23 Sep 09 Warm Up Before Your Workout

The importance of warming up before performing regular exercise can’t be understated. By not warming up you run the risk of damaging your muscles and hurting yourself in the long run. You have to get your body’s engine warmed up before you really work it hard. You’ll find that this has many positive effects as well, such as longer lasting energy during a routine, and a faster recovery time after the work out.

For example, if you find yourself feeling a little achy after resistance weight training, you may not be warming up enough before the workout. Of course your muscles tend to ache after a workout, but the pain should be manageable, and shouldn’t effect your day to day activities.

The best warm up for weight training is light cardiovascular exercise. This allows your muscles to breath in a sense, warming them up for activity, and getting the energy you need flowing freely. Try jogging lightly in place for a few minutes, or riding an exercise bike. You don’t need to push yourself in the warm up, just go until you start to sweat a little. That’s a classic sign that your body is getting ready for more strenuous exercise.

Now you should start out with some lighter weights for the body region you’re targeting that day. If you’re working your arms, start out with some light free weights. These aren’t to help you build muscle, but just get your muscles ready for the real workout that’s on the way. Stick to only 10-15lb weights, and run through a lighter version of each exercise you’ll be doing. Do each exercise for about 30-60 seconds, or until you’ve been warming up for about five minutes.

After following those steps, you should find your muscles feeling alert and ready to start. Now you can move in to your standard workout. Just be sure to stretch afterward, to work the knots you’ve developed from weight lifting. You should find that your muscles feel better and recover faster the day after your workout.

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11 Jun 09 Making Yourself Into A Runner

Running is one of the best forms of exercise, considering the many benefits for your body, as well as the fact that it’s a relatively cheap exercise alternative opposed to regular visits to a gym. Mostly because you can run practically anywhere, whether on a few trails through a public park, or just along the side of a road near your house. All you really need in terms of a financial investment is good shoes and the proper food to keep yourself in tip top shape.

Which is why you should start by finding the right shoe, as that’s pretty much the most important part of running. You want something with widely dispersed treads on the bottom, that way you’ll get the most out of your traction and the shoe won’t wear down on hard surfaces like rocks and pavement as easily. Then you also want to make sure that your shoe feels completely comfortable, offering a snug but not tight fit, and plenty of cushion so that you can remain light on your feet without wearing down your joints.

After that you want to switch your diet to something that conforms perfectly with the lifestyle of a runner. You want to include plenty of protein to help your muscles become stronger with each run, as well as give them the nutrition to repair themselves after daunting sessions. You also want to get complex carbs from pasta’s and whole grain breads. That will give you the slow release energy that any runner needs to keep their energy up. And finally you want plenty of vitamins from great natural sources like fruits and vegetables.

Now you’re ready to start running. You want to give yourself a light jogging warm up for a few minutes, after which stretch for about 10 minutes, that way you get your heart and muscles ready for a real run. Then you want to start out simple with just a 15-20 minute light run, be sure not to push yourself in the beginning as that will put unnecessary stress on your muscles. After that stretch for another 10 minutes, and you’re good.

Continue that routine every other day for a week, you don’t want to run everyday as that would be too stressful on your joints and muscles. Then increase your run time by five minutes, and progress like that every week, unless you find it difficult to keep up with a longer time length. In that case you should allow yourself an extra week or two for your body to adjust before adding more length to the workout. Follow that and you’ll be calling yourself a runner in no time!

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07 Jan 09 Massage Chairs – When You Can’t Afford Your Own Masseuse

There are many types of massage chairs on the market and if you’ve never sat in one, you should. If nothing else, go to a mall or furniture store where these chairs are displayed and give it a try – and then just try to pretend that you don’t want one. Having your very own massager whose fingers never get tired may simply be too much to turn down.

While massage chairs are pretty great for relieving everyday tension, they are even better for people who have frequent back pain. Many use some type of massage chair to relieve tension and to keep the back feeling good. If you let pressure and strain build up in your muscles, it will become harder to do everyday things. For example, if you have a really tight muscle in your back, it may be difficult to stretch, bend all the way over, or perform other routine movements. Message chairs can help you to relieve that tension, thereby helping you do a million other things without the nagging pain so many people have come to accept as “normal”?

Think you don’t have time to utilize a massager of this kind? Maybe you don’t have time not to. Consider this situation. You come home from a long, hard day at work just to realize that you still need to do laundry, cook dinner, do the dishes, and get the kids to bed. It may be overwhelming, but if you take a few minutes as a breather, it can help to get things back into perspective. A few minutes in massage chairs is just one way to do just that. And unlike flopping down on the couch for a few minutes, you are much more likely to feel a little better physically when you get back up.

Many people have so much stress that it is actually hard to sleep at night. One way that many people cope with this is through pain relievers. This may be okay for the short term, but natural remedies are always a better alternative. One way that you may help yourself relax is with massage chairs. And the more you use them, the better your back will begin to feel. Just imagine how you could feel in a week if you got a massage every night.

Everyone has likes and dislikes when it comes to a massage. Even though massage chairs are only machines, there are alternatives for everyone. If you don’t like your massage to be very firm, you can turn this down on most models. Also, you can make most models concentrate more or less on certain areas of your back.

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