Archive for Excercise & Fitness
Core Exercises While Sitting at Your Desk
Posted by: By | CommentsYou may be a busy executive or a business owner who just can’t seem to find the time to get out from behind the desk and exercise. For some, balance issues and other physical limitations may prevent them from performing exercises that require you to stand up. Regular exercises may not be possible for people who are morbidly obese.
Don’t quit! There are many sit down exercises that you can do and still derive the health benefits. Here are some exercises that you can do while sitting at your desk:
Ab exercise - Sit on the edge of your chair as straight as you can with your feet firmly planted on the floor. Raise your arms out straight in front of you and slowly lean back toward the back of the chair. When you get as far back as you can, slowly raise yourself back to a normal sitting position. Keep your abdominal muscles pulled in while you do these exercises. Read More→
5 Muscle Toning Exercises You Can Do Anywhere, Anytime
Posted by: By | CommentsExercising regularly and maintaining an active lifestyle are important for permanent weight loss. Toning your muscles and staying in shape are easy ways to increase your life expectancy and improve your overall health and wellness. Weight-bearing exercises are important, especially for girls and women who want to build bone strength and prevent osteoporosis later in life.
Learning to do easy muscle toning exercises is not the problem, the challenge is finding the time to do them.
Here are five easy toning exercises that you can do anywhere and whenever you have time. At home, at the office, or on vacation, you can do these easy yet extremely effective exercises for general fitness. Read More→
More Exercise, Less Calories – the Great Weight Loss Debate
Posted by: By | CommentsYou are likely to start a passionate and heated discussion if you asked someone if s/he ate fewer calories or exercised more to lose weight. Just like the famous beer commercials, this debate is not likely to be decided anytime soon.
There are some who strongly believe in the idea that a lot of exercise is the perfect solution to weight loss. Eat whatever you want and as long as you exercise you will be able to maintain a healthy weight.
While there is a lot of truth to the above statement, just as many people in our society claim that they sometimes find it impossible to exercise enough to make sure that they are maintaining a healthy weight let alone drop any extra pounds. Read More→
Adding Exercise Time in Busy Schedules for Work-at-Home-Moms/Dads (WHAMS/WHADS)
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Your lifestyle and schedule, like most solopreneurs, are already packed with working long hours and tending to the kids and all their activities. You might be wondering how on earth you are going to find time to exercise. You know you need to for a healthier life but exercising usually is shoved to the bottom of your priority list.
Exercise and fitness are important because they help you maintain or lose weight. An added benefit of regular exercise is that it helps to keep your stress level down and provides a sense of well-being. People who exercise tend to be healthier, happier and live longer than those who do not. Who doesn’t want that?
Take a close look at your current lifestyle and work habits. Consider the following tips to squeezing some exercise into your day. Not only will you feel better, but you will be a good role model for your kids to start exercising too. Read More→
