5 Great Tips On Exercise

Have exercise misconceptions prevented you from starting an exercise program? Clear up any confusion and let these exercise tips improve your workout routine. Hopefully none of these common exercise myths, mistakes and misconceptions have prevented you from working out.


1. Common Mistake: Failure to set goals. Do you exercise without a clear goal in mind? Having a clear goal set is a critical step in exercise and weight loss success.  Tracking your progress in a journal will help ensure you see your improvements, will help motivate you and help you meet your ultimate goal.

2. Common Misconception: No Pain, No Gain. Pain is your body’s way of letting you know something is wrong. Do not ignore this. When you go beyond exercise and testing yourself, you will encounter physical discomfort and need to overcome it. An example of this would be training for a marathon. It is important that you have the “base training” before getting into the advance training. The base training develops the body and gets it ready for extensive training. You need to learn to “read” your body. Is the heavy breathing because you are pushing your body or could it be the beginning of a heart attack. Exercise is important. Do it correctly and you can do it for the rest of your life.

It is normal for you to hurt after you exercise, but it must be done gradually with a good amount of rest periods to allow proper healing. There are two common problems here with beginning exercisers. You can cause long lasting damage to muscles, tendons and ligaments if you work out while you are in pain, without allowing enough rest time to heal. You might find yourself in constant and long lasting pain if you do this which means that you will no longer be able to exercise.

If you wake up the next morning after you exercised and can barely drag your aching body out of bed because everything hurts, you are going to be less motivated to exercise at all. Constant pain is a sure way to kill your exercise program.

3. Common Mistake: Sacrificing Quality for Quantity. When you are ready to increase the number of reps of a particular exercise, and strengthen the corresponding muscles, instead of forcing yourself to do a little more each time try decreasing the number of reps in a set but increase the number of sets. Also, back off to half your usual number of reps but add a couple of more sets. You will feel less tired and will be able to gain strength in your fast-twitch muscles.

4. Common Myth: Weight Training Makes Women Bulky. Weight training for a woman will strengthen and tone muscle, burn fat and increase metabolism, not build mass. Women do not produce enough of testosterone to build muscle mass the way that men do.

5. Common Mistake: Over-Emphasizing Strengths. You should start focusing on your points rather then what you are good at. This will help you balance things. For example, if your lower body is stronger than you upper body, then try to work only on this area one day a week.

Being smart about how you exercise will take you a long way. It is important to have a healthy body so get out there and start exercising today.

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Foods to Lower Your Cholesterol

5 foods that keep your cholesterol in check

Making small and easy simple changes in your eating habits can go a long way to help lower your cholesterol and keep your numbers at a healthier level.

• Oatmeal
• Walnuts, almonds, and other nuts
• Fish and fatty omega-3s
• Olive Oil
• Foods with added Plant Sterols or Stanols

Oatmeal- Oatmeal contains soluble fiber, which helps lower the "bad" cholesterol or LDL cholesterol.  Other foods that are good to try are apples, barley, pears, prunes, and kidney beans.

Walnuts, Almonds, and other Nuts-Walnuts, almonds, and other nuts can lower cholesterol and keep blood vessels healthy.

Fish and Omega-3 Fatty Acids-Fish has a lot of omega-3 fatty acids, which helps reduce your blood pressure.  Eating just 2 servings of fish a week can really lower your blood pressure.  Make sure to eat fish that are high in omega-3 fatty acids such as tuna, salmon, lake trout, herring, sardines, and mackerel.  Halibut is another fish that is high in omega-3s.

Olive Oil-Adding 2 Tablespoons of olive oil a day versus other fats in your diet can really boost your hearts health.  Although olive oil is high in calories, it is very beneficial to your hearts so try not to consume more than the 2 Tablespoons.

Foods with Added Plant Sterols or Stanols- 

Foods that have been prepared with sterols and stanols help prevent your body from absorbing cholesterol. Sterols and stanols found in food can significantly lower your cholesterol. Look for margarine, orange juice or yogurt drink that have added plant sterols or stanols.

Why you should be adding these foods to your diet

Eating foods such as oatmeal and high fiber foods, fish high in omega-3 fatty acids, walnuts, almonds, and other nuts, olive oil, and foods with added plant sterols and stanols can lower your cholesterol significantly.

2 secret tips to lower bad cholesterol

2  secret ways to see how you can easily lower your cholesterol.

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