It may come as a surprise to some of you, but the fastest and most effective way to transform your body and ignite the fat burning process 24/7 is to strength train. You didn’t think you could get in shape only by running for hours and hours on a treadmill to nowhere, did you? Our goal with strength training, also known as anaerobic exercise, is to increase our muscular strength and to add as much lean shapely muscle to our bodies as we can. And why do we want to add muscle? Well, it is

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Looking great on the outside is certainly important and an admirable pursuit. Achieving and maintaining a low body fat level is also a benefit to yourcardio vascular health, which is important so you’re around long enough to enjoy that body! Most people who are interested in looking great also want to get healthy on the inside too. They want to be able to handle simple daily physical tasks with ease that many take for granted. Things like climbing a flight of stairs at home or at work, or

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Chicken Soup Chicken soup, the age-old cold remedy, may indeed have special benefits. When researchers at Mount Sinai Medical Center tested the venerable cold prescription in 15 cold sufferers, chicken soup proved more effective than plain hot water in clearing out sinuses. Use a Nasal Strip Applied externally to the middle of the nose, nasal strips have an adhesive on one side and stiff plastic ribbing that makes them pull gently outward, opening up nasal passages. Choose the

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Dynamic Meditation This type of meditation was popularised by Osho. The technique differs from most others as it doesn’t lay stress on concentration. Martin Gordon, a follower of Osho’s techniques, says you can also dance as part of dynamic meditation. “It is based on the principle of elevating energy from the sex centre, which is the primitive level, to the mind centre, which is at the highest level,” he explains. Dynamic meditation involves a lot of energetic activities such

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The fitness industry has no shortage of hucksters, and they count on the public’s hunger for a quick fix to keep the money rolling in. They sell exercise products that, off the record, they admit are useless. They use scientific mumbo jumbo to promote products based on nothing more than wishful thinking. They pay celebrities big bucks to go on TV and lie. The Federal Trade Commission, the government agency that monitors truth in advertising, is aware of these scams and has boosted efforts to

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