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Other than posts and information there are some different pages on Ask The Fitness Dude that you can check out. Go ahead and look around! If you want to get to know me a little and what the mission for this site is, than take a look at the “About Me” page. If you want to ask me a question than you can go to the “Ask Me” page and it will give you directions on how to do that. If you want to check out your BMI, then go to the “BMI Calculator” page. You will find an easy to use BMI calculator on there and a “Waist To Hip Ratio” formula.
I hope you enjoy the site, let me know if there is anything you want to see on Ask The Fitness Dude.
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Do not worry!! The side effects I am talking about are because people have either been starving themselves, taking diet pills, or have had some type of surgery. Remember, the best way to lose weight is naturally with a healthy diet and a workout routine that can meet the demands of your body. If you are starving yourself, taking diet pills, or had surgery, then you can worry.
Rebounding the Weight
It is completely unnatural for your body to loss weight quickly in a short period of time. When you take diet pills it can alter the chemistry of your body, which will actually cause a weight gain, and you will be worse off then before. Rebound weight gain is probably the most common side effect that people experience with unhealthy weight loss programs.
This can frustrate anyone trying to lose weight. It is easier to keep off weight that has been properly lost, than weight that has been lost in some sort of diet pill or unhealthy weight loss program.
Baggy Skin
This is a common side effect that occurs for people who get gastric bypass surgery or liposuction surgery. If you only have a few pounds to lose, then you really do not need to worry about this side effect.
The reason this side effect happens to people who have surgeries, is because they lose their weight so quickly…Overnight! There is no way for the body to recover from a surgery like that. The skin has no time to adjust to all the fat that has been lost. The only way to reduce loose skin, is to get another surgical procedure, which is just another way to cough over your money.
Dehydration
This side effect often happens with people who are involved in a sport that requires weight limits, like wrestling. This is a very serious side effect because if you dehydrate yourself to much it can actually resolve in death. This is a mistake that many people make when trying to lose weight quickly.
There are people who can lose up to 10 pounds by depriving themselves of fluids, but it is just water weight, which will be put back on easily. Plus, it is just to risky to dehydrate yourself because you can encounter some serious health issues, and you can hurt your metabolism in the process.
If you are looking in getting a stability ball to include in your workouts, then there are going to be a few things you need to know before you make that purchase. First, you want to to find out if stability balls will even be worth your money, so let me give you a few reasons why Stability balls are great for your workout routine.
Stability or exercise balls are great at utilizing your core and balance. The ball is an unstable surface which helps target all different sorts of muscles that you would not be able to target on a stable surface like the floor. In fact, even just sitting on the ball is better for your stability muscles than sitting in a chair, but do not expect to get six pack abs by just sitting on the ball. A Stability ball will add a wide variety of workouts to keep your routine fun and enjoyable. There are many different workouts you can perform on the ball that targets your core, but also other parts of your body too. If you are pregnant, the stability ball is safe for you, allowing you to do workouts you would not normally be able to do.
Okay, so you want to buy the ball…What size should you get? There are normally 3 different sizes 55 cm, 65 cm, and 75 cm. The 55 cm ball is for people who are 5’7″ and below, the 65 cm ball is for people who are between 5’7″ and 6’2″, and the 75 cm ball is for people 6’2″ and up. You want to make sure your ball is well inflated. When you sit on the ball it should slightly dip down and be firm on the sides. Make sure you check the manufacturer’s weight limits for the ball, most max limits are 300 pounds. It is super important to know the weight limit if you are looking into lifting free weights on your exercise ball. Finally, make sure that when sitting on the ball your legs are bent at a 90 degree angle, with your knees straight above your ankles.
Enjoy your exercise ball and move slowly on it so you avoid injury.
I know I mention this quite a bit in my posts, but I am a firm believer that Interval Training is the way to go! Do not get me wrong I still love continuous and long distance training, but nothing gets the body pumping like interval training does. Interval training increases your metabolic rate more than continuous training does. Lets take a look into the two styles of working out.
Now, athletes use both continuous workouts and interval workouts in their training and so should you, but most the time for the average Joe, interval training gets put off to the side. Which is unfortunate because interval training will help you get fit faster. Both workouts will help increase your aerobic capacity, meaning… the ability to transport and use oxygen. Continuous training usually involves long distance running for a certain distance or time without taking breaks, while interval training involves high intensity bursts with short times of rest.
Studies have been done! Check this out! Australian scientists have done a comparison study on both interval and over-distance-workouts. Both workouts were done with the same average metabolic load. They found that interval training produced the highest levels of peak oxygen consumption, they also came to the conclusion that interval training was a more powerful stimulus for increasing aerobic fitness. Canadian studies found that interval training exercises built high levels of fitness quickly. (Journal of Science and Medicine in Sports 11: 287-290, 2008; Journal of Applied Physiology 98: 1985-1990, 2005)
So the reason I am so crazy about interval training is because it works! There is one drawback…Interval training can also be viewed as more unpleasant than you normal workout, but it is still worth it.
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So what is the deal with flexibility? Why is flexibility important? Before we get into why flexibility is important, lets take a look into the factors that makes one flexible.
Have you ever heard of the term “range of motion about a joint?” Well this is a common term used to define the amount of movement that can be completed at a joint, a joint being a knee or a shoulder. However far your movement is in these joint areas determines your flexibility. There are many factors that determines a persons flexibility, including the structure of the joint, muscle tendon attachments, body temperature, pregnancy, and gender. Your age can be a definite factor in your flexibility too.
Obviously, child years and adolescent years will see the most increase in flexibility and is the best time to develop a habit of stretching in a persons life. As you reach your mid 20′s and the aging process starts to speed up, you will notice a decrease in flexibility. The reason this happens is because your body’s connective tissue and extensibility goes through some major changes. As we get older, we tend to lean more to the inactive side of life. Sure we might exercise and lift weights, but our flexibility gets thrown to the side, and as we develop more muscle our flexibility can also decrease. It is important to perform full motion exercises so that our connective tissue can be protected from becoming less resilient and shorter. We need to make sure that we stretch our major muscles groups’ everyday, especially when we start to age.
Some of the areas to stretch are listed below and can assist in keeping the body flexible throughout your lifetime:
Arm Stretches
Upper Trapezius
Anterior Shoulder
Posterior Shoulder
Tricep
Hip/Lower Body Stretches
Abductor
Hip Flexor
Quadriceps
Hamstring
Calf
Soleus
Torso
Low Back
Outer Hip Rotator
Thoracic and Lumber
Torso
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Tags : aging, Exercise, fitness, flexable, flexibility, Health, joints, knee, knee ligaments, range of motion, stretching, stretching exercises, tendons
This is just another friendly reminder to watch your eating habits during this holiday season. There is no need to throw out your whole nutrition and workout plan because there are tons of Christmas parties going on. You must continue to remain strong and continue to control your weight during this season. So here are a couple of reminders on how to keep that weight off.
The first and most important thing to do is to keep up with your workout routine. This will help you continue to burn calories and keep your metabolism running. If you fail to do your workout routine, you might pack on some unwanted pounds that you will have to work off later. It’s better to keep the weight off now then trying to burn it all off all over again.
Eat before the parties. This is important, because many people go to parties with an empty stomach, and guess what they fill there stomachs with at the party. Yep…egg nog, chocolates, fudge, candy, fried foods, cookies, and many other unhealthy foods. So do yourself a favor and eat before you go to a Christmas party.
Eat small portions. This will help your metabolism run at a consistent rate. Do not bog your system down with big and heavy meals, but eat smaller portions throughout the day. Try eating slower too, let your body have time to tell your brain that you are full, do not stuff yourself quickly.
So Hopefully these few tips can help you and remind you to look at the overall goal. To keep your weight off during the holiday seasons.
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So what are some ways besides exercising that we can promote weight loss. I am not talking about unhealthy ways to lose weight, but I am talking about some easy and practical ways you can loss fat. First, before I begin…most of these tips will involve breaking bad habits and beginning new good habits. So although they might seem easy to follow, you might find it difficult to create a healthy habit for yourself, because of the bad habits you have been living by most of your life.
Weight Loss Tip #1: EAT BREAKFAST – I am not talking about a breakfast that is ordered at McDonalds or a breakfast that is unhealthy for you. I am talking about a good healthy breakfast that will help you start your day off right. Eating a breakfast helps to prevent overeating later on in the day. Plus, if you start your day off with a healthy breakfast, you are more able to keep on eating healthy the rest of your day.
Weight Loss Tip #2: DRINK WATER – Sometimes its not food that our bodies need, but a nice drink of water. Water replenish and hydrates your body, it can also help you feel full. If you do not like water, tr squeezing some lemon into it.
Weight Loss Tip #3: AVOID EATING WHEN BORED – This is a struggle for many people, eating is not only good, it is fun! When we get bored we tend to eat, because eating feels like an event.
Weight Loss Tip #4: NO EATING AND NAPPING – If you sleep after a meal, your body does not process your food correctly. Many people gain weight because they eat before they go to bed. Avoid eating and then sleeping…Sumo wrestlers take naps after every meal so that can get fatter…do not do what the Sumos do!
Weight Loss Tip #5: MORE MEALS, BUT SMALLER - To keep your metabolism running at a consistent rate, you should not pound down three big meals. Instead you should eat 5 to 6 smaller meals. This will keep your metabolism running at a healthy rate.
I hope you can apply these weight loss tips to your life, remember to exercise with a healthy diet.
I here from people all the time how they want to workout, but they do not have the proper workout equipment to begin a workout routine. Well my friends, that is a very lame excuse. Some of the best workouts you can do, do not require workout equipment at all. There is no reason why having no workout equipment should ever hold you back from having a workout routine.
Let’s think about it for a second…Let’s say you do not have any knee problems. You do not need a treadmill or an elliptical to have a cardiovascular workout. Getting outside to run is very affective, and with the right pair of shoes you can eliminate a lot of aches and pains in your knees.
Lets say you want to build some lean muscle mass and get toned…You do not need a bench press or dumbbells to achieve lean muscle mass. Doing push ups and lunges and squats can really give you some of the best results for building lean muscle mass. You do not need workout equipment to get ripped.
There are many ways we can workout our core, shoulders, chest, back, and legs with no workout equipment. If anything this should be encouraging. It means you do not have to pay tons of money for a gym membership, or for home workout equipment. You can do all these home workouts for free at no additional costs or contracts. But like any workout routine, you need to be disciplined and motivated to actually do the workout. There are many creative ways you can workout your body without any equipment, so I encourage you to think outside the box and have fun with your workouts.
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