Showing posts with label healthy lifestyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy lifestyle. Show all posts

Sunday, June 26, 2011

How to Gain Weight Fast?

How to Gain Weight FastHere are some quick tips to increase your metabolism to increase muscle mass and gain weight in a healthier way:

1. Eat 6 small meals through out the day

This is one of the most important things if you want to increase your weight. Eating small meals throughout the day will help your body to absorb the nutrients properly and digest the food properly.

2. Portion size

There is a common myth that fats are not good for health. There are certain type of fats those are good for your health. You must eat a variety of food at the same time and your diet should include good sources of fats like Fish and Linseed oil.

Calculate your daily calorie requirements and make sure you exceed those limits if you want to gain weight. The ratio for Carbohydrates, Protein and Fat should be 4:4:2 respectively. This will help your body get all essential nutrients.

3. Protein Intake

Do not take excessive protein, the body will absorb only as much as is required. To increase the requirement of your protein intake you must exercise and lift weights. Natural sources of protein are better than those powders that are very expensive and have the same benefit as their alternatives.

Sprouted legumes are great sources for protein and other important minerals. If you are a vegan bodybuilder than sprout can be called your alternative to egg. It has great health benefits; it increases your weight and also helps to build up your immune system.

4. Resistance training

Weight lifting whether in the gym or at home can do wonders. Try to do it three days in a week. This will help the body to recover from the damage on the exercise days. Oil massage can help in fast recovery.

The good old school exercises like lifting dumbbells and barbells alone can help you get what you want. Push-ups and pull-ups can help you get your body in shape and while at cutting phase it can improve your results. Squats are important for endurance and increasing metabolism of the whole body and improving leg shape.

5. Avoid Cardiovascular

Avoid jogging and running for long hours. Have you seen any marathon runner who is not skinny? Running is a cardiovascular exercise that burns the fat and muscle in the body. However do not stop doing cardiovascular altogether. It is important for the body to function well. Try to do cardiovascular twice a week and make sure that it does not lie on the same day as weight training.

Swimming is another good cardiovascular exercise, but try not to do it for a longer period of time. It will not help your body in gaining weight.

6. Running on stairs

Running stairs and climbing mountains is one of the best exercises to boost your metabolism. If you have a higher R.M.R. (resting metabolic rate) chances are that you will absorb more nutrients and build up body tissues resulting into increased body weight.

Again try to do this type of exercise only once a week. It can also be helpful if you want to have sharp cuts of muscles in the body.

7. Herbs

Herbs as supplement can help your body recover through the damage easily. Herbs like ginseng those are found in ancient system of medicine can help you in increasing your metabolism and gain power.

These herbs have virtually no side effects. However you should make sure that you consult your doctor before consuming any of these. Make internet your friend and research what type of herbs would be beneficial for you.

8. Rest and recover

Resting is as important as doing the exercise. Your body needs a break after a tiring workout. Try to have a gap of at least 48 hours to get enough rest your body needs. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

9. Stop Worrying

This is scientifically proven facts that worry and curry is the cause of most of the diseases. Stop being worried about anything. This will not help you in any way. The best way to fight anxiety and worry to stand up and do something against it. The body wants to react to the problem it is facing and if you do not do anything you are in a way suppressing the urge to fight. This can lead to disturbed metabolism and losing good muscles. So indulge into activities that will help you in being happy and worry free. Do not be worried about small problems in life.

10. Calorie intake

Measure your calorie intake. This is another very important thing in your journey to weight gain. Make sure you eat more than your calorie requirement. This will help your body to absorb those extra proteins and nutrients to build up more muscle mass.

Extra Tip: If you ever hit the plateau take a long gap between your exercise days and then kick start again. Remember that without resistance training you will not see the results.

How to Increase Height with Exercises?

How to Increase Height with ExercisesThere are many reasons of people demanding to be tall, especially since that it really improving their appearance. There are many kind if treatments are available out there, which are focused on the body tall program. Within its expensive costs and fees for the products and treatments they offered, for you whom are wishing to know the effective and lower cost how to increase height solution, the right and regular exercises should be a good option to take. Beside of its low cost advantage, regular exercises are also considered as the safest treatment, as long as it doing in proper.

So, how to increase height by exercises? And which exercises are the effective options for the purpose? Many experts agreed that stretching exercises are really effective to lead your way to be taller. Among all kinds of stretching exercises people usually take, there are 3 kinds of it which are been considered as the most effective exercise, they are hanging, dry land swim, and pelvic shift. In hanging, we take the advantages from gravity. While you are hanging, it will release all the pressure of the body weight on the joints and spine. And at that moment your entire body parts will get stretches to its maximum, and doing it several minutes in everyday would give you great advantages in the future.

Dry land swim, or also known as alternate leg kick, is the exercise that simulates the swimming movement on the flat floor. The aim of this exercise is to train the lower back. All you have to do is just to lay facing the floor, and put arms out in front of you. Raise the left arm higher that your right arms, while at the same time also raise the right leg off far from the floor as far as you can. Hold it for few seconds and do the same for the other side.

And the last, pelvic shift is the simplest stretching as it only needs you to lift your spine up and down. But still, its really effective way in how to increase height. Just try it all.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

How to Achieve Good Health & Prevent Premature Death ?

How to Achieve Good HealthWe live in an age when doctors' fees, hospital costs, and many medical treatments are incredibly expensive and disease statistics are off the charts. It makes pretty good sense to take preventative measures and protect yourself as much as you can from debilitating disease and premature death.

While building a head turning physique is great, maintaining good health should be priority number one. In fact, it is practically impossible to lose body fat and get in better shape if you health is poor.

The hard part is that good health, just like a better body, must be earned. And that means you will be required to put in a bit of hard work. But it is hard work that must be done, and everyday is an opportunity for you to express your appreciation of life by working hard to sustain a high level of well being.

Do you know of anything more worth working hard for than your own good health? I sure don't. In this era of nutrition neglect, doctors are getting rich off of your failure to pay attention to your health. Due to this neglect, millions of people are overweight, and even more people consistently get sick each year with preventable disease.

While symptomatic relief may just be a few pills away and usually within arms reach, covering up the symptoms with prescription medication is not going to restore your health. Preventable measures are your best course of action.

So are doctors to blame?


The average doctor is not going to teach you much about nutrition, he is usually just going to follow his training and give you a treatment in the form of a shot or prescription. All this usually does is mask the underlying source of the problem.

But the doctors are not completely at fault, you can't even really blame them. That is what they are taught to do, and it usually works. But the standard medical approach is not a long term success plan. Don't let your doctor get rich off of your ignorance and lack of focus. Have some accountability for your health and stop the bad habits that lead to your sickness or fatigue in the first place.

Doctors can only get rich off of you if you live your life the wrong way. If you are chronically fatigued, sick, or just run down, it is probably time to take a hard look at your nutrition habits.

If you have chronic headaches, stomach aches, rashes, or just always feel tired all of the time, this could be a warning sign that something bad is brewing inside you. You could be poisoning yourself through the food you eat, and the air that you breathe.

If the body is overloaded with toxins from bad water, bad air, pesticides, and food additives, it is left virtually defenseless against bacteria, viruses, and disease. This makes the body more susceptible to a variety of serious ailments, most of which are completely preventable. It also makes fat loss virtually impossible.

So what do you do?


It is important that you provide the body with the vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that it needs to be healthy and function at its peak. You can get all of these essential nutrients from natural, pure, and whole foods, specifically in the form of organic fruits and vegetables.

Organic fruits and vegetables are loaded with bioflavonoids, phytochemicals, enzymes, carotenoids, vitamins, and minerals. Essential components for building a lean body that is healthy, strong, and full of life.

Keep in mind that you should not be eating just any old fruit or vegetable, it is important that the fruits and vegetables you eat are left their natural states and unaltered by man so that these vital nutrients aren't destroyed. Vital nutrients are typically killed through bleaching, heating, processing, salting, and preserving, and foods altered using these methods are usually toxic to the human body.

Eating whole, unprocessed, natural foods like fresh organic, raw fruits and vegetables will help you build a body that is lean, healthy, and strong.

Have you noticed that it is difficult to exercise when you feel terrible? If you have ever thought about heading to the gym while feeling tired, run down, had a headache, belly ache, etc, you know exactly what I mean.

Some people do everything right in the gym, but destroy their chance of achieving their goals because they have bad nutrition habits and have created a toxic environment within their bodies. That is not a recipe for good health.

If you want to be healthier and look better, it all begins with what you put into your mouth. If you eliminate man made foods and focus on eating foods that are natural, pure, and whole, like raw and organic fruits and vegetables, you will have much more energy, be sick much less, and supply your body with the nutrients necessary to build your best physique ever.

Friday, May 20, 2011

Steps to Boosting Your Immune System Naturally

Steps to Boosting Your Immune System Naturally
Let’s find out how to boost our immune system naturally.

One simple thing that can be done is to try and reduce as much stress in your life as possible. One of the negative side effects of stress is that it weakens your immunity. A form of meditation that is effective is to think about positive things, and this will reduce your stress levels. You can also exercise regularly, as this has also been known to lower stress levels. Both of these things, if done consistently, can make your life much less stressful, and keep your immune system strong and healthy.

Diet and digestive health have long been known to have a direct effect on our ability to fight off colds and flues. The digestive system is very sensitive to stress levels, and when you become stressful your stomach releases more acid than usual. This can lead to acid reflux, or irritable bowel syndrome, both of which indirectly affect the strength of your immune system. Also, it is important to eat properly and reduce your sugar intake as these both affect immune system health.

Eating a healthy diet is important, and you can also supplement your diet with specific types of vitamins that help the immune system. First off, you should take a multivitamin because it contains numerous small amounts of trace minerals your body needs. It has been proven that regular doses of vitamin C do help boost the immune system. Researchers have also found that Vitamin D helps replace vital components needed when we can't get out in the sun as much as needed.

Consider these areas when you want to boost your immune system more naturally. I think if you put these suggestions in to practice you will see that you are not sick as often.


By Elijiah Rampart