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Train in less time

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

weight training
Most people have a schedule in which with difficulty can include new activities, which usually is used as an excuse not to exercise, despite knowing that by maintaining a moderate level of activity can improve health and prevent aging.

If this is your situation, here are some tips to do more fitness in less time, both in the gym or outside.

For starters, the most important thing is to organize and plan. Includes training sessions in your calendar like any other work activities of your daily routine, this will help you find the time to train more efficiently than if you leave it to chance.

If you have little time for the gym, then planning sessions shorter but more intense, half an hour of weights and machines estrucuturada well enough to improve and maintain both strength and muscle tone.

The same applies to aerobic training, when there is time for a full session of spinning or your favorite class, you can use the elliptical bike sessions of 20 to 30 minutes of medium intensity alternating periods of high intensity with others. The idea is to raise the heart rate to improve cardiovascular capacity.

It is necessary to train all muscle groups each time you go to the gym, it is best to work them split routines organize separately, firstly to allow the tissues to recover and also do a more efficient use of available time.

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Training with elastic bands

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

training with elastic bandsWhen we can not train in a gym we have various options to do at home, without the need for dumbbells, weight machines bars or expensive also occupy much space.

The training routine can include both gymnastics and aerobic exercises and some intended to increase muscle mass. In the latter case it is necessary to use any technique to achieve the necessary overhead.

Well you can do try replacing it the weight of the discs or dumbbells using common objects in any home, therefore you will see options in training routines at home we have previously.

Another alternative is to use rubber bands for when undertaking a training muscle toning.

The first thing is to get a good quality rubber bands, there are many brands in the market, you should verify that there are dry, cracked, holes, cracks or visible, this aspect is very important because if the band breaks during exercise may cause you injury.

There are different sizes, from 200 to 250 cm are used for most exercises, but it would be nice to have a pair of short bands exercises for glutes, adductors and abductors.

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The benefits of running

Friday, January 1st, 2010

benefit of running

Many people “run” with different objectives: to incline to the good health, maintain their physical appearance or take time off. But when launching the business, he raises a number of questions that can not always answer.

Why run?
Our body has the wonderful quality of transforming chemical energy into “motion”, and does basically two ways: aerobically (in the presence of oxygen) or anaerobic (without oxygen). For the first case obtains ” fuel “of some of the foods that are nourishing, carbohydrates (such as potatoes, bread, pasta, desserts, etc.) or fat (such as oils, butter, and meats).

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