Don't Get Fooled By False Fitness Facts ! Know How

We get exposed to fitness facts and dietary advice every now and then. Apparently, on a daily basis if I am not wrong. Just so you know, the relationship between nutrition choice and the impact of  non identical choices on  health cannot always be inferred spot on without uncertainty. What do I mean? I mean if you've read somewhere that you need to have 8 glasses of water every day no mater what, I would say that's not the case for everyone. Let's find out what do researchers and nutrition scientists base their conclusive opinions on and no I 'm not talking about the tests conducted on lab rats.

The Zero Calorie Cooking Spray

Zero Calories? Haven't you heard of the non-stick cooking sprays? Even though they are not conveniently available everywhere, it's not that difficult to have one for yourself especially with grocery shopping apps at your very disposal. In case you still don't know, a non stick cooking spray is a cooking alternative for oil. Manufacturers call it a Zero calorie non stick spray. Isn't that great for fat loss aspirants? Why wait? Go get one now. Hold back! Read this before you get one for yourself.

Amateur's Guide : What to know when you're on a fat loss program?

Are you looking for a fat loss program? Are you scouting out for someone to hand it over to you? Are you already following a program that isn't responding well with the desired results? Oh, that's too many questions. Put the questions aside, let's find out what goes behind designing an effective fat loss program. This post shall help you plan from scratch and even rectify your own fat loss journey.

Working Out for Fat Loss - At Home vs At The Gym

Why go for a gym membership when you can already do everything at home? Working out at home sounds and feels so easy that almost anyone who is looking forward to address some fitness goal cannot but show an increased propensity towards starting it all at home. Is this approach strategically flawed? Does getting fit mandate a gym or health club membership? How do you actually figure out what suits you the best? 

Human Anatomy : Part 2 : Posture and Movement

Sit up straight. Don't slouch your shoulders. Don't slump against the wall. Wonder what's going on? Well, here's something we have been hearing since our childhood and something that we are going to tell our younger ones to be careful with. If you happen to be a gym going guy, you would probably know how important it is to maintain a proper posture in order to perform different physical exercises. A negative arch in the back while performing dead-lifts and retracted shoulders when performing pectoral press or fly movements are customary.  Let's dig into this anatomically.

Human Anatomy : Part 1 : Basic Location Terminology

Whether we realize it or not, our body is the most precious resource of all we've got here around us. Studying the nature of our body and it's composition is not limited to shaping careers of medical aspirants, nevertheless it also delivers insight on proper functioning of our body and helps better understand potential threats in the environment. No, you need not be a doctor to know the basics. Let's start with fundamentals of human anatomy and see how well you find yourself grasping the things.

Emg Activity : Visible Muscle Activation

Ever wondered how workout plans get designed to target various muscle groups? How does your trainer prescribe different exercises for different muscles? Wait! Is that even a valid question? You feel it in your muscles when you exercise, don't you? Of course, but how do we know which exercise would better target a given muscle group when comparing two or more exercises of the same kind? Is there a way to visualize muscle activation in real time? Read more to know how an EMG can capture muscle activity.

CPR- Life Saver Technique

Chest compression and mouth to mouth breathing is something that everyone is familiar with. Though, this has been portrayed in a plenty of movies yet it is not as simple as it looks. Be it the Jurassic Park where Dr. Grant delivers chest compression and rescue breathing to the unconscious kid, Tim or the climax scene of The Avengers that shows the revival of Iron Man just by a roar of the Hulk, movies have never failed to render practicality with added speculation. Learn the actual process and then decide how far from reality are these movies. 

Types of Skeletal Muscles : Slow Twitch vs Fast Twitch

Ever wondered while curling the dumbbells, what kind of muscle was getting deployed to aid that movement? Lay aside bicep curls, how many of us verily knew that even muscles could be of different types? The overall classification isn't just based on a single parameter but a bunch of characteristics (size, color, speed, force, energy holding capacity) pertaining to muscle fiber. Keep reading and today we shall concern ourselves with our muscles in particular. 

Measuring Body Fat Percentage

What do you generally do to track your fat loss progression? Haven't you been stepping on the same outmoded weighing scale each time? Only if you knew that your body weight is the combined effect of the amount of fat on your body and the amount of lean tissue you possess, you would know that you don't really get an estimate of the body fat simply by weighing yourself. Here are 4 common methods that measure body fat composition.

what is sugar free?

Sugar has earned a bad reputation and this is no longer a news. Who doesn't know about the ill-effects sugar consumption has been linked to for years? Diabetes, the first in order problem is tied to a string of many serious health complications including heart disease, obesity etc. A lot of people have been using sugar free sweeteners specially on medical prescriptions but hardly do they know what's inside. Read through this post and we shall be discussing on how safe and effective these sugar substitutes are.

Cholesterol. How big is the problem?

Cholesterol has long been regarded as a potential threat to our vitality. It is often linked to heart related problems and is known to afflict people with atherosclerosis (stiff blood vessels) resulting in obstruction of blood flow. Not everyone knows that despite having earned a bad name , the bad cholesterol also has a good counterpart called good cholesterol. Let us unearth some facts and try to gain an insight on how big the problem is actually.

What is Blood Pressure?

The whole world knows and talks about high and low blood pressure. More than 10 million cases of high blood pressure get reported in the country every year and this figure only adds up to the ever increasing estimate of hypertension patients. Though, blood pressure stays to be an important concern for the society, it's not very surprising that a large section of the population is not even good at reading and interpreting their blood pressure test reports.

Crunches, Sit Ups? How To Reduce Abdominal Fat?

Abdominal fat or Belly fat is perhaps the biggest fitness related issue around the world today. No one wants a rounded belly but surprisingly not everyone is ready to do the needful and those who are already into getting rid of it are deluded and misled by some opportunist. This post is not about how to lose fat and become fit within weeks but after reading this you will definitely be better informed on what all it takes to get fit from fat.

Diabetes : Type 1 and Type 2. Are You At Risk?

Have a look around, think of all the families you know, it is undeniably out of question that you would find one with neither blood pressure issues  nor diabetes. These terms have become so common that we keep hearing it every other day. The JDRF highlights that over 371 million people are affected by diabetes worldwide. We do not want to be counted in. Do we?

Do you know your Heart?

Our body is really amazing or else how could it be so simple to look at and so complex to understand. Undeterred of the complexity involved, we have managed to discover a lot about ourselves.Our heart is the one we are going to take in account for this discussion.After all it is the most hardworking muscle which is active even when you're asleep.

Carbohydrates: All about them

Carbohydrates are the most puzzling and mysterious ones when we talk about macro-nutrients. The fact that most people are seen talking Fats and Proteins don't very often bring Carbs in discussion establishes the obscurity of the topic.Here, I have tried to throw some light on the topic to clear the gloom.

Digestion : What happens to the food after we eat them?

At the outset , we eat for taste and essentially energy.The former somehow exists for the procurement of the later. but one cannot overlook the influence of either.If not for taste and flavor, neither salt would be salty nor sugar sweet.The sense of smell in conjunction with feeling of taste triggers the salivary glands and aids the onset of food digestion process.Ruling out taste from the discourse, we will talk about food for energy.

Understanding Micro-Nutrients

As already discussed, now we know that micro-nutrients were named so owing to their requirement in our diet in really small quantities as compared to macro-nutrients. 

Nutrients Simplified

To start with a language you must be aware of the letters and alphabets used in composition.Consider nutrition to be as basic a concept to fitness as letters and alphabets are to a language. That said, nutrients present in the food give it some nutritional value. For an adequate growth and a better life expectancy you are required to habituate a proper intake of nutrients on a daily basis.