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Running And Adventages

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

The practice of running stimulates the heart. The heart is a muscle, and everything that makes the blood circulate more quickly improves muscle oxygenation. Running is also lower blood pressure and promotes the increase of good cholesterol. Finally, it improves blood flow, resulting in a preventive effect on the formation of clots. All these combined effects would represent a decrease of more than 50% of the risk (more…)

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What Sports During Pregnancy

Monday, April 26th, 2010

What sports during pregnancy?

For moms who love movement and definitely want to keep a sport, other activities can be used, subject to Appliances:

  • Cycling and running until the fifth month of pregnancy, if done on a flat surface and slow speed. The prominence of your stomach will make you sure to stop yourself!

Other sports are formally discouraged and cons, right from the beginning of pregnancy. So even if you practice long ago, during 9 months banish all sports where the risk is high trauma:

  • The collective ball sports (basketball, volleyball) and combat sports like fencing, judo, karate, boxing, because of shocks to the abdomen.
  • Aerobics, tennis and jogging because it requires a mobilization of energy far too much in a short time. The climbing above 2000 meters altitude and scuba diving.
  • Mountain biking, horseback riding or rollerblading where the risk of concussion and fall is too great.

Regarding posture, avoid lying flat on his back from the fifth month (reduced cardiac output) and favor the positions standing, sitting or lying on its side.

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Running During Pregnancy

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

Pregnancy sport Attention: even if you’re sporty, it must meet several simple rules to best protect your health and your toddler. First and foremost, you must consult your physician, gynecologist or midwife after your pregnancy to check that your business is not usual cons-indicated. Precisely what can you practice? Without pathological, it is possible to continue to do many sports at a rate of half an hour 3 times a week. most beneficial for the muscles still walking, swimming, specifically the breaststroke, provided they do not keep too long head above water so as not to get too arch and gymnastics “soft” by banning all training abdomen. Yoga, stretching and dance can also be a good choice, avoiding certain postures.

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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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