Simple strength training tips

Back Care, Exercise, Fit Seniors, Mother and Baby More information Simple strength training tips If you’ve never lifted weights in your life — and many people haven’t — why should you start now? The answer is simple: Muscle tissue, bone density, and strength all dwindle over the years. So, too, does muscle power. These changes open the door to accidents and injuries that …

Continue Reading 28 August, 2011

Best walking speed

Back Care, Exercise, Fit Seniors, Mother and Baby, Pregnancy   Best Walking Speed for a Longer Life By RealAge   This Week’s Tips Burn More Calories with This Sandwich Choice Grow More Brains with Three of These Reduce Diabetes Risk 61 Percent with This Cereal Nibble This Dark Treat for a Healthy, Happy Stomach Sample These Teas for a Better Date Night Last 30 …

Continue Reading 13 May, 2011

Earthquakes, amutees and dancing

Exercise, Fit Seniors, Uncategorized What have these got to do with each you may ask. This u tube video clip shows the human spirit at its finest. Sadly earthquakes all over the world are happening as we speak. May we be inspired by what this clip shows, may we treausre what we have and continue to keep ourselves fit …

Continue Reading 13 March, 2011

Core crunching is soothing for back pain

Back Care, Exercise, Fit Seniors, Mother and Baby, Uncategorized Core crunching means squeezing your tummy ( make your waistline smaller) back and pelvic floor muscles  symultaneously. Yes while your rest in bed right now. Start with imperceptible movements, just squeezing gently  – do this repeatedly – ten squeezes or so, till you feel some sense of relief. We keep our core muscles in tip top …

Continue Reading 12 March, 2011

Ergogenic exercise

Back Care, Exercise, Fit Seniors, Mother and Baby, Uncategorized Ergogenic exercise. Now that’s a sexy term. What the …. does this mean? “Gizmos”  to spur  us on to exercise harder?  Compression garments?  Yep, we can wear them or NOT wear them. Professor Gordon Lynch was chatting about them and I found it kinda interesting. For some, wearing them makes some of us feel better …

Continue Reading 27 February, 2011

Cholesterol and exercise – how about chia seeds

Back Care, Exercise, Fit Seniors, Uncategorized We exercise to reduce our cholesterol levels and while not being a nutritionist (and am trying not get into this territory), I am a huge chia seed fan (ancient aztech superfood) to help control my cholesterol. Download the lifestyle bakery email – info@lifestylebakery.com.au and sunscribe to their current newsletter…….such good news. Chia seeds are great …

Continue Reading 17 February, 2011

Tai chi – such a complete form of exercise

Back Care, Exercise, Fit Seniors So simple, so complex yet such a complete form of exercise. The simple side will come, I hope, but most likely only after years of practice. But I think I see the light. At the moment, and a mere 3 years of nonstop practice, I feel I have just touched the surface of its complexity. …

Continue Reading 12 February, 2011

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