Friday, October 9, 2009

Tips for Women on How to Lose Weight the Healthy Way

If you are a woman and wish to observe healthy weight loss, then you should know that this does not have to be tough. In fact, you should never consider strenuous or drastic measures just so you could lose weight because there are a number of easy things that you can do to be able to achieve this while maintaining your overall health. Remember that great care should be taken in handling concerns that are linked to your health—and losing weight is one of them.


Normally, women start to gain to weight when they go through menopause or when they get pregnant. However, gaining weight should not be an issue during these times if the right kinds of food are consumed. Adequate and proper exercise can also help in putting a halt on this issue from ever happening.

Here are a number of healthy weight loss tips that you can take on even when you are pregnant, experiencing menopausal symptoms, or simply wanting to shed off some pounds:

1)Eat three apples every day. This may seem like a simple and boring tip that will raise doubts of its effectiveness. However, this could actually work and may help you shed off some two to two and a half pounds in a month for some two to three months, even if you will just observe this tip alone.

The best way to follow this tip is to eat these apples as your snacks in between every meal. However, if you want your apple-eating way of losing weight to work faster, then you can eat an apple before every meal. This will lead to the apples’ crowding out some of the calories that you might take in with your meals.

2)Take your breakfast every day and include eggs in it. Most of the women who have gained some weight skip breakfast almost every day. This is because they believe that doing so would help them in their trying to lose some of their excess weight. However, this is not the case as not eating breakfast would make you consume more during lunch because you will be very hungry then.

To avoid gorging on heavy meals and snacking during the day, you have to make sure you eat a hearty and healthy breakfast. One of the best foods that you can include in your breakfast diet is the egg because this is protein-rich and is guaranteed to fill you up.

1)Eating one can of black beans every day could help in your weight-loss diet. If you are looking for a superfood that should be added to your weight-loss diet, then this should be a can of black beans. This is considered a superfood because it contains 25 grams of fiber that is good for bowel movement and 25 grams of protein that will help in building lean muscle mass.

Eating a can of black beans would already help you in getting the amount of fiber you need every day. It is best if you will eat half of the black beans during your breakfast and half of it for your lunch.

How to get a Firm Shapely Butt

Most women are obsessed with building nice solid and shapely buns. The butt muscle is commonly referred to as the glut es. It gets this name from the three muscles that it consists of: the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, and the gluteus minimus. Logic will tell you that the gluteus maximus is the largest of the three. It's the one that's most noticeable.

The gluteus medias and mini mus are located around the body part of your pelvis, so they are not as apparent. All three gluteus muscles are involved in rotation and extension of your leg.

There are many exercises that shape and strengthen your glutes. The key is to train them effectively, without overtraining them. Even though this key is simple, it is effective and vital. The question now is; what exercises can you implement to catapult you to the "nice/firm butt" category?

Traditional Squats

The squat is a compound exercise (works all the muscles simultaneously in that muscle group) and top-class for adding shape to your bottom. Include this exercise first in your bun training to ensure you target the entire glute muscle simultaneously.

Use a variety of rep ranges and sets. It's safest to squat until your upper legs (from knee to hip) are parallel to the floor. However, at times you can squat past parallel, provided the poundage you use is light. Also, with light poundage you can vary foot placement and foot width to further target other areas of the upper legs.

Pile Squats

Further extend the traditional squat by adding pile squats to your program. Pile squats can add some variety and help target the muscles of the inner and outer thighs to a much greater degree.
If you are unfamiliar with the pile squats it's simply taking a wide-stance with your toes pointing outward. Hold a dumbbell in front of you and squat straight down and rise back in a controlled manner.

Reverse Partial Squats
Training a muscle in its strongest position, which is the contraction point, it a sure fire way to build strength and muscle fast. However, there is another side to training a muscle to its fullest, and that's hitting the weakest part of the lift.

The strongest range of a traditional squat is from the last few inches to contraction point (standing upright). Therefore, if you want to work the weakest range, then that would be from it's stretched position (squatted position) to roughly mid-point.
Simply put, rather than doing the traditional full range squat, you will be squatting from the bottom position to mid point, back down to the squatted position.

To ensure safety on this exercise, you should perform these either with dumbbells or in the squat cage. Set up the safety rails in the squat cage so they are just below the barbell when you are in your full squatted position. You don't want the safety rails to touch your barbell as you squat, but it's there just in case you can't complete your set or you lose your balance.
Lunges
Lunges are great for working all the muscles in your upper legs and glutes. This is an essential exercise, yet often neglected. Lunges can be performed in a variety of fashions such as walking lunges, reverse lunges, side lunges and so forth.
The Stepper
The stepper is a great way to get cardio in, as well as build and shape your legs and glutes. The stepper requires you to use your legs and glutes to move the foot platforms up and down.

Conclusion
To build great buns and thighs you need to incorporate exercises that use those muscles to a large degree. Compound exercises should compose the bulk of your training. When you build your buns and thighs to their maximum potential,

Karen Sessions has been in the fitness industry since 1988. She is a nationally qualified bodybuilder and holds two personal training certifications. She has written 6 ebooks on fitness and has helped hundreds of clients transform their bodies. http://www.theelitephysique.com

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

How to Whiten Your Teeth the Natural Way

Some of you may already know this and others may be surprised but baking soda and strawberry juice make a very effective toothpaste for removing stains and getting whiter teeth without having to visit the dentist and without spending a lot of money, all you need are fresh strawberries and baking soda, now smash a strawberry and mix it in with a table spoon of  baking soda, now using a soft brush  mix until blended now take your toothbrush and brush the mixture onto your teeth leave for 3minutes then brush thoroughly after brushing rinse paste from teeth, I recommend doing this twice a week on top of your regular daily brushing routine for amazing results.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

How to Lose Belly Fat

If you re wanting to lose that bumble bee belly that's holding you down  then here's something you can try if you re serious about reducing the belly fat. First start with a controlled diet one that's rich in whole grains, fruits and veggies, remember in order to lose fat fast you have to lower your calorie intake, so watching what you eat is non negotiable. Try to avoid foods that are high in fats and trans fats like butter, cheese, ice cream, and potato chips, this list goes on. One of the most important things you can do when trying to lose fat is to take 30 Minutes of exercise a day, working out is essential to good health and so is getting  plenty of sleep your body needs rest in order to function properly while trying to maintain  low stress levels.

Friday, October 2, 2009

How to get rid of those annoying stretch marks

 Vitamin E  is one of many ways to effectively remove and treat stretch marks just break open the vitamin E capsule and rub the gel found inside onto the problem area, if you continue this daily for two weeks you will see a major shade and fade improvement, Shea butter cream also works as a great treatment for stretch marks when used daily, I recommend Palmer's cocoa butter cream formula it works wonders and can be found at almost any family drug store.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

How to Stay Loved

If the man in your life tells you that he doesn't love you anymore, don't sweat it, when his love for you starts to fade, someone else's love for you continues to grow, Need i say more, the way to stay loved is to always love yourself first.Women come in all shapes sizes creeds and colors and everyone of you deserve unconditional love but before we can love anyone we must first learn to love ourselves individually.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

5 Ab exercises that work_ How to slay your stomach in 30 days

 5 proven effective ab exercises that I call tummy toners, that are guaranteed to burn the fat if used along with proper diet. 1. Half crunch 2. Side swipes. 3. Floor bicycle rows. 4. Knee lifts. 5. Ball crunches.YouTube carries videos on how to do these ab workouts properly so feel free to go and check them out, just go to YouTube and type in ab workouts for women. Lets face it every woman wants a flat stomach, so come on you can do it what have you got to lose besides the love handles.