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Warm up exercises are essential to perform any other exercise, because thanks to these moderate exercises, the movement is activated, the muscles and joints are prepared to be exercised in the physical activity of greater intensity.
You must take into account that breathing is also very important, when you feel difficulty to breathe, it is best to stop, rest for a while and start again the movements printing them a more leisurely pace than had to produce breathing difficult and troubled.
In this way and with these simple warm up exercises, avoid muscle injuries, strains of ligaments and any accident that may cause the physical exercises. Read the rest of this entry »
Using stationary bikes and following the precise instructions given by an instructor, spinning each day gains more adherents.
It is a style exercise where the bicycle has pedals specially prepared as allowing not only cycling but also perform a variety of movements can be adjusted to each practitioner taking into account not only their physical but also their own resistance.
Spinning classes have duration of approximately forty minutes and should be in front of it guided by a certified instructor, trained, and that their role is critical for properly training, avoid injury and achieve the desired results. Read the rest of this entry »
There have been several scientific studies evaluating the frequency of meals and the degree of overweight and obesity in the population, yielding as a result, you eat five times a day helps to reduce overweight and obesity, two of the ills of our days.
In addition, studies also indicate that eating in the morning has a satiating effect, so you eat fewer meals throughout the day. By contrast, people who eat plenty of nights that can not cease and end up taking more food. Obese people have consumption patterns in the more food you eat too late at night, compared with non-obese.
The main causes of weight gain are: poor diet, extreme dieting, stop eating, irregular mealtimes, dinners excessive pecking between meals and a sedentary lifestyle. Read the rest of this entry »
Good physical layout and conditions are essential to our bodies when exercising, as it is necessary to have a good health to sports. But when it comes to exercise is not the only thing that should take precedence, because there are other factors that are decisive in achieving good results when playing sports. This time we will stop in one of them is very important, the motivation.
The mood is essential when practicing sport and that is how we go to training will be decisive in achieving a good result. On countless occasions we have seen that the mind has great power over our bodies and our mood determines the mood that we have when we go to play sports. It is therefore essential that we know with simple tricks to motivate the time of going to train with good humor.
Choosing the right activity:
First of all we need to make the sport an outlet. Nothing will force us to do an activity that we do not like, as this will result in what will be failures and withdrawals. Here you have a very important type of activity you choose, since it is necessary that we chose those that we like and that fit our personalities. For this there is a wide range of possibilities to choose from. Read the rest of this entry »
Squats are a complex exercise that requires training and discipline to avoid injuries, if performed correctly can reap the multiple benefits that perform it. When we can sit well to note that most of the weight you have on your heels, because if we feel the weight on the toes are not doing well and this is not good for either the back or the knees, since the weight must be in the center of gravity thus improving stability.
Perform squats requires the mobilization of various muscle groups and are very effective at developing muscle mass because it provides an excellent stimulus to the muscles, involving large muscle groups.
When performing squats do not need to be powerful and can do them without equipment, not only works to improve the appearance and musculature of the buttocks and legs, but also involves other muscles, stimulate the cardiovascular system, improve the strength and breathing capacity. Read the rest of this entry »
The abdominal exercises but do not seem complicated, require a good technique to avoid injury, therefore we must take special care in the placement of the arms and legs to do crunches, since it depends on the intensity when you exercise and level where you are.
Although the feet, legs and arms are not directly involved when doing crunches, play an important role in getting results, because depending on your placement will add or not to exercise intensity . For this reason it is so important to be aware of why place the legs and hands of one form or another, since this depends on the results you want to find with abs.
Location of the arms to do crunches:
We begin with the hands and as we mentioned above, although not directly involved when doing crunches, your placement has much to do to develop certain intensity in the exercise. Read the rest of this entry »
Zumba is a practice created by Beto Perez fromColombiawho in 1999 started hot with this technique, which combines Latin rhythms with fitness and resistance exercises interspersed. Zumba focuses on maintaining a healthy body; increase flexibility, coordination and strength, and help to those who make you burn calories and therefore lose weight.
Besides being a fun dance discipline, which can be practiced by both men and women, using rhythms like salsa, bachata, merengue, samba and reggaeton, adapted to the session to thereby achieve a simple and effective conditioning, which uses the principles of resistance training routines and to increase consumption of calories.
Besides all the above practice Zumba delivered many benefits and here we will discuss what these are.
Benefits of Zumba:
- Burn calories, since in each session of Zumba can burn about 800 calories, increasing also the loss of fat located in different areas of the body.
All we hear every day that exercise is beneficial for health and improves quality of life of all people, helps us keep fit, increase our energy, and improve sleep quality, among many other benefits. However many times we turn away from exercise because they begin to feel discomfort in the body and sometimes we get injured and most of these injuries and discomfort can be prevented by following these tips.
Tips to prevent injury during exercise:
- Before we start doing exercises to start with a warming. The heating must be done because it increases body temperature, promotes blood circulation, increases heart rate and breathing, increases elasticity of muscles, tendons and ligaments and prepares them for the effort so as to avoid possible injuries such as strains, tears, cramps, sprains etc.
- It is advisable to perform at least 15 minutes of aerobic exercise like running, cycling, rowing, and climbing etc., at a rate or low or moderate intensity. Then it is advisable to at least 10 minutes of flexibility to stretch the muscles and prepare them for intense exercise, once this warming we’ll be able to exercise at higher intensities, of course this also depends on the level at which we are.
We all know the scientific meeting that the greater the stress the greater muscle recovery time on post-workout, but many we do not to think until that point this is an absolute truth because today thanks to the sports nutrition we can reduce the times and achieve greater profit.
However, the stress must be properly because if you go into an over-training the result is completely opposite to expectations, the muscle wasting is important to not only cause muscle micro lesions remaking the fibers at halftime, but also to induce sarcoplasmic hypertrophy causing increased fluid retention in the cytoplasm, increased the ability of DNA, and the size of the cell organelles.
We must also take into account the neuromotor adaptations, morphological, and of course holding capacity in muscle of some substances such as glycogen, nitrogen, water, or minerals, etc., but for this to occur simultaneously tension overload is more than important and necessary, it is really important not to be required very long training time but very heavy.
If a person trains 120 minutes at 40% of his 1RM for all exercises probably work with very high repetitions stimulating the neuromotor system forcing adaptation. Read the rest of this entry »
Many people now want to exercise to tone their body but do not know how, are afraid or insecure to go to a gym. For all that here are we bring a routine comprised of bodyweight exercises, this means that we need nothing more than our own body to do them, without going to a gym, lifting weights or using machines, all in the comfort of the home or hotel room if necessary.
Anyone who starts in the area of fitness should first start by lifting its own weight and once achieved, move to lift dumbbells, barbells, dumbbells and everything we use in the gym. If we are unable to master our own weight, not sense to want to raise something else. Read the rest of this entry »