Showing posts with label Healthy Lifestyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthy Lifestyle. Show all posts

Monday, August 1, 2011

Healthy Lifestyle A Way of LIFE

For the past few weeks how do you live a healthy lifestyle?

What's your opinion of the idea that a healthy lifestyle is following certain rules? What's really a healthy lifestyle for you? What things do you do that help you achieve that?

Living a healthy lifestyle takes discipline. You must make up your mind and choose things that are good for you and your loved ones. It comes down to being committed to do what is good for your body, mind and spirit. Living a healthy lifestyle involves taking care of your physical, mental and spiritual health. You need to arm yourself with appropriate knowledge that will ensure that you get the result you want.

Healthy eating food that are nutritional and good for the body. It includes avoiding food that is bad for you like refined carbohydrates, fatty foods, alcohol, etc. Eating in moderation is the essential component of healthy eating.

Regular exercise is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. Aerobic exercise is good for your heart and your body. Yoga has a therapeutic affect and also helps to reduce your stress level.

Managing stress Failure to manage stress can harm your body and affect your relationship with others. If left unattended, stress can also lead to alcohol or drug addiction.

Sleeping right having a positive outlook about life and having a balanced life are also the necessary components of a healthy lifestyle.

The physical, mental and spiritual aspects of your life are intertwine. For you to be happy and healthy, you need to keep all these aspects of your life balanced. You should monitor what you do on a regular basis, to ensure that you are doing the right thing. If something is not right, you can make any necessary changes to help move you in the direction of your goal. With this in mind, working toward living a healthy lifestyle is achievable.

Action Plan

Make them as a habit, eventually it turns into a lifestyle

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Monday, July 25, 2011

Boost Your weight loss


"I have been working out for the past few months and eating clean every 6 days in a week and yet it takes ages for my weight to drop". Sound familiar? Good morning reader and how are you today? Obviously everyone is good and we're in the 9th week of Healthy Lifestyle Program. From today onwards it will get much more interesting and fun to do.

So how do you lose that extra weight?


Build muscle by performing resistance training.
- Muscle burn calorie at rest
- More muscle means more calorie burn


Cardiovascular/ aerobic exercise
-Keep your self chill/hydrate by drinking lots of water


Snack attack or snacking between meals help increasing your metabolic rate.
- Thermogenesis (Digesting, absorbing, transporting and storing the food you consume also takes calories)

Consume more protein in your diet
  • Protein contains 4 calories per gram
  • Carbohydrates contain 4 calories per gram
  • Fat contains 9 calories per gram
A high carbohydrates in the diet cause an insulin (a "storage" hormone) output in the pancreas. It is used to store glycogen, amino acids into muscles, while causing excess calories to be stored as fat.

Coffee

- caffeine helps in increasing the level of circulating fatty acids, this does mean that it helps in enhancing fat oxidation.

- Drink 2 to 3 cups of coffee per day and your body will start burning calories faster

Get Active

- Lets get moving, look for ways to walk and move around an extra few minutes in your daily basis.
- Increase your general physical activity throughout the day by walking instead of driving.

Keep in mind that how you look is important than the scale.

Action Plan
Practice the program daily and you'll see changes within a week
Snack on fruits and vegetable
Have coffee without sugar


Next week topic

Healthy Lifestyle A Way of Life

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Monday, July 18, 2011

Injuries

Good morning readers. Have you taken your breakfast yet? You should because it is the most important nutritional meal of the day. A healthy diet plan promote weight loss, reduce the risk of coronary artery disease, reduce risk for stroke and other cardiovascular diseases, aid your body from the training and prevent them from injuries

In our previous session we focused on resistance training, by combining them with your favorite outdoor activities it can be fun, but they can also be dangerous if you are not careful. You can help prevent injuries by


* Be active to make sure you are healthy before you start playing your sport
* Wearing/ choosing the right shoes, gear and equipment
* Drinking lots of water
* Warming up and stretching
* Adequate recovery
* Nutrition

Injury to the body is painful and often debilitation experience. It affect psychology as well as physiology, impacting significantly on our work and lifestyle. An injury can range from a simple acute haematoma to a chronic, constant pain like associated with tennis elbow.

Common Injuries

Their cause in common injuries and their treatment, you can increase the progress towards your fitness goals by avoiding injuries that will be the obstacle in your training regime. Exercise should provide a moderate and gradual increase of stress to the skeletal muscle system. Overuse can lead to a variety of common injuries because you are not allowing time for our bodies to heal.
  • Muscle Soreness
  • Sprains
  • Fracture
  • Tendonitis
  • Lower back pain
Managing Injuries

If you get hurt, stop exercise. Continuing to exercise can cause more harm. Treatment often begins with the RICER (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation, Referral) method to relieve pain, reduce swelling and speed healing. Other possible treatments include pain relievers, keeping the injured area from moving, rehabilitation and sometimes surgery.

If you have already hurt yourself from training/playing a sport a while back, make sure you recover completely before you start up again. If possible, protect the injured part of your body with padding, a brace or special equipment. When you do start training again, start slowly.

Prevention of Injuries
  1. Be in proper physical condition to play a sport.
  2. Wear appropriate protective gear and equipment.
  3. Avoid playing when very tired or in pain.
  4. Always warm up before playing.
  5. Rest.
Action Plan
  1. Pay attention to your body. Take small steps to get to your fitness goal
  2. Play/Train smart
Next week topic
Boost your weight loss

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Monday, July 4, 2011

Posture & Stretching

Why have a good posture?

Good posture promoted with a balance of workload of muscles, limbs and joints. Poor posture may cause fatigue, muscle strain, compression of blood vessels and pain. It also can effect the function of major organs. Your posture present your lifestyle. How you stand, how you sit, how you sleep all affecting your posture.

What is a good posture?

Shoulders pulled back, head held high, chin up and back flat is how soldier stand. A good posture is about keeping the natural curves of the your spine when standing, sitting or lying. When these curves are in their resting or neutral state, they experience the least strain.

Primary causes of Imbalance and postural problem mainly due to Sedentary Lifestyle
Ideally from a back view the spine should have no lateral curvature and the legs should be symmetrical without undue angulation at the knees or ankles. From a side view the spine should form a smooth S-shaped curve, bisected by an imaginary plumb line dropped from the apex(tip) of the head through the center of gravity of the body. This same plumb line should pass through the tip of the shoulder, the center of the hip joint and ankle joint and slightly behind the knee joint. With this ideal alignment the body weight is balanced over the spine and lower extremity joints requiring minimum muscular effort. This alignment also evenly distributes pressure on the intervertebral discs ( lie between the spine) and avoids excessive stress on the ligaments.
The sitting position is where most people get into trouble with poor postural habits. This is especially when driving or doing a desk job. As we focus on the activity in front of us we tend to protrude the head and neck forward. Because the body follows the head, the twelve segment compose the middle of the vertebral column(thoracic) and largest segments of the movable part of the vertebral column(lumbar spine) tends to round forward as well. When this occurs, the weight of the head and upper body is no longer balanced over the spinal column but instead must be supported by increased muscular energy and placing spinal ligaments on stretch.


Over time this leads to fatigue and eventually even pain in the neck and upper back. Shoulders rounded forward which occurs for example when your car seat is too far away from the steering wheel further contributes to this pattern of imbalance. Ideally then, the S-shaped curvature of the spine that is characteristic of good standing posture should be maintained in sitting as well.

This is best accomplished by sitting all the way back in a straight-backed chair and placing a folded towel or small pillow in the arch of the low back. Fortunately, many new office chairs and car seats come with built-in lumbar supports and other adjustable features. Sitting and standing with proper postural alignment will allow one to work more efficiently with less fatigue and strain on your body's ligaments and muscles. Being aware of good posture is the first step to breaking old poor postural habits and reducing stress and strain on your spine.

Common posture problem

When a muscle is shorten for a prolonged period of time, it will become tight which really means it will become shorter than it is supposed to be. When a muscle is shorter than the optimal length, it not only effects the opposing muscle but can have influence on the entire bone structure (musculoskeletal system). Some common muscles which cause the most posture problems.Tight hip flexors are major cause of many posture problems. When it is subjected to long hours of being seated the hip flexors become shortened. When the hip flexors are shortened they cause the pelvis to rotate anterior (forward).

You can see the influence of anterior (front) pelvic tilt on skeletal alignment. The spine becomes excessively arched and the thoracic spine develops a kyphotic (rounded/hunch back) alignment. Forward head posture can result because of this as well. Tight hip flexors can begin to do the abdominals work, and make it almost impossible to get benefit out of some abs workout. Tight hip flexors causes the primary hip extensors the gluteus maximus (largest part of the bum) to become lengthened and weak. This is because of the agonist-antagonist relationship which means the glutes and hip flexors are opposing muscles. When the primary hip extensors become weak the synergist (helper) muscle takes over causing further problems.

Tight Hamstring the difference is the length of the hamstrings when you sitting down and standing. When you stand, the muscles are lengthened. Even sitting in a good posture shortens the hamstrings. Sitting for long periods of time, will be prone to chronic hamstring tightness.

There are a few posture problems associated with tight hamstrings. If the hip flexors are tight, the hamstrings will become your primary hip extensor (extend). The hamstrings are supposed to be the synergist (assist) but become the prime mover. This is called synergistic dominance which increases the chances of injury. It is easy to see why synergistic dominance increases the chances of injury. The gluteus maximus (largest part of the bum) the largest muscle in the body. If the gluteus maximus cannot extend the hip, the hamstrings which are not as powerful as the glutes are forced to do more work than they are designed for. Having a tight hamstrings will make it difficult to work and get results with your leg and glutes. Hamstrings tightness can make you prone to pulled hamstrings, and sciatica.

Another muscle imbalance which causes posture problems which are repercussions of the sedentary lifestyle is forward shoulder or also called the upper cross syndrome. Poor exercise selection also can develop forward shoulders. If you suffer from this muscle imbalance and are not able to retract (draw back) your shoulders, which is common in many people, you should start a corrective flexibility program.

If you have any of the posture problem it is best to see a specialist such as a chiropractor or exercise physiologist. There are a few tests in a which a professional can use to diagnose specific posture problems.

How to improve posture?

Strengthen the Core

Fix Rounded Shoulders

Corrective Flexibility

Stretching


Type of Stretching

Static stretching is the most common type of stretching. You gently assume a stretch position and hold it for 30 to 60 seconds. There is no bouncing or rapid movement. You should feel a mild pulling sensation, but no pain. You should feel the stretch in the belly of the muscle, not in the joints. A simple static stretch provide a large benefits towards your body and posture.

Neck stretch
Wall stretch
Chest stretch
Trapezius stretch
Rotator cuff stretch
Hip Flexor stretch
Full Body stretch

Benefits of stretching
  • Increase flexibility
  • Better posture
  • Decrease pain in muscle joint
  • Enhance coordination
  • Reduce stress
Action Plan
Practice good posture
Do stretches total of 20min on a daily basis
Attend Pilates classes (Optional)

Whats on next week
Resistance Training

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Monday, June 20, 2011

Benefits of Exercise


Good day to everyone and we're in the fourth week of a Healthy Lifestyle. I'm so excited because we have reach this far and I hope all my readers out there will continue your journey as I will help you reach your goal.

"If you have achieve your goal, means I have achieve mine".


Today I'm going to share some tips regarding on exercise. Any kind of exercise may feel hard in the beginning but with some practice and consistency, your body gets stronger and you may even start to enjoy. Choose something that fits your personality
and lifestyle. Everyone has a different level of fitness, and exercising at a pace that is right for you is important. Any kind of exercise that you're performing shouldn't cause you pain, it can be fun and doesn't have to be organised or even cost money.

Why you need to participate in exercise


Exercising and being active helps you to stay fit and healthy. Activity also helps you avoid depression, stress and boredom. You'll be more alert mentally. Exercise provides you with a set of concrete attainable goals mirroring the striving, pain and gain of everyday life. Then there’s the well-known endorphin factor. It’s hard to over-estimate the positive fallout of a good exercise program. Exercise fights against anxiety and depression. It improves sleep, burns calories, raises “good” HDL cholesterol, decreases the effects of aging and chronic disease such as atherosclerosis and diabetes.

Why you need to exercise?
  • Getting fit
  • Cardiovascular
  • Strength training
  • Flexibility
  • Losing weight
  • Recovering from Injury
We know being active promotes a healthier life. By performing a regular exercise with a moderate amount of activity performed three to five days per week can improve your heart health, improve your heart disease risk factors, improve your strength and feeling of well-being. What it all comes down to is that exercise is very good for you, and a little daily exercise is better than none at all. It really is important enough for you to make time for it.

Recommendations

There are four main types of exercise.
  1. Resistance exercise - Resistance exercises uses weights, springs or bands. They increase muscle power and ability to help large muscles burn fat and larger muscles are enablers for aerobic exercise.
  2. Aerobic exercise - requires the consumption more oxygen than at rest. It involves repeated movements of the large muscles of your body. Examples include brisk walking, jogging, swimming, cycling.
  3. Stretches - The risk of injury seems to be about equal for those who stretch and those who do not stretch before exercise. Stretching seems to offer more long term benefit such as maintaining functional flexibility and correcting particular muscular imbalance.
  4. Agility and speed - This kind of exercise used at competitive level but performing it in a training regime can be very beneficial for daily lifestyle.

Getting Started

To be safe and give you the most benefit, your program should be:
  • Aerobic: this type of activity increases the rate and depth of your breathing, raises your heart rate and uses the large muscle groups. Examples include walking, cycling or swimming.
  • Regular: moderate intensity activity performed on most days of the week (starting with small amounts of activity and building up to 30 to 40 minutes of continuous activity, or if you prefer, 10 minutes increments throughout the day to equal 30 to 40 minutes
  • Safe: adults with health problems (such as heart disease, diabetes or obesity) or those at high risk, men over age 40 and women over age 50 should talk with their doctor before starting an exercise program.
An exercise session should start with a gradual warm-up period. It should take about 5 to 10 minutes before your exercise program. You should slowly stretch your muscles and then gradually increase the level of activity. If walking/ jogging is your activity begin with slow tempo and then pick up the pace. After you have finished exercising take about 5 to 10minutes to cool down. Again, stretch and cool down your muscles and let your heart rate slow down gradually. You can use the same stretches as in the warm-up period.

Benefits of Warm-up
  • Elevation of body temperature
  • Reduce muscular injuries
  • Supply blood flow to the heart
Benefits of Cooling down
  • aid in the dissipation of waste products - including lactic acid
  • reduce the potential for Delayed Onset of Muscle Soreness (DOMS)
  • reduce the chances of dizziness or fainting caused by the pooling of venous blood at the extremities
  • reduce the level of adrenaline in the blood, allows the heart rate to return to it's resting rate
Exercise Program


Action Plan

Choose your favorite activity
Record your activity in the exercise program
Start your activity today

What on next week

Target Heart Rate

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Monday, June 13, 2011

Food Pyramid

How was the first week of your healthy lifestyle, it must be good yea. I bet you're already felt good about yourself with this kind of lifestyle. How did your meal plan go, did you separate them to 4 - 6 meals a day? What kind of diet are you applying?



These kind of question are usually ask by fitness coach, nutritionist or GP. There is so many kind of diet and which to follow. Are you confuse? You shouldn't because the best and the healthiest diet is the one that provide balance in your daily meal. Food is the answer to your healthy lifestyle. Even if you're able to run 10km but still consuming high fatty food, the chances of you to get coronary hearth disease is still high.


You must change those unhealthy and process food that you consume. Instead of white or butter scotch bread purchase a whole meal or multi-grain bread. Instead of drinking those process fruit juice its better to eat actual fruits. Home prepare salad provide high in good nutrition than those being pack and left for days.



If you do have a health condition it is best to refer to the specialist before starting any kind of diet. Those who are free from any health condition feel free to try the vegan diet because this diet will make you lose weight but it is not suitable for those who wish to gain weight due to lack of calories consumption.

Here are some type of daily routine that you can practice and even tho if you do have a health condition that doesn't mean you can't do them as a daily routine. Stop giving excuse and make your lifestyle a healthy lifestyle.

Resistance training - health benefits - Better Health Channel
Pilates and yoga - health benefits - Better Health Channel
Dance - health benefits - Better Health Channel
Epilepsy and exercise - Better Health Channel
Dog walking - the health benefits - Better Health Channel
Canoeing and kayaking - health benefits - Better Health Channel
Cycling - health benefits - Better Health Channel

ACTION PLAN
  • Have a log and record each meal that you eat daily and this might shock some because it will show you how much and what you eat regularly.
  • Find the food that you can consume regularly and cost effective.
  • Never ever drastically change you meal into a very strict diet.
  • Always keep a positive mind set no matter what are the challenges

Conclusion

Plan you meal properly and follow a proper nutrition plan. Stick with whole food because it is healthier and cheaper source. No matter how busy your day is apply the activity in your daily lifestyle. On the 3rd week of Healthy Lifestyle I will explain the type of training you're choose to be more intense and beneficial. Also understanding target heart rate.

What's on next week
Benefits of exercise

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Monday, June 6, 2011

Your First Step

Now, lets plan from the beginning of your week for the next seven days.

Find the time that’s suitable for you... It may be early morning... It may be around your lunch time, or later in the afternoon... It could be in the evening too...

We’ve all got reasons why we don’t live healthier lives...


We really hate to exercise.
We've tried to exercise but we keep quitting.
We can't afford a gym membership.
We're not seeing any changes in our bodies.
We don't know how to exercise.
We want to exercise but we have to take care of the kids and family.
We can't seem to stay motivated to continue working out.
Exercise HURTS!
We can't make the commitment to stick to an exercise routine.
We don't have time!


But they’re all just excuses.

How often do we use the words “can't”, or “don't”?

Demotivation is the main reason why most people quit exercise. An that relates to our self talk.

It’s happened to me too, and the best way through is to keep your self motivated or find a friend to enjoy your workout with.

Have you noticed that when you’re enjoying a party that the time passes by so quickly?

Finding a training partner, a personal trainer, or a family member to workout with is a similar approach.


Healthy eating can be difficult.

Last week we talked about calories...

It’s important to carefully observe the nutritional facts on the food we purchase.

So when you buy food from the grocery store, read the labels and learn how to interpret the various components i.e carbohydrate, protein, fats, and fiber.

Take some time to learn how to work out the calories contained in each component and sum them up to get the final calorie value of the meal.

By now you’ve determined how much weight you want to lose or gain and over what period.


Now, when you buy any types of food from the grocery read the labels and learn how to interpret them in relation to the various components i.e carbohydrate, protein, fat and fiber. Learn how to work out the calories contained in each component and sum them up to get the final calorie value of the meal. You should have determined previously how much weight you want to lose or gain and over how long. This is how you work out how much calories you want to cut back each day. The important part here is, you want to have the food quantity with your caloric requirements for each day. If you want to cut back 500 Calories per day, it’s up to you how you want to spread it out. It can be a little confuse trying to get all your calorie figures together, along with a food list plus your exercise activity. This is one reason why people get discouraged from undertaking calorie counting.


Keeping a food log has been shown to motivate and help prevent you from having a cheat meal.
Losing, gaining weight or burning fat has two aspects to it the consume calorie intake versus calories expended. The physical activities of your choice will contribute to your calorie burn side of the equation and these activities need to be logged. The difference between calorie intake and output is what determines your degree of weight loss, gaining weight or fat burning in the long run. It is better to know how much calories of exercise activity has expended and this amount of calories will have to be recorded in your log.

Meal Plan

Start by planning the types of food and record them. This will ensure that you are eating smaller and frequently. This will help you understand your eating patter and see how they affect weight loss, maintenance and weight gain.


Healthy lifestyle Tips
  1. Prepare meal in advance
  2. Eat about every three hours
  3. Do not eat until you get full
  4. Avoid process food and drink
  5. Set no more one cheat meal in a week
A strong mind creates a strong body. Always keep a positive thinking and a can do attitude so you can enjoy every step of your transformation towards a healthy lifestyle.

Action Plan

  1. Make copies of the plan and keep them in a folder.
  2. Take before and after picture to document your progress.
  3. Set both short term and long term goals.

What's on next week

Food pyramid
Types of activities

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Monday, May 30, 2011

A healthy lifestyle

With a healthy lifestyle you can accomplish anything... All it takes is a little guidance and motivation.

"It's now or never"

From today it’s our goal to help you achieve your fitness goal... Whatever that is for you.

What we’ll do each week is provide you with some information to consider. With that information you’ll be able to make some decisions about how you’ll live your healthier lifestyle, and set yourself some goals. And at the end of every blog we’ll leave you with some action points too

We’ve also set up a FAN PAGE where you’ll be able to ask questions too.

Now, first things first...

As Vinh talks about in his OPIC model we first need to establish where we are right now... That’s because we need to know our starting point...

So, let’s look at your Body Mass Index (BMI), Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), and calorie intake.

Body Mass Index (BMI)

The reason the Body Mass Index (BMI) is used for screening the health of the general population is because there’s a strong correlation between being overweight or obese and having health problems, chronic disease and premature death. People who are overweight or obese have an increased risk for the following conditions:

Hypertension
Type 2 diabetes
Coronary heart disease
Stroke
Osteoarthritis
cancers
Sleep apnoea and respiratory problem

Here’s an online calculator you can use: BMI calculator , or BMI Gadget/BMI-Club .

And for more information about Body Mass Index you could go here: BMI.

Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)

You use energy no matter what you're doing... Even when you’re sleeping.

The BMR Calculator will calculate your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR).

A BMR is the number of calories you'd burn if you stayed in bed all day.

The BMR formula uses the variables of height, weight, age and gender to calculate the Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR).

This is more accurate than calculating your calorie needs based on body weight alone. The only factor it omits is lean body mass and thus the ratio of muscle-to-fat a body has.


Metric BMR Formula
Women: BMR = 655 + ( 9.6 x weight in kilos ) + ( 1.8 x height in cm ) - ( 4.7 x age in years )
Men: BMR = 66 + ( 13.7 x weight in kilos ) + ( 5 x height in cm ) - ( 6.8 x age in years )

Calories Consumed

We’d also suggest you know how many calories are being consume in your diet.

To have success with your calorie count, you need to know how many calories are in the food you eat.

Here is a basic guide:

  • Carbohydrate – 4 Calories per gram
  • Protein – 4 Calories per gram
  • Alcohol - 7 Calories per gram
  • Fat – 9 Calories per gram

Calories Burned


Activity Burnt Calculator

We’ve found that a lot of people don’t quite know how to begin with these steps.

For those of you with an iPhone you could always add the fitness application in your phone.

It has similar tools to the ones we’ve mentioned, and the best part you have it all the time



A lifestyle is define as a way of life or style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group. This habit should be practice to achieve a strong and positive attitude towards the physical and mental. I strongly suggest you to build and maintain a healthy habit.

Action Plan
Obtain the following

A Journal for you to record your calorie intake, foods and exercise activities
A Weighing Scale to weigh your food
A Calculator to do the simple maths involved
A Positive thinking and attitude

What's on next week
Your first step
Where to begin

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