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Get Excited About Fitness - The Easy Way.

One way that we become discouraged, especially in weight loss, is by constantly falling short of our predefined goals. No matter how good our intentions, we all fall short sometimes, and it’s easy for the temporary disappointment with ourselves to become ongoing despair and discouragement. These feelings can easily set in and cripple our ability to see beyond these temporary failure and onto the next “achievement opportunity”. One method that I have learned to help overcome “entrenched” discouragement” is to build an “excite list”.

It never fails but as soon as I wrote all my Weight Loss, Weight Gain, Fitness and Nutrition type of tips I had a few left over that couldn’t really be placed into these categories. But as you will see they are right on the money for your general health and fitness and can be used in your everyday activities.

Let’s take a peek:

  1. What Is A Healthy Diet - A healthy diet satisfies two criteria: It contains enough fibre and a number of micronutrients including vitamins and minerals to maintain a healthy body. It is balanced in forms of fat, protein, and carbohydrates and micronutrients.

    2. An excite list is merely a list of goals that you want to achieve today. Here is the magic trick. Each of the goals on your list should move you towards your ultimate goal, in this case fitness, but they should also be ridiculously easy to achieve. Goals such as “Eat a salad with lunch” or “Put on my sneakers and walk briskly for 5 minutes” are good examples, and if you find these too difficult, make up goals that are even easier to achieve.

  2. Don’t Train With The Flu - This is one of the biggest exercise blunders you can make A number of temperature raising viruses, including the flu can affect the muscles. People often forget that the heart is also a muscle and can be weakened by the flu virus. Normally our hearts can cope with the strain of this, but exercising on top of an already weakened heart is potentially fatal. After a bout of the flu, you should wait at least 48 hours before exercising again.

    3. I’m not kidding. I’m completely serious. Even if your first goal has to be “Get out of bed today.” Make your excite list at least 6 goals long. Be sure that you CAN and DO complete them all today. Now where is the point in all of this? Glad you asked. The simple act of completing goals and checking them off of your list, no matter how quickly and easily you finish them, creates positive energy in your mind (that means you start feeling good about yourself and your ability to reach the Bigger goals ahead).

  3. Cool Down - When you do a strenuous workout the blood vessels in your muscles dilate to deliver more blood for the muscles to operate. The skin vessels also dilate to increase the heat loss from your body, which is why you get flushed after exercise. If you don’t give your blood and skin vessels enough time to recover, and jump straight under hot water your skin vessels will dilate even further. Then your heart goes into overdrive trying to pump blood throughout the body. Ultimately you might notice symptoms like faintness, dizziness or at worst, you could even collapse.

    4. You get excited about finishing Something, no matter how small. And you feel ready to face the next challenge. Excitement is slowly but surely building in your subconscious. Your power to achieve is building with each check mark. When your done with your initial excite list of the day, turn around and make a new one.

  4. Don’t Eat Before Exercising - Always try to eat two or three hours before your exercise and not after that. If you do eat before exercise you can develop what is known as “dumping syndrome’ where the blood supply that normally goes to your muscles during exercise is diverted to your gut. This means that you’re not getting enough blood to your muscles, which can cause you to become lethargic and faint.

    5. What can you do next, big or small, to move you towards your larger goal? You have inertia on your side now. Don’t stop! By the end of the day, you will feel better about everything and, surprise!, when you review your day, you will see how much you have accomplished. And tomorrow will be even brighter and filled with even more success. Success creates more success. Set yourself up for achievement, not failure. Make your goals as small as necessary so that you can rack up achievements until you are ready again to tackle the larger things. Then you can Really challenge yourself. “What’s next? Bring it on!” Give it a shot. It has worked for me and may for you as well… [read more]

  5. Try to Give Up Smoking - the best and easiest way to give up smoking is to replace it with another habit. Unfortunately, quitting has been associated with weight gain if you replace your cigarette habit with a candy or snack food habit. So replace the smoking with the habit of exercise!! Nothing tough or painful at first and build up to it. A five minute walk instead of a cigarette and aim to build it up slowly and easily.

    Before, you will be fitter, you will be healthier and your body will be more you realize tight and toned. You will feel better in the morning, your breath will be worth being near again and fingernails, hair and skin will take on a much younger fresher look!! Of the people who die from lung cancer, 95% of them smoke.

    6. Top 10 Ways That Fitness Reduces Your Risk of Heart Disease.

    1. Cardio improves blood flow, which helps to reduce blood clots and blockages in the arteries.
    2. The heart is a muscle like any other. Regular exercise keeps it strong and toned. As it gets stronger, your heart rate slows because less beats are needed to pump the same amount of blood.
    3. Cardio reduces and prevents high blood pressure.

  6. Protein Power - Carbohydrates supply the sort of calories easily burned during cardiovascular exercise, but protein plays an important part in building muscle mass - or rather in not storing food as fat. “This is largely because the bulk of protein that is eaten will be used to build muscle”. Further the average male will lose 500gms of muscle - not fat - every year once he stops regular exercise. While older men and women are usually touted as the beneficiaries of strength training so to are the young.

    7. 4. Cardio raises your level of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) or “good” cholesterol, which reduces your risk of heart disease.
    5. People who exercise regularly are less inclined to smoke.

  7. Planned Exercise - I suggest you start with 100 minutes per week of mildly puffing exercise be it 2×50 mins, 3×35 mins, 4×25 mins, 5×20 mins all of which produce the same results. Mix up your aerobic activities in the gym; use the treadmill, bike, climber or any other training gear available to you.

    8. 6. Cardio reduces your risk of diabetes, thereby reducing your risk of heart disease.
    7. People who train have cleaner diets - they consume less fat and eat more fiber.
    8. Exercise helps with weight control. Being overweight is linked to many diseases.

  8. Keep A Training Log - Keep a training log for all your fitness requirements, keeping account of the reps you are using, how many sets, what weights you are using and also the date, time and where the workout took place is imperative for gauging your day to day progress. Also recording all cardio- vascular activities is just as important.

9. Cardio reduces stress and depression.
10. Exercise strengthens the body and makes every task easier… [read more]

In conclusion, these general health and fitness might have been left to last but the are still right up there as far as your health and fitness is concerned.

Autor: Gary Matthews.
Source: www.maximumfitness.com


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