| Innumerable Americans spent millions of dollars on diet | | | | routine in the gym or eating nothing but carrots and |
| pills every year, unaware that a pair of dumbbells and | | | | celery all day long. These practices are just as |
| a good walk can do a much better job. | | | | ineffective at long-term weight loss brought about by |
| The first thought that would come to your mind is | | | | diet pills and late night infomercial products. |
| weight lifting. The words "weight lifting" and "resistance | | | | Weight training, essential for both men and women, |
| training" have been taken to be the same for many | | | | makes the muscles more metabolically active. This |
| years - rightly so, as they embody the same concept: | | | | would mean that the muscles will be burning more |
| doing work under more restraining conditions. Whether | | | | calories at all times than normal. You would also be |
| it is Yoga, Pilates or other cardiovascular exercises, or | | | | burning a good amount of calories while lying on the |
| any other form of exercise, the concept is the same - | | | | bed! Muscle is the only site in your body where body |
| moving your body under more resistance. | | | | fat is broken down. Consequently weak muscles |
| Why Exercise | | | | would mean weaker metabolism and hence lesser |
| All forms of exercise play a major role in slowing | | | | calories burnt. |
| down the aging process. Most senior citizens end up in | | | | The Second Important part is Cardiovascular Training. |
| nursing homes because they lose the ability to think | | | | A popular mythical belief is that this type of training is |
| and move. These processes stop happening on their | | | | only to help cardio-respiratory system to help function |
| own if you do not have to do them every day. | | | | properly. Cardiovascular training will also burn a lot of |
| Exercise gives you work to do other that just sitting on | | | | calories for you. This needs to, however be combined |
| the couch and playing around with the remote control | | | | with weight/resistance training to produce the desired |
| in your hand! | | | | result rather than to merely lose body liquid and muscle. |
| When it comes to the physical side, I am sure none of | | | | Last but not the least is your nutritional program. Your |
| us like body fat. Obesity causes more deaths in | | | | food intake should be quality intake. Your diet should |
| America each year than all known forms of Cancer | | | | have appropriate proportions of complex |
| combined. Most of us will not be able to do thirty | | | | carbohydrates, fiber, fatty acids, and protein. Lean |
| pushups (for women) or 40 (for men). Can you? If not, | | | | sources of protein however, are the right choices as |
| then you are below the 50-percentile mark for your | | | | they will fulfill the body's nutritional requirements as well |
| gender! | | | | as increase the metabolism, burning more of your |
| According to statistics 64% of Americans are over | | | | calories. |
| weight. Effects on self -esteem are eminent by the | | | | I think that by now you would agree that literally, |
| skyrocketing sales of anti-depressants. | | | | exercise is a must even to stay alive - let alone to |
| How to Exercise | | | | have improved sports performance and increased |
| Exercise and a well-organized diet plan undoubtedly | | | | energy levels, which are the added benefits of a |
| carry the solution. Do not mistake this for 2 hours daily | | | | well-maintained exercise program. |