published: April 25th, 2011

How To Avoid Exercise-Induced Acne

Pimples love to feed on sweat, oil and dirt. It’s what allows them to thrive on your body and clog your pores in a nasty way.

And the bad news is that working out increases all of these.

So here is how to avoid this from happening to your skin:

1. Don’t delay taking a shower: The faster you shower the less time acne has to feed on all the materials lying on your skin. So try to clean your body soon after your workout. The last thing you want to do is come home and fall asleep.

2. Don’t rub your forehead while exercising: If you do this, you are more at risk for developing pimples on your forehead. And nobody likes to have pimples on their forehead. Instead, use a towel or a sterile wipe to clean sweat off your forehead.

3. Clean your body before working out: This is a great strategy for reducing the amount of dirt and oil that will get pushed deep into your pores while you exercise. As an added bonus, you will also heat up your body which in turn will allow you to exercise harder.

4. Wash your clothes frequently: Using the same clothes over and over again is a surefire way to repeatedly expose your skin to the acne bacteria. You will also smother your skin with your body oils. So the best strategy here is to use clean clothes.

5. Avoid reusing dirty accessories: If you use weight lifting straps, for instance, you don’t want to let them get too dirty. They will put extra dirt and oil on your skin. And if you rub your forehead while you are wearing the straps, this problem can be compounded.

6. Use tea tree after exercise: The good thing about tea tree is that it won’t irritate your skin, but it will kill lots of bacteria. So it’s a good cleanser to use after your exercise sessions. After all, nobody wants super dry skin after exercise.

Nobody should have to suffer from acne caused by working out. So follow the advice here and your skin will remain clear.

Writer Katherine Crawford, an exercise physiologist and recent flabby arms sufferer, instructs on how to tone your arms. Unearth how to get sexy arms by exploring her website with advice on how to get rid of arm fat quickly right now!

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published: April 24th, 2011

6 Reasons Why Water Is More Important Than Ever

You probably know that water is important, but do you really know why it’s so important? Most people don’t, unfortunately.

You see, if you don’t truly understand the deep benefits of a behavior change, you are less likely to stick with the change.

So here is why water is critical for fitness:

1. It will increase processing clock speeds: Your mind depends on water for optimal functioning, not just your body. In fact, people who are dehydrated have worse mental functioning. And this happens without you even noticing it.

2. It lubricates your joints: The structure that keeps joints working properly, cartilage, is non renewable. In other words, once it wears out there is no way to get it back. Thus, if you want a long life of fitness, keeping your joints lubricated is essential.

3. It helps you stay cool: And staying cool is vital if you want to be able to exercise at the highest level possible. You see, body heat is arguably the most fatigue-inducing factor people face when exercising. So make sure you stay cool by drinking water.

4. It gets things to where they need to go: Transport of nutrients from one cell to another require the use of water. So if you are dehydrated, things move around much slower. You see, most processes in your body are under the influence of water.

5. It gives your digestive tract a break: Without enough water, your digestive tract has a harder time processing food. You see, just like a car operates best with lubricating oil, your digestive tract operates best with lubricating water.

6. It helps you get rid of waste: Your colon uses water to excrete food waste. And in worst case scenarios, people eat lots of fiber while undergoing extreme dehydration. Unfortunately, this can lead to food being stuck in your intestine.

For most people, basic advice such as “drink water because it’s healthy” is not compelling enough to create change. So take heed of the information in this article and take action!

Author Katherine Crawford, a fitness physiologist and former brachioplasty sufferer, instructs on how to get rid of flabby arms. Unearth how to get sexy and toned arms by exploring her blog with advice on how to avoid a brachioplasty arm lift right now!

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published: April 22nd, 2011

What You Can Do Today To Mitigate Back-Related Pain While Training

Exercise induced back pain can completely drain you of any motivation to keep on moving forward. Not to mention it’s also very painful.

And most people suffering from lower back pain do not know how to effectively treat it.

So here are some steps you can take if you have lower back pain when exercising:

1. Do not work through pain: The structures in your lower back are not like other muscles. They take longer to heal and if you keep pushing things, you can end up with permanent damage. So stop doing all exercise until the pain is completely gone.

2. Eliminate all aggravating activities: This even includes activities outside of the gym. You need to let the pain and swelling in your lower back go all the way down before you start strengthening the muscles that support it or else you will simply make things worse.

3. Build up all the deep stabilizing muscles: Unfortunately, most people build up their superficial movement muscles and end up causing additional damage. The best approach here is to work on the deep stabilizing muscles which will support your lower back structures.

4. Get a lower back support for everything you sit in: Doing this will provide a constant source of pressure relief for your lower back. This in turn will extend the warranty on your lower back and will help get rid of pain a lot faster.

5. Get an ergonomic chair: They are very expensive compared to cheap chairs, but very cheap when you consider that they can save your lower back. At the very least, get a used one for some protection. You see, a good chair can be a back saver.

6. Stand when you work: Working from the seated position all day is a surefire way to accelerate the degeneration of your lower back. And once this happens, you can’t reverse it. So try to work from the standing position as much as possible.

Making your lower back as strong and as pain free as possible, is a great way to prolong your exercise warranty. So don’t delay here and take action now!

Author Katherine Crawford, a fitness expert and recent flabby arms sufferer, instructs on how to do arm toning exercises. Figure out how to get sexy and toned arms by exploring her blog with advice on how to get skinny arms now!

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published: April 22nd, 2011

fitness – how to tone your thighs and butt with resistance bands

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published: March 23rd, 2011

Counting Calories- How many calories YOU should eat to lose weight (for fat loss)

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The biggest dietary question I receive is: how many calories should I be consuming for my body? Well in both my free fat loss programs, my male and female programs I go much more into depth about how activity, BMR, age, height and other factors influence how many calories you should consume. For now you have to watch this video:

There are problems with counting calories. If you commit these errors, you can count till the sheep come home and it won’t make a DIFFERENCE. The three major problems with calorie counting are: its a poor estimate at best, it causes you to focus on quantity not quality of calories and it detracts from other important factors for your weight loss success.

There are three problems with counting calories.

1. Its a poor estimator
We don’t know the true value of calories, they are all estimates. Two eggs differ in size. Yet they still count for the same calories. Even when you weigh something with a kitchen scale, if you are off by 1 gram it adds up, 1 gram is 10 calories, do that enough times and you can be way off. On top of that food manufacturers estimate the amount of calories in their food, its not a concrete number. Big food chains

2. A calorie isn’t a calorie.

People focus on quantity instead of quality and this is bad practice. Just because something is artificially sweetened with 0 calories (like a protein bar) doesn’t mean those calories are the same as say cooked egg whites. Put another way, 100 calories of cheeseburgers will have a much different effect on your body than 100 calories of chicken breast. Focus instead on calorie of calories always.

3. Small things vs important things

You focus on the minute details instead of the larger picture. In other words you don’t see the forest from the trees. Yes its good to know you are roughly eating 1500 calories per day, but how many hours did you exercise? Put another way, if you overeat by a hundred calories because you didn’t count you can burn that by fifteen minutes of additional exercise. Put ANOTHER way, the same time allotted towards CALCULATING your calories can be used towards burning MORE calories. If you aren’t exercising enough, eating proper foods and distressing your life, you can count as many stocks of celery as you want but you won’t achieve your dream figure.

Conclusion
I’ve trained many people into awesome shape and everyone is different. I’ve trained figure competitors to competition WITHOUT them counting calories. Of course if you have no idea what you should be eating or how much, its a good idea to track your calories just to get a ball park estimate. Just remember to focus on whats holding you back, go for quality and success will follow. And thats what really counts.

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