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Fitness Tips for Busy Moms
As moms we are responsible for caring for our families, our jobs, and ourselves. Unfortunately, caring for ourselves often takes third place in our priorities due to the constraints of time. How can we take care of ourselves and still fulfill our responsibilities to others? One way to do that is to incorporate physical fitness activities into your workplace or home routines.
Why focus on physical fitness?
There are many reasons to focus on physical fitness as a priority in taking care of...
Exercise After Baby
How soon after giving birth can I start exercising?
This is the biggest question women have. The answer might surprise you.
The first and most important thing you should do is begin exercising your pelvic floor and stomach muscles as soon as you feel ready.
This is crucial. Strengthening the pelvic floor helps to prevent incontinence, can heal tears due to giving birth, and reduce hemorrhoids if you have them. It is also essential if you want to regain a normal sex life.
Given how...
Principles of Strength Training
Understanding the basic principles of training will help you to get the most out of your workouts. Using these, you can make informed decisions about your training program.
These principles don't work in isolation, they are complementary, and apply to everyone, no matter what type of training they are doing:
The Principle of Specificity:
Specificity means that your body will respond to the type of training you do. If you do lots of long endurance work, your endurance will improve. If...
How to Create a Complete Fitness Program
If you're still struggling to make sense of the information available on fitness, remember that you need three components of your physical fitness program: strength training, cardiovascular exercise and flexibility training. We will focus on cardiovascular exercise and flexibility training here.
Cardiovascular exercise is so called because it develops the heart and lungs, the cardiovascular system. Also known as CV training, there are plenty of options. These include:
Walking, running,...
Benefits of Strength Training for Women
It's the New Year and if you haven't already started on a strength training program, now would be the time to get going. There are so many benefits to adding strength training to your workout week and the pay-offs will be long-term, so it's one of the best investments of your time that you can make.
Some women are slightly intimidated by strength training. However, if you take the time to learn how to do it properly by either hiring a personal trainer or reading up on the principles of this...
The Best Foods to Prevent Heart Disease
If there is a history of heart disease in your family, or are getting worried about this condition yourself, it's vital that at this stage in your life you begin doing everything you can to prevent heart disease.
Maintaining a healthy diet and active lifestyle are two of the most critical ways to beat heart disease so where you should focus your efforts.
The following are some of the best foods to include in your diet regularly to prevent heart disease.
Avoid Saturated Fat
One of the prime...
How to Deal With Losing Mom
Most women have come to accept that at some point in their lives they are going to have to deal with the loss of their parents. You form a bond with them from the moment you are brought into the earth and it can be hard to think of them leaving you during your adult years.
In some cases, you are faced with the loss of a parent much sooner than you had anticipated, whether it's due to a natural death, an unfortunate accident, or the appearance of an illness that has claimed your parent's...
Fitness Goal Setting
Was this the year you were going to get into shape for your family? Have you met that goal? For many women, life can get in the way of keeping resolutions, goals and dreams to get in better shape. In order to stick with anything - especially something that can be hard work - we have to have goals . Setting goals allows you to see the bigger picture, to keep going when your workouts are hard, or you aren't in the mood.
We all practice goal setting at one level or another - even just saying...
Anxiety and Medications What You Should Know
In today's hectic times, more women find themselves dealing with feelings of anxiety and are not entirely certain how they should go about dealing with the problem. Unfortunately some women turn to unhealthy means of working through the issue, which then comes back to impact them in the long run.
If you decide to approach your doctor about the anxiety you are experiencing, there is a fairly good chance that he or she may recommend a prescription for anxiety meds. But is this a necessary...
Functional Training The Most Important Training for Women
Lifting children, carrying groceries and chasing down important tasks at work require a certain level of fitness to prevent your body from getting an injury. These tasks, which comprise most of a mother's daily activities become much easier the more fit you, are. To stay in the best shape possible, hit the gym! However, if you don't have access to the gym, the exercises below can be done anywhere - especially at home. The key at all times is functional training - let's look at some...
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