There are three kinds of fitness:
Aerobic fitness – the heart and lungs
Resistance fitness – muscular strenght
Flexible fitness – flexibility
Aerobic Fitness
Aerobic fitness refers to how high your heartrate goes when you exercise, and how long it takes to return to normal afterwards.
Take your pulse for twenty seconds and then multiply it by 3 to get [...]
More and more people are becoming obese. The statistics are frightening. It is not a safe state to be in, and a typical knee jerk reaction to it is to start a crash diet. Crash diets are not the best way to lose weight. You may get immediate results if you look only at the [...]
Water is essential to life. The body can survive 6 weeks without food, but only survive a few days without water. It is essential to keep your body hydrated. If you are slightly dehydrated you may have low energy levels, or even get a headache. As water flushes out toxins and waste products, it is [...]
Many people nowadays are turning to “organics” and “naturals” otherwise known as herbals. The rising popularity of herbal supplements has created a new fad if not a new health lifestyle. But before you join the bandwagon, here are some things you need to know about this mean, “green” dietary supplementing machine.
What is the difference between [...]
When you get sick, you go to the doctor and he prescribes medicines which you take, and then hopefully you will get well. This is the health profession nowadays, a cycle of diagnosis and prescription.
But what about natural medicine? What exactly is it and is it of any use?
Natural medicine is the use of natural [...]
One of the earliest forms of therapy is getting a patient to laugh is. There are many parts to laughter, but one of the main aspects has something to do with surprise. The punchline of a joke has some sort of a twist, which surprises you. Because of this unpredicted twist, it is funny. The [...]
Here is a very powerful exercise you can do when you have seven minutes to spare. Dr Robert kindly talks us through an exercise used to improve your current emotional status and outlook on life. The exercise itself does more than exercise the memory. It raises your “emotional tone” and even improves your perception of [...]
Are you burdened with a challenge that you don’t think you are up to? Do you have to conduct a talk in front of lots of people? Does that work load seem so much that it is off putting? There is a simple technique you can use now.
It is sometimes easy to fall into the [...]
This is an interesting video on youtube where Paul McCartney shares eye yoga techniques he learned in India.
Americans spend more than $2 billion a year on sleep-promoting medications. Sleep is and is supposed to be a natural function of the body, so what is it that is preventing this natural process? There are many problems getting in the way of a good night’s sleep.
The daily stresses we have such as problems [...]