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35 Weight loss tips

October 14th, 2009

35 Weight loss tips for men and women

  1. Drink lots of water
  2. Eat Fruit daily
  3. Eat vegetables daily
  4. Take multivitamins
  5. Do weight training weekly
  6. Do cardio weekly
  7. Avoid complex carbs
  8. Avoid refined sugar
  9. Take cod liver oil
  10. Avoid coffee
  11. Drink peppermint tea
  12. Reduce alcohol consumption
  13. Walk more instead of taking the bus or car
  14. Reduce daily carbs
  15. Reduce daily fats
  16. Drink a glass of water before meals
  17. Take fat loss supplements
  18. break your meals up into 5 0r 6 smaller meals
  19. Eat with on a small plate to create the illusion of eating alot
  20. Read weight loss books
  21. Read fitness blogs
  22. Don’t eat junk food
  23. Don’t eat fried food
  24. Get a personal trainer
  25. Use a tape measure instead of weighing your self
  26. Opt for organic foods
  27. Build muscle as you will burn off more fat daily from being muscular
  28. Don’t skip meals
  29. Never train for more than an hour
  30. Run outside
  31. Be creative with your cardio, not just the treadmill for an hour
  32. Never sacrifice your health to lose a bit of fat
  33. Get a workout partner
  34. Don’t be self conscious at the gym nobody cares
  35. Run hills and climb stairs

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Foods that help detoxify

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There are 7 great foods to add to your diet that really help detoxify-

  1. Apples- Contains pectin, tannic and malic acid that helps clean out the intestines and regulate the bowel.  Potassium and phosphorus help to flush the kidneys out.
  2. Grapes- high in tannin which helps boost the metabolism.  They have a high magnesium content that helps cleanse the liver and kidneys.
  3. Melons- high water content good for flushing the system.
  4. Carrots- high in vit A, C and E good for soothing and strengthening the intestine.
  5. Beetroot- one of the most powerful cleansers of all foods.
  6. Cucumber- high water content good for flushing toxins out the system.
  7. Pineapples- neutralizes excess acidity in the stomach.

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Prevent muscle cramps?

March 15th, 2009

All of us get muscle cramps time to time whilst training in the gym, but it’s not nice.  Here is a list of a few things you can do to help reduce muscle cramps.

  1. Water- a dehydrated muscle easily cramps so drink water regularly throughout the day and your workout.
  2. Overheating- if you don’t drink enough water you can easily overheat and the combination of overheating and dehydration is what easily causes muscle cramps.
  3. Water retention- salt helps keep water in the body without enough sodium we can easily lose alot of body water and become dehydrated which leads to cramps.
  4. Potassium deficiency- potassium deficiency is thought to be linked to muscle cramps.  We lose alot of potassium when we train through sweat.  This can easily be boosted with a banana prior to your workout.
  5. Magnesium- magnesium deficiency is thought to be linked to muscle cramps.  We can boost this by eating nuts, beans and pumpkin seed.
  6. Restricted blood flow- if you have restricted blood flow to a working muscle then this can easily lead to muscle cramping.  Tight bands or tight clothing can easily restrict blood flow leading to muscle cramps.
  7. Flexibility- a tight muscle can easily cramp if it restricts the range of motion of the exercise you are performing.

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6 reasons why you should drink water regularly

March 12th, 2009

  1. You don’t drink enough water- 6-8 cups of water a day is generally the guideline for water intake a day by the average person although people partaking in regular exercise should look to drink more than this.  Coffee and tea don’t count as your water for the day.
  2. Water gets rid of toxins- water gets rid of toxins you get from coffee and alcohol also drinking water helps the kidneys do their job, so if your having a high protein diet this will really help as your kidneys are doing alot of work.
  3. Water prevents fluid retention- despite what you would think when you drink water regularly it makes you hold less water as your body doesn’t need to store as much as it knows its getting water regularly. 
  4. Aids digestion- regular drinking of water helps the digestion process and if you are eating lots of protein throughout the day this is very important as the body can often struggle digesting all this food.
  5. Metabolizing fat- When you don’t drink enough water the kidneys can’t function properly.  When this occurs this job is passed to the liver.  The liver metabolizes the fat into energy.  if the liver takes over the kidneys job less fat is burned so you store more fat.
  6. Salt and water retention- the higher intake of salt you have the more the body tries to retain water to dilute the the salt.

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