Showing posts with label cardio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cardio. Show all posts

Friday, May 22, 2015

the step aerobic workout.



The step aerobic workout is one of the popular exercises which you can undertake. There are a lot of variety movements which are fun to perform. In addition, it is able to help you lose weight and tone your body.



Step aerobics is also simple to do. In addition, this kind of exercise does not need any special equipment so that it is very cheap to do, but a step platform. If you want to join aerobic workout, you should be able to master the basic steps you have to perform. You can see those basic steps below.
Just like another type of exercise, you also need to do warming up for aerobic. You can do it for about 7 or 10 minutes. The warm up you can do include the mild jogging. It is to prevent you from getting injured during your real workout.



A-step

This kind of step is done by forming letter A in 4 counts. To perform this step, you have to keep the platform in sideways and stand in the center of the platform by using your left foot. Bring your right foot on the top of the platform. After that, step down using your right foot to the other side of platform and then bring your left foot down close to your right foot.

Basic Left Stepping

To perform this kind of step, you can face the side of horizontal platform. Step on the platform using your left foot and your right foot follows. Then, step back down by using your left foot and your right foot follows. You can also do right stepping in the same way as left stepping.

Across the Top

You can perform this step while you are facing the platform sideways. Step on the platform by using one of your foot and the other one follows so that they are on the same platform. Then, step down on the floor with one of your foot. Bring the other food beside your first foot.

Grapevine

You can do this type of step aerobics without a platform. You only need to step to the side with one of your foot and then bring your other foot behind your first foot. Then, step your first foot to the side and bring your other foot beside your first food.

Charleston Exercise

You can do this step aerobics with or without a platform. You only need to step forward with one of your foot and then the other follows. Then, step back your first foot and the second follows.

Turnstep Exercise

You can do this exercise by facing platform sideways. Step on it by using one of your feet and keep it perpendicular. And then bring your other foot to the other side of the platform. After that, step down with your first foot to the other side of platform and the second foot follows.

Friday, January 23, 2015

How to Practice Yoga at Home




Starting a yoga practice can be scary. The person has to take into account their level of commitment when starting yoga at home practice. Some individuals prefer doing yoga a couple of times a week, while hardcore yoga enthusiasts do practice every day of the week. There are also social norms a person must consider when starting a yoga practice. A male might feel uncomfortable doing yoga because of the male-female ratio in yoga class sessions. Or a female could feel anxiety in a yoga class because of her perceived body image compared to everyone else. Regardless of these issues, the individual still has to consider the fact that they must pay an ongoing monthly fee to continue their yoga practices. With the internet on the rise, it makes this possible to start or continue a yoga practice at home without worrying about social norms and ongoing monthly costs.



There is so much information on the internet regarding yoga. The different forms of yoga, numerous stretches, and many teaching philosophies makes yoga a learning subject itself. Essentially, choosing the right kind of yoga can be a difficult task. Any yoga is better than none at all. In fact, simply focusing on your breath each day is far more beneficial in health than doing nothing. The person will have increased mood, better posture, and bring more happiness in their life when doing any form of yoga practice.

If a person wants to reap the full effects of yoga, then Ashtanga Yoga might be for you. The practice is one of the most physically demanding yoga forms out there. Ashtanga requires strength, flexibility, and maintaining a routine practice each day. A person can start an Ashtanga practice at home without having to pay monthly costs to become part of a local Ashtanga clinic. This provides the individual with lower monthly costs, but also lowering transportation costs as well. Doing Ashtanga at home gives you the freedom when you want to practice, but also manages time by not having to drive back and forth to your local yoga clinic.

Ashtanga Yoga will challenge a person's physical capacities, but also test one's mental capacities as well. The rewards of Ashtanga are numerous, which includes better health, increased flexibility and strength, and a mindset that will put you into a deep state of awareness. Whether you're doing Ashtanga at home, or any form of yoga at a local clinic, the benefits of a regular yoga practice are worth the cause. Keep practicing. 


Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Learn Yoga at Home - Study Yoga Online, Learn at Your Own Speed, and Practice at Your Own Pace




Yoga has so many benefits. On a physical level, yoga online is excellent for your health in general, and will increase your fitness, help you lose weight, increase your flexibility, and can even massage and stimulate the internal organs of your body to help keep away disease. Yoga is also wonderful for detoxing the body, toning your muscles and removing stress and worry from your life. It is the ultimate fitness activity.

But walking into a yoga class for the first time and knowing absolutely nothing can be a very daunting experience.

I know how that feels. When I started yoga a few years ago, I had no idea what I was in for. I had some vague memories of attending one yoga class when I was in high school, but that was it. Would I be fit enough? Would I be able to do all those poses? Would everyone be looking at me?

What I wanted was to learn yoga at home, and then, as soon as I felt comfortable and confident with the basics attend a class. And so I did. Learning yoga at home is possible through a wide variety of DVDs, books or, as I did, through the internet. I subscribed to an online course that gave me video tutorials, diagrams, as well as ebooks to absorb and learn the lingo.

Learning yoga at home using an online e-course gives you the chance to learn at your own pace and to practice at your own speed (no stress keeping up with everyone else in the class.) An e-course will give you the techniques and the understanding to maintain your own yoga practice. You can practice whenever you have the time, when it suits you. And learning yoga at home will save you hundreds of dollars too in the long run.

Start learning yoga at home today and begin a journey that will transform your life.
The Yoga Training Center offers a 3 week yoga e-course which is ideal for beginners as well as those who have already begun to explore yoga. The course is divided into 21 lessons and is designed to be completed in just 3 short weeks. In that time you will have learned enough about yoga to know which styles you wish to pursue AND be confident about walking into a real-life yoga class and look good!

The Yoga Training Center offers a 3 week yoga e-course which is ideal for beginners as well as those who have already begun to explore yoga. The course is divided into 21 lessons and is designed to be completed in just 3 short weeks. In that time you will have learned enough about yoga to know which styles you wish to pursue AND be confident about walking into a real-life yoga class and look good!

Monday, April 28, 2014

What’s wrong with what we put in our bodies?


     First of all, let me start with the foods we purchase. We tend to go to the best values so you can save money. Clip those coupons, buy one get one free. You got the fridge packed.  The voice comes in your head, you know, the alter ego that says “Go get some;
·         beer,
·         cigarettes
·         candy
·         etc…
You get your fix and you feel good. If you relate a “fix” to drugs, you are right. It’s bad for you illegal and legal. Some seem harmless such as;
·         The preservatives and certain ingredients added to our food.
·         The additives to the drinking water from the faucet.
·         The sugar in the sweets we eat. (Sorry, um hooked on chocolate.)
·         Etc…
A lot of stuff we put in our bodies throughout the day with no nutrition.
Some ingredients added to our food and beverages are nothing but drugs if they were in their raw form. Look at the  ingredients, some you can’t even pronounce.
Ex; Zethozanthanoid phosphate, Rhibitosis diglutimate, etc…
(Don’t try to look these so called ingredients up because they’re made up and just examples of the word play on some ingredients.)
If some of these substances used their common name on the list of ingredients, then you probably wouldn’t buy it.