Enjoy monsoon at home while staying fit!

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Its monsoon outside, while its fun inside! I have reviewed a lot of products these days, so just for a change, here’s an article on fitness. Now, have you ever faced problems going to a gym while getting splashed with rain and muddy water? Well if thats the case, and you having a big big frown on your face, we have got a solution to this trouble of yours. Here’s a list of a few excercises which you can do at home, while giving gyms a miss and yet staying perfectly in shape!

Spot Jogging is a wonderful option which helps in warming up. Just you need to lift your knees and then hit back the ground, while moving your arms and legs as if you are running. And you can lose 215 calories if you do 30 minutes of spot jogging.

Skipping is the best option if you are looking for a cardio workout. It improves coordination as well as flexibilty. It helps not only in building bones but also shapes up your sides, hips and thighs. You can burn almost 560 calories in one hour by skipping.

Strength training at home is one alternative. Just get a nice set of dumbbells. Incase you dont have dumbbells, filled up water bottles is another option. You are going to burn 200 calories in an hour by strength training.

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Plank is a great excercise where you just need to be in a push-up position by bending your arms and moving towards the floor. Now extend your arms and hold the position for 30 seconds. This will tone up your abs, back ans stabiliser muscles. Per hour you can burn 350 calories.

Yoga helps in uniting the mind, body and soul! Surya Namaskar is the best yoga form. Yoga relaxes your body while making you much more flexible, and you can burn upto 280 calories in one hour.

Pilates can develop your body through graceful movements, core strength and flexibility. At home you can practise mat pilates. The hundred is one of the mat pilates which promotes breathing and circulation of blood. This helps in burning 260 calories in just an hour.

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Throw away Sagginess - Be Fit And Younger!

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Loss in weight suddenly over a short term and in an unhealthy manner results in sagging skin. The sagging of skin happens in unwanted and wrong areas in human body. The expanded skin and the beneath fat are lost due to quick weight loss which makes stretch marks and sags the skin. The loose skin is not pleasant in seeing and needs maintenance. The loose skin provides a lanky feeling and worst effect after losing more kilos of weight. There are many tips and ideas to avoid sagging of skin after a sudden loss in weight.

The sagging skin gives a feeling of being overweight even after losing many kilos. The tightening makes the person feel comfortable and also fit into perfect sized clothes. The weight should not be reduced suddenly and also an increase and decrease in weight of more than 10 kilos should not be frequently done. Scrubbers can be used to scrub the sagged skin after the weight loss. Massage therapy, certain creams, wraps, drinking more water and daily exercises can reduce the sagginess in  skin. The sagging mainly happens in stomach, upper arms, shoulder and lower thighs. At worst cases, a minor surgery or plastic surgery can remove the sagging in skin. 

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All You Wanna Know About ATKINS DIET!

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Atkins Diet is the diet to reduce the fat content in the body. It is the diet to limit

carbohydrate consumption. It is created by Dr. Robert Atkins and is officially called as

Atkins Nutritional Approach. Initially, he applied this diet to himself in order to reduce

his own overweight body. Being successful, he popularized this diet vide a series of

books. His first book is ‘Dr. Atkin’s Diet Revolution’ and it is released in the year 1972.

His continuous research and interaction with the concerned helped him to improve

his diet program, though he maintained his original concept unaltered. The same is

reflected in his subsequent book releases. His second book is named as ‘Dr. Atkins

New Diet Revolution’.

The success behind Atkins Diet is the health conscious involved in every human. The

reason is every dieter’s aim is to reduce his weight effectively and to stop his diet

control once for all. Here, concerning to this, Dr. Atkins provided the diet that is natural,

easy to follow and tasty to consume. Though it is a long term process, yet the result

seems to be evident at every stage.

Unlike others, Dr. Atkins believes that eating fat content doesn’t not make your body

fat so long you permit your body to burn the same. Here lies the secret of Atkins Diet.

Weight loss via weight maintenance and without undue hunger.

Atkins Diet comprises food containing proteins, fats and fiber. This consumption

helps in producing less insulin. Further, consumption of high fiber foods helps in slow

conversion of the same into glucose. Blood sugar level and energy level remains steady

for more time. This helps to be less hunger at the time of meals and the food intake

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normally be less though not fewer.

The Atkins diet is designed basing on the working of body’s metabolism. According to

him, eating the right food at the right time improves body’s metabolism activity, handling

fat in specific. He recommends to eat fewer carbohydrate foods and more high fibre

vegetables. By consuming the same, the body takes the fat, including the ones already

available in the body, as its primary fuel source instead of carbohydrate foods.

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How to fight obesity while living the urban life

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Obesity has taken over the society , especially urban middle class ,like an epidemic . Present day life style is a  great catalyst in nourishing its roots. Now it is the wake-up time to counter this epidemic and to ensure to create a healthy society because a healthy society is made of healthy people and as we know ,it is imperative that the healthy body has a healthy mind which has the most important role to play in the human life and ,thereby,in the social development.

For this purpose ,there are different ways to curb obesity like Ayurveda , surgical as well as physical exercises. All these forms make the excessive fat the real culprit to create obesity. Though ,fat is necessary to release energy for the body functions, its excess cause the obesity.

 Apart from all these ways ,there are certain tips to fight obesity while living normally our day-to-day life .These are as:-

    - First we should consult a doctor to help us reduce the weight .

    - Keep ourselves motivated to lose weight and make some short term realistic goals.

    - Keep strict vigil on our own eating habits and calorie intake .

    -Cut down the intake of high fats and sugar .

    -Indulge in the physical activities which suits to us .

    -Besides that, aerobic exercises, such as, jogging , swimming and cycling will also do.

    -Yoga ,especially Pranayam,under the watchful eyes of a trainer, is a very important way to burn the fat and keep the body as well as mind fit.

    - Sleeping for lesser periods,especially in the afternoon ,help increase the burning of calories.

    - Healthy sex is also one of the most important methods which reduces obesity and keep the person fit.

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            In a nutshell ,there are many ways to fight the obesity, but , above all , the most important is that one should stay motivated to reduce weight and keep oneself fit. Only this way, we can successfully fight the obesity in urban life.

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