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October 14th, 2009
What burns 100 calories in your daily day to day life. Playing pool 30 minutes Play Cards 50 minutes Swim 12 minutes Hoovering 25 minutes Shop at the supermarket 30 minutes Paint the house 15 minutes Related articles- The true calories of different foods
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October 7th, 2009
Different weight loss pills work in different ways, it all depends on what ingredients the pill contains. Appetite suppresants- Sibutramine(meridia), phentermine (adipex-p, fastin), diethylpropion(tenuate) These all affect the hypothalmus in the brain where the appetite is regulated. They affect the reuptake of serotonin and norepinephrine which create the feeling of being full after a large [...]
How do weight loss pills work - Read more
October 7th, 2009
Fat loss pills are something you see advertised all across the internet but do they actually work and which ones do and which ones don’t. Fat loss pills do work, but certainly not all of them. Lots of fat loss pills are very dangerous, they are not tested and haven’t past the tests that govern [...]
Which are the best fat loss pills - Read more
September 3rd, 2009
Waist to hip ratio looks at the proportion of fat stored on your waist and hips. Waist to hip ratio is measured by dividing your waist measurement by your hip measurement. Ideally women should have a waist to hip ratio of 0.8 or less and men 0.95 or less. Waist to hip ratio is [...]
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August 29th, 2009
At commercial gyms you will always see tons of TV’s above the treadmills, bookstands on the bikes and earphone sockets on almost all machines, but which is best to do whilst training. TV- watching TV actually places us in it’s control we are switching off and taking in visually and listening. Watching TV tends to [...]
Exercising with the TV on VS listening to music - Read more
August 19th, 2009
Not all celeb bodies are in good shape but they tend to be as celebrities are in the public eye constantly. So what can I do to get a body like a celebrities? Get your diet on track and do regular exercise. You don’t need to spend the money most celebs spend on their bodies but [...]
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June 4th, 2009
Losing weight, or more specifically, body fat, is often the goal which starts us down the path of a vigorous exercise programme and the dreaded counting of calories. But too many are left disheartened after those initial few weeks when the weight seemed to fall off those problem areas, so much so that some vow [...]
Losing weight – Triathlon’s secret formula - Read more
May 5th, 2009
Below are pictures of different people at different body fat percentages so you can see what kind of muscular definition you will get if you achieve any of the low body fat percentages. The pictures are a rough guideline of body fat percentages I was able to find across the net. The body fat percentages may not be 100% [...]
What different body fat percentages actually look like - Read more
May 5th, 2009
This is a question that has been debated by London personal trainers for some time. Many personal trainers say you should and many say you shouldn’t, I personally say you shouldn’t. Glycogen is the stored Carbs your body uses as energy fuel during exercise. Because Glycogen is depleted in the morning many say that you will [...]
Should you do cardio on an empty stomach? - Read more
April 10th, 2009
Wearing a bin bag in the sauna will make you lose weight fast- all a bin bag around you in a sauna will do is get rid of body water. This is good for boxers who need to lose weight fast before a weigh in but for people trying to lose weight this is not [...]
Losing weight myths - Read more