Archive for March, 2009
Burn Calories, Dump Stress, Boost Immune Function – Without Sweating?
Written by success on Friday, March 20, 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Aerobic Exercises, Agazine, Andrew Weil, High Blood Pressure, Impact Aerobics, Modern Medical Research, Mood Disturbance, Office Attire
agazine wrote, “… Tai Chi is the perfect exercise …” While serving as the Tai Chi Expert at DrWeil.com, I learned that best selling author and acclaimed naturopathic physician, Andrew Weil, suggested that poor breathing habits are at the root of many of our health problems. This was exciting news to me, confirming what I’d spent a lifetime learning in my Qigong (Chi Kung) and Tai Chi education. Yet, Dr. Weil’s insights helped me describe to people just why Tai Chi is the perfect exercise.
Qigong, pronounced chee-kung, literally means “breathing exercise.” The more popular exercise of Tai Chi is a form of Qigong. Modern medical research is now revealing that Tai Chi & Qigong are powerful health sciences, as well as effective aerobic exercises.
Studies have shown that Tai Chi can lower high blood pressure, and profoundly boost aspects of the immune system, while improving balance and coordination far better than any other known exercise. Tai Chi can reduce or eliminate chronic pain or limited mobility, while lessening the incidence of anxiety, depression, or overall mood disturbance. Tai Chi is the lowest impact exercise there is, and has even been used by those with arthritis, yet as gentle as it is it burns about 280 calories per hour, and provides roughly the same cardiovascular benefits of moderate impact aerobics.
Sounds too good to be true doesn’t it? But, it is true, and this is only scratching the surface of what Tai Chi offers our busy lives. Not only can Tai Chi do all these amazing things, but it is so multi-dimensional that it provides these healing results to all the systems of our mind, body, and spirit in a regimen that only takes less than 30 minutes a day, and can be done in office attire at work in an empty boardroom or stock room. Anywhere where you can have some time alone with a little space to be uninterrupted, making Tai Chi the exercise of the future.
A major fitness manufacturing association recently released a study that found Tai Chi was at the top of the growth charts for health & fitness exercises. For those who’ve learned to enjoy Tai Chi and Qigong’s gentle workouts, this is no surprise, as they’ve seen their outlook improve, and an increased sense of well-being in their lives. Many notice improved sleep, reduced allergy symptoms and lessened asthma symptoms over the years as they practice Tai Chi & Qigong as well.
How does Tai Chi do all of this? Tai Chi is part of Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM. TCM has evolved over thousands of years of medical research in China, and evolved a system to understand how the Qi, or life energy, moves through the mind and body to support all the health systems, mental, emotional, physical, and spritual. When energy is blocked, mainly by unmanaged stress, our health diminishes. What’s fascinating is that modern Western medicine is now beginning to validate the insights of TCM. Kaiser Permanente’s twenty-year study finding that 70 to 85% of their patient’s illnesses sending them to their doctors were caused by stress, absolutely validate TCM’s understanding of our health.
Tai Chi’s gentle movements, breathing techniques, and visualization techniques combine to massage the accumulated stress loads out of our 50 trillion cells in our body. The result is to cultivate a newness of being each time we “play” Tai Chi. The Chinese don’t speak of “work-outs,” but rather “play” Tai Chi. If you can play yourself into a whole new life, a healthy, and happy, and hopeful one… why wait?
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Aerobics: The Best Way To Burn Your Calories
Written by success on Friday, March 20, 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Aerobics Exercises, burn calories, Cardiovascular Activities, Cardiovascular Diseases, Count Calories, Everyday Tasks, Suffering From Depression, Uniforms
Are you feeling tired these days? Then, you may have to concentrate on building some strength in your body, getting your body in shape and count the number of calories you are consuming. Increasing strength refers to increasing the capability of your body so that you can stand and run for more than your usual capacity, lift weights without difficulty and perform better in your everyday tasks.
In simple words, this will transform your body to a more improved version. You will not only look pretty like movie stars, but also able to complete your tasks without getting tired easily. All this can be achieved by aerobic exercises that need not essentially be done at gym only. You can do them all at your home.
Aerobics exercises at home -
Aerobics exercises are mainly the exercises that provide the required oxygen to the body that burns calories and helps your muscles to function properly. Your daily activities provide you with all the benefits of aerobic exercises, that too without wearing any of those annoying sticky Lycra uniforms.
Benefits of household aerobics exercises -
Gardening and walking are the cardiovascular activities that can provide you with needed level of normal exercises. At the same time you do your household works all by yourself such as washing your dog, cutting your lawn, shopping and others.
This is also an agreed fact by all Fitness experts that aerobics exercises can help you reduce your waistline as it focuses on abdominal area where all the belly fats accumulates usually.
Just imagine, around 15 minutes of walking twice a day can do the trick for you, that too without any diet. Apart from the fat accumulated around the waistline, it helps to decrease calories and overall health of an individual.
Furthermore, people who regularly execute these household aerobics exercises also have reduced risks of suffering from depression, stroke, cardiovascular diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes and at times even cancer later in life.
Equation for healthy living -
Hence, it is advisable to select any physical activity that you can carry out regularly with interest, then select another one and slowly proceed with the task for staying healthy. This way there are fewer chances that you will quit and you will also be pleased that you have completed so many jobs of your house.
Now if you are motivated enough to walk that extra mile for aerobics exercises, you can go for dancing, swimming, gym, kickboxing, tai chi or play tennis. The options available to you are just endless. The equation of healthy living can never be completed unless you indulge yourself completely into it.
Based on the above stated solutions, the equation can therefore be summed up as – Aerobics + You = More Calories Burn = Increased Level of Fitness
Weight Loss
Calorie Burning Exercises
Written by success on Thursday, March 19, 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Burned Calories, Burning Calories, Calorie Burning Exercises, Cardio Exercise, Daily To Do List, Exercise Calories, Metabolism Rate, Real Fun
To be able to lose weight, we have to keep our burned calories much more than the calories consumed. So we need to find and apply healthy fat burning ways. There are many ways of burning more calories. Some of them are related with our lifestyle, while others with our eating habits. With this we know that to burn more calories, we need to be more active and doing more of exercises.
Exercise helps us not only in burning calories but also in speeding up our metabolism rate. When we have done some exercise workouts, our body keeps on burning extra calories hours after the exercise program. So here is the list of some of the best exercise for burning calories:
Walking Need to include walking in your daily to do list. Try to make it a habit. Walking for 30 or 40 minutes daily in the morning will not only helps you in burning extra calories but also helps you in fasting your metabolism rate.
Step Aerobics Step aerobics is a form of aerobics that is done by millions of people all over the world. With step aerobics, we are not only able to increase our oxygen intake but also able to burn lots of calories like 400 calories in just 30 minutes of time.
Bicycling Bicycling can be really helpful in burning lots of extra calories whether you do it with your bicycling machine at your home or gym or do it in the open with your favorite bicycling. Cycling in the open can be real fun depending upon the resistance.
Swimming Swimming is a big calorie burning exercise where all of our major muscle groups being used. Doing breastroke or backstroke can burn equal amount of calories as we would have while doing fast walking.
Running Running is another cardio exercise that can help you in burning some serious calories. For running what you need a pair of shoes and time. The more you run, the more calories you are going to burn.
More jumps with rope Jumping with rope is a very simple but effective exercise for burning calories. You can do it in your house, gym, while playing with your friends and does not require much space. According to National Institute of health, while doing jumping rope you can approximately burn 750 calories per hour.
Some more aerobics exercises like roller-blading, rowing, Rock Climbing, Racquetball and some sports like football and tennis can also be used as big calorie burning exercises.
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