The following are characteristics and habits of people living in countries that tend to enjoy longer than average life spans. Make activity a part of your everyday routine. Yes this seems obvious but should go beyond your daily jog or trip to the gym. Try to find a way to incorporate activity into every aspect [...]
In today’s fast paced high stress world lack of sleep is a common problem. Unfortunately it can have a much greater impact on heath and body fat levels than most people realize Not getting enough sleep or sleep-depravation has been linked to: Obesity Heart disease Arthritis Diabetes Cancer Lack of sleep alters ghrelin and leptin [...]
Optimizing health and physical appearance involves the synthesis of 3 important factors: nutrition, physical activity, and proper supplementation. Eating nutrient dense foods in their natural form, exercising with the right frequency and intensity and using high quality supplements will bring results steadily and progressively at the fastest rate your body is physiologically capable of. Any [...]
Most mainstream (think government, doctor) exercise recommendations focus on cardiovascular exercise and often treat strength training as an afterthought. While aerobic exercise is important and has many benefits including strengthening and protecting the cardiovascular system it is resistance or strength training is the exercise of choice if a long life is what you are after. [...]
Resistance training, cardio workouts, walking to the car, vacuuming the carpet, or even just sitting at a desk is an opportunity to work your abdominal muscles. The key is to consciously Engage the Abdominals. Do this by contracting your stomach muscles as if someone were about to punch you in the stomach then pulling your [...]
Most mainstream (think government, doctor) exercise recommendations focus on cardiovascular exercise and often treat strength training as an afterthought. While aerobic exercise is important and has many benefits including strengthening and protecting the cardiovascular system, it is resistance or strength training that is the exercise of choice – if a long life is what you [...]
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