Diet vs Exercise: Oh the dilemma.
If your goal is….
Energy Boost – winner is exercise. Why? dopamine and norepinephrine.
Reduce Risk of Heart Disease – Winner is Diet. Why? omega-3s will help lower your risk. Exercise will strengthen your cardiovascular system.
Prevent Diabetes – Exercise. Why? Active muscles use glucose for fuel which keeps blood sugars stable.
Prevent Cancer – Both! Healthy diet and exercising means more protection.
Improve Mood – Exercise. Why? It just ups your mood! endorphines
Losing Weight – DIET. for most people it is easier to cut out certain foods than to spend an hour at the gym.
A workout that will never go out to style, keeping you motivated, and heart rates up. Check out Boot Camps!
In a boot camp, you use the bare minimum. Yourself. Using your own weight, you’re doing push ups, squats, jumping jacks, running. You are using all your muscles and constantly moving which equals to losing weight! There will be little or no rests between circuits. Each exercise you do should last 30 seconds to one minute. Do your boot camp workout outside using a playground, steps, etc.
Buddy up. You’ll push harder if you know someone is next to you!
By Friday! Yes, that’s right. Read on to hear the little secrets.
To slash calories, trade in your usual meals for these:
Have some eggs in the morning, instead of the bagel on the run.
Order a small coffee with a little nonfat milk instead of the lowfat latte.
For lunch, slurp a broth based soup with half of the turkey sandwich (lunch combos are genius).
Snack on 100 calorie snack packs for popcorn.
Going out for dinner? Pizza? opt for the thin crust veggie.
Incorporate these moves:
Going for a power walk
signing up for a gym class you never thought of taking
cleaning the house listening to your favorite jams
Take the stairs
Play video games that keep your heart rate up (WII Fit, active, Just Dance)
Pop in a DVD
In Women’s Health Mag, May Issue, Jillian Michaels is on the cover. Holy fishsticks do I enjoy watching the Biggest Loser!
So as the bikini months begin to emerge, I find myself needing to shape up. AND FAST. I spent a month resting and wasting. So today, this post, is the one where together we start our workouts together again.
Anyways. About this issue of the magazine, Jillian Michaels. Must I say more? She’s TV’s toughest trainer and I’m ready to follow her while I watch the Biggest Loser.
The task is to do what the contestants are doing while you watch the show. If they run, you run in place. If they have to do push ups, so do you.
Also make sure you write down what you learned and what you’ll try at the gym!
Asics has opened their first stand alone store in the US. This store will carry all the shoes, apparel and accessories a runner would want, as well as “the proprietary ASICS Foot ID system, which includes a 3D scan of the foot along with gait analysis to help determine the best shoe for a runner. ”
Check it out! and Tell me how it is. I cannot wait to go see it myself.
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