Everyone seems to be shouting these days that in order to lose weight and get fit you need to workout, workout and workout. At least, that seems to be the general refrain amongst today’s fitness experts. However, rarely, if ever, does one care to offer a step by step workout plan that even newbies can understand well. You see, just like everything else in life, there is a certain formula you need to follow when doing workouts. In this article I will tell you about the five parts of a workout plan.

a) Warm up: A warm up exercise would do exactly what its name implies – it would warm up your body for the hard core workouts that are about to come. Make sure that you don’t use a hardcore workout for a warm up as that would only make you tired even before you have started your actual workouts.

In my experience, elliptical trainers are best suitable for warm up exercises. Why? It not only involves your entire body in the workout but also lets you exercise at a low intensity level. Ideally a warm up session must not last for more than 5-10 minutes.

b) Stretch: Now, before doing stretches, you must drink at least one glass of water. Now start the stretching workout. Stretching fills up your body with adequate oxygen so that you don’t suffer from fatigue during the actual workout session. Ideally you should not spend more than five minutes on this, or at most, ten minutes. Once you have done stretching, drink another glass of water. In the next step the actual weight workout session would start.

c) Weight workout: A weight workout session must not be either too long or too short. If it is too long then you would not only get badly tired at the end of it but also have a difficult time in recovering from the strain of the workout; on the other hand, if it is too short then you won’t be able to work on your muscles hard enough to produce the desired results.

In my opinion, you should spend no less than 45 minutes and no more than one hour on this workout. You should also take breaks of about 2 minuets between each set of workout, and during these break periods be sure to drink adequate water.

d) Stretch: Once you are done with the weight workout, start stretching again. Stretching makes your body relaxed. When your body is in a relaxed state, it would be able to recover from the strain of the weight workout quickly. Stretching also helps regulate your blood flow and prevents cramping that may occur as a side effect of heavy exercise.

e) Replenish your body with carbohydrates and protein: By the time you have finished your workout session, your body would have little energy left for doing anything else. To replenish your body for the lost energy, you should consume an adequate amount of carbohydrates. I have found that sugar drink is the best choice for this purpose as your body is able to get loads of carbs quickly that way. After an hour, you should take a large sized, protein-rich meal.

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One of the reasons why many people fail to lose weight time and again is that they are just too impatient. These people are not ready to give enough time to their body to shed all the pounds; they want it fast, quick and without any extra effort or sacrifice on their part.

If you have a similar aim then let me warn you beforehand that you are not going to succeed. After all, fast weight loss is simply an impossible goal that you can never expect to achieve; even if you manage to lose a few pounds of weight fast, it would not be real and permanent fat loss. So how can you lose fat? Well, that is what you are going to learn here. Read the rest of this entry »

Our weight loss industry is filled with fads which promise to magically melt all your pounds away! We have fad diets which would help you lose weight within a couple of months, diet pills you simply need to pop daily in order to get slimmer, etc. In fact, there is no dearth of “magic weight loss products”, though you will rarely hear about a product which magically boosts your metabolic rate.

I am not sure why everyone’s not focusing on finding ways of increasing their metabolic rate, since it is the only key to weight loss success. In this article I will tell you how our metabolic rate influences our body weight and how you could use this tool to get rid of fat permanently.

Do you want fast weight loss? How fast you would be able to lose weight depends solely on your metabolic rate. If you have a high metabolism, fast weight loss won’t be impossible for you. On the other hand, with a slow metabolic rate you aren’t likely to be successful in your weight loss goal. Now perhaps you are wondering how to boost your metabolic rate.

While we humans are blessed with natural metabolism which keeps us fit and healthy, it is often insufficient to help you with fast weight loss. If you want to burn fat fast, you need to increase your metabolic rate to abnormal levels! There are diet pills which promise to skyrocket your metabolism in no time; however they come with several harmful side effects, not to mention that the metabolism boost you gain with their help is short-lived.

In my opinion the best way of boosting your metabolism naturally is by increasing your lean muscle mass. The more muscles you have, the higher your metabolic rate would be and the faster you would lose weight. Fortunately muscle building doesn’t cost an arm and a leg; you can do it with the help of intense workouts.

Doing intense workouts on a regular basis would help you achieve fast weight loss. These intense workouts may seem to be strenuous at first look, but unlike cardios, you need to do them only for 15-two0 minutes each day. By spending as little as two0 minutes per day, you would be able to burn fat at a fast rate as well as build strong lean muscles at the same time. These lean muscles would help you burn fat even when you are not working out! So what are the best intense workouts for this purpose?

Undoubtedly, weight lifting comes to mind the moment I think of intense exercises. People wrongly believe that they need to do several low intensity reps using light weights in order to derive the maximum benefit from weight lifting. Truth to be told, the higher and shorter your reps are, and the heavier your weights, the faster you would burn fat and lose weight. I would recommend that you do no more than 10-15 reps, but you need to make sure that the weights you use are heavier than five or six pounds.

Since you would be doing strenuous exercises, it is important that you replenish your body by increasing your water intake. When your body remains hydrated at all times, you would find exercising much less strenuous, since water would help your body recover quickly from the strain of these workouts.

Additionally, water is itself a great metabolism booster as well as a powerful detoxifier that cleanses all toxins from our body. The minimum recommended water intake for a normal adult is about 8-10 glasses.

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Seven years ago, biochemist Zheng Cui of Wake Forest University was conducting a routine experiment, injecting test mice with a strain of cancer cells so aggressive it caused a 100 percent death rate. Oddly, one of the mice wouldn’t die. Thinking he had made an error, Cui injected the mouse with a million times the lethal dose, but it still lived.

Cui was intrigued. He bred the mouse and found that 40 percent of its offspring share a remarkable resistance to many forms of cancer. When the animals’ immune systems identify a cancer cell, a genetic tweak allows their bodies to launch a massive attack of white blood cells that kills the budding tumor.

Now Cui and his colleagues have found a clue that may point the way to an actual cure. When they inject white blood cells from any of these anticancer mice into their nonresistant brethren, the injected animals become resistant as well, fighting off induced cancer in a matter of weeks or avoiding it entirely.
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