Yoga
'healthy You' Book Excerpt: What Kind Of Eater Are You?
Editor’s note: St. Petersburg author Dawna Stone’s new book, “The Healthy You Diet” (Rodale), features a weight-loss plan, recipes and tips to help dieters customize the program to meet their needs. Here is an excerpt, a chapter titled “What Kind of Eater Are You.” One of the many problems with traditional weight-loss programs is that […]
Regions Bank Kicks Off Regions Financial Fitness Fridayssm, Encouraging People To Improve Financial Fitness In The New …
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Throughout the month of January, Regions Bank[1] is hosting more than 350 events designed to help people improve their financial fitness in the New Year. The free events are part of the third annual Regions Financial Fitness FridaysSM program and will offer practical tips and guidance for anyone interested regardless of whether […]
Top Tips To Make New Year Weight Loss Resolutions A Reality
Making New Years resolutions is simple. Almost too easy. Sticking to them is tough, often overwhelmingly so – especially when the plans relate to the big stuff, like losing weight and improving our health which they most likely will, since research shows most adults put on more than a kilo over Christmas. [1] But there […]
Learning About Hatha Yoga
Yoga has become one of the most popular types of alternative medical treatments and its popularity is growing rapidly every year. Hatha yoga is only one of many “types” of yoga that exists today. Yoga was originally meant to be a spiritual treatment of the mind and the soul. It has, in today’s world, become […]
Living Healthy And Long While Aging
Excise has proven to keep a body fit. Exercise helps them to live a long productive life. As we grow older, the bodily functions decline. If a person fails to stay active in their lifetime, the aging process speeds up full force ahead. If you work out when you are young, you will feel good […]
Hospital-based exercise program improves quality of life for adults with arthritis, other muscle and joint conditions
It may seem counterintuitive, but exercise can be beneficial for people suffering from arthritis and other muscle and joint conditions. A new study at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) finds that older adults experienced less pain, reduced stiffness and less fatigue after participating in a hospital-based exercise program. “The study adds to the growing body […]
Yoga Promotes A Healtheir Life
What goes on in the body when you are doing your asanas? Most of us realize that yoga increases and maintains flexibility, strengthens muscles and increases one’s stamina. All forms of yoga invite the participant to attend to their breath and notice the inward quieting. Most individuals who participate sense a uniqueness in this movement […]
Turn Down The Suck In Fitness
Exercise is good for you there’s simply no doubt about it! However, I still meet clients on a daily basis who’ve vowed to dedicate themselves to an exercise program, only to quit after a month. Let’s face it, North Americans start and stop their fitness programs more frequently than they change their underwear. I […]
Yoga Positions For Beginners
Yoga positions for beginners are so easy to learn. If you have not experienced any yoga session or have not seen one, that is not a problem. Practitioners have talked about the unification of the mind, body and spirit. They claimed that this will be acquired through the practice of yoga exercises and techniques. If […]
‘How much — and when?’ Life-history trade-offs a factor in whole-organism performance
For nearly 40 years, one of the cornerstones of the study of adaptation has been the examination of “whole-organism performance capacities” — essentially, measures of the dynamic things animals do: how fast they can run; how hard they can bite; how far, fast, and high they can jump; and so on. Together, these functional attributes […]