Malaysia Guide to Healthy Living by Malaysian Blogger
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One of the most difficult things for someone looking for a personal trainer, is finding one that will guarantee results.
With so many misleading and downright dishonest gimmicks, and solutions in the dieting and weight loss industries finding a reliable and honest trainer should be first and foremost.
Before you even consider hiring a personal trainer consider these 7 criteria that will help you find a solid and proven personal training company.
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Now that you’ve made the commitment to starting a workout program, the next step is choosing a gym that you will feel comfortable going to on a regular basis. If it isn’t, chances are you aren’t going to stick with any type of regular plan and will eventually just stop going altogether. By being sure your gym is a good fit for you, you help take yourself one step further to realizing your health and fitness goals.
Keep in mind that if a traditional gym isn’t for you, you can definitely set up a home gym where you can get complete workouts all in the privacy of where you live. There are a number of home gym systems out there that include all the equipment you need to perform all the key lifts that should be included in any workout program.
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These infomercials are largely aimed at tricking the public to believe that they can “spot reduce” their stomach by doing a few ab exercises each day.
You’ve seen the infomercials – so you know what we’re talking about.
These infomercials usually have a bunch of super-healthy fitness models walking around with perfect abs — and they tell you that they owe their great looking abs to whatever “ab machine” that they’re trying to sell to you.
These fitness models usually have a “smile” on their face as they demonstrate the ab machine for you, and they do this so that you’ll believe that it’s “fun and easy” to use their ab machine.
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If you want know how to gain weight and build a thick, muscular back there are three exercises that you need to become very familiar with. Those exercise are chin ups, rows and lastly but most importantly; deadlifts. If you did nothing but those three exercises faithfully you would end up with a thick and impressive looking back.When it comes to uncovering the secrets of how to gain weight you need to realize that the back muscles make up a huge portion of your total musculature and that developing them will add countless pounds to your frame.
So how do we go about developing all of the muscles of the back? Firstly we have to address the traps which start at the neck and go all the way down to the mid back. These can be worked most effectively with dead lifts, shrugs and hang cleans. Deadlifts can be done for anywhere between one and twenty reps. Shrugs are best kept at 6-12 reps and cleans should usually be done for six reps or less.
Next on the list are the smaller muscles around the shoulder blade area which are the infraspinatus, rhomboids, teres major and minor and rear deltoids. These muscles work during all forms of rows.
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The reason that most people don’t workout is because they think there isn’t enough time during the day. Their excuse is “I can’t go the the gym after work for an hour everyday…” To get an effective workout, you don’t need to spend hours a day in the gym hopping from bike to treadmill to elliptical. 20 minutes of moderate to intense cardio a day is all that is recommended to help maintain health and reduce the risk of chronic diseases.
20 minutes of daily exercise can be broken into two 10-minute bouts throughout the day.
The first one can be done after you wake up in the morning. If you normally wake up at 7am, set your alarm to go off 15 minutes earlier, and you can get your first part of the workout done before work. If you have a stationary bike of treadmill, take 1-2 minutes to warm up, and then for the next 10 minutes, continue at your desired intensity. Preferably in your target heart rate zone. Don’t have a treadmill or bike? Walk up and down your stairs for 10 minutes. Don’t have stairs in your house you say? You can take a brisk walk around the block, or jump rope for the 10 minutes. Not only will you have half of your workout for the day completed, you will also feel more energized as you take on the work day.
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