Thursday, December 27, 2007

Women often think they have to train diffently than men in the weight room. In fact, they don't. The workouts I prescribe for women contain many of the same exercises and intensities as men.
Women are often afraid if they lift heavy they will get big muscles. So they pick up those tiny weights which frankly do them any good at all. The fact is they must lift heavy to gain lean muscle mass. Women's low testosterone levels will prevent them from putting on the size that men do so they don't need to worry about getting "big".
It's important to understand that when women pick up a weight it should be challenging. The main goal is to work the muscle until near fatigue. Choose a heavy weight and lift low repetitions for each exercise to build lean body mass.
An important factor is each individual has complete control over how far they progress. Most women only take weight training to that "toning" point but some are more hardcore. When your body looks the way you want switch to a maintenance program. At this point there's no need to stimulate new growth. Rather, continue resistance training to keep what you've worked so hard to get.
In summary, women don't need to perform different weight training routines than men. This a myth that has been perpetuating forever. Ladies, challenge yourself. Pick up a heavy set of weights and build a healthy strong body.
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Dr. Lanny Schaffer is an Exercise Physiologist and the President of The International Fitness Academy. For more cutting edge health and fitness facts go to http://www.aerobic-exercise-coach.com


Release Fear
RELEASE FEARI am a registered nurse and have worked with at risk youth for manyyears. These trouble children are operating on Fear.. If you backsomeone into a corner who is very scared you will see a lot ofviolent outburst just in order to survive.It is amazing that in this advanced country of ours that we do notteach life skills in our schools. What if at the time ofkindergarten, we were to teach about energies and understand how wemanifest our life to us. Each of us resonate with a vibration. Thatvibration is a process. Created by our thinking and focus. If weare scattered and negative and live in fear, we will attract a lotof conflicts in our lives. If we are focused and see the positivethings in life, our life will simply unfold for us like magic.There are so many simple tools we can teach the children in orderfor them to become aware of that power within. If one has a lot ofself confidence and feel they are in control, that is what will bereflected in their life..What if we did a simple thing like have the children make out threelist. The first list all of the positive things in them, the secondlist all of the positive thing in their lives and the third listsomething positive that happened that day. Have them add to the listeach day. Very soon their focus will be on the positive things intheir life. It will change their focus. This is far better thanjust telling someone they need to think positive. That doesn't meanmuch to most people especially children.How about starting out the day in school by creating a circle andhave each child look the the next child to their right and saysomething about them that is positive and what they like about them.Each day changing posititions in order not to repeat with the sameperson again.So simple but so illusive. We need to start somewhere. What we donow is not working for many kids.I have a program that is self empowering. It teaches you how tochange your life. It is geared toward the chronically ill but is aself empowering program with four tapes and a workbook. You haveheard others say that if you want to change your life you have tochange. Well this is a step by step program to teach you how to dothat.www.innerconcepts.netSincerely,.Jeannette de Langis, R.N.Jeannette@...[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]


Health-Diet-Fitness Goals and Goal Setting.
Sometimes getting started and staying with a project can be the most difficult thing of all. Why is this? Why does it seem to be in our nature to begin something and then
struggle to find the time or energy to stay the course?
Basic human nature. We need to learn about ourselves and just the human tendency to
put off today what we can do tomorrow.
We all struggle with procrastination particularly when it comes to our health, diet and fitness regimen.
One thing we all can do is set goals for ourselves. When setting these goals, it is
very important to set realistic goals - goals that are attainable and within our reach and are realistic.
Whether our goal is to get in the best physical shape of our lives, or to get ripped and muscular, we need to be realistic yet driven to succeed.
I know from personal experience (having lost 44 pounds and keeping it off), that proper and REALISTIC goals are attainable in your fitness program. Just by applying
oneself to a proper health, diet and fitness program and proper nutrition,
you can achieve FANTASTIC results. Regardless of whether you desire to just get and
stay lean and healthy, or you want to buff up and get ripped - you can begin today.
You can start today. Learn which exercise provides the best results and as much as you can about proper diet and nutrition and the best way to
achieve the results you desire.
Start your journey today! If I did it, I know you can too. Today is the day to start
on your journey to health and vitality. Don't put it off. Give yourself the gift of
good health and look GREAT too!
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