Some people may be wondering what cardio exercise is and what is the difference between all forms of exercises. There are basically two different types of exercises. They are aerobic and anerobic exercises.

The aerobic exercises require you to use so many body muscle parts and your body requires a lot of oxygen to do this. This is why it is called aerobic exercise. For example, jogging requires the use of your arms, legs, backs and almost all parts of your body. Another name for this is cardio because your heart and blood vessels are largely involved. If you want to lose weight, this exercise is the best type for you.

Anerobic exercises on the other hand only require small parts of your body like your arm or legs, and are very intense to the extent your body is deprived of oxygen. For example, bench press requires mostly the use of your arms, shoulders, chest and back muscles which is just a small part of your body. However, bench press is usually so intense that you tend to reach muscle failure much quickly than if you are jogging. This is why muscle failure is common in these kinds of exercises. The result of these exercises is usually muscle hypertrophy which are the big muscles you see in body builders. It is also known as resistance training. This type of training increases your lean muscle mass but does not do much to reduce fats. 

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Working out is one of the most preferred activities across the globe. It helps us to stay fit and keep our body in perfect shape. Working out also helps to develop muscle strength and keep off diseases. People are also known to hit the gym to lose weight and develop lean muscles. Working out allows you to push your body to the greatest extents, letting you challenge your limits and progress even better.

Developing a regular habit for a workout station is no doubt of the best health choices one can make. But what can help to make things even better is the addition of a pre-workout option into your diet. It is one of the best ways to provide your body with the much-needed nutrient contents.

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You don’t need pricey equipment to get a good workout. You don’t need to join a gym. And you don’t need to spend a ton of time exercising.

By spending a few minutes here and there throughout the day, you can boost your level of activity from the comfort of your own home.

If you need some help getting started, check out these workout ideas:

Use An Air Track

An inflatable air track is a common piece of equipment often found in a gym, especially in schools. Athletes need to practice as much as possible with the right equipment to support their perfect move.

And a gymnastics air track will definitely do the trick. Inflatable air track tumbling is more than capable of easing the pressure of falling while practicing any sports movement, reducing the possibility of getting hurt or seriously injured.

Tumble air track is often used in school, professional training camp, or a gym. You can even get one for your home. You can find an air track for sale here.

Exercise in the Pool

If you have a pool in your backyard, you have the perfect place to get in a low-impact workout that cools you off while burning fat and toning your body. Because water is 784 times denser than air, your entire body gets an effective resistance workout. Here’s a 35-minute program you can follow:

• 20-minute cardio workout by swimming as quickly as you can above and below the water line. Then, jog in the water in a zigzag pattern across the pool.
• 3 minutes of leg lifts while treading water
• 3 minutes of using a water noodle for a water plank exercise
• 3 minutes of pushing a beach ball underwater towards your legs

Create an Exercise Circuit Around the House

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Some Ayurvedic plants have healing properties known for thousands of years. Ayurvedic medicine focuses on treatment, but also disease prevention. Physicians specializing in Ayurveda says it “heals and prevents.”

The healing power of plants is also confirmed by scientists who have done countless studies in this regard. Ayurvedic plants can keep the body healthy, strengthen the immune system, clear the mind and enhance concentration and help digestion or calm nerves. Click here.

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Your overall health can get stressed by stress

By Lana Barth, RN-BC, BSN, at Cole Memorial

Life can cause many forms of stress.  Stress can be either good stress or bad stress.  Good stress motivates and energizes a person.  This is what spurs us on to improve ourselves and to be happy in our lives.  It helps us to set goals for ourselves and our families.   Holidays, vacations, weddings, promotions, and romance produce good stress.  Sickness, pain, grief, financial struggles and conflict produce bad stress. 

Stress is actually a physical reaction in our body.  Some physical signs of stress are a faster heartbeat, tightening of muscles, heightened sensation, sweating, and faster breathing.  The normal stress reaction starts slow and rises to a peak.  This is when your heart rate, breathing, and nerves are at their high alert state. It then has a slowing down phase where those physical symptoms begin to go back to a normal state.  When there are many different stressors at the same time, or if they occur too soon to allow for the cooling off period, the body will begin to wear down.  An overload of stress can result in chronic pain, migraines, diarrhea, constipation, tremors, depression, anxiety, heart attack, stroke, or even death. 
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By Kate Lorig

Next to the fear of physical dependence, many people fear not having enough money to pay for their own and their care partner’s needs. Being sick often requires expensive care and treatment. If you’re not able to work because of illness or you’re caregiving full time, the loss of income, and especially the loss of your health insurance coverage, might present an overwhelming financial problem. You can, however, avoid some of the risks by planning and knowing your resources.

Health insurance and Medicare may meet only a part of the ultimate cost of care. Medicare doesn’t cover everything, and most private “Medigap” insurance policies cover only the 20 percent not covered by Medicare. Usually, they don’t cover procedures or treatment that aren’t also covered by Medicare.

Supplemental insurance policies, however, offer the kind of coverage that provides for care needs that Medicare and Medigap insurance don’t pay for. If you plan to buy such insurance for yourself and/or your care partner, carefully read the sections on limitations and exclusions. Be sure the policy covers nursing home care at a daily rate that’s realistic for your community. Make sure you know how long they’ll pay for care. There’s usually a cap of three months or so in a skilled nursing or rehabilitation facility — less if you or your care partner are judged to not be getting better and only need “custodial” care.  [Read more…]

Electronic cigarettes have been in the market for more than 10 years, but there are still people who do not know what an organic e juice contains. Moreover, some people, especially those who conceive laws and who should be best informed, believe that the e-juice falls into the category of tobacco products. Moreover, the media puts into circulation unfounded rumors that they contain carcinogenic substances or even antifreeze. If you are accustomed to believing everything the media says, you probably have come to believe that.

If you want to find out what the liquids for the electronic cigarette contains, read this article further and forget what you read in the press, because almost everywhere there are lies that completely ignore the scientific truth.

PG and VG

Electronic cigarette fluids are composed of substances that have strange names. But only the names are weird, because the substances themselves are completely harmless to the body. [Read more…]