It is not only performing physical exercises that does us good, but also watching them. This fact was discovered by physiologists at the University of Chicago. They concluded that watching somebody training helps sharpen the brain. Continue reading »
It turns out that those who practice heavy exercise loads daily have a shorter lifespan. It happens because during exercising they inhale a large amount of oxygen; as a result, early aging of their cells is taking place. The fact, that intensive exercising speed up the aging of a human body, was identified by the doctors of Valencia municipal hospital. Continue reading »
Why taking pills, when you can’t fall asleep? They have a whole range of side effects. It has been recently found, that there’s a better way to cure insomnia without taking sedatives. Regular aerobics classes can help reduce anxiety and even get rid of insomnia. As for me, besides playing badminton, I do step aerobics at least once a week and after it I get a nice face color and a perfect mood, which makes me so efficient in work – just like nothing else. So, I would recommend aerobics as an antidepressant, too. Continue reading »
Regular physical exercise significantly reduces the risk of breast cancer. It has been recently scientifically proved, that women spending no less than 3 hours 15 minutes a week on different sport kinds have the lowest risk of developing breast cancer. It’s especially important to work out regularly for mid-aged women, whose risk to develop the disease grows rapidly. According to the scientists, regular workouts reduce the risk of breast cancer by 23%.
Here’s a new invention for those, who would like to keep fit, but is too clumsy. This is a quite unusual home trainer, which helps to keep your body in an ideal weight. This is a jump rope, but a cordless one. It’s very easy to use it: just hold the handles in your hands and begin to simulate jumping rope – move the handles in a circle with your hands. This will stimulate the centrifugal action of the jump rope due to the weighted ball inside the handle. Continue reading »
As centuries pass by, the standards of a beautiful bosom have changed for a number of times, today an ideal bust is considered the one with a shape that remains the same no matter what movements your body performs. Hence, a beautiful bosom is considered the one with high, elastic breasts, regardless of their size; the main point of a beautiful bust is its tone. The perfect sport to increase the tone and improve the appearance of your breasts is swimming, the second alternative, in case there is no way to practice this sport, is to see a fitness trainer or do some simple but effective exercises, which will help you strengthen the pectoral muscles by yourself. Continue reading »
In order to live longer you should give up smoking and do your morning exercises daily, right? But not! The latest studies show: longevity has a more cheerful recipe. Though a human body can live about 150 years genetically, our lives are much shorter. An average Japanese lives till 79 years, while Nigerians and Somalis hardly last out till the age of 47. Experts have analyzed the experience of long-living people and have elaborated 10 rules, which can help to prolong your life. Continue reading »
A new disease has been found by English scientists. It’s called athletic neurosis. One suffering from athletic neurosis is obsessed about permanently improving their own body. According to the scientists, such a comorbid aspiration for the ideal is due to glossy magazines demonstrating fit and brawny men and women. As a result there are more and more people finding their own bodies imperfect. Such people finding themselves ugly or unattractive spend hours at gyms trying to achieve the ideal body, but they never become how they want to be. Continue reading »
Fitness, jogging and swimming in the swimming-pool not only strengthen health, correct figure and increase self-confidence. The scientists have proved that sports help to cope with everyday problems and manage stress. In this article I’ll tell you, what kind of sport activities can help to relax in this or that stress situation. Continue reading »
Lots of women having varicose veins on their legs are afraid of exercising, because they believe, that physical exercises could make the problem worse. Exercises actually improve the blood circulation through your legs. Any exercises involving legs are good to prevent spider veins, the best and most efficient is exercising the lower calf muscles. Swimming, walking, bicycling, jogging, aerobics, step aerobics – if you do something from the list regularly, this is already varicose veins prevention. If you already have varicose veins, moderate leg exercises help relieve varicose veins and reduce the aching associated with them. The following exercises improve your leg strength and muscle tone, help promote circulation and, thus, help prevent and relieve varicose veins. Continue reading »
It was created by NASA a few years ago and served as a trainer for astronauts in space. Now it is the reason of the new world competition, a good gift idea and a great fun maker. Once you try it, you will never want to stop, it becomes a kind of drug (since I brought this miracle home, there has not been a day, when my boyfriend did not murmured with it). But fortunately this addiction is totally healthy: it strengths the fingers, hands, wrists, arms and shoulders. As a pianist, and a badminton player, I find it a perfect trainer. Continue reading »
Everybody knows that jogging is healthy. It provides body weight loss and fat burning, makes your body stronger and enduring, your figure well-set-up and slim, increases muscle bulk and doesn’t let cholesterin deposit on vascular walls. But unfortunately it’s not always fun, because systematical repetition of the same sport activity can bore one. Boredom brings laziness and you train less. Here are some recommendations to make jogging more exciting.
First of all, choose different places for jogging. But don’t jog near roads, because during training you breathe more intensively and your lungs swallow up all exhaust gases from cars. It’s better to jog in a park or forest. Such places are more friendly also because if you are jogging on asphalt, all your body weight returns to your legs as a repulsive force from your every step and damages your joints, as asphalt is too hard to neutralize it. This means “Sore upon sore is mot salve”: you loose weight, but damage your joints. The best place for jogging is of course the race track in a green zone. Continue reading »
