What are some good health tips? And what are some good exercises for…?
Posted by admin on Apr 28, 2010
For my New Year’s Resolution I decided to eat healthy and to do exercises for every part of my body at least once a week? So I need to get familiar with some healthy foods and good exercises! Help!!!!!!
Sorry to tell you that there is no such thing as "spot reduction," which means that you can’t work an area and lose the fat that’s on top of it. The path consists of eating a proper diet (cut out most fats, simple starches such as all white stuff–get whole grains only, excess sugar, and count your calories that you are getting each day), of doing some kind of resistance training (push-ups, dips, squats, etc. all of which you can do at home and you just need to google "in home workout" and you’ll get tons of stuff), and of course you will have to do cardio.
Cardio is best done when you first get out of bed in the morning (since you’ve been fasting and your body will have to burn body fat instead of the food you’ve been eating all day if you do it in the afternoon), and doing at least 20 minutes (it take the full 20 minutes for your body to even start burning fat, if you stop at 20 minutes you won’t be getting anything out of it) of cardio where your heart rate will be around 60-80%. Do this three times a week. It can be running, in-house cardio, sports (the best way since you will be too busy to think of how exhausted you’re getting) or even walking some tough hills. Either way, it will take a little while, but the benefits will be anything from a great energy surge to metabolizing food within a couple of hours.