Fitness terms

If we mix a class choreographed into an intensive session of exercise got a new fitness concept called “Radical Fitness” where the monitor that gives training classes may change without the need to conform to a predetermined standard using more advanced sessions.

Everyone knows the sessions of “Body Balance” or “Body Combat” which became fashionable in all the gyms in Spain for a long time, well, now fashion brings new concepts based on training philosophies that although they use similar databases to outperform short term:

KI MAX. Mixed techniques of boxing, muay Thai and kickboxing. Ideal for an adrenaline rush and experience the power of kicking and hitting for real. He practiced with a leather bag designed exclusively for the development of the class and is interspersed with aerobic recovery and muscle strengthening.

TOP RIDE. Spinning like but with the feeling of having your hands a mountain bike. Needed only 45 minutes to burn fat and release stress quickly and effectively.

FIGHT DO. Mixed martial arts and boxing. Ideal for people “impatient” and wishing to get fit as quickly as possible. Increases muscle tone, endurance, speed, coordination, flexibility and balance.

MEGA DANZ. It covers any style of dance such as salsa, hip hop, dance, merengue, reaggeton, jazz, flamenco, pop, strip-dance, Brazilian etc. and allowed to burn fat very quickly. They change regularly choreographs thus avoiding entering the monotony.

OXYGEN. Training program that will improve the flexibility and mobility based on gentle movements associated with breathing. Relaxing background music is the basis for an atmosphere of total calm to allow get away from your everyday problems.

How to start exercising

We can try experimenting with a new approach, with some people who give them fitness-coaching and has proved very successful, and instead ask them to change all your habits overnight, like the typical promise that we make after a weekend week they ate as if the world were to end ( “I’ll never eat sugar, I will leave forever white flour, now I’m going to eat only lettuce to lose 15 kilos”, etc.). I looked for an approach less aggressive, easier to digest: Changes Gra-dua-les.

If your diet is far from being the “optimal” if you do not feel very comfortable with the changes or simply respond better to changes slowly, then this tip is for you.

Start with the basics and then individually. Throughout my career as a fitness athlete, I learned that it is a priority to have a plan designed to reach my specific goals depending on the season, how much need for my skills, if I need to lose fat, muscle up, maintaining, improving my performance or any other purpose.

However, it also clear to me that the first steps should be simple and basic as start exercising consistently, avoid desserts during the week and try not to eat junk food. And lest we go under the pretext of “But you never specify that it’s junk,” is very simple: Junk food is synonymous with “empty calories” are foods that provide calories but few nutrients, and generally have Conservatives inhibiting the absorption of vitamins. So for good the shortbread, sorry, are junk.

Since 4 weeks we paying attention to our habits, making changes and seen improvements in our physical, then it is worth making a specific plan to achieve our goals. This plan is based on: our level of physical activity, our body type / genetics and how your body responds to the changes we are incorporating.

Change your body and become more healthy may take some time, and as we see changes soon … seems to take forever to arrive. As a result, it is easy to think we are not progresand us demoralized and again … the shortbread.

Types of fitness exercise

Day diet tips

Basic tips :

Always choose foods that produce satiety and are not addictive, such as lean meats, white meats, raw vegetables and / or cooked.
- The more flour, sugar and sweet as, I’m hungrier.
- No good food and bad food is excessive. A McDonald’s hamburger is not necessarily more fattening than five slices of bread with butter.
- Never take diet pills before having tried at least 9 months with a traditional diet.
Pre-summer diet

Each year, the magazine has been in Argentina For You cover Ravenna diet doctor to get in shape in the summer. This is the one designed for the exclusive Chilean Paula:

Breakfast
- Yogurt with cereal or fruit, or two rice crackers with cheese or 1 slice of bread with jam or 1 fruit diet. The fruit may be solid or as juice, but not both versions.
- Water, coffee or tea.

Lunch
- Steamed vegetables or vegetable soup pan or defatted. Three times a week may be accompanied by 1 hard boiled egg or glass.
- Tuna with onion and tomato.
- Salmon with vegetables.
- Chicken (½ breast) with cooked vegetables.
- Loin of veal (150 g) with cheese and tomato dish.
- Dessert: 1 fruit.

Tea Time
- Yogurt with cereal or fruit, or 1 slice of bread with turkey ham or chicken,
or ½ or 1 medium banana fruit girl with 1 glass of skim milk and
sweetener.
- Water, coffee or tea.

Dinner
- Protein, may be soy, lean red meat or white fish (tuna, salmon, chicken,
turkey) with cooked vegetables or salad.
- Shrimps and prawns with salad vegetables.
- Vegetables cooked potato with 1 girl.
- Dessert: 1 jelly with light yogurt.

Important: eat two fruits a day. Use bananas, cherries and strawberries, not fatter than the rest. Do not eat between meals. Reduce the bread, or rather forget about it altogether. Remove the chocolate, flour and sugar.

Books and diet formula

The formula for maximum weight loss o is simple: eat little and do the exercise twice.
How to choose the weight loss diet books that suit them best is no easy task. A book about diets can retrieve information that is not very reliable or effective. But other books are so complete that it is possible to make a good diet without too much effort and without the need to pay a consultation with a specialist.

In addition there are several diet books free, most of which can be read from an Internet connection. To find out which of these free books are complete, one suggestion is to check that these bring a table of calories and vitamins. Most diet books always include a more complete reference to the levels of calories, fats and nutrients that bring most commonly consumed foods.

The golden book of dieting is that it brings different diets, complete and useful. In the odd book is the only permitted diet low calorie diet. But not always low-calorie diets are most effective.

The appropriate diet is not universal, but varies depending on the individual and the needs that each individual has. So before choosing the best diet you want to do is to look what are the options offered by the selected diet book.

It is also interesting to read the table of references that bring the book, not only to check the calories of the diet choice but to check the calories of other foods we commonly consume.

Since we are not always attentive to the nutritional value of fats and everything we eat, we can leverage the diet books to find out which foods are more desirable and which foods are more calorie and unhealthy.

Ancient Nutrition Myths and Modern Medicine

Recently, modern medicine had ignored the healing power of everyday foods, considering it a popular belief no proven scientific validity. But mainstream scientists have begun to study the principles of folk medicine and dietary practices of the past, seeking remedies and antidotes for modern diseases. The investigation of natural medicine is advancing at a rapid pace.

Why this sudden interest in the medicinal aspects of food? Why such prestigious institutions as Johns Hopkins and Harvard begin to announce with great fanfare that broccoli or broccoli is full of very powerful agents against cancer and that eating too much carrot seems to reduce drastically the risk of heart disease and stroke?

The reason: for the first time in history, science begins to validate the hard fact ‘that diet in the first instance determines the events that occur in cells where the real tragedies occur and mysteries, which are lost and permanently wins battle to build the health and longevity, or, conversely, to condemn us to disease and death.

That is where life begins and ends: in the seas of liquid cellular and structural genetic material where fate may depend on the presence of a particular enzyme or a fatty acid metabolized from one molecule of food. I recommend reading the article (the great miracle of food)

If you know what is happening in their cells, know what is happening to their health. The body consists of about 60 trillion cells. Each cell is an amazing and complex miniature universe in which occur billions of chemical reactions every second of life. And what those dependent intracellular chemical reactions?.

The only source of energy is in the food you provide them. For the first time, science can now study how foods promote health or disease since the cell itself, validating the assertion of the ancient wisdom that foods have medicinal powers.

Certainly the first physicians to use food as a pillar of the fight against disease. In a medical journal, Dr. John Potter of the University of Minnesota, recently spoke count of the first medical uses of food: “In ancient Egypt, Pliny said the cabbage. Cured to eighty-seven diseases and onion, twenty.

Garlic was considered sacred. Cruciferous (cabbage and broccoli were grown primarily as medicinal plants and used to cure headaches, deafness, diarrhea, gout and stomach problems … The Romans believed that lentils cure diarrhea and balanced temperament . The fresh and dried grapes had many medicinal uses and are used in various oral preparations, enemas, inhalation and topical applications.

Since the dawn of civilization we have sought remedies for diseases in forests, fields and orchards.

About 75% of the world’s population still does. Such a knowledge cluster do not be ignorant, says James Duke, Ph.D., a physician and expert on medicinal plants of the agriculture department of the United States. He said that the popular belief attributed to food is the ability to heal, proof of its validity.

After all, he notes, is precisely the popular usage that has led scientists to discover powerful elements in medicinal plants.

At least 25% of laboratory medicine come from plants, including taxol, a new cancer drug.

Doctors and healers ancient herbal medicine used to treat the diseases were based on their own experience and that of their ancestors and relatives. Obviously, they knew nothing about invisible germs, hormones and cholesterol, or the way they act analgesics and anticoagulants, let alone how to determine the pharmacological properties of food.

Diet tips to lose weight

We present 35 steps to lose weight:

1. Dilute the juice. Rather than take a regular juice, put half water to dilute. You can reduce up to 85 calories per cup.

2. Use your wireless phone. When talking on the phone, instead of lying down watching TV, put the laundry (68 cal.), Setting the table (85 cal.) Water plants (102 cal.) Etc..

3. Chew gum. Have been found to be chewing sugarless gum all day helps raise your metabolism by 20%.
4. Pays for sweet gifts. If someone gives a sweet, put a coin of 10 pesos in a boat, then gives that money to someone in need. We will accept candy cost more “gifted” when in fact they are paying a price for them.

5. Study the wrapper. At first glance it looks like a candy or chocolate has, say 200 calories, but if you look closely, almost everyone brings two parts, then has twice the calories.

6. Take green tea before exercise. The caffeine frees fatty acids, causing you to burn fat faster. And the antioxidants in tea, with caffeine, which helps burn calories faster. (if you have high blood pressure is not good that take you).

7. Avoid the diet shakes. Save calories only temporarily, because then you get hungry as you like and eat more.

8. Dinner at home. Dining in restaurants five or more days a week can make you fat (at least eat 300 calories more per day).

9. Replace the butter. Put olive oil on bread instead of butter is healthier and takes away a little hungry, so you eat less.

10. Use flaxseed powder. Flaxseed is high in fiber, helps you your heart’s content faster and cut calories.

11. Low-fat dressing (20 cal. AND 1.5 grs. Of fat). Mix a tablespoon of balsamic vinegar, ¼ teaspoon of olive oil and ¾ teaspoon of mustard.

12. Become a blood test. One in 12 women (most do not know) has a problem in the thyroid, which can cause your metabolism is slow.

13. Drink plenty of water. The more water you take, is better for your body, plus it fills your stomach and takes away a little hungry.

14. Trick your taste buds. Suck a mint or eucalyptus can help you take away the cravings.

15. Spice up your meals. Using much spice in your meals, can help you stop eating sooner.

16. Take a white cocktail. Like water, low-fat milk fills your stomach, as it also contains carbohydrates, makes you eat less.

17. Chopped salad. Cut the pieces of lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, etc., into chunks (rather than grate or cut small), you harder to chew large pieces, then it is safer to chew more and eat less.
18. Talk on the phone to a friend. Fill the vacancy with conversation, not cookies.

19. Point what you eat. Write what you eat can help you more control, not be super accurate, but writing helps more or less know what you’ve eaten on the day and control you.

20. Worry. The concerns, anxieties and tensions of work regularly takes your hunger and also make you burn calories. You can burn up to 700 daily.

21. Hide the remote control. You can easily burn 200 extra calories a day if you stop using the controls and do everything by hand (to change the TV to watch a movie, open your garage door, open a can, etc).

22. Use cooking spray. To prepare salad, chicken, fish or pasta, use cooking spray, preferably olive oil. A 2-second spray oil (spray) distributes approximately ½ teaspoon of oil, compared with the 2 or 3 three that you’d have to put if not sprayed. This saves you about 100 calories.

23. Buy in small portions. The bigger the package of food you buy, the more you eat.

24. Try interval. When you go out to jog, increase your speed on the final lap. This helps you burn more calories without lengthening the time you exercise. It also helps strengthen your muscles and bones.

25. Measure the amount of food. It’s easy to pass you hand eating, such as pasta. So before you start eating, measure the amount of what you will eat, so do not eat much.

26. Rent a horror film. When you are afraid, as normal is that it takes away your hunger and give you less. And when you’re happy or angry, usually gives you more hungry.

27. It reflects your choices. Look in a mirror while you’re eating, to help you consume it from 22 to 32% less.

28. Drop and do 10. Before you open the can of snow or chocolate in your hand, let him aside and do 10 sit-ups or sit-ups. Most likely you do sprints and longer, or until you forget what you were going to eat.

29. Smell the food. When you fancy a biscuit that much just to prepare at home, try this: Focus on the scent for about 30 seconds, then place a small piece on the tip of the tongue for another 30. Savor the aroma and flavor can help you eat no more than a cookie.

30. As a soup with chunks of vegetables. If you eat soup with large pieces of vegetables, you get tired and you are filled faster than if you eat a cream of something soup or without pieces.

31. It absorbs fat. With a paper towel you can get rid of about a teaspoon of oil (or 40 calories and 4.5 grams of fat), two slices of pizza.

32. Eat foods “heavy”. The calories and grams of fat in food is not what you’re full, but the weight of the food. Eat less and feel satisfied with heavy foods but low in calories (oranges, strawberries, grapefruit, cooked spinach, broccoli, etc).

33. Opt for fish. Different varieties of fish are rich in omega-3 (fatty acids), which can help you burn calories because your metabolism work they do. People who diet to lose weight that includes fish, lost 20% more weight than they do a diet without fish.

34. Inspirational. If you bring a good rate of eating healthy food, and do not want to get away, you can put little signs in different places in your home (including the refrigerator and pantry) with messages like: “Nothing tastes better than the feeling of being thin” ” Do not be overcome by a simple cookie. ”

35. Drink plenty of water. Dehydration can encourage a 3% the operation of your metabolism. You should drink plenty of fluids, preferably water.