Friday, July 10, 2009

Easiest Workouts in place of Hard Exercises

For most of us, It’s not easy to fit exercise into our busy schedules. You may find it impossible to spare ½ hour a day for exercises but still don’t give up. As, you can attain the fruits of the desired exercises by following the below mentioned hot tips without allocating special time to tough exercises.

Always try to use stairs:
Always try to use staircases rather than a lift as it can help you burn calories as well as toning up your legs and bum. Using stairs burns about twice as many calories as walking, and 10 minutes of taking stairs burns about 70 calories.

Walking:
A fast walk is one of the easiest ways to fit a bit of exercise into your day. Walk around the block in your lunch break when spare, walk the kids to school. You should walk 10,000 steps a day. Keep walking in your daily office work, avoid using bell rings & peons for routine works. Go to your juniors yourself. You can burn 35 calories in 10 minutes of brisk walking.

Gardening:
Gardening at your home count as moderate activity if your pulse is slightly raised and you feel warm while doing it. Gardening for 10 minutes will burn 53 calories.

Play with kids:
“Bike riding, play football or play running”. Finding time on weekend to do something active with your kids helps to keep the whole family fit.

House Work:
Housework may not be that much fun, but it can really get your heart pumping. Scrubbing, sweeping, mopping and vacuuming are moderate exercises. In 10 minutes of energetic dusting, you could burn around 33 calories, while 10 minutes of ironing uses up 15 calories.

Park away & walk:
Whenever you park, leave the car as far away as practical from your destination and walk the rest of the way.

Dancing :
Dancing, whether at a class or home alone with your headphones on, is great fun and good exercise. Ten minutes of aerobic dancing burns around 65 calories.

Customize your office routines:
Long sitting at a desk is an easy way to pile up pounds, but there are ways to fit a bit of exercise into your office life.
• Walk to a colleague with a message, instead of mailing them.
• Always use bathroom of the above floor.
• Keep a hands-free phone so you can walk and talk.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Lose weight after Pregnancy - safe & very effective Tips


Lose weight Tips for mothers – Post Pregnancy


On one side it’s a matter of great pleasure when a women get expected to have a baby after few months. At the same time women get disappointed to see their increasing weights on scale day by day. There is hope that weight will automatically reduce after delivery of baby but this not happen in almost all the cases as women have to do some effort to get in shape after pregnancy. We have written this research article for mothers which will provide safe and effective fast tips to lose weight after pregnancy.

Techniques to lose post-pregnancy weight:

1. You should immediately replace high sugar beverages like sodas/ juices with clean water and a squeeze of fresh lemon. Drink at least 10~12 glasses of water daily. It will result cut in hundreds of calories per day.

2. You need to avoid the urge of indulging in fast foods. Always try to order salad and not fat-filled burgers and fries.

3. Breast Feeding is one of the best techniques to lose post pregnancy weight. Breast feeding results in consumption of about 500 calories per day.

4. Keep healthy snacks handy such as raisins, popcorn, wheat crackers, and nuts. Refuse to buy store-bought baked goods or junk food.

5. Start Light Exercise at the earliest like a walk of 10 minutes per day then move to 20 minutes.

6. Exercise Tips can be used like parking your vehicle a farther or using elevator instead of lift. These tips can be used after about 02 months of delivery.

7. Not to be fooled by foods labeled as non-fat. Because some of these are filled of calories and can have hydrogenated vegetable oils and/or high fructose corn syrup, which are not healthy for you. Go through detailed labels first!

8. Eat boneless chicken & Fish, avoid beef and fats like ghee, cheese and butter.

9. Eat grains in whole (like breads, pastas & cereals) instead of "white" versions
You need to keep in mind that you took 9 months to gain this weight. It will take at least half of it to lose weight in safe and effective way. At the last is final tip of the day i.e. “Avoid Treats” from friends or relatives for at least 04 months after delivery.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

How to lose weight fast - Online Tips?

We will cover tips on losing weight fast in following headings:

1. Why you get overweight?

Obesity is caused when intake of calories through food & consumption of calories through daily physical activities get out of balance and its displayed in the form of over fats of body.

2. Online Tips to lose weight fast:
  • Our weight gain is dependent on the calories we intake through our daily food
  • For men who have daily work of sitting in office or at home and are in age bracket of 31~50 years, require daily calories about 2200 while for women is 1800 to maintain their normal weight
  • To reduce weight, our food should be limited to 1400~1500 calories
  • To lose one pond of weight, about 3500 calories are to be consumed in a week i.e. 500 additional calories daily will lead to 3500/ weeek
  • Fast walk daily of one hour will lead to consumption of extra 460 calories









  • This is how you can lose one pound each week

Note: Your speed of losing weight should not be in excess of one pound per week

3. Overweight and health complications:

Overweight not only results in apparent bad shape of the body but also may lead to complications like heart dieseases, sugar, high blood pressure, infertility, pregnancy complications, hernia & bone pains etc.

4. Keep BMI (Body Mass Index) in Control:



Keep on recording your weight and check it in comparison of your height.

The following table may be used as BMI:


5. Select suitable diet to lose weight:

i. Can Eat Freely: Wheat, Rice, Vegetables, fruits, Yogurt, Milk without cream, Fish & Chicken

ii. Eat with Care: Oil, Mutton, Sweets & Beverages


iii. Avoid Eating: Ghee, Butter, Cheese, Egg, Cream, Milk with cream, Beef

2. Calories Consumption per Hour:

Light Works:

Home cleaning work 240~300

Office works 240~300

Medium Works:

Walk Fast 370~460

Gardening 370~460


Cycling 370~460

Hard Works:
Jogging 580 ~730
Swimming 580 ~730