Step 1. Calculate your maximum heart rate. Your maximum heart rate is 220 minus your age. For example, if you are 50 years old, your maximum heart rate is 220 – 50 = 170 beats per minute Step 2. Find your target heart-rate zone. Level 1, low-intensity, the target hearth-rate zone is 50 to 60 […]
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Breath better to relax
If you are in the middle or before of a stressful, important situation, to handle these situation right, you need to be relaxed. This is how you can achieve it: When you breath, you deliver oxygen to all of your body’s cells, including those in your brain. Normal breathing involves deep, slow inhalations and exhalations. […]
Tennis elbow
The symptoms of tennis elbow: Pain when bending the wrist upward against a force or when stretching muscles by straightening or bending the elbow or bending the wrist downward Pain felt over the bony part on the outside of the elbow Swelling of the elbow area Who is at risk? Anyone who overuses his or […]
Eating out
Here is my advice for eating outside the home: Double up on complex carbohydrates and cut your protein in half. I know it sounds very different from everybody else’s advice that high protein diet is good. But it is not. Here is what to do: Order half of the usual restaurant portion of animal protein […]
Push-ups – the ultimate core builder
I really like push-ups and always incorporate them to my workout plan. They’re the ultimate core builder. They work almost every muscle in your body. They are simple to do, and you need no equipment, just your floor and your own body weight. If you do them right and do them enough, they will give […]
Healthy fast breakfast
Eating in the morning helps control your body weight, keeps you more energized through the day and keeps your mood upbeat, too. Here are my favorite fast, simple and healthy breakfast recipes. All contain plenty of important nutrients, you need for breakfast, such as complex carbohydrates rich in fiber and vitamins: Berry breakfast 1 cup […]
Alcohol and health
Will alcohol improve your health or will it harm you? The answer depends on how much you consume, when you drink, and whether or not you have problems that increase your personal risk. Harvard medical school guide to men’s health about alcohol and its potential health benefits states, that the dose is the most important […]