Tag "health"
Video of the Week Contest Winner: Patricia Friberg’s Belly Beautiful Workout
Pre-natal exercise, especially that includes pilates and yoga, is widely encouraged by physicians and health experts. It can help stabilize breathing and heart rate for birth, increase circulation throughout the body, decrease swelling, manage pain, and relieve stress, not to mention keep a woman healthy and fit during those nine months.
Totalvid’s Video of the Week: Dr. Teri Jory’s POISE: Strong and Sexy
“I needed to figure something out that worked with my schedule. After a couple weeks, my friends started noticing a change. They asked me what I was doing and I showed them. Then their friends started asking them what they were doing. It snowballed like that. That was the Genesis – it had a life of it’s own.”
Video of the Week: The Fueling Plan
We’re still invested in health, but we know you don’t want to just be lectured. That’s why this week’s Video of the Week is by fitness expert and personality Tim Michaels! And here’s the difference with this week’s pick: it’s a demonstrative video on how to eat well and colorfully! “The Fueling Plan” is set in the kitchen with Tim and extinguishes faulty myths while exposing some crucial messages!
Happy New Year! Again!
Come February 3rd, the Chinese population around the world will be celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year (other Asian cultures such as the Vietnamese and Koreans also have similar celebrations by different names). The Year of the Rabbit will kick off with a 15 day celebration, culminating in the Lantern Celebration where festivities and parades and plenty of fireworks will be ringing throughout the many Chinese communities around the world.
The Missing Components of Fitness: Sufficient Sleep and Beneficial Breathing
It’s a new year. You decide you can do this. You know it’s not just an impulse but a lifestyle change. You’re going to go to the gym today …and tomorrow… and at least a few times this week. You’re going to go after work; you’re going to get on the treadmill. You’re going to lift [...]
The Skinny on Fat
People spend a substantial amount of time researching things like cars, houses and schools before deciding on one. Yet eating is something we do multiple times a day, and often we don’t know exactly what we’re eating or educate ourselves before we decide what to eat. The fatty American diet has been the criticized culprit [...]
Identifying Different Body Types: Suiting Fitness to Form
Ever wonder why you don’t see results even though you know you’ve spent hours on the treadmill or elliptical? Why is it that friends or other gym goers can lean down and tone up while you do the same movements, sometimes with more effort, yet you can’t manage to lose weight? You can’t expect a [...]
Weighing In on Weight Cutting
Routine to combat sports, a significant custom in mixed martial arts is overt weight cutting by dehydration and starvation to make weight class before a fight. Though most athletes, coaches, commentators and fans agree that weight-cutting is a necessary skill, the procedure of cutting drastic percentages of weight in a matter of days, hours even, [...]
