Health Bits

Once you get a handle on your diet and your cardio routine, it is time to concentrate on your regular exercises. Here are some lower ab exercises that will help tone your lower midsection. We will start with the oblique crunches; lie down on your back with your knees bent and hands clasped behind your head. Keep your lower back against the floor, slowly raise your upper body, do not go up all the way, lift until you feel your muscles contact alternate the right elbow to the left side and the left elbow to the right side. You can do one side first or you can alternate between sides. Do not pull on your neck. Do as many of these as you can and increase by 5 every day until you can build up your stamina.

A different lower ab exercise to try is called leg flutters. To perform, lie on your stomach and Read the rest of this entry »

To gain muscle mass is the dream of every hot blooded male. However, if you are going to achieve all that without relying on steroids or any artificial supplements, then you would really need lots of discipline and commitment to your training and diet. It is vital that you reevaluate your schedule, and set aside time to work out in the gym and make necessary changes to your diet. We will look at some hot tips that would help you to gain muscle mass and to shape up.

1. Sodium Intake

Sodium is an essential mineral you would need to take as it encourages the growth of muscles through increasing our muscle cell fluid volume. Though it is a good water retainer which is not good for us if we want to bulk up, it benefits you by enhancing carbohydrate Read the rest of this entry »

You can play your part in reversing heart disease by simply making some adjustments to your lifestyle. It’s a simple concept but so many people fail to make the small changes that can have such a massive impact in avoiding heart disease. Avoiding key risks can help you not only maintain a healthy heart but also lengthen your life.

When you put it simply, your heart is a pump that feeds blood through your body and all you have to do is make sure the pathways are clear. This means keeping your arteries clear so the flow goes on unimpeded. Blocked arteries lead to heart problems, heart attacks and death. It’s as simple as that. We have all heard this so many times it can often go unheeded, and that is where the real problem lies. If you maintain unclogged arteries you are actually reversing heart disease and, therefore, healing your own heart.

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The standard prescription for improving cardiovascular fitness is submaximal aerobic exercise. The concept that long duration cardio is best for your heart continues despite research indicating shorter, more intense exercise sessions may be more effective. Weight training, which is a high intensity activity, is the new kid on the heart healthy block.

Weight training can favorably modify several risk factors for heart disease including lipids and cholesterol, blood pressure, glucose metabolism and body fat.
It does so by decreasing blood pressure and heart rate while lifting.

Even though the reductions in blood pressure are small they can still reduce your chance for heart disease and stroke. Individuals who regularly participate in a moderate Read the rest of this entry »

It may come as a surprise to you, but it’s clear that weight training leads to increased fat loss. Weight training increases lean body mass (muscle) which in turn raises metabolic rate. Weight training also has a higher afterburn than other activities.

Muscle tissue is more metabolically active. It burns more calories twenty four hours a day than fat. Fat burns far less calories than muscle and a pound of fat takes up more space than a pound of muscle.

Weight training also has a higher afterburn than other activities. Afterburn refers to the number of calories you burn up post exercise. Your body burns up mores calories 24-48 hour after weight training due to the muscle repair process and the fact you intensely and anaerobically worked your system. The same cannot be said for low intensity long duration exercise. Weight training even has a higher afterburn than interval training. Read the rest of this entry »

Clenbuterol is a widely used bronchodilator in many parts of the world. Clenbuterol is a very interesting and remarkable compound. Clenbuterol is not a steroid hormone but a beta-2-symphatomimetic. The drug is most often prepared in 20mcg tablets, but it is also available in syrup and injectable form. Clenbuterol belongs to a broad group of drugs knows as sympathomimetics. These drugs affect that sympathetic nervous system in a wide number of ways, largely mediated by the distribution of adrenoceptors. There are actually nine different types of these receptors in the body, which are classified as either alpha or beta and further subcategorized by type number. Depending on the specific affinities of these agents for the various receptors, they can potentially be used in the treatment of conditions such as asthma, hypertension, cardiovascular shock, arrhythmias, migraine headaches and anaphylactic shock. The text Goodman and Gillman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics Edition does a good job of describing the diverse nature in which these drugs affect the body. Clenbuterol, above all, has a strong anticatabolic effect, which means it decreases the rate at which protein is reduced in the muscle cell, consequently causing an enlargement of muscle cells. Read the rest of this entry »

We hear a lot these days about being “fit.” Our society is definitely one that is getting heavier. I don’t need statistics to know that, I can just look around at any grocery store or shopping mall and see people who are overweight. Sometimes it seems the overweight outnumber the in shape.

Finding a exercise fitness program isn’t as easy as you might think. First, everyone has busy lives. We have school, jobs, spouses, family, children and their activities. We have work responsibilities, lawns that need mowing and children who have to get to the dentist. Finding the time to JOIN a gym, never mind actually Read the rest of this entry »