Showing posts with label boost self-esteem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boost self-esteem. Show all posts

Friday, 20 February 2015

Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Dance Fitness Anytime Anywhere Workout Amazing Benefits

Dance and music are not only forms of art, but they are your way to good health and happiness.
There are various kinds of dance forms, but you need to find out what amuses you and which form of dance interests you the most, and you fill find developing a passion towards it.

You can dance at your convenience, while bathing, while changing your clothes or while just cleaning your room.


 Listed below are the primary benefits of dancing:
1. Dropping calories and toning down your body
As you dance with vigor, you are exercising the parts of your body, and this helps you to burn calories and drop a few pounds. Let's just say dance is the best workout.
It is imperative to hydrate yourself time and again, and keep drinking water as you perspire from the vigorous dancing.
Make it your passion, and dance regularly, and you will be surprised to see how many pounds you have actually dropped!
2. Movement Skills & Coordination
Dancing is nothing but grooving and moving in co-ordination with the music. Hence while dancing you begin to develop and nurture movement skills as well as good co-ordination. More often than not models, actors and people in the glamour industry incorporate dance forms in their workout routine because this helps them on screen as well as on the runway. Dancing makes you more agile, flexible and more graceful as well.
3. The perfect stress buster
Dancing is the perfect stress buster because when you are dancing, it is just your body and the music and you can shut the world out. You don't need to go out of the way, you can just put on some beats and dance while vacuum cleaning or in the shower after a long stressful day of work and you will feel fresh and vibrant after that.
4. Helps our Brain
Various dance forms require a lot of co-ordination and attentiveness which have various benefits for the brain. It does not only improve memory by attempting to memorize the steps, but also keeps the brain alert and attentive.
5. Toughens up & Tones our Body
The majority of muscles in our body are forced to work during dance. Consequently, they tighten up with continuous dancing and help in giving you a perfect toned body. However, keep in mind that muscles which aren't used waste away. Hence make sure to get the volume high and dance for minimum of half an hour before hitting the bed.
6. Confidence booster
People can be shy, have stage fright and may have persisting self-doubt and hence will never be able to perform in front of an audience. Dance and repeated dance practices will be a confidence booster because you will ace your dance moves. If you are scared or apprehensive, you can take private lessons and perform during small gatherings or family functions.
7. A great platform to connect with others
Dancing helps in connecting with new likeminded individuals who have equal passion for music, which helps in making new friends. Besides this, happiness toughens up the immune system for a better health.
8. A good Hobby
If you don't have a hobby and you are lethargic and bored, you tend to eat a lot of carbs and sugar, or even go into depression so in your free time, you can just dance at home as a hobby. You don't even need to be alone, you can find people with similar interests and call them over and dance together. You can even do this with your spouse and dance on slow music.
9. Keeps you healthy
Helps in Preventing Diseases & Medical Conditions
Dancing increases your heart rate and increases blood circulation which prevents diseases and medical conditions in your body.

Dance does not only increase heart rate but also helps eliminate toxins from your body and it de-stresses you. Hence, keeping you healthy- physically as well as emotionally!
Just make sure that you don't have any medical condition which will aggravate with dancing.

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Thursday, 8 January 2015

Benefits of Exercising before a Big Meal

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The holiday season is in full swing, which means more parties, more food and a greater chance that a few pounds might creep on. Fortunately, you have a secret weapon that will help your clients keep away the holiday blues (added pounds) and still enjoy the seasonal good cheer—exercise!
Making exercise a priority during the hectic holidays is the key to starting the New Year feeling healthy and happy. Even if your clients are short on time, something is better than nothing. Exercising before a big holiday meal offers the body numerous benefits and choosing the right kind of exercise can actually make it easier to control hunger during holiday meals.

BENEFITS OF EXERCISE
Cardiovascular
The leading cause of health-related mortality for women and men in the United States is cardiovascular disease. Getting regular cardiovascular exercise (defined as moderate-intensity aerobic exercise, three to five times per week for 30 to 60 minutes) can reduce elevated blood pressure, lower total and (bad) LDL cholesterol and raise (good) HDL cholesterol. This reduces risk of heart attack and stroke.
Blood Sugar and Insulin
When we eat food containing carbohydrates, even healthy, unprocessed ones, blood sugar levels rise. The pancreas then releases insulin to move the glucose from the blood to the cells, where it is converted to energy. For people who have insulin sensitivity, prediabetes, or diabetes, the insulin cell receptors don’t work as well, which leaves a lot of insulin floating around the bloodstream. This causes the excess sugar in the blood to be converted into fat cells for storage.  Exercise increases the body’s sensitivity to insulin so that the glucose is taken out of the bloodstream and used for energy. Both cardio exercise and resistance training independently can improve insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism.
Weight Management
Exercising aids in weight management in two primary ways—the calories burned during exercise (both cardio and resistance training) contribute to a calorie deficit and, when combined with a proper diet, can promote weight loss or weight maintenance. Resistance training creates more metabolically active muscle tissue, which can increase basal metabolic rate so that the body actually burns more calories in a 24-hour period.
Mood and Self-esteem
Both cardiovascular and resistance exercise can positively affect mood by decreasing tension, stress and anxiety (which seem to increase during the holidays), and increasing positive mood feelings. Exercise has also been shown to boost self-esteem and body-image confidence.

BEST FORMS OF EXERCISE DURING THE HOLIDAYS
If your clients know they’re going to be heading off to a big holiday meal after a workout, the kind of exercise they choose can actually increase their appetites. A high-intensity (anaerobic) workout depletes glycogen stores, leaving the exerciser feeling hungrier, especially for sugar-rich carbs. Instead, advise your clients to stick to a moderate-intensity aerobic workout, which uses more body fat for fuel and spares some of the glycogen, leaving them feeling energized but not starving. If they prefer to hit the weights, advised them to choose a lower to moderate-intensity level workout with longer rest periods between sets. Encourage them to choose a weight that they can complete two to four sets of eight to 15 reps, using slow, controlled movements and focusing on slowing down on the eccentric (negative) portion of the movement. This is a challenging workout, which will create microtears in the muscles worked. The post-workout holiday meal is an excellent chance for those macros (especially protein and good carbs) to be utilized for muscle repair.

CHEERS!
Exercising before a big holiday meal can help prevent unwanted weight gain. Just be sure to urge your clients not to use exercise to justify a meal splurge. Tell them to enjoy the food, but also make sure to enjoy the people and take the opportunities to make some new memories. If they over-indulge, advise them not to dwell on it, but instead get right back to their regular, healthy eating ways, drink some more water and take a long walk. And make some more memories.