What should you do when you want to lose weight, but don’t have the time to go to the gym? Some people panic, and try a futile attempt at dieting by skipping breakfast. Unfortunately, that does not work. Reader’s Digest points out, “The more you eat early in the day, the less you eat throughout [...]
Weightloss, it’s all about the numbers. Let’s get mathematic and calculate all the calories you need daily, and how much calories you need to get rid off to get to your ideal weight. Number 1: how many calories do you need? Get your weight in pounds. (1kg = 2.2 pounds) For our example, we’ll [...]
Stretch marks are caused by rapid fluctuations in weight, through dieting or as a result of weight gain during pregnancy, for example. There is almost nothing you can do to avoid them in pregnancy as much depends on your hormones, although controlling your weight gain will help. Keeping your skin firm and elastic with body [...]
Back pain is more than a convenient excuse to skip bocci-ball practice; it actually sends 14 million people to the doctor every year. Start your diagnosis here: 1. Is the pain shooting from the center of your back out to one side? This is probably a muscle spasm. Any movement—bending wrong or sleeping in an [...]
Forget faddy diets. Instead switch to a balanced eating plan to maintain your ideal weight. It is an established fact that the great majority of diets claiming to make you lose weight don’t work. When you diet, your body automatically adjusts to the reduction in calories, slowing down the metabolism and therefore burning calories less [...]
To move, our muscles use glycogen as fuel. This substance is being converted into energy. When there isn’t enough glycogen present, it will cause exhaustion. The first symptoms of exhaustion are lack of energy, lack of response and a feeling of soreness. When you over exert yourself excessively or on a longterm period of time, [...]
Unless an unemployed XFL cheerleader asks for a spot, we hate interruptions in the gym. But pausing at different points while you’re lowering a weight (it’s called negative interruption) can make you stronger. The pauses keep your muscles under continuous tension longer and increase the load at various points in the range of motion, [...]
A post-workout cool-down can be like great sex after your mate makes you sit through an opera. You remember the fantastic finish, not the tedium that led to it. A researcher at Springfield College in Massachusetts put students through two stationary-bike workouts:15 minutes with no cooldown, and 15 minutes plus a 5-minute cooldown. Most [...]
You’ve probably heard it before (usually from that fat guy who is trying to get out of his new year’s resolution to lose weight) : cycling is bad for your manlihood. “Literally, because it can damage the litle soldier and his two sidekicks”. So how much of it is true? If you ride less than [...]