Four Fast Tips and Tricks For Getting Fit

Beautiful Readers,

How's that title for alliteration! (now try to say it five times fast). That's what happens to folks when they start to Twitter. Suddenly the world becomes a place of instant cleverness forced through 140 characters or less. If you want to hear me Tweet (that is, presuming you know what Twitter is, or care) you can "follow" me by going to Twitter, joining up, and finding my handle alixatbeautiful and electing to "follow" me. You will then begin to experience the rapturous joy of knowing what I'm thinking about things like, the bus, my nails, the gym, my kids, and all kinds of other navel-gazing sorts of stuff. Hooray!

So here are my quick fit tips:

1) If you go to a gym and use the inner thigh machine (the one where you squeeze two platforms together with your legs)--I bet that half of you are doing the exercise with your calves instead of your inner thighs. Try this test: attempt to do the exercise using only your thighs (well, inside of your knees, really), just take your feet completely off the machine and put them in front of you (like you're riding on the back of a bike, trying to avoid touching the pedals with your feet) and see if suddenly you have to drop the weight down a lot. I recently discovered that, like, half of the 90 lbs. I believed I was pressing with my thighs was actually being pushed by my calves. I now set the machine at 50 lbs.

2) I am convinced that green tea, drunk throughout the day, contributes enormously to weight loss. Every time I have tried to shed some pounds and have drunk green tea I find it comes off faster. For awhile I thought it might be the caffeine in it speeding up my metabolism, but coffee does not seem to work as well. There's some scientific research that seems to support this idea, but nothing conclusive. Here's what Mayo Clinic has to say about Green Tea. I love Mayo Clinic. They do a ton of original research and as much as they want to believe in alternative medicine--they always give you the straight dope. They give Green Tea a 'C' (in an A through F scale) for quality of research on weight loss benefits.

3) Use music for motivation for exercise. Lean on it heavily. Every trainer I know will tell you that music plays a huge role in their ongoing workouts. I have walked home from the gym (10 minutes from my house) to pick up my Ipod and walked back again. I have bought extra earphones when I have forgotten mine. I now own three Ipods and, like, five sets of headphones and keep them in every bag I might conceivably use at the gym.

4) Meditation works. Like, really, no joke. There is no single thing which seems to improve people's lives quite as substantially (I'd say exercise, for non-exercisers, is a close runner up). It lowers blood pressure and cortisol levels, even in small doses, which corresponds with greater feelings of wellness in general, greater weight loss (high levels of cortisol trigger a stress reaction that tells your body to retain fat), and over time, a greater ability to manage stress in one's life coolly.

Thanks for reading! Happy spring!

Alix Florio, President, Beautiful Fitness

www.beautifulfitness.com

Comments

[personal trainer]

Few more tips are here.Exercise 6 to 7 days a week,Drink 6 to 8 cups of water a day,Eat every 2 to 4 hours to keep your metabolism going etc...

[appetite suppressant]

Do you have stairs in your home? Go up and down them a couple dozen times a day, that should get your legs feeling good. For sit-up or abs, put your feet up on the seat of your couch while you lay on the floor. You can be very creative that way. You can do squats with a kitchen chair. Push-ups in the living room or den. Cleaning is good exercise, too

[Truth About Abs]

yup, yup, yup and yup. I'm a trainer and lifelong fitness maniac. Green tea, I think goes a long way towards keeping your mouth and hands occupied while not filling you up with calories OR jittering you up like coffee does (yes, there's caffeine in green tea but nowhere near the amount that's in coffee). I drink it by the quart! LOL.

thanks for a great post.

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