I just read an article sent to me by a friend about the health, social, and economic problems associated with drinking bottled water. I was apalled at the information presented, even though I had been aware of some of the issues before.
I am passing on this link in hopes of raising public awarness to the truly awful problems of using bottled water... please take a moment to read it and pass on this article to others who you think would appreciate it.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/09/26/why-is-water-the-next-empire.aspx?e_cid=20110926_DNL_art_1
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Best Form of Exercise for Fat Loss
Over the last several decades, ideas have changed quite a bit regarding how best to workout in a way that will promote the most cardiovascular fitness and total fat loss. It used to be thought that low level, steady state exercise at the bottom of the margin of our aerobic training range (e.g. 65% of our maximum training heart rate for our age) would burn the most fat. It was believed that staying within such a completely "aerobic" range would result in the maximal use of oxygen by our muscles to ideally burn fat most efficiently. Conversely, it was also believed that exercising at higher heart rates involving more oxygen debt -- i.e., more breathlessness -- would result in proportionately more and more substitution of carbohydrates to be burned instead of purely fats.
Recent research, however, has begun to change these concepts in exercise. Interval training, inserted in the middle of lower level steady state activity, has been shown to boost fat burning significantly. Additionally, resistance exercise, at the level which induces a muscle "burn" feeling thereafter, also increases the amount of fat loss during exercise. The proper addition and combination of such mixed training modalities can increase fat loss up to 10 times the amount achieved by many forms of traditionally recommended exercise!
Thus, circuit training and the use of cardio conditioning interspersed with bursts of high intensity exercise are growing more popular now for an even wider population of fitness enthusiasts... not only are athletes who wish to condition for particular sports competition continuing to engage in them, but now joining those athletes are individuals who goals are solely to achieve weight loss and better overall health and physical fitness.
Here is a link to an excellent article on this new exercise model, and you can also Google "Metabolic Conditioning" of "Circuit Training" to learn more of the specific 'how-to's' for getting started on such a program.
http://www.townsendletter.com/July2011/exercise0711.html
Recent research, however, has begun to change these concepts in exercise. Interval training, inserted in the middle of lower level steady state activity, has been shown to boost fat burning significantly. Additionally, resistance exercise, at the level which induces a muscle "burn" feeling thereafter, also increases the amount of fat loss during exercise. The proper addition and combination of such mixed training modalities can increase fat loss up to 10 times the amount achieved by many forms of traditionally recommended exercise!
Thus, circuit training and the use of cardio conditioning interspersed with bursts of high intensity exercise are growing more popular now for an even wider population of fitness enthusiasts... not only are athletes who wish to condition for particular sports competition continuing to engage in them, but now joining those athletes are individuals who goals are solely to achieve weight loss and better overall health and physical fitness.
Here is a link to an excellent article on this new exercise model, and you can also Google "Metabolic Conditioning" of "Circuit Training" to learn more of the specific 'how-to's' for getting started on such a program.
http://www.townsendletter.com/July2011/exercise0711.html
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