Archive for October, 2010

What is cross training and does it offer any significant benefits?

Cross training is typically defined as an exercise regimen that uses several modes of training to develop a specific component of fitness; in this instance, aerobic fitness.

A relatively sound argument can be advanced to support the premise that using two or more types of aerobic exercise in your training regimen is in your best interests. While no evidence exists to support the often-stated claim that cross training somehow induces a better aerobic conditioning response, research indicates that using several modes of training can provide an exerciser with a very positive orthopedic benefit. By combining different exercise modes, you prevent the same bones, muscle groups and joints from being stressed over and over.

As a consequence, cross training tends to reduce the likelihood of your being injured as the result of exercising “too much.” In addition, cross training has also been shown to have a very positive effect on an individual’s long-term adherence to a specific type of activity.

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Learn About Self Defense Training

It’s obvious to say self defense training is for self defense. It is not for the purpose of damaging someone permanently or taking a life. It’s not about power or control. Rather, it’s about having the means to properly defend yourself if you ever find yourself in a dangerous situation. There are all kinds of methods of self defense. You can sometimes find self defense classes in your local area that are sponsored by a community college or a small business. Sometimes these classes are free. Other times these classes come at a small fee. The price and time that you commit to learning self defense depends on your individual needs as a person.

Women’s self defense training is especially common. There are certain overall programs that can count as self defense, such as martial arts and forms of boxing. However, women’s self defense programs are specifically geared towards teaching women how to defend themselves. Women are often the victim of aggressive crimes such as rape and mugging. There are several programs that are designed to help women defend themselves in these and other types of situations. One program is called RAD. It stands for Rape, Aggression and Defense training. It’s an international program with chapters located all over the United States. Other countries that host this program include the United Kingdom, South Korea, Switzerland and Canada.

Model Mugging is another self defense training program. This program has three levels: basic training, armed assailants and multiple assailants. It’s possible to order your training online and learn through DVDs and other long distance methods. The courses not only educate you on how to defend yourself, but why your assailants behave the way they do. They give you a basic overview of the way they think, and how to avoid situations where you may become a potential target. In addition to self defense, Model Mugging also teaches women empowerment.

Do you need self defense training? No one can answer this question but you. It is up to each individual to decide if they need to learn how to defend themselves. These training courses are usually more popular in dangerous areas where there is a proven record of crimes and violence against women. But self defense classes can serve other purposes too. They can help lift self-esteem. They can also help get a person active. And it’s a chance to network, meet new people and discover something new about yourself and the world around you.

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No-Xplode

Nitric oxide’s medical definition is summarized as: a biological gas controlling a seemingly limitless range of functions in the body, a signaling molecule; a chemical compound with the chemical formula NO; a toxic air pollutant produced by cigarette smoke, automobile engines and power plants.

Nitric oxide has been demonstrated to play a role in a variety of biological processes including neurotransmission, immune defense, the regulation of cell death and cell motility. It is a short lived, free radical (highly reactive) with a half life of only a few seconds that is produced from a group of enzymes known as nitric oxide synthases (NOS) These enzymes break down the amino acid arginine. Arginine changes into nitric oxide, the gas. This gas controls many of the body’s major functions, including blood pressure, any vasodilation (esp. penile erections), swallowing to defecation. It acts as a neurotransmitter between the nerve cells associated with learning, memory, sleeping, feeling pain, and depression. The immune system uses nitric oxide in fighting viral, bacterial and parasitic infections, and tumors.

Breathing, Body Building, and Sex
Interest and research around this versatile gas ramped up when its role in blood flow and hemodilation (widening of the blood channels) was discovered. This affects everything from breathing to body building to sex.

Nitric oxide gas is used along with a ventilator to treat respiratory failure in premature babies. It works by relaxing smooth muscle to widen (dilate) blood vessels, specifically here, in the lungs. It helps the babies breathing to be less labored.

From a body builder’s perspective, nitric oxide can increase muscle size and growth indirectly, as it increases the blood flow, nutrients, and oxygen that goes to the muscle tissue during and after a workout (stress). This process acts as a volumizer for the cells, a hemodilator if you will, causing the blood to surge into the muscle tissue, creating a “pump”. These muscle pumps can be even further expoited, causing bigger gains, if other supplements are a part of the process. More arginine would be beneficial to make more nitric oxide. Creatine is another example of a supplement that can be added to a body builder’s (or anyone trying to gain size and strength) regimen. Once the cell is open to blood flow, the creatine can get inside easier. Nitric oxide also affects the endocrine system; more specifically, the release of gonadotroptin releasing hormone, as well as the release of adrenaline from the adrenal medulla. These control the intensity of the workout, further benefiting size and muscular strength.

Lastly, when connecting nitric oxide to sex, just let me say Viagra or Cialis. Need I say more? These are examples of current prescription products on the market that affect the blood flow to the penis. Adequate blood flow, or engorgement, is what causes the penis to become erect allowing it to perform normal male sexual functions. Without these products and others like them that allow the body to make the needed nitric oxide, or just keep the nitric oxide levels higher once it is made, this could not occur. Ginseng is an herbal supplements that helps dilate blood vessels and improve erectile function, along with libido and increases sensation. A doctor should always monitor combining these treatments. Over treating erectile dysfunction can be dangerous. More is not always better!

In closing, there is still much research to be done to prove the actual effectiveness of nitric oxide supplements. If the supplement contains arginine, which is converted to nitric oxide, then it has potential to be directly related. But, if the supplement has certain nutrients or herbs that make it more likely for the body to make nitric oxide or to keep the nitric oxide levels higher once it is made, then perhaps the supplement should be called a nitric oxide enhancer? Nevertheless, nitric oxide is a molecule the body vitally needs for daily function. A supplement or an enhancement, who cares, as long as it works!

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Acai Power Caps

Research has publicized that the Acai berry is one of the most nutritious and potent anti-aging foods available in the world! Acai products are quickly becoming one of the newest and most talked about and hottest selling supplements on the current market.

Indigenous to the Amazon rain forest; the natives of Brazil have been very familiar with the amazing Acai berry plant, enjoying and reaping the benefits of the plant for some time. Using the Acai berry as a staple of their diet for thousands of years, natives to Brazil have un-covered the spectacular effects of the acai plant and have shared them with the world.

With their growing popularity in the worldwide market, practically everyone can benefit from the acai berries and many of its products. The acai plant is most commonly used among athletic and health conscious individuals but more recently has become a staple in many supplements for all walks of life.

Benefits of the Acai Berry include:

- Energy

- Endurance

- Anti-oxidants

- Anti-bacterial Properties

- Ward off infections

- Anti-inflammatory

- Boost the immune system

- Promote Weight Loss

- Detox Cleansing and Purification

- High Blood Pressure reduction

- Ease heart conditions

- Lower high cholesterol

- Help arthritis

- Ease allergies

These astounding berries pack a punch. These small grape-like berries are loaded with protein, fiber, iron, calcium and potassium. They also contain beneficial fatty acids Omega 6 and Omega 9, which help keep cholesterol levels normal.

Acai has been packed into all different kinds of foods, drinks, products and supplements since its explosion into the mainstream market. Most commonly, acai berry benefits are easily attained by the use of Acai dietary supplements. It is easier for your body to reap the beneficial ingredients packed into that little berry when in supplement form. There are all different kinds of acai products though including drinks, smoothies, bars, seeds and the actually acai berry where you can attain the benefits of Acai. Find yourself a product though that hasn’t stripped the acai of its antioxidants – the most important ingredient of the plant! Acai has more antioxidants than any other known food source in the world. Anti-oxidants are best known for their properties that help slow down the aging process.

Acai has been and will continue being the most talked about nutritional aid for all types of people. This superfood is capable of benefiting so many people with its many positive attributes. Unfortunately because of the limited areas in the world where you can grow the Acai plant, it could be many, many years before we can fully understand the numerous health benefits associated with the Acai berry. But for now, we can at least be at ease knowing Acai is truly a gift to us all from Mother Nature herself; A gift of long, healthy and happy life to all.

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Roger Bowling vs Bobby Voelker II this Friday

Roger Bowling will be entering the cage this Friday at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California against Bobby Voelker. This will be the 2nd time that Bowling and Voelker have faced each other. The first fight ended with a unanimous technical decision victory for Roger Bowling after an accidental eye poke from Voelker.

Strikeforce didn’t waste anytime at all in scheduling a rematch between these two competitive warriors. The first fight was arguably a fight of the year candidate and the rematch will be sure to not disappoint. If Bowling is able to pull off an exciting victory against Voelker he will surely get an opponent with a bigger name and be on his way to a title shot in no time.

Roger Bowling has been working very closely with i-Supplements.com for both fights against Bobby Voelker. Bowling has been receiving diet and supplement counseling with great results. Roger will be going into this weeks fight without having to cut any weight, he will be on target when he arrives in Fresno.

The team at i-Supplements.com and Roger Bowling continuing to work together proves that Bowling is sure to get a Welterweight title shot in the next year to come following all of his hard work.

The future looks bright for Relentless Roger Bowling.

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Vitamin ZZZZ

It has been found that dieters lose more fat and less muscle if they get enough sleep states several new studies. Researchers put 10 sedentary overweight middle aged men and women on a lower calorie diet. For just over two weeks, roughly half were allowed to sleep for 5 and a half hours a night, while the other half got to sleep for 8 and a half hours. After a three month break, the parties switched.

Sleep had no impact on how many pounds that participants lost. But when they were sleep deprived, they lost 55 percent less fat and 60 percent more lean body mass (mostly muscle) than when they were allowed to sleep for 8 and a half hours a night.

The participants also had a lower metabolic rate , felt more hungry, and had higher ghrelin levels when they were sleep deprived. Ghrelin is a hormone that stimulates appetite.

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For future reference – Shoot for eight hours of sleep every night. Although these results need to be confirmed, other studies have found that people who sleep less are more likely to be overweight or obese.

Green Tea Energy Fusion

Whether you sip it, slather it on topically, or take it in supplement form, green tea is a powerhouse ingredient in skin care. Here are three benefits of green tea you may not have known about.

Acne - Last year, a University of Miami study showed that applying a two percent green tea lotion twice a day for six weeks reduced the number of acne lesions in subjects by more than 58 percent. Green tea contains phytochemicals that are proven to reduce inflammation, which is likely the reason behind this anti-inflammatory effect.

Skin Cancer - Multiple findings suggest that green tea has anticarcinogenic effects. Studies in mice have found that green tea inhibits the growth of tumors, and this may work in humans, too. We have heard many times that individuals who drink green tea frequently have a lower rate of gastric and other types of cancer, however, this has not been conclusively proven. As far as skin goes, much research suggests that using a topical treatment with green tea extracts before sun exposure disrupts a mechanism than can lead to skin cancer. In fact, sunscreens containing green tea have been shown to help reduce redness that occurs after sun exposure. In my opinion, there is a plethora of evidence to show that green tea has a protective effect on skin.

Anti-Aging – Green tea is extremely high in antioxidants, which protect the body against damaging free radicals—a major factor in premature aging. Green tea can also prevent lipid damage and reduce inflammation, which further increases its antiaging properties. Be aware, though, that the purported benefits of green tea are largely preventative—drinking it won’t turn back the clock, but it will keep you looking younger for longer.

There’s more than one way to get your green tea fix. Try combining different sources to get maximum benefits, and follow these guidelines:

- Make sure topical products look brown; if they don’t, it means they don’t contain enough green tea to be effective.

- Heat water for green tea until just below the boiling point—if the water’s too hot, the tea will taste bitter. Watch out! Tea is a diuretic so too much can lead to frequent bathroom trips. Large amounts can also make you more likely to bruise.

- If you don’t like the taste of green tea, try a supplement, they are inexpensive and effective!

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5 Fun Ways to Workout at Home

So you made plans to workout. You did all the prep work: packed gym clothes, grabbed a water bottle and a healthy snack, cleared your schedule, and then, boom! Something happens and your carefully constructed plans vanish in smoke. What’s an intrepid gym rat to do? Don’t worry, there are many things you can do to workout at home that will give you a great workout, even if you don’t have access to your usual weights, machines or trainer.

- The Power of 50 – Do a session of 50 squats, 50 push-ups, 50 sit-ups and 50 lunges. It’s guaranteed to get your blood moving!

- The Birth Date Dash – Add up the numbers in your birth year. So, 1969 would be: 1+9+6+9 = 25. Now, run that number of flights of stairs.

- Wall Work – Create a rotation of push-ups and triceps dips, facing away from the counter, and then rotate it with jumping lunges. Aim to do each set for a minute without stopping, and do 3-5 sets.

- Burpees – Start by standing, drop to a squat, jump out to complete one push-up, jump your legs back in, and explode up, clapping your hands above you as you do a jumping jack. That’s one. Shoot for 25!

- Jump Rope – If in doubt, and you only have five minutes, jump rope.

There are many exercises you can do at home that don’t require any equipment, workout DVD’s , or even YouTube demonstrations. Don’t let your inability to visit a gym get in the way of your fitness!

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