It’s rare that we come across a piece of content that applies to both the “Fit” and “Sexed” parts of our site’s title, but that’s exactly what we found in this video promoting couples fitness program WeFitFor2.
The system aims to motivate couples to get fit by keeping each other accountable. It’s already been written up in Men’s Health‘s Sex and Fitness series, and as you’ll see in the clip below, was featured on NBC’s The Today Show:
Starting a new routine, in anything, can be daunting. But this can be especially true for getting in shape.
Many times people will find themselves making a huge goal for themselves, such as running a marathon or going to the gym everyday.
While these are indeed noble goals, for most, starting smaller and building up to the big goals will provide a smoother transition and create a staircase of goals, easily climbable, in lieu of one giant mountain of a platform to climb.
With an example like that in mind, here are seven tips for starting a new exercise routine.
In the current issue of Men’s Health magazine, there is a story regarding some of the best new exercises to have improved on the old standards. Here are a few from Men’s Health to help you get into top form in no time.
Pushup Plus
Assume a pushup position with your arms straight and your hands placed slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. Your body should form a straight line from your ankles to your head. Lower your body until your chest nearly touches the floor. Pause, and then push back up. As you straighten your arms, push your upper back toward the ceiling. Besides working your chest as effectively as any exercise, the “plus” part of this movement hits your serratus anterior—a small but important muscle that helps move your shoulder blades. Strengthen your serratus, and you’ll improve your posture and reduce your risk of shoulder injuries—as you build your chest.
Mixed Grip Chinup
Grasp a chinup bar with your hands shoulder-width apart on a chinup bar. Use an underhand-grip with one hand, and an overhand-grip with the other. Hang at arm’s length, and cross your ankles behind you. Now pull your chest to the bar by bending your elbows and squeezing your shoulder blades down and back. To prevent your torso from rotating as you perform this exercise, your back, shoulder, and core muscles have to work harder than in a conventional chinup.
Farmer’s Walk On Toes
Grab a pair of dumbbells and hold them at your sides at arm’s length. Then rise up on the balls of your feet. Now walk forward for 60 seconds. Not only will this work your calves, but it also improves your cardiovascular fitness.
Bar Hold
Set a barbell on a rack at the level of your waist and load the bar with a heavy weight. Grab the bar with an overhand grip that’s beyond shoulder-width apart. Dip your knees, lift the bar off the rack, and hold it for the appropriate amount of time for your goal. This helps make sure your forearms don’t give out too early, so you won’t shortchange the rest of your working muscles.
Read more at: www.menshealth.com
Jena La Flamme is a Writer/Speaker/Certified Holistic Health Counselor/Weight Loss Coach as well as being the Jena Wellness Center. A real renaissance woman in the field of “being better”, Jena has an interesting and useful blog on her website JenaWellness.com.
Jena’s career in the healing arts began 11 years ago during her first visit to India. Touched by the message that the fulfillment we seek already resides within us, Jena launched into focused study of nutrition,yoga and meditation, where she experienced their power first hand, and her life was transformed.
Jena is now primarily a speaker. She speaks to groups of varying sizes, from small and intimate to groups of several hundred. No group is too big for Jena! Her ideal speaking opportunity? An organization that is passionately devoted to the health of its employees or a professional women’s group. (Via Her Blog’s About Page)
F&S readers who are interested in losing weight in the new year would be interested in checking out some posts from Jena’s blog such as:
You can also find Jena IRL (in real life) at some of her live-workshops, which you can read more about on her homepage.
Sweating can be uncomfortable and sticky. It can drench your clothing on a hot day or after a workout. It’s connected with waking up from a bad dream, and worrying about some upcoming event. There are however some major benefits of sweating:
* Sweating speeds up metabolic processes of vital organs and inhabits the growth of pathogenic bacteria and viruses. The vital organs and glands (including endocrine and sex glands) are stimulated to increased activity.
* Sweating Creates a fever reaction that kills potentially dangerous viruses/bacteria and increase the number of leukocytes in the blood, thereby strengthening the immune system.
* Sweating Places demands upon the cardiovascular system, making the heart pump harder and producing a drop in diastolic blood pressure.
* Sweating Stimulates vasodilation of peripheral vessels, which relieves pain and speeds healing of sprains, strains, bursitis, peripheral vascular diseases, arthritis and muscle pain.
Finally
*Sweating Promotes relaxation, thereby lending a feeling of well-being.
If you live in the New York area, you’ve more than likely seen the mug of Dr. Mehmet Oz mozying along on the side of a city bus. Having personally witnessed this ad about 1,000 times I gave in. I tuned in and checked out what the good doctor had to say (check out your local listings here).
Here’s a clip from a recent episode:
It turned out that the Dr. Oz show was incredibly informative and relevant to issues that come u in everyday life. Whether it’s staying clear of germs at the supermarket or how to reduce the amount of gas you have, Dr. Oz seems to have all the answers. After being mesmerized by the show two afternoons in a row, I decided to get the skinny on this entertaining, and inspiring man.
One of my very favorite blogs on the internet is Experiments in Lifestyle Design (The Official Blog of Tim Feriss) The blog which was launched into the Technorati top 1000 after his first book, The Four Hour Work Week, became a New York Times #1 best seller.
Feriss coined the phrase “Lifestyle Design” which is the cultivation of “life-hacks” in order to make one’s life more efficient. Tim is also known for his application of the Pareto Principle to business and personal life. He has also taken the position that technology such as email, instant messaging and internet-enabled PDA’s complicate life rather than simplify it.
Maintaining your ideal body weight is simple if you follow a few guidelines.
When you eat the right foods in the right combinations there is no need to count calories. It is always better to systematically under eat than to over eat and of course to maintain or get to your ideal body weight you have to burn off more calories than you take in. But many people do burn off more calories than they take in and systematically under eat and still gain or keep on there weight. There are few factors that few understand that can be keeping your weight on or that is making it difficult to take your unwanted weight off. (more…)
Ok all…It’s exercise time again! As you recall, I have previously written of alternative ways to exercise. Whether it be in your home, sans exercise equipment, or in the bedroom, Fit And Sexed advocates alternative exercising to stimulate boy and mind with novel workouts. That being stated, welcome to the latest installment, “Cubicle Crunch.”
When next you find yourself low on time to exercise, don’t panic! You can still make it to work on time, and exercise on your lunch break from the comfort of your 8×10 cell (Um…we mean cubicle). (more…)
The information in is this article is from my own experience eating whole foods and living a healthy lifestyle and a survey with slim & vibrant people.
