Yoga poses to improve flexibility

When it comes to good physical health, flexibility is one of the main elements. Unfortunately, with time, your body starts losing flexibility because of aging, stress, a sedentary lifestyle, and improved movement and posture habits.

In case you are ready to boost your flexibility, then practicing yoga can be the best option as it increases mobility in your joints and muscles.

Increased flexibility offers outstanding benefits like it promotes the range of motion & joint health, preventing back pain and sports injuries. It is necessary to understand several asanas to help you improve flexibility.

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How much Weight should you lift?

You don’t need to be a jock or an expert to receive the rewards of weight lifting. When done accurately, weight lifting can assist you with losing fat, increment your strength and muscle tone, and work on your bone density as well. Whenever done erroneously, in any case, weight lifting won’t give you these advantages — and may prompt injury.

Wondering how much weight to lift is a most common inquiry for both advanced as well as beginner weight lifters. Picking a correct and accurate weight as per your ongoing fitness level is fundamental for accomplishing your goals and limiting the chances of injury. To appropriately pick the right weight to lift, you’ll have to think about a few elements. These incorporate your age and sex, your ongoing capacity level and fitness goals.

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Things to know about rest pause

How might resting during power lifting assist you with accomplishing your objectives? All things considered, by resting or taking a 10-to 15-second pause between every rep, you can really assist with expanding your solidarity and muscle hypertrophy.

Rest-pause training separates one set into various smaller than-expected sets, with 10-to 15-second in the middle. This procedure helps exhaust the muscle strands, however, can likewise assist with getting through testing strength and development levels.

In the event that you’ve been weightlifting for some time and are hoping to wrench things up a score, there are a lot of procedures you can hope to consolidate to build power and quick track results.

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Balance and stability goes hand in hand

Do you know stability and balance go together, and there are some reasons behind it? Balancing and stability are everything not only for an athlete or sports person but each one of us because performance in our day to day activity would result low without these two. They both are not substitutes for each other, and one cannot be replaced by the other.But yes, they are related to each other.

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What Makes Our Body Move?

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Continual body movements are essential to carry our daily chores and each moment extracts energy from our body to perform the movements. But what makes your body move? This question can’t be answered with the most precise answers. Until the recent revelation, it was believed that the moments are the results of muscle movement which is caused due to the nerve signals sent by the brain to the body. But, is it the actual theory? The answer is no!

Recent studies have revealed that there is a connective tissue that surrounds all the muscles, nerves, joints, organs, and blood vessels called Fascia that makes our body move. Let us study this interesting connective tissue a bit deeper to know its functioning and other aspects involved

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KNOW YOUR FATS: Types of dietary fats & why your body needs them

Whether you’re a conscious eater, one with a regular palette or a complete foodie, you would have checked the ‘fat’ percentage on your food labels at least once. The four most celebrated ingredients of any dish are Carbohydrates, Protein, Sugar and Fat. Yet, very little is known about the truth on Fats and their positive health benefits.

Yes, you read that right. Fats ARE good for you! And you don’t really have to eliminate fats completely from your healthy diet. Today, let’s burst the myths surrounding fats – know which are the healthy fats and, why your body needs them. So before you pick up or discard that one food item, based on the label, from your shopping cart, know the truth –

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Sedentary Lifestyle: How Sitting At A Desk All Day Is Affecting Your Muscles

A lot of my friends have a corporate 9-5 job. Most of them spend close to nine hours a day glued to their desks. It’s an extremely sedentary lifestyle. We haven’t even taken into consideration the fact that we are all lying down for 8-9 hours every day.

Let’s do some quick math. That’s 16-17 hours out of 24 without any physical activity for your body. Even when we’re at home, we spend at least another hour or two watching our favorite shows on TV or maybe reading a book. If that is similar to your daily routine, your body is inactive for 75% of the day!

I know it’s comfortable, but we gotta face it — it’s a life of laziness. All your muscles are at rest, but that’s not what our bodies were designed for. Sitting down for long periods of time can actually harm various organs of your body.

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