perfect posture is easy. First you want to think of balancing the bones on top of one another like a column starting with your feet on the floor, ending with your skull. I have a posture checklist for you, so read more
This Sunday night, take some time to go over your schedule for the upcoming week and plan some exercise time. It's easy to make the excuse that you just don't have time to work out, so make it a priority before anything else comes up. Take out your daily planner, or you can print out this free downloadable fitness journal, and write down the days you're going to the gym or to your Pilates class. Jot down what afternoons you're planning to walk with your girlfriend at lunch, or when you're going to do a Kung Fu Kickboxing DVD in your living room. If you write it down, you're more likely to stick to it and won't let an appointment, errand, or meeting get in the way.
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