When should you exercise?
Most people find the start of the day the best time. It has its merits-you prime your circulation and start the day right. But there is you hard and fast rule. Do it at the time you find most convenient. Try to do it at the same time every day. Ideally, one should exercise when one is not too fatigued or under stress. Be sure not to exercise until an hour after eating. This is terribly important.
It is not very important how hours you exercise a day, but
YOU SHOULD DO EXERCISE
When should you exercise?
Most people find the start of the day the best time. It has its merits-you prime your circulation and start the day right. But there is you hard and fast rule. Do it at the time you find most convenient. Try to do it at the same time every day. Ideally, one should exercise when one is not too fatigued or under stress. Be sure not to exercise until an hour after eating. This is terribly important.
It is not very important how hours you exercise a day, but it is crucial to be consistent. Twenty minutes of exercise regularly every day will give infinitely better results than frenzied hour and a half one day and no exercise at all for the next few days.Activities like swimming and dancing take care of the overall exercise of your body, since the limbs and torso move in a coordinated manner during either. On the other hand, spot reduction exercises tackle spacitic problem areas of the body. Most of us have problems with the waist, midriff, hips and thighs and the spot reduction exercises given later help.
Use your legs
If your hips and thighs are disproportionate, it is almost always because you don’t exercise them enough. If your legs are out of shape, it is because you do not use them enough. If your hips and buttocks look like a pair of plump cushions attached to your behind, it is because you probably don’t do anything but sit on them.The first corrective is to stop staying put. Anything you do to move your thighs around will help keep them supple. If you spend a lot of time sitting at a desk, stand up from time to time, stretch, roll your neck, do shoulder exercises by raising them up to your ears and then slowly rolling them back. While watching TV, roll left to right. Stand and flex your legs. This will work wonders for your hips.
Nowadays, cars and other means of transport have eliminated the need to walk, but walking is one of life’s unadulterated joys. One does not need any special equipment. You can do it when you want and stop whenever you want. To lose weight around your legs, walk at a brisk pace. In olden times, women washed clothes, mopped floors and so on, all of which are good stomach control exercises.
Jump-People all over the world love to jump. We learn to jump from childhood. It is particularly good for the heart and blood circulation. It helps tone the muscles. Start jumping on one place, slowly at first and then quicken the pace. Once you start doing it a hundred times a day, add 10 jumps daily and if you wish to, switch to a skipping rope. Begin with 50 jumps over the rope, Increase the number of jumps slowly. Forget how your feet are moveing, for if you stop worrying about them, they will function automatically. Jump just high enough to let the rope pass smoothly under your feet. You will shed the pounds soon enough.
Swimming-All our muscles come into play when we swim, so it is the best form of exercise for someone with an overall weight problem. Swim at least three times a week. Swim as much as you comfortably can. Swim on you back, your side and whichever way you want. This is an exercise that gives tremendous pleasure and also makes the fat melt away.
Exercise
There is no royal road to slimness. You have to exercise to stay thin. It is no good exercising irregularly, you have to make it a part of your life. You must try to enjoy it. That is why fun exercises, like dancing, swimming and tennis, are good.
The excess flab may be all over the body or concentrated in one place. Find out and do the appropriate exercise. Once you start, there will be tangible results from the second day on. Your chronic fatigue and lassitude will disappear and you will feel more energetic and alive.
Starting to exercise, though, is tough-one often has a mental block about it. You have to force yourself to start Now.
A word of caution, however: Avoid strain. Do not begin with misplaced enthusiasm, only to end with a wildly beating heart and a pulled tendon. Take your time. Gradually increase the number of times you do each exercise. And each day, try to be bit more exact, a bit more precise. Try not to be negative about it-wear a sexy swimsuit, put on some music and imagine yourself doing it before a TV camera.
The excess flab may be all over the body or concentrated in one place. Find out and do the appropriate exercise. Once you start, there will be tangible results from the second day on. Your chronic fatigue and lassitude will disappear and you will feel more energetic and alive.
Starting to exercise, though, is tough-one often has a mental block about it. You have to force yourself to start Now.
When Should You Exercise?
Most people find the start of the day the best time. It has its merits-you prime your circulation and start the day right. But there is no hard and fast rule. Do it at the time you find most convenient. Try to do it at the same time every day. Ideally, one should exercise when one is not too fatigued or under stress. Be sure not to exercise until an hour after eating. This is terribly important.
It is not very important how many hours you exercise a day, but it is crucial to be consistent. Twenty minutes of exercise regularly everyday will give infinitely better results than frenzied hour and a half one day and no exercise at all for the next few days.
Activities like swimming and dancing take care of the overall coordinated manner during either. On the other hand, spot reduction exercises tackle specific problem areas of the body. Most of us have problems with the waist, midriff, hips and thighs and the spot reduction exercises given later help.
Understanding Calories
With so much talk about “watching” calories or “cutting down” on them, it is important to know what a calorie actually is and how it affects your weight. Very simply, a calorie is a measurement of the energy that is produced from the food you eat. Scientifically speaking, a calorie is the amount of heat required to raise one gram of water to one degree Centigrade. There are “good” calories and “bad” ones. Good calories are nutritional and provide a large amount of energy; foods like lean meat, fish, poultry, and eggs have them. ‘’Bad’’ calories are empty calories; foods which have them, like potato chips or rich desserts, are tempting to consume, but provide little energy.