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Showing posts with label fitness. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Training according to your blood group?


There is hardly anyone who has not heard of the famous diet according to blood type. Now, however, the horizon rises and its fitness for - four training approach designed for the representatives of each different blood type - A, B, AB and 0.

According to Dr. Joseph Christiano - one of the authors of the program The Blood Type Workout, each blood group is a powerful genetic fingerprint that determines the chemical reaction of the body not just the food that a person consumes, but also to physical exercise, which he causes on your body.

Although fitness philosophy of Dr. Joseph Christiano on the selection of training depending on the blood group, still faces a lot of skeptical sports fans, it definitely has its logical sides. Here is what recommendations contains:

Blood group 0

Peculiarities

In its genetic structure, the representatives of blood group 0 are close up to the cave men and women who spend their days stalking and hunting of wild animals. As they often had to react quickly to protect themselves from sudden attacks of predators, the morphology of these prehistoric people were characterized by extremely strong, muscular and well-developed limbs.

The most suitable type of workout

Just like their supposed ancestors, people with blood type O. usually distinguished athletic bodies and very strong arms and legs. Most effective in their physique appear as high-intensity interval training cardio series or plyometric exercises. Because holders of blood group 0 are often used as a kind of training emotional release for them they are a very important factor in coping with stress and bad moods than they are with the representatives of other blood groups.

Recommended diet

People with blood type O. should avoid consuming too many processed carbohydrates and the intake of dairy products. Appropriate for them sticking to a diet similar in its nature to the principles of the Paleo diet.


Blood group B

peculiarities

For ancestors of people with blood type B are considered nomads who are constantly on the move and always traveled in compact groups.

The most suitable type of workout

People with blood group B best reflects the practice of team sports, cardio moderate loads, cycling, tennis, and strength training.

Recommended diet

Representatives of blood group B is one of the few genetically favored people who can smoothly enjoy all kinds of dairy products. Well they reflect more meat and fresh fruits and vegetables.



Blood group AB

Features

DNA atoms of people with blood group AB is a hybrid and as such, it contains elements of both the characteristics of the A and B blood groups.

The most suitable type of workout

Holders of blood group AB are prone to obtain stiffs in muscles and joints due to high-intensity cardio sessions, so a more appropriate option for them is a friendly exercise like long walks, jogging, golf or dancing. Because the members of this blood type are often prone to the accumulation of inner anger and aggression fruitful will affect them and relaxing activities with yoga or tai chi.

Recommended diet

Less red meat, moderate amounts of dairy products and emphasis on fruits, vegetables and whole grains.





Monday, September 2, 2013

Training with elastics


One of the most effective appliances for functional workouts are rubber bands.

Resistance bands come in many different shapes and sizes but all have the same qualities. They provide a wide variety of loads and a large percentage efficiency.

Training elastics allow greater flexibility in the exercises, while burdening many different muscle groups. The exercises can be done from different angles and under control, which can not happen when training with free weights.

At trainings you can tie them around your ankles or knees, the load on the lower part of your body will become quite solid. With bands shall be achieved good healing in the thigh and strength endurance.

They also have a very good impact on the torso. With them you can easily take twisting of the abdominal muscles as the best machine can not provide you.

Another benefit of the bands is that you can adjust your training speed. If you want to train explosively - bands are the safest tool for that.

With training elastics are straighten various problems with stability. These can fix lost balance.

From the side of the price they are also very attractive. With a little amount set aside, you can buy several types of difficulty bands, which at the same time take up much less space than dumbbells and are easily portable.

Big difference between trainings with free weights and bands is the point of greatest stress. With dumbbells for example, they put it at the beginning of the movement. At bands is in the final stage - when stretched. This way you build muscle from a different angle and it becomes even more robust.

Training with Bands are a great benefit to all practicing martial arts as much help to build speed and explosiveness.

Bands load not only nerves and muscles throughout the body in a more efficient way, but also aim at fast twitch muscle fibers for more speed. According to some studies, loads of bands are more effective and plyometric training for combat sports.

Besides martial arts, bands can be additionally for your workouts to increase muscle growth.

If the sport which you are practicing requires speed, athleticism and explosiveness, you must try workouts with bands for greater efficiency.


Wednesday, August 28, 2013

25 basic fitness facts that you should be aware to be able to achieve progress in the gym

1. Losing weight is not so much physical as mental challenge - it's all in your head and the biggest change has to start right there.

2. Dehydration of the muscles with only 3% can cause a 10 percent loss of their physical strength.

3. Proteins have the highest thermic effect of food (TEF)

4. Just because you're weak, does not automatically mean you have a low body fat percentage

5. Squats are an exercise that should be compulsory in any exercise program

 6. Body burns at times more calories over 23 hours, during which do not training than in one hour, during which it is subjected to intense physical activity.

7. 1 gram of carbohydrates contains 4 calories. 1 gram fat contains 9 calories. 1 gram of protein contains 4 calories. 1 gram of alcohol contains 7 calories.

8. To remove 0,5 kg of body weight you have to burn 3500 calories

9. An average person can store up to 500 grams of glycogen in its body

10. Muscle glycogen is composed of about 3 parts water and 1 part glucose.

 11. Can not cause fat loss in only one part of the body such as the abdomen. The truth is that belly will start decrease, even when the total percentage of fat in the body decline.

12. Muscle weighs as much as fat, but unlike them, they are denser and therefore muscular body always looks visually weaker though weight loss is the same as the limp.

  
13. Formulas for calculating body fat and ideal weight based on the ratio between height and weight can not be accurate because they do not take into account the individual physiological characteristics of each individual.

14. The more intense it is a workout, the greater effect it has on the burning calorie of the end of the physical activity.


15. By itself not eating late at night leads to weight gain - overeating, however in the TV during your favorite show or series night surely will make the scales jump up.

16. That in its content a product is listed as "whole grain" does not make it healthy.

17. There is a direct correlation between high fitness level of the people close to you, and your own physical form.

18. Much more difficult to gain 5 kg pure muscle mass than to download 5 kg body fat

19. In people over age 18, mast cells can be created but not lost - only shrunken.

20. 90% of the healthiest foods in the big chain stores are located in the perimeter around the shelves of fruit and vegetables

21. There are 3 types of skeletal muscle fibers - slow oxidative fibers, fast oxidative fibers, white muscle fibers.

22. The increase in physical strength is achieved by the hypertrophy of the muscles.

23. The more muscle a person has, the more calories can burn his body when at rest.

24. Healthy levels of testosterone in the body are equally important for both men and women.

25. 80% of people who start training fitness regime quit after the first or second week

8 easy ways to avoid weight gain during holidays

1. Rent a room with kitchen


Get an apartment or room with kitchen, kitchenette or at least a refrigerator, so you can load your favorite healthy foods. This way the healthy diet will not stay home and you will avoid large or too fat and calorie dishes in restaurants. As dinner resort's always a thrill, go out to eat out at night, and for breakfast and lunch prepare something delicious on your own.


2. Active therapy with something new to listen to




Motivation to stay active during the holidays, instead of lying in bed until early afternoon, sometimes the biggest challenge. Something that can help is the new music and audiobooks that you create the right mood when you come to stir into action. This way you won't torture with the dilemma cardio or book - you can have them 2 in 1!

3. Lark, early trains




Studies have shown that the people who train in the morning  follow fitness regime easier. Simply exercises at morning the minimum impediment to a busy schedule during the day and are less likely to forget them. The same goes for the holidays, especially if you are sleepyhead. And do not ruin when you exit to run on the beach, for example - 10-20 minutes of physical activity sufficient, especially given that the only problem is your metabolism to stay awake during the holidays.

4. Pack the training Bands



Dumbbells can weigh heavily your luggage, but with training elastics there is no such danger. With them you'll make easy, and fun exercises for the whole body without even having to leave the room. You do not know training programs with elastics? YouTube is always there! 

5. Attractions here attraction there!


Even if you do not do your typical workout, you can always burn calories by walking around the local sights and mini-tours. If you get a mountain trail with a backpack you were moving 490 calories per hour, cycling will burn 420, and rock climbing - up to about 563 calories. If going to the resort, as well choose one that offers a wide selection of such activities - yoga, kayaking, beach volleyball, there are ways to have fun while taking care of your body!
  
6. Stairs and hills



Book your room on high - whether in house / hotel on a hill or on the higher floors of the hotel and use the stairs instead of the elevator. If there are sights that require boarding or disembarking not delay a little and visit them! And do not go in the first directional restaurant, walk a little further.

7. If the hotel probably has a fitness 


In order to not worry about exercise equipment, you can always head to the hotel gym. Or at least with yoga classes or pilates. If you have not tried it yet, do not worry - you vacation is the time to try something new?

 8. Travel with running shoes or sneakers




The most common justification for rounded tummy after a holiday is likely: "I forgot to put my running shoes in the luggage." As not likely to wear costumes during the vacation, travel with sports shoes. And this way will be easier to run if you miss the bus, train or plane.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

5 best exercises with its own weight for women


Bodyweight exercise burn unwanted fat and calories and destroy in the most convenient way - without requiring any fitness equipment or special specific space for training. This makes them an ideal tool to keep fit and tight body even during the summer holidays or vacations out of town. The next five exercises work complex  on sculpting the most important parts of the female body, and their performances will not take you more than 15-20 minutes. At least, so you can allocate even in summer mode, right ladies?

1. Spiderman pushups (Spiderman push-ups)
 

Invariably in the list of the best complex exercises with its own weight, spiderman pushups commit to both muscles in the abdominal area and those located in the lower and upper body. Moreover, their implementation requires the maintenance of a constant balance - something that makes each repetition most challenging and difficult.

How to perform Spiderman pushups:
 

1. Take a Stand as an ordinary push-arms, placed over a width slightly greater than that of the shoulders.

2. Bend your elbows down, to approach your chest closer to the ground while bending your left leg sideways, trying to touch or at least approach as close as your left knee to your left elbow.

3. Return the arm and leg in the starting points and repeat the same movement, but on the other side (the right knee and right elbow)
4. For best effect - perform 2-3 sets of 10-12 reps

Video illustration of the exercise:


2. Squats with pulses (Body-weight squat with pulses)
 

Many ladies look with distrust to squats because they they seem too simple as a performence to have a discernible effect on tightening the thighs and buttocks. In fact it is the opposite - if implemented correctly (keeping your back straight, weight - equally distributed between the front and back of the foot and without lifting your heels throughout the movement) Squats with its own burn more calories than you ever imagined. This is because they efficiently loaded some of the major muscle groups in the legs. Adding a small ripple in the bottom of the movement even makes saying goodbye to fat in problem areas even express.

How to perform squats with pulses:
 
1. Stand in the upright position with your feet shoulder-width apart and slowly begin to squat down.

2. Stop movement when your thighs reach a position parallel to the floor

3. From this starting position slightly to move up and down (the amplitude of the movement should not be larger than a few centimeters)

4. Make ten such pulses before you stand up to the starting position

5. For best effect - perform 2-3 sets x 15-20 reps




3. Burpee
 
If ever you already happened to make burpees, you must be well aware of because they have a reputation as one of the "most hated" exercises in the world of fitness and CrossFit. Movements during the burpee fire to the heights heartbeat just for negative short time, which is quite logical in view of the involvement of each body part. You will not save it and we will alert you that the burpee is among the most difficult exercises with its own weight - but even worth the effort and it is easy to see when uploading scale.


How to perform burpee:
 

1. Stand in the upright position with joined one to the other foots.

2. Squat down, place your hands in front of you on the ground and at the same time push your legs back to rebound.

3. Do a pushup.

4. Stow your feet back toward your hands, return to squat position and then jumped up with raised hands high above your head.

5. Land lightly on feets and repeat the whole movement again.
6. For best effect, try to do 3-4 sets, each lasting about 30 to 60 seconds

Video illustration of the exercise:


4. Forward lunge with kickback
 
Lunges are absolute kings in exercises to tighten thighs and buttocks. As such, aristocrats, they have some claims, such as that in a few series with them will feel a stretching and mild pain that can not disappear and on the next day after training. All this, however, is in the order of things and there is no cause for panic. Due to the fact that, when the body attacks carried greater range of motion, and the emphasis is on both quadriceps muscles and on smaller muscle groups in the buttock. Lifting up one leg after getting up from the lunge has a great effect on the clamping and rounding of sexy butt, and even causes burning extra calories.


How to perform lunges with rising your feets back:
 
1. Take a big step forward with your left leg and bend both legs down while forming an angle of approximately 90 degrees. Try to distribute the weight evenly between the leading leg and the one which is left behind and keep your upper body upright well.

2. Begin to straighten up as transferring the weight over your left foot and lift your right back as possible higher. Then lean forward again and make another attack.

3. After making a number of repetitions of the same series, replace the leading leg and start with the right.

4. These lunges can be performed as only its own weight and with a dumbbell in each hand. In the beginning, the body may take a little hard to keep up with maintaining balance and balance, but once you get up to speed slippage will stop.

5. For best effect, do 2-3 x 15-20 repeat for each leg


Video illustration of the exercise:


5. Pull-ups / Chin-ups
 
When you have reached a stage of physical training that has already thought about the inclusion of more serious exercise, it certainly pull ups are just for you. Whether you run a normal grip, cult, with joined palms and wide apart, for calling someone actually raises whole 94 percent of total body weight, which certainly sounds a little scary. However, the results achieved by regular practice of this exercise is phenomenal as it moves at developing multilateral largest muscles in the upper body. Know from us that - one of the shortest paths to the beautiful sculpting of the back, shoulders and arms passes precisely through dialing.


How to perform chin-ups:
 
1. Hold hands for a stick over your head. Leave all the weight of your body to hang down and bend your knees slightly. For greater stability, cross your ankles behind one another.

2. Without swinging your body, bend your arms and start pulling them up until your chin is level with the level of leverage. Hold this position for a few seconds and begin going down to the starting position.

3. For best effect, try to do 2-3 sets x reps as you pass




Video illustration of the exercise:






Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Lunges


Main muscles performing the movement: the quadriceps (quadriceps muscle)
Other muscles involved in movement: Gluteusi, calf, buttocks
Mandatory Equipment: Dumbbells
Level: Advanced
Movement: Pushing

Method of execution

➡ Stand facing a mirror with the feet open on the width to  shoulders, without additional burden;

➡ Slowly slide one of the legs to step back as you do not move it away from the floor. Step finger to the desired width and transfer half his body weight on the back leg.

➡ Squat to knee support and check that:

• The front knee is positioned above the ankle;
• back knee is stopped before it touches the floor;
• backbone is faced;
• the weight is evenly distributed between both feet.

➡ Before you mark the place you stand on its hind legs with a water bottle or other object. So you'll know where to put his feet on each dropped.

➡ Stand facing a mirror with the feetopen on the width to  apart. Squat straight spine and grab the dumbbells. Stand up carefully;

➡ Slide one of the legs back to the marked position. Put your fingers and slowly submerge half of his body weight on them;

➡ Squat being careful not to breach safety technology;

➡ Stand at the same time - first up, then forward.

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Bulgarian squat

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Main muscles performing the movement: the quadriceps (quadriceps muscle)
Other muscles involved in movement: calf, gluteusi, glutes
Mandatory Equipment: dumbbell / barbell
Level: Advanced
Movement: Pushing


Method of execution


Place the bench across on one of the mirrors in the club bar to select the required weight;

Pose with no weight and do two or three iterations to make sure that your position is good;

Step with two feet on the floor, grab a barbell squat (not just bending) first put it on the chest, and then lift it behind the neck. Place the support leg on the bench;

Lower until your hip is aligned with the knee of the working leg;

Down slow speed, stop smoothly;

Begin rising gradually until you return back to the starting point 3.


  
Note!

Avoid sudden movements, especially when descending;

Do not crush the knee on the floor;

Do not bend, keep the body upright;

In the embodiment, your entire foot to the floor, i.e. Your weight should be evenly distributed;