10:04am Tuesday 18th June 2013 in News

By Tara Russell, Feature Writer

Louise Glover- picture courtesy of Lesauvage Photographer PoutStudios.com

She is one of the most recognisable glamour models in the world appearing in everything from FHM to Playboy. But now Louise Glover specialises as an fitness competitor, sports model, studies fitness is set to compete with WBFF (World Bodybuilding Fitness Federation) in November at the O2 arena as well as in training for the Virgin London Triathlon next month to raise money for Mind Charity. One of her favourite outdoor training venues is the New Forest. Here she shares her top 10 health and fitness tips…

LOUISE explains: “A good fitness programme requires a healthy lifestyle,focus, and a good plan.Whether you want to lose the extra pounds, or just stay in shape, these tips may help you reach your fitness goals.”

TIP 1: Work out regularly. Always remember that it is more important to have a quality workout than to have a long one. However, you should try to progressively increase the time spend working out from twenty minutes to an hour. You can work out harder when you`re full of energy.

TIP 2: Combine the exercises. Make sure that your fitness workout covers all muscle groups. The fitness programme should include cardio exercises like aerobic, jogging, stepping, climbing stairs, or rope jumping. Lifting weights and stretching exercises are also a good option. Don’t overwork yourself: at the end of the workout you should feel full of energy, not stressed and exhausted.

TIP 3: Try new exercises to avoid routine. Once you’re familiar with some of the fitness exercises, why not try others? Maybe you’ll enjoy them more. For instance, the Pilates exercises help you work on your belly in a different way; or, you may want to try Tae-bo or kickboxing instead of aerobic.

TIP 4: Adapt to your environment. Try and adapt your work out to your environment. You can find a way to exercise no matter where you’re working out: at home, in the park, or at the gym. Don’t find excuses not to exercise regularly.

TIP 5: Have a balanced diet. Besides working out, you also need a healthy diet if you want to lose weight.

No matter how hard you work out, if you don’t eat healthy you won’t see the results you expect. Also, count the calories in your meals and make sure you don’t eat more than you need to maintain or lose weight. If your net calorie consumption – including those you burn when working out – is higher than your daily requirements, you will gain weight even if you work out.

TIP 6: Ask for help. Always seek help from a fitness trainer and a dietitian who can recommend you a personalized diet. Having a specialist who supervises, supports, and motivates you helps you stay on track with your fitness or weight loss plan, and avoid making costly mistakes.

TIP 7: Create a healthy environment around you Clean up your fridge of “prohibited” foods and stuff it with fruits, vegetables, and yogurts! Stop smoking, or hanging out in places where a lot of people smoke.

Ask your spouse or significant other to smoke outside – or preferably not at all! It’s healthy for both of you.

Don’t drink too much, and don’t sleep too little.

Fitness is not just about working out; it’s about living healthy, in a healthy environment.

TIP 8: Stay close to people who are motivated.

To achieve your goals, share them with others who’ve gone through the same experience. Most people are happy to help. Learn from their mistakes, learn what’s worked for them, and stay close to motivated people.

Positive thinking is contagious!

TIP 9: Keep moving. Try to walk more outdoors, or better yet in a park, during sunny days. Jog with a friend in the morning or during lunch break at work, or walk the dog more often. Find time to do work around the house. Always try to add physical activity to your life.

TIP 10: Remember that fitness is a step to a healthier lifestyle.Try to make some time for a fitness programme in your schedule and enjoy all its benefits.

A fitness programme and a healthy diet are a successful recipe for a healthier life.

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The Pottruck Center is in the process of adding technological upgrades to its first, third, and fourth floor fitness rooms that will bring state-of-the-art exercise equipment to PennRec members.

Wanna race? Somebody in Europe?

The David Pottruck Health and Fitness Center is in the process of adding technological upgrades to its first, third, and fourth floor fitness rooms that will bring state-of-the-art exercise equipment outfitted with cable TV, high definition point-of-view workouts, and on-demand video.

New Life Fitness equipment includes a program called Lifescape that offers users an interactive experience in which they can travel to destinations all across the globe. Exercise bike riders, steppers, and treadmill runners can select workout locations on a touchscreen that include the mountains of California and the hills of France.

The Life Fitness equipment also enables users to connect an iPad or iPod to the machine, so they can watch or listen to their own content.

High definition Expresso bikes allow cyclists to compete against an opponent who is riding the same type of bike in another part of the world.

“We’ve watched the demo, and the demo person was racing somebody in Europe,” says Amy Wagner, director of the Department of Recreation (Penn Rec). She says Penn Rec is considering competitions with other universities that have Expresso bikes, such as Bucknell and Brown.

The first floor—complete with the new equipment—is open for business. The last set of activations and programs will be complete by Monday, June 24.

The third and fourth floors are currently under construction and are scheduled to open on Thursday, June 27. A new piece of strength equipment called the Synergy multipurpose unit is being installed on the fourth floor that will permit small group strength-training classes.

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A simulated biking experience through the streets of France on the new Life Fitness exercise bikes.

The second floor weight room was completely upgraded over the last year, and received brand new equipment in December.

Wagner says PennRec strives to bring its members the latest exercise equipment and newest technology. When the Pottruck Center was built more than a decade ago, it lacked the infrastructure for cable wiring and internet connectivity, so that technology is being built in during the summer construction.

Hopefully, Wagner says, the new equipment will bring more people to the Pottruck Center, and make their workout more fun.

“The time goes by faster, and it’s more engaging,” she says, “especially the gaming component where you can keep track of your own personal best, or a friend you may be competing against. It allows for a much more personal experience, and tracking of your own personal fitness growth.”

Originally published on June 20, 2013

Luckily, there’s a remedy for delayed onset muscle soreness, aka DOMS. A new study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research compared the effects of massage vs. exercise to relieve DOMS and found exercise to be just as effective in relieving post workout aches and pains. Who knew the “hair of the dog” could be so effective?

The study concluded:

Active exercise using elastic resistance provides similar acute relief of muscle soreness as compared with massage … use(ing) either active warm-up or massage to reduce daily onset muscle soreness acutely, e.g. before competition or strenuous work, but should be aware that the effect is temporary; i.e. the greatest effects occur during the first 20 minutes after treatment and diminish within an hour.

Why Does Exercise Sometimes Cause Muscle Soreness? (HINT: It’s NOT lactic acid!)

Stemming from a century-old frog experiment, people once thought muscle soreness was caused by lactic acid buildup, But while the “burn” experienced during exertion is lactic acid, your body flushes it out within an hour.

Your muscles produce lactic acid from glucose, so it’s a muscle fuel, not a waste product. It’s absorbed by your mitochondria, and the more fit you are, the better your muscles are at using it. The larger your muscles become, the more mitochondria you have to power your “lactic acid furnace.” Mitochondrial mass — and athletic performance — is further increased by high-intensity, burst-type training.

DOMS is caused by microscopic tears in muscle fibers, releasing chemical irritants that trigger inflammation. Downward movements like squats or pushups that force your muscles to contract while lengthening — “eccentric contractions” — seem to cause the most soreness.

Other theories about DOMS target changes in osmotic pressure, muscle spasms or differences in how muscle cells regulate calcium, but they’re a physiological process naturally resulting in increased strength and stamina.

ONE Treatment to Absolutely Avoid

Relying on over-the-counter analgesics is not advised. They may not even provide much relief. Taking ibuprofen before a workout to reduce muscle soreness is linked to intestinal leakage and systemic inflammation. Long-term use may lead to intestinal permeability, allowing bacteria and digestive enzymes into your bloodstream, and reduces key nutrient absorption, particularly after exercise.

Aspirin isn’t proven to reduce muscle damage or soreness, either, and the coating might actually interfere with any benefit.

While you can’t prevent all muscle soreness, there are natural approaches. My top five are:

• Optimizing your diet
• Exercising correctly
• Rest and recovery
• Cryotherapy (ice), heat, or alternating applications
• EFT, earthing and acceleration training

The Care and Feeding of Your Muscles

First priority: Eat fresh, organic, nutritionally dense foods. This gives your body the building blocks to forming strong, resilient, inflammation-resistant tissues. Obviously, eating right helps in many other ways! Check out our complete nutrition plan, providing excellent and extensive dietary information.

Fitness nutrition for energy and endurance hinges on three important factors:

• Consuming a diet high in good fats (50 to 70 percent), moderate in protein, low in carbohydrates, and very low in sugar. (This means ditching your sports drinks, energy drinks and most energy bars).
• Getting adequate essential amino acids, especially leucine.
• Appropriate timing of meals, or intermittent fasting. Exercising in a fasting state can boost muscle growth. The easiest way to accomplish this: Exercise immediately upon arising, followed by a fast-assimilating protein recovery meal 30 minutes afterward.

Fructose consumption two hours before or after high-intensity interval exercise decimates your body’s ability to produce human growth hormone (HGH), central to tissue repair. If your levels are low, muscle soreness will be greater. Carbohydrate loading is counterproductive to gaining muscle tone, losing fat and boosting performance.

Amino Acids: The Building Blocks of Muscle

Amino acids are the building blocks of muscle. Leucine is a powerful muscle builder. However, amino acid isolates of leucine should be avoided because in its free form, it’s been shown to contribute to insulin resistance and may lead to muscle wasting. It’s far better to get leucine from whole foods. The best source is a high quality whey protein.

Carnosine (consisting of the two amino acids beta-alanine and histidine) is an antioxidant that helps reduce muscle soreness from high-intensity anaerobic muscle performance by buffering acids in your muscle tissue to reduce inflammation.

Most studies find that beta-alanine is better than carnosine to increase athletic performance, since beta-alanine appears to be the rate-limiting amino acid in the formation of carnosine. As your muscles accumulate hydrogen ions, their pH falls, making them more acidic. The theory is that improving your carnosine levels counteracts the detrimental effect of hydrogen ions, enabling you to sustain high-intensity muscle contractions longer.

Nutritional Support for Exercise Induced Aches and Pains

Nutritional factors can help prevent and resolve DOMS:

1. Ginger: Long known as a medicinal and natural pain reliever, studies show both raw and heat-treated ginger reduces muscular pain by about 24 percent.
2. Curcumin: Besides giving turmeric its vibrant yellow-orange color, curcumin effectively relieves pain, increases mobility and reduces inflammation.
3. Omega-3 fats: Beneficial fats are highly anti-inflammatory and heart-beneficial. My favorite is krill oil, with unparalleled ability to quell pain and inflammation.
4. Sulfur/MSM: MSM, which is 34 percent sulfur, is famous for its joint health benefits, improving metabolism and reducing inflammation. MSM also appears to improve cell wall permeability, helping to deliver other active ingredients. Sulfur plays a critical role in detoxification and is the primary component in your body’s most important native antioxidant — glutathione.
5. Astaxanthin: This natural-occurring supernutrient is a powerful antioxidant boasting numerous health benefits, including DOMS and faster recovery time. It even increases your body’s ability to metabolize fat! In a 2007 study, mice given astaxanthin showed heightened body fat reduction when given astaxanthin with exercise, compared to exercise alone.
6. Cherries: Cherries are a proven anti-inflammatory, besides reducing your uric acid level. Science shows they help with maladies like arthritis and gout, as well as general muscle soreness. One study involving a group of long distance runners found tart cherry juice to significantly reduce post-exertion pain.
7. Arnica: Homeopathic arnica was demonstrated to reduce muscle soreness among marathon runners in a 2007 study.

Does Stretching Really Help?

While many think stretching feels good, science says passive, static stretching, which most people do, has no benefit. But the active form — dynamic stretching, like lunges, squats, or arm circles — could help prevent soreness and helps improve your power, speed, agility, endurance, flexibility and strength.

My favorite type of dynamic stretching is Active Isolated Stretching or AIS, in which you hold each stretch for just two seconds. AIS works with your natural physiology to improve circulation and increase muscle joint elasticity.

Overdoing it can cause extreme soreness, burnout and even injury. Don’t jump the gun after a major strength training session. Allow ample time for your muscles to fully recover before training them again — up to seven days. I agree with Dr. Jeff Spencer’s strategy of “starting slow and finishing strong.”

Cold Water Immersion and Hot Baths

Cryotherapy or cold-water immersion helps reduce pain and inflammation and increases recovery time — significantly more than rest. But it will shock your body somewhat, so ensure the water is not too cold, and don’t stay in it too long.

A cold pack also works, especially within 48 hours. Alternating heat and cold is another method to increase circulation and reduce inflammation. And bathing in a warm tub of water to which you’ve added 200 to 400 grams of Epsom salt, for 10 to 20 minutes, is an excellent treatment and a great source of supplemental sulfur that can absorb through your skin.

EFT, Earthing, and Acceleration Training

A simple technique called EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) can effectively reduce pain quickly, with high rates of success. And it’s free! This simple technique can be learned by nearly anyone. To learn the technique, please visit my EFT guide.

Along similar lines, a pilot study found that grounding yourself to the earth, or “Earthing,” might help relieve DOMS. When walking barefoot on beach sand, close to or in the water and on dewy grass, free electrons in the ground transfer into your body through the soles of your feet. These free electrons are some of the most potent antioxidants known to man. Experiments have shown Earthing can decrease pain and inflammation, improve sleep and make your blood less viscous — good news for your heart.

And acceleration training or Whole Body Vibrational Training (WBVT) can significantly accelerate tissue healing. It involves standing on a vibrating plate to work ALL your muscles and nerves simultaneously. It stimulates your white muscle fibers to kick start your pituitary gland into making more HGH.

WBVT — “mechanical massage” — can improve circulation, increase range of motion, improve balance, decrease pain and speed recovery from injuries. The most effective device may be the Power Plate.

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“Part 2: Strength and Cardio Training” aims to provide you with comprehensive and well-founded knowledge about the fundamentals of strength and cardio training, written in a compact manner.

First off, the book introduces important knowledge about strength training with some of its varieties (e.g. workouts with free weights, kettlebells etc.) to you. Afterwards the field of “Kettlebell Workouts” is covered with more in-depth information and a very effective and time saving full body kettlebell circuit will be presented to you. In the following chapter HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training) as the “royal road of cardio training” will be described (including possible workout designs). The final chapter provides you with some tips on how you can implement the LLA-Method easily into your life and you can find some additional tips for daily life fitness.

“The LLA-Method Part II: Strength and Cardio Training” can help you to improve your life by showing how you can get really healthy, fit and sexy for a lifetime. Do yourself a big favor and read this book! Last to say: Have fun in your better new life…

Excerpt:

Benefits of kettlebell workouts

Kettlebells are like small portable gyms. Even if you don’t have a lot of space you can train every muscle of your body with them (around 22ft² [2 m²] is sufficient). With kettlebells you can work out inside or outside, improve strength, speed and endurance simultaneously and, additionally, lose plenty of body fat in a short period.

Exercising with kettlebells is one of the best ways to improve your functional fitness, because almost all exercises force lots of different muscles to work together as a unit (like in “real” life situations). They are also capable of eliminating muscular misbalances, tension (especially those in your neck) and their negative after- and side-effects (e.g. headaches). By including several muscle groups simultaneously kettlebell exercises are very demanding and, thereby, improve your cardiovascular system and increases fat burning as well. Those exercises also improve your endurance and “equip” you with enormous strength without you bulking up too much.

The swinging parts of the exercises are especially good at activating and strengthening your rear kinetic chain which is needed for a trouble-free power transmission from your lower to your upper body (important for walking, dancing, stair climbing and so on). The rear kinetic chain is often a very weak part of the body for white collar workers which is an explanation why this group often suffers back pain and a tense neck. Another big advantage of a strong rear kinetic chain is that it normally comes hand in hand with a well-shaped crispy butt.

Vulnerable joints (like knees, shoulders, hips) benefit from exercising with kettlebells, too. The motion keeps them smooth and the muscles around them get stronger and can protect them better. The only critical aspect of kettlebell training is that you have to be very careful in the beginning! You shouldn’t start using higher weights until you are able to perform every exercise perfectly with a “lighter” kettlebell. The risk of injuries is high if you have a bad posture during the exercise (especially if your back isn’t straight). You should never forget that the “impact” on your body is not only caused by the weight of the kettlebell but also by the kinetic energy generated by the ballistic movements, which can be much stronger. Which if performed right, is capable of increasing the effectiveness, but could lead to serious injuries in case of mishandling.

Nevertheless, you should realise that the advantages of kettlebell training far outweigh its disadvantages (the only “real” disadvantage could be eliminated easily by learning the right techniques; and they are not that complicated).

The book “The LLA-Method – How to get really healthy, fit and sexy for a lifetime Part II: Strength and Cardio Training” will be available as ebook at Amazon.in from the 21st 2013 for Rs. 240 (list price).

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The newly installed exercise equipment call Sibley HealthBeat.

Mankato’s first outdoor fitness system will promote health and wellness in a city park at no cost.

Equipment includes cardio stepper, squat press, ab crunch and leg lift and many others.

Mayo Clinic Health System was a partner in the project granting 35-thousand dollars to make it a reality.

Sibley HealthBeat aligns with the city of Mankato’s strategic plan to promote a healthy, safe and livable community.

“Don’t get obsessed with the diet and workout. Get obsessed with the science,” says sports science specialist and Sexy Solutions fitness consultant Edward Mendez. If he were an app, he’d be the Instamotivator, because throughout our chat he just kept churning out gems like this –– words that deserve to be plastered on top of a good photo and regrammed 1,000 times for the fitness-, exercise- and diet-obsessed to see.

Edward is also a model and an actor, but his passion is nutrition and fitness. He has worked with various celebrities in achieving their fitness goals, including Vicki Belo and Cristalle Henares, Atom Henares, Lui Villaruz, Lorenzo Mara, Tim Yap and Raymond Gutierrez. What makes him a good motivator is that he is as passionate about talking about fitness as he is living it. You can ask him anything about diet and exercise and he will have a perfectly quotable response that he would always, later on, back up with science. It’s a gift that he makes good use of through his Twitter account, where he posts tips and trivia on fitness, as well as in his upcoming book, Your Dream Body Come True, which will be out later this year. His experience in training athletes and helping them recover from injuries while he was still in the States, as well as working with his father, has given him all the material he needs. Here, he works with patients undergoing treatment at Sexy Solutions and helps them achieve their goals through proper nutrition and exercise, on top of writing and taping his launching movie, which will also be out by the end of the year.

“The book is going to be released a month after my movie is released, hopefully this coming December. It’s my launching movie so might as well come out with a launching book. I had to get in shape for that movie, too. I found out last January that we had to start filming –– right after the holidays! Ninety-percent of the movie I don’t have a shirt on, so I had to do my own mini-transformation. I had only a month to prepare,” said Edward. “But I already have the understanding of the science, and the muscle memory that I had created from my past transformations made it very easy. The great thing is this can apply to everyone,” he added.

Fitness has been Edward’s passion since he was 14, when he first picked up the dumbbells. “My shallow motivation then was to impress the girls, I was being bullied because I was very skinny, I was always the weakest one in the gym. But when I discovered that it was really what I loved to do, I decided to take it more seriously,” he said. “When I was younger, I thought it was more about putting a lot of hours in the gym and eating less –– I didn’t have the knowledge. I had to unlearn everyone I’ve absorbed from magazines and I did have a lot of failures.” It is through these failures, a continuous process of trial and error, that he gained enough practical knowledge and experience to write Your Dream Body Come True. He said his first transformation was when he saw his abs for the first time: “I thought I would never see them, ever!” Since then fitness has been both a passion and obsession for Edward. Here he shares some of the myths, facts and tips that he’s encountered in his journey to his ideal physique –– some of them are explained in detail in his upcoming book. For now, he dishes out some food for thought –– non-fattening and easy-to-digest, just for you.

FACT: “No pain, no gain” is the type of belief that can really go against your goal.

Exercise is a form of stress and when you put your body under a lot of stress, you produce a lot of hormones called cortisol. When you put too much stress on your body by working out in the gym for hours, you don’t really improve, you actually destroy your body. The improvement of your body comes after going to the gym –– when it repairs with sleep and nutrition. My philosophy is that it should be 30 percent training, 70 percent nutrition.

I go to the gym for 30 to 40 minutes. I spend more time in the kitchen preparing my own food, though I’m already at that point when I can afford to eat whatever I want because I already built the foundation for my body. When you go through my diet for a 90-day period, it becomes a fat-burning machine. It just instinctively understands that even bad foods can be good at certain times –– you can eat “bad foods” depending on the time of the day because your body behaves differently in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night. So in my book, I explain how you can eat what you normally would avoid.

MYTH: Lifting weights will make you look like a bodybuilder.

Men and women are biologically different. The common myth for women is that when you lift weights, you get muscular and bulky. This is almost impossible because women produce 90 percent estrogen and only a minor percentage of testosterone –– it’s the other way around for men. Testosterone is responsible for giving us the bulky, muscular look over time when men lift heavy weights. Women do not get the same result –– they will only get a tight, fit body.

The reason many women are finding it difficult to lose weight or getting back in shape is because, over time, they start losing muscle. A pound of muscle can burn 70 calories even when you’re doing nothing. The more muscles you have, the more fat you burn. Resistance training is the only way to go.

FACT: You can get away with eating sugary foods at a specific time during the day.

Sugary foods, burgers –– you can eat them, pretty much anything that you enjoy. I also recommend people who follow my program to have a cheat day, which I prefer to call a “reward day.” On this day, your body will not store any fat at all because you’ve upgraded your body into a fat burning machine and you have all these muscles to handle this cheat day.

Even on non-cheat days, you can still eat sugary foods, because you can use sugar to burn fat. After workout, your body is depleted of lycogen, which is a fuel that comes from carbohydrates, you have a one-hour window to eat sugary foods, combined with protein and other nutrients, and that sugar will cause a spike of insulin. Normally, when you eat sugary food at other times of a day, insulin levels can shoot up so high that it just transports all these carbohydrates into your fat cells and this is the main cause of fat gain: sugar, not fat. After a workout, the body will prioritize refueling your muscles regardless of how sugary the food is.

MYTH: You cannot overeat and then try to make up for it by overexercising.

You can’t compensate for overeating by not eating for the rest of the day or the next day, and then going on a three- or four-hour marathon on the treadmill. That does not work, because when the damage is done, it’s done. You can’t undo it. Just move on and eat healthy the next day.

FACT: Stop counting calories –– start choosing your calories.

It’s not about the number of calories you consume in a day; it’s about what makes up these calories. If you’re consuming 1,000 calories per day, you’re creating a deficit, however, if that 1,000 calories is composed mainly of fat and carbs and low protein, you will still gain fats. If you’re consuming 2,000 calories, but it’s balanced –– they come from whole wheat bread, brown rice, lean protein like chicken and beef, omega-3, omega-6, then you have a greater chance of losing fat easily. It’s about quality over quantity.

FACT: A workout is not a marathon.

It’s common practice to go to the gym for hours and just focus on one area. I used to do this too, when I didn’t know any better. When you work out the same muscle area every day, you destroy your tissues every day. You’re not giving it time to recuperate. You’re wounding yourself and then it gets a scab and then you keep picking that scab. It is a waste of time. In the gym, it’s all about damage. Do as much damage as you can in the shortest amount of time and then grow, repair and improve outside –– with sleep, with the proper nutrition, protein, vitamin A, minerals and so on.

I work the whole upper body one day, and the lower body another day, alternately. This is called periodization. I just do 40 to 45 minutes per session and then on other days, I do cardio –– 30 minutes max of very intense cardio. I never pace myself because pacing yourself for two to three hours on the treadmill doesn’t work. It’s not about the duration, it’s about the intensity.

FACT: Choose your activities wisely and align them with your fitness goals.

Here’s an example: There are two different types of runners, the long-distance runner and the sprinter. Depending on your goals for your body, you have to be very picky about what type of exercise or what type of running you’ll be doing. If you like to run for 10k, 20k for fun, that’s great. But if you want to not burn muscles and build a tight physique, you have to limit your running.

FACT: Building leg muscles will help you burn more fat.

Henry Cavill, Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth look great because of their symmetry –– the evenness of their muscles. Some people are so big but they have small legs. It’s all about symmetry. Most guys like to work out their upper body, but don’t work out their legs. But the thing is, even for women, leg workouts can actually burn fat the fastest and the most. For guys, if they want to gain muscle, they have to work out their legs because the legs increase the growth hormone in testosterone. The leg muscle group is the largest combined muscle group. The larger the muscle group you work out, the greater the increase in the growth hormones in testosterone. For women, when that growth hormone is increased, they burn fat really fast.

FACT: Yoga is recreation, not exercise.

Yoga, pilates and all those other activities are not really exercises. They’re more like recreation. Yoga is a complementary recreation to going to the gym, but it’s not something that you should rely on to shape your body.

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At the core of Edward’s fitness philosophy are common sense and science. “You may be a little chubby or a little too skinny, but you can still renovate your body, reprogram your body, using nutrition and proper training, and having self-belief and having the intelligence. Intelligence comes first, discipline comes second when it comes to fitness. A lot of people have the discipline to diet but they lack the common sense,” he said. Through his book, he hopes to equip readers with the right knowledge to help them achieve their fitness goals as well as set the facts straight on diet and exercise.  He adds, “Not only will you physically change, but your mental healthy will also propel to another level. That’s my goal –– not just to help people get in shape but to also somewhat change their lives. The transformation is life-changing, and it’s a good story to tell.”

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Sexy Solutions has branches in Medical Plaza, Makati, High Street Central at The Fort, and II Terrazo in Tomas Morato. For more information, call 810-SEXY(7399) or visit sexysolutions.com.ph.

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