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Cardiovascular Health: A Guide to a Stronger Heart
Cardiovascular health is essential for overall well-being and longevity. The cardiovascular system, comprising the heart and blood vessels, is responsible for circulating blood throughout the body, supplying oxygen and nutrients to tissues, and removing waste products.
The Power of Exercise: Transforming Your Life One Step at a Time
Now that it’s a new year let us take another look (reminder) at how exercise can help us. Exercise is not just about losing weight or building muscle; it’s about embracing a healthier lifestyle that holistically enhances both physical and mental well-being.
Diet or Lifestyle Change?
Lifestyle changes can be discouraging at first because it takes longer to see the results of all your hard work. However, the results that you do get will last, and you are more focused on your overall health and wellness rather than just weight, or a number. You will not regret the results you see from changing your lifestyle. As long as you stick with it and it’s a way of life.
What Type of Exercise Bike Do I Buy?
There are several types and general categories of exercise bikes, but for this blog we will talk about the most popular ones and the ones I have used and most familiar with such as the recumbent bike, upright bike, indoor cycling bike, and the air bike. Let’s take a deeper dive into these exercise bikes so you can get an idea of which may be the best one for you and for your fitness goals.
How To Convert Fat To Energy
So how do we burn fat and drop the weight? How do we make our body’s use the fat we have stored as energy? This will really come in to play if you are a shift worker and it’s 3 a.m. and you’re trying to get through the rest of your shift. Well, I’m about to explain what fat is and how are body’s use it as fuel and how we can drop that weight to get into shape. Stick around, you just might like it.
Melatonin and Shift Work
Melatonin can be a really good effective supplement in helping shift workers manage sleep and alertness better, but you must use the right type and dose at the right time. Also timing your light exposure correctly is a big plus as well. But what is melatonin? How can you use it correctly? And what effectContinue reading ” Melatonin and Shift Work”
4 Pre-Workout Supplements and Their Benefits
Pre-workout supplements, also known as “pre-workouts,” are intended to give you energy for when you exercise. The main ingredient in most of them is caffeine. These supplements often come in a pill form or a powder form, with powder being the most popular. Some of the ingredients in certain pre-workouts (read the labels) can be good for your health and your workouts. But the supplements can bring on side effects as well that you’ll need to be aware of.
The Mighty Benefits of Strength Training
Since lean muscle mass naturally diminishes with age, it’s imperative to do some sort of resistance training at least 2 times per week. In addition, your body fat percentage will increase over time if you don’t do anything to replace the lean muscle you lose over time. Strength training can help you preserve your muscle mass at any age.
Simple Ways to Break Through a Weight Loss Plateau
To lose more weight, you need to either do one of two things, increase your physical activity or decrease the calories you eat. Using the same approach that worked at first may maintain your weight loss, but it won’t lead to more weight loss hence the plateau.
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