Month: August 2015

Natural healing techniques are becoming more popular these days. More and more people today are already aware of the effects of cheaper synthetic drugs available over the counter. Even if positive results take much longer to manifest through natural processes, we believe these people to facilitate healing instead of using the quick solution is much better for the body.

For example, in treating pain with over-the-counter medications, relief may come faster and pain blocks pain signals, but does not actually treat the cause of pain. Over time, the body grows resistant to medication, thus requiring higher doses or more frequent consumption, which then can eventually lead to kidney and liver damage.

Natural healing techniques, however, strengthen the body so it can control the pain much better and learn to heal themselves. One of the more popular non-toxic, non-invasive healing techniques that a lot of people are exploring these days is osteopathy.

– It heals the body by determining the net pain and actually treat it with a wide range of gentle, well-calculated hands-on techniques that include soft tissue manipulation, joint manipulation, muscle contraction and stretching, emissions and Articulation, Movement Therapy, Therapeutic Ultrasound and exercises for rehabilitation.

– It allows them to achieve flexibility pain and other discomfort they feel are minimized; with improved flexibility and strength, movements are much smoother and easier to perform.

– It adds improve mobility and structural stability. At the same time, several studies show that osteopathic treatments improve the functioning of the circulatory, nervous and lymphatic system. It is worth mentioning as well that many of the patients who turn to osteopathy to deal with insomnia or restlessness at night gradually sleep better and longer after treatment.

– It improves overall health. It is important to note that osteopathy is not only to treat pain and certain health conditions such as arthritis, migraine, sciatica, etc. – it is also highly recommended provisions for general health maintenance.

Those who want to improve their posture and be flexible, or limber to prevent injuries or the early onset of aging woes have much to gain from regular osteopathic care.

Here is my list of 10 things that others do in the gym to get me completely crazy while I work out. Let me start by product of my friends, some of you may be entitled to certain one or two of below mentioned annoying gym features. Do not worry, it’s not just you. Several of these things happen every day and it could not annoy everyone as much as it does me. From body odor, equipment Nazis to be an idiot to feel his weight lifting belt to do the bench press, without further ado here is my top 10 list of annoying gym routine other.

Equipment Nazi’s – We’ve all seen them. The guy who uses a squat rack in the gym to perform all his workout. The first legs, the shoulders and finally biceps. You go to a gym Nazis and say “hey buddy, how many more places you got?” and he looks at you confused and angry to tell you that he just started his workout. As you really need to use the rack for standing shoulder press and bicep curls, Dummy ya?! And then he starts doing squats with a few 25’s on the side and you get even more angry. The type of gym Nazis is almost always a young kid who puts a towel on one rack, his hat over a bench across the room and a water bottle his left cable station.The kid is doing interval training, taking up three pieces of equipment and looks at you like you’re the ass when you start to use something he has not touched for 5 minutes. And when you tell him you’re working in, he looks at you in disgust.

Walking lunges for fitness – Okay, so I know I’m going to get called out great for this as many of you do, but please stop! Do you know how annoying and dangerous it is to lift heavy and take plates off barbell when someone is making the trip lunges in close proximity just in front of or next to you. Now to be fair, there are people who do this exercise usually regular who know what they are doing, but still, the free weight area. Go take weights to one of the studios or in front of the cardio machines. Stay away from people pushing heavily.

People carrying gym their bags with them while they workout – Folks, what’s the deal with your dirty, over filled, sweat ridden and stank ass bag to be left around the gym floor? Last I checked there were several hundred lockers hundred feet away. Go buy a $ 5 combination lock, or if you have a piss poor memory you can even buy a cool little ones with a key! Set crap in the closet like normal people and if you are not going to change the culture, why not leave it in your car?

Anyone who thinks the gym is kickboxing their dojo – So, this will not apply to all the gyms, but where does it stand bag and heavy bag in a regular gym, I’m sure you will know what I mean. Ever see this guy who is a little past his prime, looks like he took some Muay Thai kickboxing classes when he was younger and had aspiring dreams of becoming the next Ken or Ryu from Street Fighter? And now he wants to show a limited knowledge of how to perform the Roundhouse to anyone who will watch. This is the same guy who comes to the Good Life with a gym bag full of old and very smelly wrap his bag gloves and Thai shin guards. He will deck himself out and continue to pound away at them one by one bag in the gym for the next hour and a half leaving a trail of sweat and body odor a mile long, while making the loudest sound all the time in the hope that people will look at him and think he was once a UFC fighter. Pal, listen, there are MMA and Kick boxing gyms all over the country for the type of training. The only difference is that people will not give a rat ass about you, so there will be no one to impress. Take your hadookens else my friend. Good Life and other gyms are partly to blame, why have a large bag and stand there in the first place?

Skipper anywhere near where I am lifting weights – Where are my masters? Let me start by saying that I love to skip. I am also not referring to what 90% of people would think of as the master. Jump rope and Double Dutch do not count dropping as regards capacity. Skipper when done properly is a great cardio workout that helps with agility and speed and can make some pretty sick looking calf. With that said, go find an open area, away from free-weights and machines to do this. The master in the middle of the aisles in the business areas of the gym is not cool. It is almost as bad as traveling lunges to be honest. Perhaps worse, come to think of it. At least with lunges worst someone bangs you at a snail’s pace. You ever been hit with a skipping rope or worse yet, one of the weighted rope? I have not and I will not be so dropping off people away from me!

Guys who wear a lifting belt for no bloody reason – This really should not bug me. To be honest this has no effect on me whatsoever. Fact of the matter is a company looks like an idiot. I sometimes feel like a dick because I wonder if maybe the person has a serious back issues that I’m unaware of, and I see him lying on the bench to make a machine bench press and I know he has no idea what a weightlifting belt is. I wonder if they think if they do it up tight enough it’s working its core? Or maybe it makes feeding blow them out a little more when they go by I have something stuck up my butt posture? Who knows? Deadlifts, squats, Olympic lifts, I have no problem if you want to be in the belt. Join our belt when fastened around the waist and head over to work your chest and biceps, and yes I will be laughing at you.

Anyone using chalk for deadlifts of a couple hundred pounds – I personally chalk should be banned from all the major fashion commercial gyms. Guys who need chalk, power lifters, do not generally go to the Good Life or community center to do power lifting them. It’s just not the place. Since there is no 2000lb tested powerlifting barbells and no bumper plates, where there is a series of a dozen power rack, it should not be chalk. These every day gyms are not like elevators. Daily gym goer would not be using equipment that you were able to clean up properly, covered in chalk traces when you are done. And please it’s not like you have to chalk bench or deadlift or clean 100-200lbs. That’s what lifting straps or gloves are for. $ 10 you can get them at any fitness store. Chalk this up to common sense people! Okay, I had to throw it there.

Leaving free weights on the other side of the gym – well, here it is! NUMBER ONE MY most annoying thing you could ever do in the gym. Do not put your shit away! There are three categories in this, and I hate it so much, I will go into detail for each.

Anyone who puts his weight back in the wrong place. This person is definitely not the most hated and we are all guilty of this at some point. Some gyms have Co-op students or employees who keep on top of the ball here, others do not. It is frustrating when you are in the dumbbell section and you have to walk back and forth for the next case of death. Please just try to keep them in the general vicinity of where they should be. Do not let 100 is down from the 10 and 20’s.

Slightly more annoying is a girl or a guy (I find it is often girls the guys with this one) who decides she wants super sets, drop sets or making pyramids and 10 pairs of dumbbells all other grades so she does not have to get up and looking to land one listens top “number 1” has probably set back the wrong place to begin with. This may solve your immediate problem but you have to be ignorant and causes bigger problems now take up several sets of weights that others want to use. In addition, 9 times out of 10, there is so much work to put them all back when you’re done, you just leave them there for someone else to clean up, restore and scavenge through to find the weight that they are looking for a. You know who you are! You are bad. But there is still one person worse.

Ever been 3 or 4 set and you go looking for say a couple of 40lb dumbbells to curl. Well guess what? You know that annoying walking lunges we were talking about a little earlier? He or she finished their annoying walking lunges, and now the website of 40lb weights are somewhere next to the drinking fountain next to the girls changing room. After you spend a few minutes looking at the gym for those you might find them, to wait out of the gym, long after you’ve stopped the search and failed to lift the weight too heavy for you that you probably should not have been lifted in first place. But you can not find the weights you need so you tried your best to go bigger. No one should have to look for 10 minutes to find the weight they need to use. This also goes for handles, rope and other accessories fitness. Put things back where you get them from, please!

Tie up the equipment for the inefficient use – “Hey brother, I think it’s great that you’re working so hard on a 6 pack, but could you please get the hell off the decline bench rack, so I can work my chest!?” or “Hello Miss, I think it’s great that you like to step up and down on it, but the weight bench I could really use about a million other things and the end of the dirt from the shoes is not one of them! ” In other words, people, there is special equipment for each exercise so please pick up the equipment when you could be doing it elsewhere.

Body odor – I often find myself wondering whether some people are really oblivious to how awful they smell. Shower regularly, applying deodorant before and after exercise, eating a clean diet and wash gym clothes after each use easily fixed this problem. We’ve all got stuck on the machine next to one of these people and most of us are too polite to say anything. I mean the word alien, they stink in the kindest ways? Carry extra stick deodorant and before you evacuate conjuring a cloud of toxic people stank, put deodorant slightly out of sight, but the piece of equipment they are using. Or if they happen to be one of those annoying people who carry their gym bag everywhere, even better, slip it in their bag. Problem solved.

So there you have it, the top ten most annoying gym my habits of others. You may agree, you may disagree but at the end of the day they are there to annoy me, so they are all very wrong and you should not do it in my presence. Now I know I can be very anal and I have a little case of OCD, so some of my sound extreme to other readers, but please do not hesitate to share your own experiences and what makes you cringe, cry or go completely crazy when the gym surrounded stinky, walking lunges, wearing Weight Lifting belt for all the wrong reasons and covered in chalk, with a gym bag of left somewhere on the gym floor.

Lifestyle have contributed largely to the increase in common diseases. You will find a good number of people suffering from diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes due to poor lifestyle. In as much as it is important to avoid getting into the situation as soon as possible, you can still play your part in increasing their health, even when you are already suffering from health.

Keep away bad habits

When you have a disease, you should know that some habits can end up making it worse for you. They are smoking and excessive alcohol consumption among many others. To improve and maintain good health, these are some of the habits that you must give up. Anything that makes your condition worse or exposes you to more diseases should be avoided at all costs.

Eat healthy

It is one of the most important things that must be done where it is possible to determine how good the product is absorbed and how they work already in the system. Quality drugs along with a healthy, balanced diet will improve your health. You will find that you feel better every day when you rely on a healthy diet to increase your overall health. It is also very much advisable to ensure that you take enough water on a daily basis. It helps to promote physical activity, such as digestion and absorption. This will cater to the proper nutrients traffic and normal drug absorption; Therefore, you will see the results of your medicines. Water also keeps you hydrated and this is very important to promote good health.

Do some exercises

Exercises will help to keep you strong and fit. You will feel more energetic when you adopt an active lifestyle through exercise. When choosing, however, to make sure that you choose exercises that have no negative impact on current disease. Fortunately, practice a mountain to visit the gym only. You can do as little as walking or even enjoy a swim or take the stairs. Cardio exercises can be as rewarding as weight lifting. Make them you can manage without straining too much.

Take medicines faithfully

Health conditions do not require too many visits to the hospital, sometimes all you have to do to take daily doses of your medications prescribed to you. Whether you are on pills or drugs that must be injected, you should make sure you never miss a dose every time. The process is easy as you can now get access to all the medical supplies that you need to be in a position to manage your medications from home. When you have the right equipment, you will easily manage to measure doses and inject or swallow them at a certain time of the day. The stock save you a lot of time you would otherwise use to go to the doctor to give the medicine.

Many people think that the process of breathing happens automatically and so we can not do much about it to improve our health. On the contrary, if we learn to breathe correctly, we can certainly add more “life” to our lives.

Among all the nutrients we need, oxygen is the most essential. Respiration is the process by which we get the body needs oxygen our cells, we need to look at it more closely.

All of us know that there is a diaphragm that helps us in the process of breathing. When we breathe, this contract and draws air in our lungs. When the lungs get filled up, our ribs expand. When we breathe, our diaphragm relaxes and ABS our contract. Rif our return to their normal while the air comes out of the lungs.

We tend to stop paying attention to our breathing because our nervous system usually takes automatic control. But we can consciously control it. Especially athletes and sports people will benefit a lot if they control their breathing. Of course, even athletes can control their breathing and data. The following exercises can help.

Blow up balloons

This helps in full exhalation you need to use your abdominal muscles. You need to breathe fully first and then blow up balloons vigorously. When you blow air into the balloons, the abdominal muscles contract. You must empty the lungs of all air. You will repeat this exercise several times.

Wall Sitting and Deep Breathing

You should sit upright against the wall and practice deep and slow breathing with your arms stretched out. After taking a deep breath, you try to drive the air from his lungs. This exercise helps you to use your diaphragm in the right way.

Forceful exhales

You have to inhale air passively and spirit vigorously. This is the yogic practice this contract and relax your abdominal muscles. You should keep your mouth shut while doing this exercise.

Abdominal hollowing

You can do this exercise by standing on the floor or lying on his back. You must try to contract and pull your stomach, but you should not move the pelvis or spine. You should repeat this exercise as often as possible.

Since you will be using the diaphragm and abdominal muscles effectively in these exercises, your body will get a good supply of oxygen. So, you are sure to gain good health benefits of these exercises.

I have decided to write an article that addresses this controversial subject … energy drinks. It’s everywhere you go. You see it on billboards, advertised on television, radio, internet and in stores. I’m going to talk about some of the pros and cons of drinking any of these beverages,

Benefits of drinking energy drinks:

1. It will provide energy to help you get the content you need to get done.

2. Caffeine will improve your brain functions.

Cons drink caffeine drinks

1. It will cause you to have a sudden crash in energy, so you useless when the effects wear off.

2. It will cause health problems in the near future, I will go into more detail in this article.

My advice is that when you decide to start drinking monsters, Rock Stars, Red Bulls, etc., be sure to drink plenty of fluids before and after the consumption of soft drinks. Choose not to hydrate the body causes rapid dehydration and cramping. Caffeine is the main cause rapid dehydration because it will wash all the water that is already in your body out. Be sure to keep in stock a good supply of potassium and magnesium. These two vitamins are also the main targets of caffeine. On the occasions when I have started to drink Monster or Rock Star, I’d take potassium and magnesium pills to help control my heart rate. Before you go to bed or when you get up in the morning, drink a cup or two to keep the body hydrated and be sure to have food in your body or you will get the jitters.

Avoid other sources of caffeine if you are drinking Monster or Rockstar. I’ve noticed lately that there is a pattern in the high school students who drink multiple sources of caffeine drinks. I read a story about a student who had a monster as well as a cup of coffee to start out his day. The end result was that he had heart failure. A girl in high school who avoid warnings on the can, had drunk many cans of Monster and she died of heart failure. My recommendation is that you only drink one can a day, that should be enough caffeine to get you through the day.

If you are playing sports in high school or college, stay away from these drinks heartbeat is already taking pounding from all the running and vigorous exercises.

One important health mind that I want to give you is that if you are experiencing shortness of breath or muscle spasms in the left part of your chest, you get to the emergency room immediately. If you get dehydrated to the point where you are dizzy and feel like you’re going to faint, drink lots of water and be still kneeling by the bed or lay on your bed.

Drinking caffeinated beverages is an alternate source and should be used by a court to increase your energy, but best to have a lasting energy to exercise and eat healthy. For all the high school students who are reading this article, please stay away from these drinks! Your body is young and should be already loaded energy, because of all the activities you participate in high school. For adults, use their skill and judgment when deciding to consume these energy drinks.

One can hurt for a number of reasons. But they are generally due to various sporting activities or different kinds of movement are called sports injuries. Common sports injuries usually involve bone, muscle or cartilage get hurt. This often happens due to lack of warm-up, bad practices training, wrong equipment, etc.

Types of sports injuries

Muscle and ligament injuries: these are classified as sprains or strains. When ligament injured, it is called a sprain. Damage to tendons or muscles is called a strain. These injuries are classified from first grade to third grade based on how serious they are. The first degree injuries are mild stretch ligament or muscle while third degree is a tear in the muscle or ligament.

Knee Injury: The knee is a lot of weight and this makes it susceptible to damage. Knee injury may be very painful. There are certain injuries to the knee are not very serious but some can be very serious. Injury of the knee cap, tenderness below the knee and other problems are usually not very serious. Serious problems include damage to cartilage and ligaments around the knee.

Shin Injury: Shin splints are very common in runners, especially those who are training for a long time. These people suffer pain that travels down the front of the foot. This problem may also arise for those who do not warm up properly or use the exercise equipment in the wrong way.

Caring Sports Injury

For serious damage, it is necessary to visit a doctor immediately and get it attended to. You will know if the injury is serious by the following symptoms:
• Tremendous pain in the affected area
• Inflammation of the environment and numbness in the place
• Inability to put any weight on the affected area

Home Remedies

A number of sports injuries can be taken care of at home. A lot of doctors follow the RICE method care injuries. This involves resting the affected area, Ice application in order to reduce swelling, compression of the area to reduce swelling and help in the recovery process and will help increase the blood flow to that area.

If you find that the inflammation has subsided and the pain starts to decrease, you will usually be out of danger area and with plenty of rest and safety, you should get better.

It can be relatively easy to overlook their own health needs especially if you have a family with young children. Let’s face it, children usually become priority number one and it is justified, as they require the watchful guidance of parents to ensure that they grow up properly.

While this in itself can force you to lose sight of your own needs and that can have a trickle effect on the rest of the members of the household. In other words, if you are not mentally, emotionally and physically sound, those who may be wondering how you will react towards your family.

It is one of the most effective ways to deal with stress and strain everyday life to keep up with some healthy lifestyle so you can take care of number one.

Essentially, this means that you eat nutritiously, get regular form of exercise, hydrate daily, and get adequate amount of sleep each night. Through repetition, you will find yourself not only to lose weight but get in better shape, and with it comes a lovely extra energy.

Here are four healthy habits you should try to develop as soon as possible.

1) Healthy Nutrition
Since we are usually facing 3-7 fights per day with food and drink, it is important to deal with this area first. When you get it in mind that the body only needs a certain amount of calories every day, and try your hardest to remain more or less the amount you will be entitled to nourish the body. It is a great eating and drinking that causes negative effects on the body.

Try to plan out meals and snacks a day so that you are not addicted to fast food or snacking on fattening items such as potato chips and soda. These foods do nothing beneficial for your body and just provide a temporary sugar rush leaving you feeling tired afterwards. When you plan out what you need for breakfast, lunch and dinner, along with healthy snacks between these cases, you will have much better control over your daily calorie intake.

2) In accordance Exercise
One of the best ways to relieve stress is by practicing. The beauty of exercise is that it can take many forms. It is not a type of exercise that is the right one. In all actuality, the right exercise for you is an exercise that you enjoy doing regularly – three to five times a week. Better yet, you can change the activity so you have a wide range of subjects list that will keep you motivated along with target different muscle groups.

3) hydration
Water is key to life and why 70% of our bodies are composed of materials. Just as the saying goes, we can live for several weeks without food but we are dead in a few days without water. If you have not developed the habit of drinking a lot of water regularly started doing it as soon as possible.

Water is literally the perfect drink. It has zero calories, as well as assistants our bodies by washing dirt and helps speed along the digestive process. Trying to do business in the soda, juice or energy drink for a nice cold glass of water. If you make it a habit to always have a bottle in his hand and drink it with every meal and snack, you will find yourself getting fuller with less food you used to eat in the past, which means less calories go into the body.

4) The right amount of sleep
Sleep is when our body recover from the events of the day. If you do not get an adequate amount of sleep, do you think the most likely effect of lethargic, tired feeling the next day. Rightfully so, as the body does not get a chance to rejuvenate themselves with the necessary REM cycles. Do not deprive your body of this important time, especially since you have to deal with the repercussions the next day.

You will find that if you exercise regularly, you will be looking forward to this sleep where you will be completely destroyed at the end of the day. Do not waste precious time glued to the television screen when that time could be spent to get the recommended 6-8 hours of sleep each night.

While it is never advisable to keep any information from a doctor or nurse, when it comes to the cardiologist, keeping secrets can actually be fatal. If you are not as forthcoming as possible with a heart doctor, he or she will not be able to plan the most effective treatment. These are just some of the things you need to do is to talk the next time you have an appointment.

Whether you are taking supplements or vitamins
Many people take herbal and unconventional medicine to address chronic health issues. However, you must let your heart specialist know everything you’re taking because certain supplements can pose a serious threat if you are on certain cardiovascular drugs.

If you are testing with other Doctors
You may not want to admit that you’ve got a second opinion for heart issues, but the goal is to get the best care possible, do not worry about the feelings of the doctor. It is important that you bring any recent test results next cardiologist appointment, whether that means EKG, a discharge blood test, echocardiography, or something else. If your doctor does not have all the available information, there is no way that he or she will be able to truly understand the severity of your condition.

If you do not get all your medications
Many skip medications every once in a while, but do not want to let your doctor know. If you fall into this category, please be upfront and let him or her know that you have not been taking cholesterol or blood pressure medicines regularly as you should. If cholesterol and blood pressure levels have not changed and specialist heart does not know that you have released your meds, he or she may needlessly prescribe a higher dose of the drug. This could be detrimental to your health.

If you are experiencing unnecessary stress
It is a fact of life that many of us have to endure financial difficulties from time to time. Some keep this and other types of stress to the extent that it makes them physically ill. Stress can increase your heart rate or even lead to skipped beats and palpitations. You need to talk to your doctor about what is happening because it would be possible to elevate blood pressure.

You have not been sticking to your diet
A lot of us cheat a little when a doctor puts us in a certain type of diet. There is no reason for you to feel ashamed if you do the same. If you do not tell your cardiologist you have not been eating exactly right or practice, then he or she will not have the most accurate picture possible of what is happening with your heart. You can wind up having to take a stress test result.

The bottom line is that you need to be comfortable talking to your doctor. The more you enter, the easier it will be for the doctor or nurse to develop the most effective plan of treatment.

Ever had the desire … also known as the munchies?

The body keeps sending hunger signals so you keep them eat as you feel hungry.

Many of you satisfy those cravings with unhealthy foods like candy or bad carbohydrates. This may not only pile on weight, but also give you little or no nutritional value make you feel sluggish.

Most if not all desire can be traced back to malnutrition. By eating a healthy diet, most cravings stop with time.

There are plenty of healthy choices instead of junk food and bad processed foods. Unhealthy food choices will not give your body the nutrients it needs. So you will continue to get stale and the emotions that nibble and this vicious circle will continue.

For example, many people crave sweet foods in the mid to late at night. Instead of choosing processed lifeless candy, have a piece of fruit like watermelon. The natural sugars in fruit will help reduce those sweet cravings. Not only is it refreshing and tasty, you’re getting a good injection of quality nutrients that are great for the body.

Here are 5 ways you can keep those cravings:

Sleep – Having 8 hours of sleep allows the body to do its job of healing and repair. It also helps control hormones that affect our appetite, and how we process and store fat, carbohydrates and sugar.

Reduce stress – Stress is a big factor in binge eating junk food. Stress causes all sorts of forms of dis-ease in the body and bingeing on junk food only compounds the problem. So reducing stress is important and healthy snacks on hand for those uncontrollable stressors.

Keep watering – 3 out of 4 people are classified as prolonged drought. Many people mistake thirst for their response to hunger. Keeping fluid also helps reduce snacking on junk food and helps relieve the afternoon energy crash.

Get organized – People who prepare meals in advance and take healthy lunches and snacks to work to reduce their consumption of junk foods help keep weight in check.

Eat Clean – Have a good healthy food on hand at home and at work. Regularly eating a balanced diet with a wide range of fruits, vegetables, nuts and lean protein has been shown to reduce cravings, help with weight loss and kicking the energy peaks and troughs.

Remember, by eating a healthy diet, most cravings stop with time