Experts say that kids need 60 minutes or more of physical activity a day. With childhood obesity on the rise, its even more important to keep our kids interested in sports. Keeping these tips in mind could help your children enjoy activity even more.
Make Exercise A Family Priority
It may seem an insurmountable task to get your family into the healthy habit of regular exercise. Yet, with the disturbing recent obesity trends, its an extremely important habit to adopt. With a little planning you can find ways to incorporate workouts into the time you spend with your children.
Healthy Living for You and Your Children
In striving towards healthier living for myself and my family, I discuss the three simple changes we made to improve our health.
How About a Natural High Instead Of Those Mood Altering Drugs?
Researchers have found that exercise releases serotonin into the brain and creates a feeling of euphoria. If you can achieve a “natural high” a sense of well-being without the Prozac and the other depression drugs and do away with the serious side effects, why not try?
Is Exercise a Natural Sleep Aid for Seniors?
Older people experiencing age-related sleep issues are likely to find more long-lasting relief through the use of regular exercise than they ever will by using drug-related sleep aids.
Bowflex For Baby Boomers
There are hundreds and maybe thousands of physical fitness gurus all claiming to have the perfect answer, the magic bullet for physical fitness and a solution to a healthier body and lifestyle. Well, Im not going to claim to have the perfect answer! However, I do have a few tips on an easy to use piece of exercise equipment that may be one of the best for all ages and is particularly suitable for those of us who are either baby boomers or a bit more seasoned. Its the Bow…
Does Yoga Normalize Body Weight?
Many people are first drawn to Yoga as a way to keep their bodies fit and supple. Others come seeking relief or help for a specific ailment like tension or Backache. Whatever your reason is, Yoga can be a tool in giving you both what you came for, and more.
Though the practice of Yoga is closely associated to ancient texts, beliefs, and values, it also yields benefits useful for people’s practical daily lives. Here are some reasons why more and more people are practicing Y…
Six Branches Of Yoga
Hatha Yoga
Hatha Yoga is the path of Physical Yoga or Yoga of Postures is the most popular branch of Yoga. Hatha Yoga considered the body as the vehicle for the soul. It uses Physical Poses or Asana, Breathing Techniques or Pranayama, Meditation in order to bring the body in perfect health and for the more subtle spiritual elements of the mind to emerge freely. The practice of Hatha Yoga will result to the union of the body and the soul, it aims to make the body perfect and …
The Power of Stretching
Stretching gives one the ability to have explosive power available at one’s fingertips without the need to warm up. Of course most of us are not martial artists or agents. But, you’ll be happy to know there are plenty of other benefits.
What Makes Ashtanga Yoga Different?
Interested in taking up Yoga, but don’t know where to start? Michael Hawkins sorts things out with an article series on the various styles of Yoga. This article focuses on Ashtanga Yoga, also known as “Eight-Limb Yoga”.
What Yoga Exercise Do For You!
Yoga loosens up large muscles, so they aren’t stressing smaller muscles and bones resulting in injuries. It also loosens up joints and improves circulation, which is good for health.
The procedure is to go through a contortion which stretches the large muscles causing them to loosen up. As the largest muscles loosen up, the force shifts to smaller muscles. If the position is held too long, a small muscle could get injured.
So when muscles are real stiff, a position shou…
Discover Yoga’s Healing Power
Yoga has mutliple benefits for your health. Yoga exercises and meditation make you more physically and mentally capable of dealing with life’s everyday stressors.