Pick-of-the-week Articles :
How To Stay Fit While Working From Home Despite what many may think, working from home takes a lot of time and a lot of work. I'm sure you've heard someone say, “They don't really have a job, they just work from home.” That statement couldn't be farther from the truth! Running a home business takes almost all of your time. Therefore, many other things drop down on your priority list. Probably one of the first ones to drop is fitness.
When you have a never-ending to-do list, a house that never seems to get clean and family and/or friends who demand attention, it's understandable that exercise can take a back seat. But, it shouldn't.
Exercise offers so many important benefits that it should always be part of your weekly routine. Of course, we all know that exercise can help you stay slim and fit. But, do you also know about all the other great results of exercising? Daily physical activity reduces stress and can help you sleep better – two things that are especially beneficial to busy at-home workers and business owners. Fitness helps keep you healthy and has been linked to reducing the risk of some diseases and to warding off depression. Researchers also believe that strength training can help prevent osteoporosis. If that still doesn't convince you to get moving, then keep in mind that exercise also improves self-esteem, increases stamina and ultimately helps you be able to do continuous work for longer. What more could you ask for?
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Exercises to help you get firm
Want some impressive looking calves? Here's how to get them.
Start out simply standing on the ground flatfooted, toes pointing straight ahead. Hold on to something to balance yourself, and begin raising up as high as you can on your toes. As with most exercises here, you will do them slowly. Lower yourself to the starting position, then repeat. High reps are best here. Try to work up to at least 25 reps. Then add sets, 2 - 3.
To make this a little tougher as you progress, do them one leg at a time. You can also turn your feet in and out in order to work different parts of your calves. A set of 25 reps with feet pointing forward, then out, then in, would give you a nice workout.
For an even tougher workout, and to really make those calves grow, place your toes on the edge of a 2x4, or on the stairs, and lower the heels as far as possible. Then raise up on your toes, again as high as you can, and repeat. Again, 25 reps is what you'll be shooting for. This will really make the calves burn.
But please, start out slowly. Don't do too many reps at one time in the beginning, or you won't be walking the next day or two.
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10 Lies about the Atkins Diet
Low carbohydrate diets such as the Atkins diet have always been controversial, but with the recent wave of new research and publicity, the controversy is now raging hotter than ever. One headline in the San Francisco Chronicle said that the battle between the low and high carbers had become so heated since mid 2002 that “Knives had been drawn.”
From my vantage point (as a health and fitness professional down in the trenches), it looks more like tanks, artillery and machine guns have been drawn! Tragically, the people being hurt the most by these “diet wars” are not the experts, but the dieters.
After its original publication in 1972, The Atkins Diet was regurgitated in 1992 as “Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution,” creating a new surge of interest in low carbohydrate dieting. Then, in July of 2002, the controversy reached an all time high when the New York Times Magazine published an essay by Gary Taubes titled, “What if it's all been a big fat lie?” The article suggested that new research was now proving the late Dr. Atkins had been right all along.
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