Showing posts with label Fit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fit. Show all posts

How to Keep Fit and Healthy at All Times

If you want to keep fit and healthy at all times, then you have to make some active effort. Keeping fit doesn't only mean looking good from the outside. It means being physically active, mentally sound, and feeling energetic and ready to face the tasks of everyday life.

In order to keep fit and healthy, you don't have to run for hours, or spend several hours at a gym, or playing football or tennis, or riding a bike. You can start by doing simple exercises. People have all sorts of excuses for not exercising. Most everyone has family, children, and busy work schedules to take care of. However, if you want to stay healthy and live longer, then you have to make some little changes towards a healthy lifestyle.

To keep fit and healthy, follow a healthy and balanced diet everyday. Make sure that your everyday diet includes lots of fruits, vegetables, and protein. You should cut down on red meat, junk foods, caffeine, and sugar intake. Avoid soft drinks or canned fruit juices. Instead, opt for a variety of fresh fruits, vegetable salads, freshly made fruit juices, milk, nutritious energy drinks, etc.

You need to be more active in order to keep fit and healthy. Modern life has become very sedentary, with fewer scopes for physical activities. You need to exercise in order to burn those calories. Minimum physical activity slows down your metabolism rate. So, you can put on weight even when you eat less. On the other hand, exercise and a more active life will burn up the calories, even when you eat a little more. You can simply go for a brisk walk, or jog, or you can join a gym. The important thing is that you must include some physical exercise in your everyday life, because fitness and health cannot be achieved without some physical exercise.

For a healthy life sufficient sleep is important. Lack of sleep can make you feel tired the next day. So work hard, but make sure that you have enough sleep; so that your body gets the time to replenish itself.

Do not skip your breakfast, no matter how busy you are. Breakfast is the first and most important meal of the day. It works as a fuel for your body and keeps you going for the rest of day. If you skip breakfast, you will feel hungrier in the latter part of the day, and you may end up eating more! So, you may run a risk of gaining weight, if you skip your breakfast frequently.

If you are not a healthy eater and find it difficult to improve your food habits due to busy, erratic, work schedules, then you may be depriving your body of the essential nutrients that are important for good health. In the long run, unhealthy food habits can lead you to serious health hazards. An easy solution to this problem is to include multi-vitamin supplements in your daily food intake. Multi-vitamins can be taken to replenish the nutritional deficiencies in your daily diet.

Following these simple but effective rules will enable you to keep fit and healthy at all times.
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From Fat to Fit - What You Need to Know

Have you discovered the secret to quick weight loss? The truth is there is no secret. What there is are many unique ways that share similar characteristics. It's time you learned what you need to know to go from fat to fit.

Deciding on a weight loss, muscle building program has a lot to do with your personal preferences and tastes. It should also be based on your level of commitment. After all, there's no point in choosing a program that requires you to work out every day when you are only willing to work out three times a week.

There are all kinds of fad diets on the market that would like you to believe they have something that no one else has. The reality is most of these diets are similar. And while they have worked for many the key is being able to keep the weight off long term. If you decide to use a fad diet then you also need to have a long term plan in place and you need to be ready to make the lifestyle changes necessary to keep the weight off.

The truth is if you are looking to lose weight and gain muscle mass quickly, there are only a few tried and true way to do this. Here are some great tips to help you burn fat and build muscle.

1. Four days a week, you need to do 45 minutes of moderate free weight strength training.

2. Add high intensity cardio workouts that are 15 minutes in length and done three days a week.

3. Incorporate a nutritious well balanced diet into your life. Avoid junk food, processed food, and convenience food which has little nutritional value and far too many wasted calories.

4. You should not eat two hours before bedtime. Eating too late turns these calories into fat.

5. Drink lots of water. In fact, you should be drinking a gallon a day. Water removes the toxins from your body and it also fills you up. Have a glass of water before you sit down to eat and you'll eat far less. Got the munchies, drink a glass of water. Water also provides the necessary hydration to your muscles.

Building muscles and losing fat is not a onetime occurrence. It requires you to make some changes to your lifestyle. To keep the weight off you will need to continue to exercise and eat healthy. The good news is losing the weight isn't nearly as difficult as many would have you believe. Why not start today?

Thanks for reading,

Daniel Sumner

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Burn Fats Fast: Can You Be Fat and Fit?

Is it possible to be fat and fit? It is common knowledge that being overweight or obese brings about a host of health issues such as heart disease, stroke, and diabetes to name a few which is why it is important to keep a watchful eye on your weight.

Mention the word fat and what follows is usually a whole list of negative traits and fit is the last adjective to be associated with fat. Well I realized that this may not necessarily true, you can be FAT and FIT! What prompted me to say that? You may ask.

Last Sunday, I participated in a mass run event organized by a popular fitness magazine and this annual mass run, usually held in July caters only to ladies. I had reported to the starting point at 0700H for my 5km flag off at 0735H. As usual, there were a few categories to cater to the different fitness level for participants with a whopping turnout of 8,000 people, of which 6,000 had signed up for the 5km category with the remaining accounting for the 10km and 2.4km.

As I made my way closer to the starting point, I noticed a good mix of participants who were on the heavier side as well as slimmer ones. I thought to myself: lean runners should be better runners (think road runner? Beep beep)since they are so much lighter and even if that is not the case, they SHOULD still be faster because they are rightfully fitter than their overweight participants?

As the countdown timer showed seconds ticking away, the majority of runners were unable to contain their excitement as we were all raring to go! It was a sea of pink (geeze, the event tee was pink) when the guest of honor sounded the horn to start and officially flagged off the race. All you can see from your surrounding were runners decked in pink whizzing past you.

After clearing the bottleneck (with a massive 6,000 runners gathered at the start point), I can get a better view of other runners and started to observe those ahead of me. I was in for a surprise to see heavy weight runners in front of me.

In fact, I observed that a number of much leaner and slimmer runners were already out of breadth shortly after the race started. As I continued my run with a slightly faster pace, I was expecting to see slimmer runners ahead in the pack. In fact, it was a mixture of the lean runners and also a good number of heavier runners ahead of me and well ahead! I instinctively increased my speed to close up the distance and overtook them. This scenario repeated itself alternating between me being in front and then overtaken. I guess it was the competitive streak all runners have as it was after all a race.

But it did set me thinking why was it that overweight runners were able to run faster and on top of it, they seemed to have better stamina as most of them soldiered on when their leaner friends had slowed down and started walking instead. Actually, truth is that a person on the heavier side who works out regularly is definitely fitter than a leaner person who does not exercise at all! It is probably stereotype at work! But there is something worth exploring further: if those overweight runners have been working out consistently, why are they then overweight? It certainly takes time to build up your stamina and cardiovascular fitness. If you too had participated in mass runs and had the same observations, please visit my blog and share your thoughts.
By the way, I had clocked in a humble 35 minutes for my run and the winner completed the run in just a mere 17 minutes. Of course, she got to walk away with cash prize and many other prizes from the sponsors!

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