Stretching Exercises to Make Lifting Heavy Lods Safer and Easier


Written on August 29, 2024 - 5:01 pm | by EmmyW

If you have every wanted to know the best exercises to do that will help strengthen your muscles and prepare you for lifting heavy loads, this article will share them with you. You can learn how to do resistance training, weight training, quick aerobic warms ups, and more.

Stretching Exercises to Make Lifting Heavy Loads Safer and Easier

If you work in an industry where you need to perform heavy lifting on a regular basis, or even if you are a housewife who suddenly has the urge to re-arrange her furniture, this can take a strain on your body if you do not take time to prepare your muscles and body tissue first.

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Tags: Heavy, Lifting Heavy

Beginners’ Marathon Training Schedule, Tips for Full or Half Marathons


Written on August 25, 2024 - 11:25 am | by EmmyW

Planning to run your first marathon or half marathon? You’re not alone. Participation in marathons and half-marathons is up — in a big way.

Half-marathon finishers totaled 1 million in 2009, says Ryan Lamppa of Running USA, an organization devoted to the running industry. Marathon finishers totaled 467,000.

What’s the appeal? “People are not as intimidated as before,” Lamppa says. That’s partly due, he suspects, to easy access to training programs, online and in niche publications that target runners.

The bragging rights are also motivating.

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Tags: Marathons

Not Every Calorie is Excess


Written on August 23, 2024 - 10:16 pm | by Terra

I‘m sure you’ve seen or heard something similar to this- If you eat that cookie you’ll need to spend an extra 25 minutes on the treadmill. Or that slice of pie is worth 75 minutes on the cycle. This was the case last week when the local news had a story on the caloric burn of kissing. The anchor used the example of an In n Out Double Double, stating you’d need 335 minutes of kissing to burn off the 670 calorie burger. Here’s the problem, was that burger a bonus snack? Obviously for someone trying to lose fat, a double beef and cheese burger is not the best choice.

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How To Master Walking Meditation


Written on August 21, 2024 - 5:21 pm | by EmmyW

(Anmol: Hi Everyone, I am back from a break and happy to be sharing more yoga, zen and meditation insights and wisdom with you all. To get started I would like to present the following guest post from Axel. It is always great to learn from someone who has real and deep experience of a subject and this is all the more important when it comes to meditation and spirituality. Axel, who was an actual Buddhist Monk and now shares his wisdom, knowledge and expertise with you on his great meditation website Axel G. <

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Tags: Meditation