All Fitness

All Fitness

Are you struggling to sort fitness fact from fiction? We asked the expertsto explain once and for all how extra activity affects your weight loss…

Myth #1 I have to exercise if I want to lose weight

When it comes to weight loss, experts agree that it’s what you eat that counts most, not how much you exercise. ‘When you’re Food Optimising, you’ll be eating at least 500 fewer calories a day, without feeling hungry. To burn off 500 calories by exercising, you’d have to run for about an hour a day, which most of us would find impossible,’ says Dr Jacquie Lavin,

Top 10 Reasons Why Fitness Matters

What exactly is ‘physical fitness’ and why is it so important to anybody at

any age?

Technically, fitness could be defined as ‘a condition or state of being that

helps you look, feel and do your best’.

But what that really boils down to is being fit means you have the strength, the energy, and the ability to do all of the things you love – and not just exercise and physical activities.

Fitness leads to

Healthy Beverages

What Nutrition Pros Drink
The USDA recently introduced the simpler MyPlate eating plan. Shown beside the plate is a glass marked dairy. Milk still does a body good, but what else could fill the cup? Here’s what nutritional experts pour for them­selves and recommend to clients.

DRINKING LIKE A DIETITIAN

Throughout the day, you can drink the dietitian way. Here’s what Melissa Joy Dobbins, MS, RD, LDN, CDE, a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and

STRETCHING AND FLEXIBILITY

This Form of Exercise Prevents Injury, Reduces Chronic Pain, and Improves Mobility

FOCUS ON FITNESS

The key components of fitness are cardiovascular condition­ing, muscular strength, and flexibility. Unfortunately, flexibility often is neglected in favor of more cardio or greater strength. Clients skip stretching because they believe flexibility isn’t a good workout or that it’s an inherent trait—someone either is naturally flexible or they’re

How Body Fat Scales Work

Body fat scales use a technique called Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis... or BIA for short. Very simply...
A small and completely harmless electrical current is passed through your body. The electrical current passes more quickly through fat free tissue like muscle than it does through fat or bone tissue. So... The amount of resistance to the electrical current relates to how much fat-free mass a person has and their body density. Here's the first challenge

Sports nutrition rules: Hydration & Fluid Replacement Hydration

Staying hydrated is essential for everyone, but athletes have an even greater need to maintain proper hydration. Water is the most important nutrient for life and has many important functions including regulating temperature, lubricating joints and transporting nutrients and waste throughout the body.
Hydration during Exercise
Staying hydrated is particularly important during exercise. Adequate fluid intake is essential to comfort, performance and safety. The longer and more intensely you exercise, the more important it is to drink the right kind of fluids.

During Competition & Drinking Before

When preparing to compete at a swimming competition you need to pay careful attention to what you eat. Read on to find out what to eat the day before the event and during the day.

The Best Home Fitness Exercises to Burn Fat Fast

You can burn fat without a gym - the best fitness exercises at home will ensure that you do!

It is very convenient to have a gym at home in the comfort of your own home. You do not have to sit in traffic or in line to use a machine. The only problem with the performance of your home is not always sure what to do exercises to burn fat at home.

To help with this dilemma, take a look at the first four in the exercise routines of households that burn fat fast.

The best home gym exercises to burn fat fastWeight training

Why is it good for burning fat?Offers weight training as one of the best exercises to get rid of fat. Many people think they do a great job. But the reality is that it increases muscle mass and burn fat like crazy while increasing your metabolism - leading to a leaner.

A Healthy Dose of Truth

 If you’ve ever tried to slide out of a tight spot
with minor untruths or to avoid responsibility
with outright lies like Jim Carrey in Liar Liar,
we’ve got some news for you: fibs make you
unreliable and corrupt your health.
During a two-and-a-half month study, folks who told fewer than three white lies a week (they were in the no-lies group!) were much less likely to complain about being tense or sad or to get sore throats and headaches than those in the frequent-fibbers group (average Americans