There can be many reasons to want to improve your overall health. Eating healthy and exercising can help improve your quality of life and boost your self-confidence. Sometimes sticking to your goals can be a challenge, but it turns out there are many ways you can balance a good diet and exercise habits. Read on for some tips about how you can make exercise and diet part of your … [Read more...]
Taking A Step Back Is The Key To True Health
Does the below sound in any way, shape or form familiar to you? "You have a goal. Something important to you. Something you said yes to creating, doing, achieving because you believed it would make you happy. And so you go for it, work your way to making your goal a reality, feeling good about it, but then something shifts. You realize to reach said goal; you are … [Read more...]
Want Your Internal Organs To Run Properly? Stop Doing These!
Everyone wants a nice, calm and healthy life. But some people put bad things into their body and still expect to be healthy. Our organs essentially run our internal systems and bodies and if you don’t look after them you will end up ill and in quite a lot of unfortunate cases dead. There are active steps to take to stop the degrading of organs so try to follow them as much as … [Read more...]
Positive Practices: Enriching Your Life If You Have HIV
https://pixabay.com/en/jump-jumping-man-body-metaphor-1209941/ Living with HIV is not the same as it was 20 or 30 years ago. It was practically viewed as a death sentence, but thankfully with the world of modern medicine, we can look to living to a ripe old age as long as we are careful with certain lifestyle aspects. We need to look after our mind as much as we need to look … [Read more...]
Funnest Ways To Lose Weight This Year
Contrary to what many people believe, exercise does not have to be boring. In fact, exercise should be designed to be fun. Don't start treating physical fitness as a chore. Below are some of the fun exercises that you can do to start losing weight. Zumba Zumba is a fitness craze that was first created by Choreographer Beto Perez in the 1990s. It has been growing rapidly … [Read more...]
How to Work Out When You Suffer From Chronic Pain?
If there's one 'positive' that comes from being unwell, it's that you lose some of the expectation to do certain things and behave in certain ways. When you're ill you get a free pass and suddenly no one expects you to tidy the house, to walk the dogs, to go on nights out… or any of it really. And the last thing anyone is going to grill you about is heading to the gym. But … [Read more...]
BreastFeeding and Fitness – Are They Compatible?
Once your baby is born and you have established your new routine, it is just natural to want to start an exercise routine and reclaim your pre-pregnancy body. Many mothers that are breastfeeding are nervous about this however, often believing that exercise will impact their milk or stress their body in a negative way. New moms do not have to worry about either of these … [Read more...]
The Mental and Physical Benefits of Outdoor Recreation and Exercise
As technology improves, we seem to find more reasons to avoid stepping outside into the fresh air. Even though it's possible to exercise inside a gym with an elliptical or running on a treadmill, outdoor exercise still has many beneficial factors that cannot be replaced by an indoor substitution. No matter how well-equipped your local gym is, an outdoor workout is … [Read more...]
Basic Exercise Tips for Beginners: Start with Realistic Goals
Many people think that the harder and more often they work out, the faster they will see results. That is not always true. Many people unfortunately make the mistake of trying to do too much too fast and they injure themselves or they get frustrated and give up. Another problem people commonly have is that they get impatient if they do not reach their goals fast enough. … [Read more...]
Top 7 Obstacles to your Everyday Workout
What is your excuse for not working out daily? When the bathroom scales screams “one at a time please!” when you climb on them, it is time to pack up all excuses, pick up those dumbbells and get into a routine. There are other ‘obstacles’ as well to overcome but strictly speaking they are mere excuses. But let’s start with the biggest obstacle. Self-discipline There is … [Read more...]