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Muscle Matters

2012-02-26T23:03:00.000Z

Muscle Matters: Research has shown that regular strength training can increase your BMR (basal metabolic rate) by 15%. That means if you usually burn 2000calories a day you will burn an extra 300 calories every single day.

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You Are Never Too Fat To Exercise

2012-02-25T21:58:00.000Z

Your body needs exercise in the same way it needs food. No matter how overweight you are, you can do something to start the process of losing fat, strengthening your bones, and relieving your joints of the load that they're carrying. –Dr Michael Roizen

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Exercise First Thing In The Morning

2012-02-24T23:08:00.002Z

Exercise Motivation Tip 5: As soon as you wake up, get dressed for your workout.
Try this little trick tomorrow morning...
As soon as you wake up, get dressed for your workout....don’t have a cup of coffee, or read your email, or do anything else that you would normally do at this time. Once you have your workout clothes on start working out. If you do this every morning you’ll create an extremely powerful habit that will guarantee you never, ever miss your workout again.

This trick worked for me this morning...While still groggy-eyed I was lacing up my trainers and putting on my workout clothes. I would normally have headed straight for the coffee and my computer and would tell myself I'll exercise "some time later" - on many days, "later" just didn't arrive. Today it felt sooooo good to be doing my workout first thing in the morning before the excuses had time to enter my mind. Now, I can't wait for tomorrow morning to come so I can try this little trick all over again!

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Exercise Motivation Tip 4 - Write Your Goals

2012-02-23T02:31:00.001Z

Exercise Motivation Tip 4- Write Your Goals. Studies have shown that people who wrote their goals accomplished significantly more than those who did not write their goals.

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Everyday Is An Opportunity To Improve

2012-02-21T23:57:00.001Z

Every day is an opportunity to improve.

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2012-02-21T05:27:00.001Z

Exercise Motivation Tips 3

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Eat More Carrots

2012-02-21T04:03:00.001Z

Eat More Carrots

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Exercise Motivation Tip 2

2012-02-20T07:00:00.001Z

Exercise Motivation Tip 2 - The 2 minute Visualisation.

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2012-02-20T03:37:00.001Z

Exercise Motivation Tip 1 - Write a list of the benefits of exercise and stick that list on a wall where you will see it every day.

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Ernestine Shepherd, The World's Oldest Female Bodybuilder

2012-02-19T15:59:00.002Z

Ernestine Shepherd is the oldest competitive female bodybuilder in the world, as declared by the Guinness Book of World Records; as of 2011 she is 74 years old. In addition, she leads exercise classes for seniors and works as a personal trainer. Shepherd had been a model in Baltimore for years, but at age 56 she and her sister went to try on swimsuits and found their bodies were out of shape; they then started taking aerobics classes. Since age 56 she has won two bodybuilding titles, as well as run nine marathons. - Wikipedia

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How To Love Exercise - Tip #1

2012-02-18T01:30:00.001Z

How To Love Exercise Tip #1: Listen to a podcast that interests you while working out.

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Exercise Is Good Medicine

2012-02-17T07:43:00.005Z

Exercise not only helps you lose weight, it also helps you reduce your risk of getting breast cancer, heart disease and strokes.

David Haas, an advocate for cancer patients sent in the following guest post on the benefits of exercise and it's relationship to cancer prevention:

Help Prevent Cancer with Exercise (by David Haas)

Medical science has drastically improved cancer survival rates in recent years, but statistics provide little comfort for millions of people around the world who are affected by cancer. There is neither a cure nor a vaccine, but one of the keys to both cancer survival and actual prevention is exercise. Regular exercise can help to protect against bowel cancers, breast cancer, endometrial cancer, and lung cancers such as mesothelioma.

Scientists are still working to figure out the specifics of how exercise works to prevent cancer, but they do have a good understanding as to what exercise does.

• Regular exercise helps to maintain healthy hormone levels. High levels of some hormones can increase the risk of cancer. Examples include two types of estrogen, estradiol and estrange, high levels of which can cause breast cancer.

• Exercise helps to maintain a healthy weight. Weight management is an
important factor in lowering the development of cancers. For instance, overweight women are at a greater risk of breast cancer because they produce and maintain higher estrogen levels than women at healthy weights. They also have larger amounts of breast tissue, making it harder to properly find and diagnose a tumor until too late.

• Exercise strengthens your immune system and helps your digestive system to run more smoothly.

• Studies have shown that exercise leads to stronger lungs and lower occurrences of lung cancers in men and women, both smokers and non-smokers.

The American Cancer Society recommends at least thirty minutes of physical activity five days per week to optimize the cancer-prevention effects of exercise. The National Cancer Institute reports that 50% of Americans don’t get enough exercise.

You don’t need to start lifting weights at the gym and start taking spin classes to get your exercise in. Start walking, do yoga, swimming, zumba, gardening, or hiking. Make a game out of it using the exercise programs available for systems like the Wii or X-Box Kinect. If you have been very inactive for a while, don’t expect to reach the target of 150 minutes per week right off the bat. Just get off the couch and do what you can to start. Any exercise is better than none and will provide at least minimal benefits. Work your way up to higher frequency and duration. Vary the activities that you do to keep boredom at bay. The sooner you start exercising, the sooner your body can start working to keep you healthy and keep your cancer risk down.

To learn more about the benefits of exercise on weight loss and cancer prevention visit David's blog HERE

See Exercise As Your Daily Ritual

2012-02-16T08:05:00.001Z

See exercise as your daily RITUAL. Instead of saying "It's exercise time" try saying "It's me time".

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Don't See It As A Diet

2012-02-15T03:25:00.003Z

Don't see it as a diet or you'll fail (eventually). Instead see it as a lifestyle and you'll succeed (eventually).

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If You Bite It, Write It. If You Snack It, Track It.

2012-02-13T06:30:00.000Z

Treat Your Body Well

2012-02-12T07:03:00.000Z

You are you.
You are not a condition,
a BMI number,
or even a weight.
You are a wonderful creation
and you live inside a body
that either serves you or limits you.
That body can affect
your happiness.
Treat it well and it will treat you well.
– CalorieCount.Com

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Fitness Is For Life

2012-02-11T02:14:00.002Z

Fitness Is For Life - If you aren't prepared to eat healthy and exercise for the rest of your life, then your present weight loss isn't sustainable...(to continue to steadily get fitter and fitter adopt the mindset that healthy eating and exercise is your new lifestyle...for life).

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Adding Exercise Will Get You There Quicker

2012-02-09T04:31:00.001Z

Just eating less will only get you so far. Adding exercise will get you much further...quicker.

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Make Time To Work Out

2012-02-08T22:39:00.000Z

Making time to work out is just as important as making time to sleep, or brush your teeth...treat it that way and you'll exercise every day.

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84 Year Old Woman Runs New York Marathon 24 Consecutive Times

2012-02-08T20:44:00.000Z

I found this picture while surfing the net and my jaw dropped to my feet when I realised her age and how many consecutive times she had run the New York marathon...what an amazing inspiration she is. I will never again use age, weak knees, or anything else to convince me that I can't push myself to achieve more with my exercise and fitness routine...I hope she inspires you too. Click HERE to read more about her.

Eat Clean To Be Lean

2012-02-07T04:45:00.000Z

Eat clean to be lean.

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Have Fun While You Exercise

2012-02-06T19:02:00.000Z

Get Excited About Being Healthy

2012-02-06T01:22:00.000Z

Get excited about being healthy because being healthy is exciting.

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Don't Be Discouraged

2012-02-05T06:51:00.001Z

You can do it. Don't be discouraged if you don't see results right away...it takes time.

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Excuse Busting Tip - You Don't Have To Do It Perfectly - Just Start...You'll Improve

2012-02-04T18:56:00.001Z

An imperfect workout done TODAY is better than a perfect workout delayed indefinitely.

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