When we make the decision to live healthier lives, many of the benefits cannot be measured by any scale or device. These are things like still having energy to play with the kids at the end of the day or taking up another notch on your belt. But some form of measurable progress is usually a good thing for long term motivation. It turns out that some of the devices we’ve used … [Read more...]
Try This 30-minute Exercise for Your Upper Body
Benefits of having a Small and Easy Workout Routine When you’ll do the same exercises for 30 minutes each and every day you will get familiarized with them. They will get easier, and the next time you try them you’ll know exactly what to do and what not to do. The probability of physical injuries happening will also be reduced. A smaller workout routine means, that the … [Read more...]
Dealing With Common Injuries On Your Own
One of the fundamental principles of wellness is that you have the power to control your own health, largely through increased physical activity. Since occasional injury is usually part of that activity, knowing how to treat some common non-serious injuries is a big part of wellness. Our mindset has a lot to do with injury treatment. Doctors’ visits should probably be for … [Read more...]
5 Benefits of Full-Body Training
The ideal plan is to go to the gym or exercise at home three or four times a week, each day targeting a different body part or muscle groups. That way, all parts of your body get an equal amount of physical activity and develop muscles and strength at more or less the same rate. However, ideal rarely ever happens in practice. Devoting that much time to fitness and exercise … [Read more...]
10 Level Push-ups Series for Building Ultimate Strength
The push-up is the classic bodyweight exercise for the upper body. It will help you develop strength and endurance, build upper body muscle, fortify your joints and better coordinate the work of the muscles in your upper body, core and legs. There is no other exercise that can be compared to the push-up when talking about effectiveness, practicality and real world … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Boost Your Health At Work
Despite all the advances that have been made, generally speaking, work cultures don’t promote wellness. For those of us intimately concerned with our health, it’s more or less up to us to make sure that our minds and bodies are healthy along with our work performance. This takes creativity, planning, and a little research too. With that in mind, I want to discuss five ways that … [Read more...]
One Arm Push-Up with Support
Welcome to the level 9, the last step before the true one arm push-up. This is an important element in the series, where you will develop the last skills and technique needed to push you to the final challenge. So after overcoming the final level of the Partial Range One Arm Push-Ups, continue and challenge yourself with the One Arm Push-Up with Support. Performing Get … [Read more...]
One Arm Push-Ups
Congratulations for reaching the ultimate level of our push-up based series, the one arm push-up. This was the goal from the start of the series, the last exercise before you can call yourself a push-up pro. Enter here after overcoming the final level of the One Arm Push-Ups with Support and challenge yourself with the classic One Arm Push-Up. Performing Start by … [Read more...]
Partial Range One Arm Push-Up
We continue towards the ultimate goal for the series – the one arm push-up. Today we start level 8, the Partial Range One Arm Push-Up, one more preparation for the one arm push-up. It might be a mouthful, but this, together with the Level 9 exercise, are important steps designed to allow you to gradually develop strength and technique to push you to the final challenge. So … [Read more...]
Exercises That Help Manage Back Pain
Even though back pain is a very common complaint of adults and older people, it does not mean that they have to live with it. Most people report experiencing mild aching in the back, because of a lack of exercise, poor posture or even from carrying heavy things. Unless it is acute or debilitating, there is no urgent reason to be reliant on medication because of this pain. … [Read more...]
