Hello Everyone, today’s article is a guest post from Matthew Rowe at MotivatePT who offer in-home personal training to help people lose weight and improve their health. ----- With studies showing that over 75% of us exercise specifically to lose weight, it seems like a fair question to ask. So what exactly is the best exercise for fat loss? It would be great if there was a simple answer - one single exercise, a holy grail of weight loss. Perhaps 100 sit-ups a day and we will melt away all that unwanted fat. But in actuality there is no single best exercise for burning body fat. Instead … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2013
Fitness Tip Of The Day – Cut Down On Sugar
Foods made with refined sugar often contain lots of calories and very few vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients and if you're eating them on a regular basis, they can be very damaging to your health and fitness goals. The good news is that by using natural ingredients such as fruits, nuts and seeds, you can create your own healthy sweet treats which are packed full of nutrients and contain a lot less sugar but still taste great. The links below provide you with plenty of healthy sweet treat ideas and recipes. So if you want to cut your sugar intake without giving up on desserts and sweet … [Read more...]
Fitness Tip Of The Day – Get A Personal Trainer
A personal trainer can be a fantastic investment and help take your health and fitness to the next level. However, to ensure that you get the best personal trainer for you, there are a few things you need to do before making your final decision. First, make sure you meet with a variety of personal trainers, so you can get an idea of what they're like and whether you could work with them. Second, ask to watch your preferred personal trainers with clients to see if you'd enjoy their style of training. Finally, ask them how they can help you achieve your health and fitness goals. Once you've … [Read more...]
Top 5 Calorie Burning Team Sports
One of the best things about fitness training is that it's very flexible and there are countless ways you can achieve your fitness goals. Today I'm going to be looking at one alternative fitness boosting method that many people fail to consider - team sports. Not only are team sports a great way to burn through calories and lose weight but they also boost your cardiovascular fitness and strengthen your muscles. Additionally, the competitive and social elements of team sports make them a great choice if you don't like working out alone. Finally, the fact many team sports are played outdoors, … [Read more...]
Fitness Tip Of The Day – Try Fasting
Fasting is not only a great way to enhance your weight loss efforts but it also boosts your health in many other ways. It cleanses your vital organs, enhances your energy levels, gives you enhanced mental clarity and much more. To start fasting, try skipping lunch one day a week and doing a midday fast. Once you've done this for a few weeks, extend the fast by skipping lunch and dinner. Finally, once you're used to skipping lunch and dinner, extend it into a full 24 hour fast and try going one day a week without eating any food. By gradually building up to a full 24 hour fast in this way, … [Read more...]
Fitness Tip Of The Day – Set Realistic Fitness Goals
The best fitness goals are both challenging and realistic. Fortunately, striking the balance between challenge and realism is simple if you put your mind to it. To begin, accept that improving your health and fitness is a long term process and that you won't get instant results overnight. Once you've accepted this, break your overall fitness goals down into smaller, realistic steps. Finally, write down these smaller, realistic steps down, start taking action and track your progress as you move towards them. The further reading section below provides you with plenty of advice on setting … [Read more...]
Fitness Tip Of The Day – Develop A Motivational Ritual
Developing a daily motivational ritual is a great way to put you in the right frame of mind to succeed on your fitness journey and prevent setbacks from getting you down. The best part is that developing a motivational ritual is simple and practising it takes just a few minutes each day. To create your motivational ritual, choose something that gets you motivated, fired up and full of positivity. This can be a motivational quote, an inspirational scene from a movie or a song that fills you with energy. Then set aside 5 minutes each day and use that time to focus fully on your motivational … [Read more...]
9 Effective Ways To Rest & Relax
In my last post I discussed the many benefits of rest and relaxation. However, even though it's highly beneficial, rest and relaxation is still something a lot of people neglect when trying to lead a fit and healthy lifestyle. As a result, they end up feeling tired, run down and mentally drained which has a negative effect on their health and fitness goals. That's why today I'm going to help you ensure that rest and relaxation is part of your routine by providing you with 9 Effective Ways To Rest & Relax. Once you’ve had a read of this infographic, please Like, +1, Pin and Tweet it by … [Read more...]
Fitness Tip Of The Day – Control Your Portion Sizes
Eating healthy is a two stage process. First. you need to ensure that you're eating mostly natural, nutrient rich foods and avoiding processed, calorie rich foods. Then you need to ensure that you're not eating too much and that your portions are just the right size to satisfy your appetite. The good news is that learning proper portion control is a simple skill that quickly becomes habit once you start to practice it. The links below give you lots of extra tips on controlling your portion sizes and improving your diet in general. So if you want to start cutting the total amount of calories … [Read more...]
Fitness Tip Of The Day – Don’t Over Train
Over training is a common mistake amongst people who want to improve their health and fitness. They believe that training hard is what results in success and taking time off from training has the opposite effect. However, training is a two step process and making time for rest and recovery is just as important as making time to train. To avoid over training, make sure you give each body part a minimum of three days rest between sessions. For example, if you train your chest on a Monday, make sure you don't train it again till Thursday at the earliest. In addition to this, make sure you take … [Read more...]