Exercise is a fun and enjoyable way to keep healthy for everyone. The Buddy Walk is trying to raise awareness about Downs Syndrome and sponsors walks all over the country. You can find one to volunteer for here:
Encouraging exercise for all members of our society makes our world healthier on a whole. Give the Buddy Walk in your area a little of your time and you will profit more from it than you will every know.
I hadn’t heard of Fat Chance until I found this review from Rudd’s Sound Bites. Mo’Nique is sponsoring a beauty pagent for fabulous and thick women. I think it’s absolutely wonderful!
Stephanie believes that the show is not quite comfortable in its skin, but it has moments that are inspiring:
“There is one contestant, the African-American security guard Tiffany Jones, who does not don a wig to cover her short blond cut. MoNique says she couldn’t allow Tiffany to cover up her own beauty, and Tiffany answers that she is thrilled not to have to hide her hair or tattoos to be beautiful.”
If you missed the show, you can see clips from it on Oxygen Network’s official website for the show:
For more information about Mo’Nique and her sassy attitude, see her official website:
Remember, loving yourself just the way you are is the first step toward living a healthy life. Shows like Fat Chance are a way to learn to love yourself and be able to commit to living a healthier and stronger life.
If you have ever talked yourself out of exercising, you know that there are a million excuses not to work out. Wendy Bumgardner at About.com blows all those excuses out of the water with her Excuse Busters series:
Wendy has compiled such a thorough list of excuses and how to bust them that there really are no excuses. No matter what you say, there is a way to work around the problem. Now, if you don’t exercise, you need to analyze why and find a way to bust your own exercise excuse.
Maybe you’ve been exercising for a few weeks, but you’re not seeing any progress. Maybe you’ve started exercising, but you’ve got strange pains in your shoulders or other muscles. Maybe you are thinking about quitting this exercise thing because “It’s not working.” Before you do, read this article from WebMD.
Here are a few of the most common mistakes:
Doing the “gym slouch.” “We see many people in the gym leaning on equipment,” says Debi Pillarella, MEd, a spokeswoman for the American Council on Exercise. “We call it ‘gym slouch’: They’re on the Stairmaster, [elliptical cross trainer], or treadmill, leaning over, and hanging on for dear life.” When your back is rounded, your spine doesn’t get enough support. So stand erect when you’re working out on one of these machines.
Giving your abs a free ride. Many people do crunches or abdominal machine workouts without ever toning their abdomens. The problem is that they’re using the upper torso, neck, and head to do the work. “Do mindful exercise,” says Pillarella. “The contraction should be from the ribcage to the hip bone. Put your mind into the muscles that are working, and keep all the other muscles quiet.”
Seeking a quick fix. Many people expect dramatic results from a little exercise. “Current recommendations are for 3 1/2 to four hours of physical activity a week just to prevent weight regain,” says Kasper, who is a professor in the department of kinesiology at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Ga. “If you want to lose weight and you’re walking 30 minutes, three times a week, without changing your diet, it will take roughly one month to lose a pound.”
These tips are very helpful when you might be considering quitting your workout routine. They will give you the information to tune things up and prevent injury. Check them out.
Weblogs, Inc. has finally started a healthy living weblog. You can read it here:
I have been waiting for a health related weblog from Weblogs, Inc. for almost two years. It has taken them a while to realize that this might be an interesting topic, but now that they are here, I’m excited to read their take on this subject.
Head on over there and see what they have to say!
Sometimes I forget that not everyone has heard about all the good things to do with food AND keep it low calorie until I am reminded by someone else. Here is a foodie review of No Pudge Brownies. They are a brand of brownie mixes that taste as good as the real thing with far less calories.
No Pudge Brownies were kind of hard for me to find in my store (until I asked them to stock them), so if you can’t find them, you can order them at Amazon. They come in a variety of flavors:
The best part of No Pudge Brownies is that they have directions to make ONE brownie in the microwave. It turns out not quite as good as a brownie baked in an oven, but the serving size can’t be beat. If you have trouble limiting your servings when a pan of delicious brownies comes out of the oven, you might want to try No Pudge Brownies. You can make yourself one brownie and keep yourself safe from the rest of the pan.
It has been a while since I’ve seen an exercise product that makes me laugh. The interactive commercial from Brookstone states that horse-riding is the one of the best forms of exercise.
Sure, it might build a little abdominal strength, but there are hundreds of better exercises to do for your abs that don’t require a silly machine or a horse.
This Asian advertisement for the product says what they’re really trying to sell:
I suspect that in five years, anyone who buys this product is going to shake their head at this commercial and wonder why they have an iGallop in their basement.
When I first decided to start running for cardiovascular health, I found a book at the used bookstore called The Complete Book of Running. It was an out of date book that gave me a little information about how not to hurt myself. The first mistake they made was they showed a runner on the cover without socks. If I had followed along, I would have ended up with blisters on my feet that would have put me out of commission for a week. Fortunately, I already knew that I needed socks.
Today, people are more likely to type “running” into Google than hit a used bookstore. If they found this Wikipedia entry, they would be better informed than I was when I first started.
If you have been thinking about trying running for weight loss or as a sport, peruse this Wikipedia entry and follow its links until you feel like you know a little more. There’s plenty of information there to help you make your decision. The real deciding factor is how you feel when you try running. Put on a good pair of running shoes and hit the roads. It’s the best way to know whether you’ll like the sport and you’ll find that there is no substitution for just doing it.
Instead of talk about the starving around the world, the International Association of Agricultural Economists conference concentrated on obesity. More people around the world are struggling with weight than starvation, even in countries where starvation was a problem before, like China.
I don’t know what a gathering of economists can do about obesity, but it seems that every group of scientists is tackling this problem.
When it’s so widespread, the concept of “Eat Less and Move More” seems a little simplistic, but sometimes the most difficult problems have the most simple answers.
The Pose Method is a way of running that’s a little different than most of us use. It’s also different than my gym teacher taught me in my jogging class.
Mark, over at Passion for Running, uses the Pose Method and described what it feels like:
He said,
“Do you know the feeling of lightly touching on stairs as you go down them? There is that fine line between going too slow — when your feet begin landing more heavy and flat-footed — and going that speed where they just tightly touch the stairs.”
“That’s what Pose Method runners try for — that kind of quickness and lightness.”
With all I’ve read about the Pose Method, I’ve never heard it described like this before. This simple description makes me want to try changing my method of running in order to feel this sensation.
You can find out more about the Pose Method here:
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