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Three Easy-to-use Tips to Improving Fitness Immediately

Rico Grazzozi — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:36:58 +0000

What are the most important factors in your life? Being healthy and of excellent fitness should be a major goal for all of us – at the end of the day the way we feel reflects the quality of our life we will lead – and what’s more important than your life?? Feeling good, in essence, entails maximising your PHYSICAL and MENTAL state. This article will solely focus on the physical perspective (maybe I’ll post an article about the mental factors if I receive a positive response to this one !). To make this exercise as pain free as possible I’ve broken down being healthy into 3 easy-to-use tips, which anyone can follow. My aim in doing this has been to eliminate factors which people tend to use as an excuse for not ‘following through’ with the suggested action. These factors can include financial, time and commitment restraints. The beauty of these tips is they are extremely easy to implement and most people already know that they are correct. Therefore, why do the majority of people ignore such common sense or even do the complete opposite? The answer is simple, they have been conditioned, by themselves or society, to act and perform in a certain way. This article is not intended to change your daily routine, which may be poor or excellent, but to simply input additional easy and quick activities to that routine to improve your physical health. Here goes (please note, these are tips which have worked for me, and whilst they follow ideas extracted from extensive reading, they are not all specifically backed by proven data – that’s the beauty of having an opinion folks!):- Tip 1 Drink between 2-4 litres of water daily. Replace all carbonated, cordial, tea, coffee etc with water (don’t like water? Drink it long enough you will!). I personally add a large slice of lemon to all water I consume – 1) because I adore the taste 2) lemon is alkaline, which is widely accepted to be healthier than acidic produce. Also, you should never feel a severe sense of thirst if you are intaking enough water, as this is a sign of the onset of dehydration. Therefore, drink or sip water at regular short intervals throughout your day, increasing the intake where water is disposed from the body via sweating or increased physical activity has occurred. A water source not available to you all the time? Easy – always prepare a large bottle of water at the start of your day and keep it close to you throughout the day. Tip 2 Don’t just have your ‘five a day’ fruit / vegetables – ensure it outweighs the rest of your daily intake. Therefore, if you really need that juicy 12oz steak, make sure you offset it with a large salad, or a portion of vegetables which dwarf the steak in size! I’m not going to be the guy to tell you not to have certain foods, we all have our pleasures, but if you learn how to offset the pleasure (or better still, make the healthy options the pleasure – but that’s delving into the mental perspective I promised not to!) with fruit / vegetables you will be on the right track. Tip 3 BENCHMARK. Do you know someone who is supremely healthy, either by appearance or the vitality they exhibit? If you do, this is someone you want to interrogate (in a nice way!). Find out how they exercise, what they eat and how they operate. They have proven their method, now apply it yourself. If you don’t personally know anyone who meets your specification of desired health, widen your search. Perhaps a celebrity or sportsperson has what you want. Research them, the web holds a lot of info as I guess you know, so I’m sure a person of your means can collect the ‘benchmark’ data you require. Final Thought: Actively acknowledge when you are feeling healthy. Many people do not notice the results they are achieving or believe it’s pure coincidence – coincidence and health rarely co-exist! Thank you for time, I hope this article will be of some benefit to you and that you live a healthy and successful life.

How to Benefit From Pilates

Rico Grazzozi — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:15:39 +0000

Pilates is becoming more popular with people of different ages, physical aptitude and mobility as a holistic, common-sense approach to efficient movement habits for the complete health of the body. Developed as a system or movement regime, Pilates training provides a variety of choices in both exercises and specialised equipment to help reinforce good movement habits, lying down, seated, kneeling, and standing.

How To Have A Healthy Life

Rico Grazzozi — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:13:30 +0000

Health, as defined in the World Health Organization (WHO) constitution: Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Entrenador Advanced Fitness & Agility System

Rico Grazzozi — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:32:11 +0000

FITNESS & AGILITY TRAINING IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS IN SOCCER: Goals 4 Sports can provide you with the correct tools for your training sessions at prices well below suggested retail.

Diet Fitness

Rico Grazzozi — Fri, 28 May 2010 22:15:56 +0000

Program has cancer patients looking good" align="left" style="margin: 0 5px 5px 0" />A Look on Diet Fitness

Short Cardio Workout Superset 1

Rico Grazzozi — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:11:21 +0000

combatendurancetraining.com – Try a short cardio workout superset chalk full of high octane energy producing exercises. Join the creator of the 9 Minute Workout from Combat Endurance Training, Fred Nicklaus. Fred is a Martial Arts Champion & Fitness Expert who specializes in Endurance Training Programs for adults over 40.

The World’s Worst Chin-Ups: Gym Monkey

Rico Grazzozi — Tue, 18 May 2010 02:18:08 +0000

www.thebestwaytoexercise.com shows you the worst way to do chin-ups and the best way to do something else. Joe Six-Pack can’t do a proper chin-up, so what should he do instead?

Fitness – Hot Burn Workout

Rico Grazzozi — Sun, 09 May 2010 06:29:04 +0000

To follow Zuzana’s daily workouts visit her free fitness blog: www.bodyrock.Tv

Gold’s Gym– The Rock

Rico Grazzozi — Sat, 08 May 2010 23:32:38 +0000

The Rock talks about Gold’s and his training

Extreme Fitness – 3 Advantages Of Full Body Work Out

Rico Grazzozi — Sat, 08 May 2010 05:50:55 +0000

Most people wonder about building muscles being similar to abandoning life when they get out of the gym. Such people devote lot of hours in the gymnasium just like how a monk would do in a monastery. The only method according to them, perhaps, would be to toil hours over the rusted iron every day and all over the year, so that you get to chisel your body into nothing less than hot muscular physique.