Is It Ok to Cheat a Little?
Cheat meals are those that don't meet the requirements of the respective diet plan. Since not all diet regimens are the same, neither are cheat meals. Still, cheat meals have the same goal in any diet plan: to pamper your taste buds while staying on track with your weight loss goals. The objective is to schedule cheat meals into your weight loss plan so that you account for the added fat and calories. The Idea Behind Cheat Meals When you want to lose weight, the first thing you do is fine tune your eating habits. You cut out unnecessary fat and calories...
Exercising While Pregnant
Exercising While Pregnant Just because a woman is pregnant doesn't mean that she cannot exercise or stay fit. While it may not be wise to try and run a marathon while pregnant, nothing is stopping a person from maintaining a healthy amount of activity while pregnant. This will help a person relieve their backaches, keep their endorphins running, and it could help people sleep better at night, among other things. This is a chance to keep joints moving and to avoid things like constipation by keeping the bodyís muscles, joints, limbs, and intestines in working order. Keeping the body in shape...
Benefits of Pilates
Thanks to everyone who joined me yesterday for my Pilates class, it was really lovely to see you all there! I can't stress enough the benefits that you will gain through doing Pilates. When we think about getting and staying fit, the first thing that normally comes to mind is to lift weights or do cardio. Rarely do we think...
What is Pilates?
What is Pilates? Then answer to this question is usually termed as ‘some exercise based on yoga, catering to women’. Nothing can be further from the truth as Pilates was invented by a man named Joseph Pilates in the early 20th century, and has almost 14 million people practising this discipline in the United States alone. When it first started, it was only taught to a select few people until they opened their own studios. Now it has become one of the most popular forms of exercise, thanks to the simple fact that almost anyone can attempt a Pilates exercise program. Whether you...
What is HIIT?
What Is H.I.I.T? H.I.I.T (High Intensity Interval Training) is a style of training that involves alternating between periods of high intensity exercise and moderate to low intensity exercise, usually at a ratio of 2:1 and for a period of 5-30 minutes. For example, a simple running H.I.I.T workout would involve sprinting for 30 seconds, lightly jogging for 15 seconds and then repeating this cycle for 5 minutes. H.I.I.T has become increasingly popular in recent years with many people praising its...