Athletes Fitness and Treadmill Training

Dieting and fitness is one of my favorite obsessions

noreply@blogger.com (fitathlete) — Sat, 21 May 2011 14:05:00 +0000

I’ve experimented with so many lifestyle choices, it’s entertaining for my friends to watch and comment on. I suppose that’s why I’ve been so successful at this. Unlike most people, I can decide to do something and stick with it long term—that is the key to being successful at anything. I’ve gone full-on vegan, experimented with bodybuilding, kickboxing, vocal coaching, guitar, and piano. I’ve dabbled in meditation, journals, time-management, and other aspects of lifestyle design as well. So when Jack T. H. Chang released his latest book “The Magic Natural Remedy”, I had to give it a shot.
In December, I read this book and things changed very quickly. Tim made me realize that you don’t have to run 30 miles a week to keep body fat low and you don’t need to lift heavy weights everyday to build muscle. It’s all about what he calls the “Minimum Effective Dose”. Anything beyond this M.E.D. is a waste of time and calories. While reading, I couldn’t help but tell myself “there’s no way this could work”, so I decided to give some of his experiments a try.

January 1st, I decided to do his slow carb diet. I weighed 190 lbs, was 20% body fat, 5’11″, with a 34 inch waste. Here are some highlights on what I went through:
30 grams of protein within 30 minutes of waking up—I drink an unsweetened protein shake
Meals can only include one simple carb, one simple protein, and vegetables and have to be eaten four times a day. Here are typical meals I consume:

Breakfast (9am): Protein shake, 5 eggs, lentils, broccoli, black coffee

Lunch (12pm): Chicken breast, pinto beans, and spinach

Dinner 1 (3pm): Steak, black beans, and green beans

Weight Training/Cardio (4pm-5pm)

Dinner 2 (6pm): Chicken breast, lentils, and peas
Rules: no rice—including brown rice, pasta, wheat, whole grains, cereal, or anything white—except for eggs. Basically the meal plans I mentioned above are the only thing allowed to consume on the diet.
Oh, and you get a cheat day every Saturday—designed to spike your caloric intake. It does make this diet sustainable.

Think that’s hard to do? I thought so too, until I did it. Having a plan makes this diet effortless. You just grab your prepared Gladware package out of the refrigerator and throw it in the microwave. It’s cheap too. Planning a month’s worth a meals cost me no more than $80 bucks total.

This journey didn’t come easily in the beginning. The first two weeks were not fun at all. In fact, the only thing I could think of was “this isn’t working”. I weighed myself constantly and got so frustrated when the number on the scale would go up and down. I even had one of those fancy body fat scales—which I later learned measures total bullshit. How you measure makes a huge difference. Once I started measuring inches instead of total weight, things turned around rather quickly. If you decide to do this diet, I highly recommend using calipers to measure body fat over bogus body fat scales. There are more expensive services you can employ at hospitals and universities that give you the most accurate reading, but measuring inches will give you something tangible to work with for free.

Another thing I learned on this journey is how much protein matters in weight loss. If I found that I was starting to lose momentum, I increased protein intake and continued to burn fat at 4-5 lbs a week. The trick is to ask yourself what you’re doing that is getting in the way of losing weight. For example, I found that skipping a meal or not eating enough slow carbs stalled my progress. I even figured out a little trick that wasn’t in the book that ended up giving me drastically better results: drink an unsweetened protein shake before you go to bed. I found that it helped me sleep better and gave me more energy when I woke up.

Another thing I learned was that it’s not all about calories in and calories out. In fact, the data doesn’t lie: working out a lot was making me fat. I cut my cardio from 4 hours a week to 1 hour a week and my fat loss skyrocketed. Basic weight training was more than effective in cutting fat and building muscle.

February 1st, I got measured again—but I didn’t need the scientific evidence to tell me how different I am. I now look amazing. Here are some highlghts:
Went from 190 to 178 — 12 lbs total lost
Reduced by body fat percentage to 12% — losing a total amount of 17 lbs of fat
Gained 5 lbs of muscle — while losing 4 inches off my waist. I can see my abs

My goal for March 1st is to get my body fat below 10%, be able to clearly see my abs without having to flex, and have a more defined muscular physique.

Horses with large, lovely eyes

noreply@blogger.com (fitathlete) — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:58:00 +0000

A number of years ago, my (very) brief flirtation with the Sport Of Kings came to a quick end. Aside from my near pathological aversion to risk, I failed to heed any of the sage advice provided by Robert Nastanovich, instead opting for the somewhat less scientific method of hanging around the paddock ( Laying Autumn Profits). If a horse appeared lethargic and/or bat-shit crazy, I tended to discount his or her chances.

If you notice this, call a veterinarian to examine the horse. He or she can find out if there is an ulcer and how deep it is, which determines what medication is used.
Horses with eye injuries may not want their head to be touched. To perform an examination, a veterinarian usually sedates the horse or blocks the injured eye with a local anesthetic. Often a fluorescent stain is used to determine how deep the injury penetrated into the cornea.
This is especially useful for horses with conditions that take weeks to heal and do not like having their eye medicated.

The physical load in the gym can cause narcotic addiction

noreply@blogger.com (fitathlete) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:43:00 +0000

Web portal LookInfo.org.ua reports that addicted to the exhausting physical loads in the gym not only driven by the desire to improve their physical form, but represents a real addiction. Scientists have found that such intensive exercises in the body accompanied by the elaboration of serum, which is a chemical root of positive emotions. Today, you can already say that in many cities around the world, particularly in Moscow, there is an entire category of so-called fitness addicts. Such people with passes one or two classes in the gym are beginning to experience a feeling something like brittle.

During 2007, a group of scientists from the Australian Griffith University conducted a study physiology and psychological characteristics of this type of people. The study findings indicate that drug addiction fitness often sick and confined turbulent nature, which do not like to be in the center of attention and is very painful perceive any ridicule on himself.
Such dependence can cause a variety of effects, which unites only one thing - they are negative, especially if people constantly exposing themselves too large loads on training. High physical strain, which is regularly exposed to the human body, can cause serious problems, both mentally, and physically.
The main signs of such obsession is tragic perception missed workout, several visits to the gym, evolved insomnia, the deterioration of appetite, nervous irritability, aggression and withdrawal. Besides, the whole scale of values such fitness-addict shifting towards sports.
If a person enjoys sports, it should heed the following recommendations in order to avoid the occurrence of such dependence. There is a need to change the frequency of training program are also encouraged to combine classes in the gym with recreational activities in the fresh air. It should not be dismissed out of hand and other types of fitness(Betfair?), such as, for example, dance lessons, sedatives Stretching and yoga classes. It should turn its attention to the eastern Arts, which have the ability to give positive energy. It is necessary to completely eliminate the excessive load, focusing on the conduct of intensive training no more than three - four times a week, each of which shall not exceed one and a half - two hours, and it applies only to physically trained people.

Fitness exercises need to complicate

noreply@blogger.com (fitathlete) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:06:00 +0000

Adopted in medical circles view that the 30 minutes of easy exercise a day is enough to enhance their health, was revised by scientists who developed the first international guide to fitness.

So far, the British government recommendations argued that people can support themselves in the form of simply carrying out their daily duties. Having horrified by the fact that the simplest activities, such as cleaning dust, or walk up to the machine, the activity is regarded as experts on health care in its new study concluded that adults, if they want to avoid heart disease and obesity, it is necessary to perform jogging and twice-weekly train to the enhancement of gravity.

According to the scientists, world leaders in the health care and training methods, they want to make it clear set of recommendations on exercise for a healthy population, which was adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO), and since then the British government used as a guide to healthy living. Scientists argue that some do not understand the message contained in the guide and now performing too little exercise. Moreover, scientists openly declare that the man must be coupled with a few simple exercises from the field and the power to do aerobic exercises, as there are "sound scientific justification" that it is useful.

Among the authors article published in Circulation, Journal of the American Association for the study of heart disease, there are influential members of the American College of Sports Medicine (personal health ecologies). They write: "Some people do not get it, but someone wrongly interpreted the original recommendation. Some still think that it is possible to improve health among only exercises power, others that it is physically quite simple action that they commit in their everyday life. "

The new manual states:

30 minutes of easy exercise a day is really minimum, but the power load as opposed to aerobics to be "strongly" recommended. Worth alternate days with moderate loads enhanced training days.

By daily load-walking, shopping trips, debris-Takeout should be added sporting moderate strain. Twice a week to perform exercises with the show of gravity.

Adults, after 65 years, and people with weakened health after 50 years if they are afraid of falling, in addition, must perform exercises in the balance, and making plans with their respective training doctors.

So we went ahead, that "many adults, including those who want to correct their health or reduce the risk of premature death or acquire chronic diseases, and in doing so tend to a fixed way of life, there is a need to do more exercise than is contained in programme-minimum."

But the cardinal change of doctrine puts to the fore the dilemma with which the face of public health officials: how not to discourage increasingly obese population suffer too ambitious programs and forcing it to train? Specialists in anti-odd weight felt that the recommendations address the power Coaching far from reality.

David Haslam, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, said: "You all recommend twice-weekly train to the enhancement of gravity? They will not do so. They did not have the time or money to go to the gym. This guide is far from reality . healthy habits would be better implemented in everyday life. classes in the gym, unsustainable habit. "

Paul Geytli, professor specializing in physical and obesity in Leeds Metropolitan University, said: "Scientists are continuing to change the direction of impact, but these recommendations are designed to provide more detailed information for different groups of people and encourage them to perform an adequate exercise."

"This is an old problem: one for all health programs, or specialized advice? People who suffer from obesity strong need to train on the hour, just in time to avoid further to regain one's health if they are not going to change their diet."

Among the authors have experts who are part of the influential American Committee, which next year will publish the new recommendations for physical activity for the residents of the United States. Many believe that they have made this month, the amendments will be accepted there as an official council. Initial recommendations authors articles were quickly endorsed by the WHO in 1995, but the British government in 1996.

In 2004, the chief sanitary doctor of England and Wales, Sir Layem Donaldson, reissued a recommendation, wishing to stress thereby lower score, he gave a difficult exercise, and to enable people to understand that all you can do even fewer 10-minute practice. Then it turned out that two-thirds of men and three quarters of women were unable to perform a 30-minute program. Similar advice was given and the people of Scotland.

The representative of the Ministry of Health stated that it followed the new information about the amount required daily exercise, but this time the recommendation is not going to change.

What benefits of aerobics

noreply@blogger.com (fitathlete) — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:25:00 +0000

Aerobics is nothing but a system of exercises to help prevent coronary artery diseases.
Aerobics makes you live longer and live healthier and happier. Aerobics burns your fat.
It builds up a positive attitude in you and changes your perception of looking towards life.
Researchers consistently recommend that regular physical activity with healthy eating habits is the most efficient way to keep yourself fit and control your body weight. Aerobic activity helps you to control or reduce your weight by using excess calories that otherwise would be stored as fat. Everything you do uses the calories including sleeping, digesting food and breathing. Any physical activity to what you normally do will use extra calories. So doing regular aerobic exercise gives you a sense of positive attitude that helps to counteract stress.
Still about benefits of aerobics.
The heart works more efficient and becomes more stronger.
It helps to control your weight.
Reduces the risk in developing diabetes, obesity and any heart disease.
There is an increase in good cholesterol and decrease in bad cholesterol.
It increases endorphins.
Increases the body’s ability to take in oxygen and makes you breathe faster.
It helps to reduce and control the body fat.
Improves the body muscle strength and flexibility.
Improves the quality of sleep that freshens you early next morning.
Helps to avoid chronic diseases like heart disease and hypertension.
Aerobics increases the resistance fatigue and gives you more energy.
Improves your mood and reduces depression, stress and anxiety.
It avoids overheating.
Aerobics pumps the blood faster and more forcefully.
Helps in prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
Builds the muscular strength and makes your body more flexible.
Helps to reduce blood pressure.
Prevents from certain types of cancer also.

Tube Bar & interview Jim Davison

noreply@blogger.com (fitathlete) — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:52:00 +0000

It features Red, a Jersey City taproom owner and legend, who was once made famous by Jimmy Breslin.

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Conserving Space With A Folding Treadmill

noreply@blogger.com (fitathlete) — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:22:00 +0000

by 2RLove
www.articlecube.com
Last week while working in our kitchen my bride made a declaration. She said, “We need a bigger kitchen!” Not an unusual statement for someone to make, I imagine. Except for the fact that we had just moved into our new dwelling a month previous. Compared to the old kitchen this one was very spacious, but still it seems there is never enough room.

Conserving Space With A Folding Treadmill

That’s especially true when considering the space a treadmill would consume. Fortunately for us, manufactures are listening and introducing to market such ideas as the Folding Treadmill Vision Fitness.
I bet you already figured that one of the chief benefits of the treadmill Vision Fitness is the fact that it is indeed a folding treadmill. But that’s certainly not all the benefits of this folding treadmill. The treadmill Vision Fitness combines the advantages of a club machine with the space saving benefits that only a folding treadmill can provide for the best of both worlds.

The Best Investment For Your Health

noreply@blogger.com (fitathlete) — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:52:00 +0000

by Nathalie Fiset
www.ezinearticles.com
A home fitness treadmill is often one of the first pieces of exercise equipment that people buy. This makes it practically a must-have among health buffs. A lot of people are attracted by the advantages of this home exercise machine. They are encouraged by the growing number of people who buy home fitness treadmills and who tell of the great experiences that they have had.

One of the biggest advantages of having a home fitness treadmill is that it is actually pretty simple to use. Unlike other types of home exercise equipment, a treadmill does not require a person to exercise in any unusual position. A person just has to walk. People are actually attracted to it because of the fact that the treadmill gives them what they think is the most convenient possible exercise.

Think about it: walking is so natural to us that when a person uses a treadmill, he or she can do other things at the same time. You can actually multi-task while you are getting an exercise. One of the biggest reasons why a lot of people today neglect to exercise is that they actually cannot spare the time. Work needs to be done, money has to be earned, books have to be read, etc. With a home fitness treadmill, you can just exercise as you are watching television or reading a book. You don't have to spend all of that time going to the gym.

Why not just walk outside? Well, you should realize that the weather really is not always favorable for walking. A home fitness treadmill can actually help you make sure that you get your exercise whether it's raining or shining outside. This machine is also advantageous in the sense that it allows you to exercise in the comfort and safety of your own home.

Let us not kid ourselves: jogging outside is not as safe as it used to be. Instead of taking your chances out on the streets, why not just remain home and use a treadmill? This will help you get the exercise you need and still keep you safe.

Another advantage to the home fitness treadmill is the fact that you can actually monitor if you have reached your exercise goal. You can actually see if you have burned the amount of energy you mean to use up. This means that the home fitness treadmill can be very useful if you are trying to get in shape.

Of course, having a home fitness treadmill is not all about the advantages. You also need to learn about the disadvantages of getting this home exercise machine in order to prepare yourself and in order to help you make a definite decision regarding whether or not to get one. This will help you see if the home fitness treadmill is really a worthy investment.

One of the biggest disadvantages
of a home fitness treadmill is that it does not really let you target a specific area of your body

Although it will help you lose weight, you can't really expect to get killer abs from using this machine. Using this machine can also get quite boring. When you are running or jogging outside, you are able to behold many sights. These sights often make the run all the more enjoyable.

With a home fitness treadmill, you won't actually be moving. This means that your eyes will have to stare at the same view for the duration of your exercise. Unless you are watching the television or reading a book, workout on a home fitness treadmill can be pretty monotonous and dull. This is the reason why a lot of people abandon the treadmill after a few uses.

The treadmill can also be pretty dangerous if you don't use it properly. Misuse of the treadmill can actually lead to personal injury –a trait shared by only a few other exercise equipment. As you may have seen in many movies, people can slip on the treadmill and it will still keep running. It is unlikely, however, that you will find it as easy to rise up as characters in movies.

Hopefully, this little article has cleared your thoughts of the fad behind home fitness treadmills.