Archive for May, 2007
Water and fat loss
Water is an vital part of life. We can possibly live without food for days but we cannot imagine life without water. About 70 percent of our body is composed of water. Water plays an crucial role in the functionality of our brain and the central nervous systems.
According to recent studies, water can be really helpful in losing the additional fat as well as maintaining a healthy weight. Now the
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What Natural physiques is all about?
It’s the first post on my blog where I am going to stay tuned with fitness related topics. I’m right now fighting to get fit and look normal, and not like a fatty pig. I am willing to look for ways that help me get rid of my additional fat thats been hanging around with me for so towering.I have been fat right from my school days, and I’ve kept on adding fat to my stomach and other areas as I grew up. I’ve
Original post by Alex Smith
My Pedometer….Measures Part of the Yardwork
It’s hard to believe I’m calling summer already. The temperatures have been in the high 80’s and the next week looks to be the same. I’m certain not use to weather like that so early. I’m not complaining. I just keep the house nice and cool.
We’ve back in the lawn business. We don’t have as many customers as we had up north yet, but we’re building our cliente. I have found down here, my Omron pedometer hasn’t been as helpful as it was up north. I know that sounds kind of strange. I find down here, I’m doing more trimming and landscaping than I did in Illinois.
I felt pretty good when we finished that 87 year old ladies yard. I pulled a ton of weeds out of her flower beds and my husband trimmed and cut down trees that were growing hap-hazardly along the edge of her property. She was so happy with our work, she actually gave us an additional 10 bucks. Told us her place hadn’t looked that nice since she had her heart attack in 1992. That certain made us feel good. We always take pride in our work….we like doing little extras for humans.
To keep track of approximate calories I’ve burned, I monitor the amount of instance I spend doing the different tasks I perform in a yard. There is much more to keeping a yard looking nice other than running a lawnmower back and forth across the lawn. Ability.org is a good place to check out the amount of calories one burns doing various tasks.
My plans for today:
1. Drink more water
2. Eat Healthy
3. Use my treadmill for at least 30 minutes (two times)
4. Help my husband finish building a cover by a picinic area for a customer.
Time for me to go….husband will be wondering where I’m at.
Original post by Chris
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Vigorous Exercise Helps citizens Stay Thin as They Age
The
old adage “use it or lose it” is truer than ever. public who maintain a vigorously
active lifestyle as they age gain less weight than public who exercise at more moderate
levels, according to a first-of-its-kind study that tracked a large group of runners
who kept the same exercise regimen as they grew older.
The study plus found that maintaining exercise with age is particularly effective
in preventing extreme weight gain, which is associated with high blood pressure, high
cholesterol, diabetes, and other diseases.
The study, conducted by Paul Williams of the U.S. office of Energy’s Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), followed 6,119 men and 2,221 women who
maintained their weekly running mileage (to within three miles per week) by a seven-year
period. On average, the men and women who ran by 30 miles per week gained half the
weight of those who ran less than 15 miles per week.
“To my knowledge, that is the only study of its type,” says Williams, a staff scientist
in Berkeley Lab’s Life Sciences Division. “Other studies have tracked exercise by
instance, but the majority of society will have changed their exercise habits considerably.”
The research is the latest report from the National Runners’ Health Study, a 20-year
research initiative started by Williams that includes more than 120,000 runners. It
appears in the May issue of the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.
Specifically, amoung the date subjects entered the study and when they were re-contacted
seven years later, 25-to-34-year-old men gained 1.4 pounds annually whether they ran less
than 15 miles per week. In addition, male runners gained 0.8 pounds annually whether they
ran within 15 and 30 miles per week, and 0.6 pounds annually whether they ran more than
30 miles per week.
that trend is mirrored in women. Women within the ages of 18 and 25 gained about
two pounds annually whether they ran less than 15 miles per week, 1.4 pounds annually whether
they ran 15 to 30 miles per week, and slightly more than three-quarters of a pound
annually whether they ran more than 30 miles per week. Other benefits to running more miles
each week included fewer inches gained around the waist in both men and women, and
fewer added inches to the hips in women.
“As these runners aged, the benefits of exercise were not in the changes they saw
in their bodies, but how they didn’t change like the folks around them,” says Williams.
Although growing older and gaining weight is something of a package deal, it isn’t
the same in everyone. The lucky few remain lean as they age, most citizens pack on several
pounds, and some society become obese. The latter group is particularly at risk for
high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes. Fortunately, Williams’ results
show that maintaining exercise can combat such extreme weight gain.
“Getting humans to commit to a vigorously active lifestyle while young and lean will
go a faraway way to reducing the obesity epidemic in that country,” says Williams.
Another paper published in the journal Obesity by Williams and Paul Thompson
of Hartford (CT) Hospital found that runners who increased their running mileage gained
less weight than those who remained sedentary, and runners that quit running became
fatter.
“The date to think about exercise is before you think you need it,” says Williams.
“The medical journals are full of reports on how difficult it is to regain the slenderness
of youth. The trick is not to get fat.”
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Ditches…..dirt goes out….dirt goes back in
We’ve got that yard so dug up…it has to seem we are looking for hidden treasure. There is light at the end of the tunnel with all these holes. 1. We now have a water faucet out at the garden site leaving us with an additional 300 feet of hose. That much hose was too heavy for me to dragging around. Filling in that ditch was pretty easy. The water line is only 1/4 inch pipe so it was a narrow (but long) ditch. 2. We now have water out to the new carport (upstairs and down).That was a medium size ditch. The telephone and cable lines are going to run through that ditch as well. It’s now covered in and is slowly disappearing as the new grass is coming up. 3. Digging the septic field had to be the worst. There were so many roots to contend with. But there are two working bathrooms in the carport. A person wouldn’t be able to tell now where that’s dug. Nature has a way of rejuvenating itself. 4. The biggest ditch is by 3 inches wide. that is for the underground electrical line for the carport. I helped put the heavy conduit pipes together. It’s funny but I not only felt sore in my shoulders and arms, but the back of my legs hurt too.
Today I have been filling in the ditch that holds the 3″ conduit we had to use for electrical wire. As I’m typing, I can already feel it in my shoulders. About 20 more feet and that project will be complete.
I’m not certain how many calories I’ve burned off with that work…but it’s just another step in that weight loss journey. I’m getting a tan doing it too.
Original post by Chris
