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Burning Calories: By Spinning

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Do you want to lose weight? Do you want to have great legs? And do you want to have fun while attaining these results? If your answer to the above questions is yes, then spinning is what you need. Many people after trying out, various cardio exercise and all types of exercises have unanimously come to a conclusion that spinning is the best way to lose weight and gain a great figure. 

Considering how well the classes are organized this shouldn’t come as a surprise. These classes are structured in such a way so as to push an individual to give his best in an encouraging and positive atmosphere. 

If you want to lose weight, then there is no better option than spinning. An average of 30 minutes of spinning will help you to burn 50 calories. No other machine exercise can give you the same result. It is a challenge and a promise! Any other “low impact” machine will take at least double the time to burn 500 calories. You can also increase the amount of calories burnt depend on the intensity of your work outs. If you are really enthusiastic and want to lose weight quickly, then you can extend the time spent spinning. 

There is yet another reason why spinning is the best cardio exercise. Unlike other exercises, you can stick with spinning through out the year, there is no stopping you be it rain or shine. Well, you can’t say this in case of outdoor exercises, can you? I am afraid not! 

Spinning has lots of health and fitness benefits. It not only helps you lose weight, but it also helps you to build muscles. In fact, spinning is regarded as the most beneficial exercise by most of the fitness trainers. 

Spinning pushes the body to the optimum level, on a personal note, after spinning I feel great! I feel as if my body has done something that I earlier thought was an impossible feat to accomplish. 

Although spinning pushes he limits for the body, yet it is easy for beginners too. In fact as there is no impact of nature, so your knee and legs won’t hurt. Spinning is completely safe for people of all age groups. Even older people with joint problems can easily do spinning.  

Spinning increases your lung capacity and is great for the heart. When you are spinning, your heart is pumping at a higher rate, this is very beneficial not only to the heart, but to the entire body. This is not the end, spinning also helps to tone your thighs, hips, calves and buttocks. 

You can get great legs if you are regularly spinning. Spinning also helps you to develop new muscles, these additional muscles increases the metabolism and will therefore help you to burn more calories. 

So, if you want to shed those extra pounds and get those much envied legs, then spin your way to success!

Nutrition Notes on Weight Loss Supplements

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

More and more spend hundred and even thousands of dollars yearly on weight loss supplements in the hope of speeding up their metabolism.  The main desire is to be attractive and accepted but it is becoming a more difficult goal to achieve.  The fitness industry is booming but still a lot of people are unable to cut those fat in spite of all the exercise and diet efforts.  In America, more than sixty per cent of adults are overweight and thirty per cent are considered obese.  This is because: one, a lot of weight loss products promises unrealistic goals; two, dietary supplement manufacturers rely on the overweight personís failure to survive; and three, the information about the supplements in the market are just written by themselves just to make a sell.  

 

Although the Food and Drug Administration has successfully banned illegal marketers, some products are still available.  Consumers can be deceived of the labels which claims caffeine or ephedra fee not knowing that these supplements composes of other ingredients that may pose the same health risks.  These include heart and digestive problems, headaches, insomnia, and even psychological side effects.

 

Other supplement manufacturers say that their products contains EGCG which is a phytochemical ingredient found in green tea.  This so-called component claims to speed up metabolism but in reality poses to reduce the risk of cancer.  Some studies denote that it could slightly increase the potential to burn calories and now can be found in many weight loss supplements.  It has good points on the other hand since the body might conform to EGCG after a period of time.  Eve the weight loss benefit could sum up to 60 to 70 calories a day.  This helps prevent excessive weight gain.  

 

A few other significant effects of weight loss supplements is that it may contain ingredients that makers claim will prevent the absorption of carbohydrates.  One good example is Chitosan, which appears most promising, which in fact shows no positive result in fat absorption.  It could even take up to seven months for men to lose just a pound of body fat and for women, there is no fat loss at all.  Thyroid supplements act as thyroid replacements help regulate and optimize the thyroid at a higher level.  This they say makes the body feel like a couch potato and wonít perform the job it has to.

 

Since the number one reason why people eat is because they feel hungry, there is another type of ingredient that manufacturers made which increases the feeling of being full and decreases appetite, Guar Gum.  However, recent studies show that it has no meaningful benefit at all to weight loss.  It is ironic that manufacturers mix Psyllium that has the reputation of reducing eating and aiding weight loss for initial studies so far do not support this claim although it helps control blood cholesterol and sugar.

 

One of the latest innovations in the fat loss industry is by way of skin absorption.  There’s a Cutting Gel, which is an epidril product by far the best selling in fat loss creams technology.  Rub it where you want the fats cut.  For now, it will seem safer to advise the age old remedies to excessive weight gain and that is to invest on walking shoes instead of diet supplements, go to the park and do brisk walking, go to the gym, and have a well balanced diet instead.


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