How Deep Breathing Can Help Improve Your Immune System

How Deep Breathing Can Help Improve Your Immune System Improve Your Immune System One of the greatest threats to the efficiency of the immune system is stress. Stress is sometimes referred to as the “fight or flight” response or you could say the “deer in the headlights” look or thought process or lack thereof. In stress, you can think too much and stop breathing properly as a result. Breathe and deep breathing helps make everything work in the human body. We cannot function without breathing and the oxygen that it…

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Top Exercises to Use With HIIT

Top Exercises to Use With HIIT Top Exercises HIIT is high intensity interval training. By now, most of us will know what this term means and be familiar with how to go about using it. Simply put, it means that you are going to be alternating between periods of high intensity (normally at around 90-100% of your MHR) and periods of relatively low intensity and recovery (at around 70% of your MHR). What this does, is to deplete your stores of glycogen and ATP, so that the only way your…

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How Your Body and Mind Are Intimately Linked Through Your Hormones

How Your Body and Mind Are Intimately Linked Through Your Hormones Body and Mind In the book Calm Mind, Healthy Body, we discuss in detail the importance of having a calm mind and we look at how controlling and calming your thoughts can ultimately improve your health by removing the stress response. But did you know that this also works just as potently the other way around? That is to say that your health can also impact on your stress levels? Even your hunger can impact on stress – which…

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The Best Diet and Supplement Regime to Combine With HIIT

The Best Diet and Supplement Regime to Combine With HIIT The Best Diet and Supplement So you just discovered HIIT? No doubt you’re loving just how easy it is to get a fat burning, calorie melting workout in now and you’re getting a kick out of pushing yourself so hard. But while you’re probably feeling great, you should know that fat loss and muscle gain do not happen in the gym or on the track. Rather, they happen in the kitchen. If you really want to make the very most…

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Tips To Improve Your Emotional And Mental State When Living With Chronic Pain

Tips To Improve Your Emotional And Mental State When Living With Chronic Pain Improve Your Emotional And Mental State Dealing with chronic pain can exact a toll on your emotional and mental state of being. You may be constantly stressed by your pain and may even suffer from depression because the pain is affecting all areas of your life and your ability to do the normal activities of daily living. There are ways to improve your emotional and mental state when you are living with chronic pain. Here are some…

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Some Exciting Training Methods You Probably Haven’t Heard of That Will Transform Your Training

Some Exciting Training Methods You Probably Haven’t Heard of That Will Transform Your Training Exciting Training Methods There are several new exciting training methods out there at the moment that have captured the imagination of the web’s fitness enthusiasts. These include concepts like HIIT and Tabata. Kettlebell workouts are big at the moment too. But these are just two types of training that you can use to mix things up and see better results. And actually, there are many more exciting and alternative ways to train like this that simply…

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How Your Body Uses Energy As You Continue to Train

How Your Body Uses Energy As You Continue to Train How Your Body Uses Energy As You Continue to Train When you first start working out, your body will go through a number of changes. These changes are designed to provide you with more energy and your ability to recruit that energy as and when you need it, is one of the biggest factors in determining how fit you are and how well you’re able to train. It’s also what controls the amount of fat you’re able to lose in…

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How to Design a MetCon Circuit for Maximum Weight Loss and Muscle Building

How to Design a MetCon Circuit for Maximum Weight Loss and Muscle Building How to Design a MetCon Circuit for Maximum Weight Loss and Muscle Building If you take a look on YouTube for a workout, you’ll find that they often come in the form of ‘ten-minute whole body routines’ and the like. These are designed as circuits and they usually incorporate a range of exercises such as squats, clapping press ups, bicep curls and tuck jumps. In theory, this type of workout can be highly beneficial for both building…

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How to Burn Fat without Losing Muscle

How to Burn Fat without Losing Muscle How to Burn Fat without Losing Muscle A lot of bodybuilders still rely on going through bulking and cutting cycles in order to get the incredible physiques that they display on stage. This makes sense because it is the quickest and most efficient way to add muscle. Adding muscle means being in a calorie surplus. The more calories you consume, the more anabolic your body will be – the more testosterone will be washing around your body and the less likely you will…

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How High Intensity Interval Training challenges the Body and Improves Fat Loss

How High Intensity Interval Training challenges the Body and Improves Fat Loss How HIIT Challenges the Body and Improves Fat Loss If you’ve read just about any fitness blog, magazine or website in recent years, then you’ll likely have come across HIIT. HIIT: high intensity interval training. Sprinting at maximum heartrate for a short period of time and then switching to a slower form of exercise for a couple of minutes to recover before starting the whole cycle again. This type of training is all the rage because it is…

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How to Learn to Love Running

How to Learn to Love Running Hate Cardio? Here’s How to Make it a Part of Your Routine Some people love running and are absolutely addicted to it. Everyone else struggles to understand how they possibly got to this point. After all, running is slow, painful, boring and makes you feel sick. What’s to like? A lot of us want to love running because we know it’s good for us. We want to be fitter, we want to lose weight and we want to spend more time outside. But when…

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Concurrent Training for Even Greater Fat Loss

Concurrent Training for Even Greater Fat Loss Greater fat loss What’s the very best way to lose weight? Most people now agree that it probably has something to do with HIIT – High Intensity Interval Training. This is a training format that challenges you to divide your time spent in the gym between high intensity bursts of sprinting or otherwise exerting yourself at 100% MHR and periods of active recovery at around 70%. But what if you could do something to make this HIIT method even more impressive? How can…

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