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Friday, July 5, 2013

How sport reflects to sleep

Benjamin Franklin said that an early going to bed and the early rising, Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. It is known that good sleep is essential to overall well-being of each of us. However, some people have trouble sleeping. Fortunately known is completely healthy and even beneficial way by which you can forget about all the problems with sleep.
 

A recent study indicates that the presence of more exercise, can affect the manner in which a person is sleeping at night. Not all workloads, however, are recorded in the same manner to the body. Some of them can cause a person to sleep less than six hours or more than nine hours. In both cases are observed extremes, which can cause health problems, including cancer and heart disease.

You may already be wondering how reflects on your body your favorite workout and how does physical activity in general. To get the answers, read the following facts:

1. Vigorous workouts provide the best sleep. Regular exercise not only ensure less weight and more impressive figure, but the best sleep. An American study has shown that people who do not engage in any physical exercise can also reap benefits of the exercises. It is enough to train at least 10 minutes a day to further increase the quality of your sleep.


2. Exercise can ease the restless leg syndrome. Regular physical activity reduces the risk of restless legs syndrome. Study in 2006 did show that a 12-week exercise program can alleviate the already advanced state. However, do not overdo it with the load because too intense activity can actually get worse symptoms.

3. Morning workouts reflect better to sleep
. Many people have trouble waking up early, but already have good reason not to repeatedly postpone its alarm. Research indicates that morning exercise can result in less distortion in the middle of the night. If you have a habit of waking up at night, try to solve the problem with doing exercises before lunch.


4. Training sessions can prevent sleep apnea. U.S. study shows that people who aren't training are more at risk from sleep apnea than those who perform exercise. Frightening statistics show that 44% of people who do not train are moderate risk of disease. Percentage of those who train, fell to 19.

You may have heard that the the late exercise may prevent you from falling asleep. Time to break this myth and to say that this is one of the commonest misconceptions. Training late night drive blood and can actually make you feel more energetic and refreshed. According to researchers, the late workout does not actually interfere with sleep. The truth is that most people do not train intensively enough and long enough to feel the positive effects on sleep. Experts still advise people suffering from insomnia, to train at least two hours before bedtime.

How to build muscle mass?

Many fitness enthusiasts rely on intake of more carbohydrates when they want to rise muscle mass. If you also want to increase your muscle mass need total caloric intake is more than the calories you expend. Maybe the easiest thing is to increase the intake of carbohydrates, but this could be a mistake. 

When you take large amounts of carbohydrates, perhaps they will really help to raise your weight, yet the majority of it will be body fat and water. Carbohydrates increase insulin release - the pancreas hormone that stores calorie more in the form of body fat stores. Carbohydrates carry water, so they can easily make you look soft and puffy. Likely to become a few pounds heavier, but it will be muscle.

The secret to increasing volumes in the base period is to increase calorie intake,but to maintain a moderate amount of carbohydrates and increase your intake of healthy fats contained in olive oil, fish, olives, flax and peanut butter. They are healthy, because instead of being stored as excess fat, participate in crucial processes here include muscle growth and reducing body fat. It has been found that they are better mood and increase the mental capacity. Conclusively proventhat these fats protect muscle from inflammatory processes and degradation.

Include in your diet fish two or three times a week. Recommendations and linseed oil in the form of capsules or in liquid form.

Healthy fats are an excellent source of calories because they keep the muscles and stimulate growth. Giving your body of these products, facilitating both the preservation of muscle mass and increase her.


Briefly the main period to build muscle mass:
 
1. Keep the amount of carbohydrates in the moderate range.
 
2. Try to consume healthy fats every day. Gain them mainly from fish, flaxseed oil, nuts, seeds, olive oil, olives.
 
3. Maintain protein intake in moderate to high. Take 2.2 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day. No need to take more protein calories if you eat enough. Keep high protein diet when you want to clear the excess fat, then protein intake can lead to 3.3 grams per kilogram of weight.

Broccoli for muscles and health

Broccoli is in the cabbage family and very close to the cauliflower. Broccoli is a vegetable with high nutritional value with great taste. Contains a significant amount of vitamin A, C, K, folic acid and dietary fiber, and other vitamins and nutrients.

Broccoli contain phytonutrients sulforaphane and indoles which have anti-cancer effect. But it has this effect, it is important that the vegetables are not cured. Phytonutrients indoles is another friend of muscles, increased testosterone levels, decreased body fat and increasing muscle growth.

Broccoli is the family of cruciferous vegetables. A diet rich in vegetables such reduces the risk of a variety of cancers, including lung, breast and ovarian cancer in women, the bladder. Men who consumed at least once a week cruciferous vegetables is less likely to have problems with the prostate. For even greater effect it is recommended to be consumed with tomatoes.

Broccoli positively influence the health of the stomach, helps to quickly restore the sunburnt skin, reduce cardiovascular disease, prevent cataracts, enhance immunity and builds strong bones.


 There are many reasons why bodybuilders include broccoli in your diet.

At first, a vegetable is packed with vitamins and minerals, which are necessary for many processes and functions. Broccoli contain significant quantities of chromium, a mineral which is needed for processes in the body, metabolism and control blood sugar levels.

When you eat broccoli would not worry about the calories, even if your body can burn more calories for the absorption of vegetables. Broccoli contains calcium, which is responsible for blocking the hormone calcitriol. Broccoli is the anti stress food.

  
When selecting broccoli prefer not to have a yellow bloom or color does stem should be firm, without spots. Store in the refrigerator for a week if you freeze it can be stored and about 1 year.

It is recommended to prepare steamed broccoli as a severe heat treatment will significantly reduce the quantity of nutrients to the vegetable. Do not put it in the microwave. Prepare it with olive oil to keep the vitamins and minerals in it.

And if you still are not broccoli of your favorite vegetables, you can try to add them to green juices!


Whether you are focused on increasing muscle and burning excess fat, broccoli will help you effectively achieve your fitness goals.

One workout a week is sufficient

You have a busy schedule during the week and you do not have time for physical activity? No need to feel guilty because you can catch up on missed with only one workout during the weekend, for example. A new study found that people practicing once, but continuously enjoy the same enviable health, people visiting the gym several times a week.

Canadian researchers observed 2,324 men and women aged between 18 and 64 years. They followed the study participants as well as by physical tests, and through blood. The results showed that only one weekend practice can compensate for a sedentary lifestyle during the rest of the week. The only condition is that the weekly session of exercise, such as brisk walking or cycling, to last for two and a half hours.


Researchers found that people practicing once a week, but for a long time are just as strong as the people who go to the gym more often, but at shorter intervals. However, remember that exercise is not only necessary for maintaining normal weight but also to lower the risk of some health problems, the newspaper Daily Mail.

Typically for adults is recommended moderate to strenuous physical activity during most or all weekdays. Now, however, it can calm your guilty consciences because without any problems can make up exercises with only one long workout. The results of the Canadian study also showed that all people, regardless of their training plan with identical levels of "metabolic syndrome." Metabolic syndrome indicates risk factors for diabetes, heart disease and stroke.

Advanced Training

The good thing about exercise is that thet have no limit! Always be more complex and vary according to your own abilities and desires. And if you're not a fan of the hall, with its weight can achieve miracles.
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Coach Jonathan Angeli offers you a 30-minute workout that you need comfortable clothing and nothing more.

Specialist warns that before embarking on this exercise, you should have at least a year, serious physical training. Do not play them if you have any injuries and injuries and nice warm you be cardio - for example, 5 minutes far jogging and 10 minutes dynamic stretching.


Here they are:

Attacks with a jump


Bring one leg up, squatting, so the knee to get a foot before the ground. The back is straight and the torso too. Then return to the starting position, hop with hands upraised and change legs.

The exercise is performed 
3x 10-15 reps per leg.




Bridge on one leg

Lie on the floor. Bend your knees so that your feet are glued to the ground. Lift your butt and back and peel off one leg from the floor by lifting it with a heavy knee. Return to starting position and repeat with the other leg. 


The exercise is performed 3x 10-15 reps per leg.



Planck-star

 

Stand on one side with the feet glued to each other and extended support arm. Gradually lift the other leg up and not touching the ground in the same direction.

Return to starting position and repeat with the other leg.

The exercise is performed 3x 10-15 reps per leg.





Pushups upside down

 


This exercise is really a master! If you can not balance your body, use the wall for support. As your back builds on it. Body should be upright.

Exercise is performed 3 times for 10-15 repetitions.




 
Squats with a twist

 


There's nothing complicated. Just when you straight the body after squat bounce up turning sideways.

Exercise is performed 3 times for 10-15 repetitions.




Planck-balance

Planck is among the best exercises for abs, long as it is performed correctly. It tightens the waist, shoulders, and even thighs. In this case, it is more difficult to imple one pivot arm forward and lifting the opposite leg up.

The exercise is performed 3 times while holding 30 seconds raised limbs.



Feedback press

Lie on your stomach. Stretch your arms and legs and start bending your spine in the opposite arc by lifting both upper and lower body.

Exercise is performed 3 times for 10-15 repetitions.



 
Pushups with clapping

You must have really strong hands to do this exercise. The idea is simple pushup to push up to be able to clap your hands and still fall on palms.

Exercise is performed 3 times for 10-15 repetitions.


Thursday, July 4, 2013

Ten variations of pushups

Before you decide to do the different variations of the classic pushup, do not forget to learn how to make the original version correctly. This means that you have to keep your back straight, abdomen and buttocks - tight, shoulders and elbows are in line. Body should resemble a board lifted from your hands.

Undoubtedly push-ups are hard, but can be super effective. They make the body stronger and more flexible. Different variations of this exercise can strengthen the abdomen, back, legs ... and almost every muscle in the body.

Here are 10 versions pushup given by fitness instructor Martin Rooney:




Pushup # 1: knee to elbow

Stand in the top pushup position. Keep your back straight, but lower your torso slightly. Bring your knee to the outside of your elbow. Then return leg to the starting position and repeat with the other. Any moving of your foot bend your arms at the elbows (as does a pushup).


Pushup # 2: Knee to chest
Start from top pushup position. Keep your back straight. In any straightening your arms, bringing one knee up to your chest. Make sure that your feet is not touching the ground. Return leg to its original position. Alternate between the two legs.



Pushup # 3: Mismatch hands and one supporting leg
 

Start from top pushup position, but place one hand over the other away. Lift the leg on the opposite side from that position and do the exercise by changing the supporting leg. Keep your back straight and torso under control. When you reach the floor, fold the elbows wider. Perform five to ten repetitions with each arm forward and up diagonal leg.
 

  
Pushup # 4: A pivot arm
Begin this exercise as normal pushup, but lift one arm is straight above the shoulder. Take turns with the other arm.





Pushup # 5: Soldier pushup
 

Start at the bottom of the pushup position with elbows bent and bent, straight trunk. Then, in facing elbow, reach a higher position in the top of the road turn your shoulders to the wall and stretch one arm toward the ceiling. Then back to the starting position. Switch between lifting the left and right hand.


Pushup # 6: With leg up sideways
Start from typical pushup position. Keep your back straight, and torso - under control. The "bottom" of the pushup kick with one foot away, with the right knee. Then return leg to the starting position until you return to the top of the pushup. Then repeat the movement to the other side, lift the other foot.

Pushup # 7: With the first leg up

Start in the low pushup position and achieve a high position in the top of every invert shoulders horizontally as kicking one leg forward as high as possible while touching with fingers the opposite hand. Then return to the original position and repeat on the other side.


Pushup # 8: With the twist of th hipes

 

Start from up position of the pushup and contraction of the elbow bend the torso and leg, as shown, but not your thighs touch the ground.



Pushup # 9: On the wall

 

Start in a typical high pushup position, with one key difference: lean your legs against the wall. Lower your chest toward the floor by bending at the elbows. Try to keep your elbows close and do not twist out. Then return to the starting position.



Pushup # 10: hands under the belly


Start a high pushup position, but apart your legs  slightly off. Put your hands under the breasts and pinch them. Drag forehead as close to the ground while pushing your body back and hips up.