By: Ricky

Be number one with yourself
Today, television screens dish up sports bacon sizzling hot. Speed merchants zip across on winged feet. Tennis tycoons serve aces with pungent power. Swimmers splice and explode through water like turbopowered fish at an Olympic meet. It’s not just sport, but life out there, as superhumans battle for records and recognition. Medels hang around athletic necks trumpeting the triumphant Number One note.
The message in those medals is for every one of us. Fitness is round the corner, just a few calories away. Fitness echoes its muscular melody from the pulse of our wrists. It’s time to grab at the medals of health and stand firm and strong on the pedestal of life. There is as much satisfaction in being Number One with oneself.
We are all born with our quota of fat cells. They are the constant factor that keep us from being honed down to our skeletal skin-and-bone selves. In times of famine, they provide energy. But, on the other hand, we needn’t act like famine is eternally dogging our heels. There’s no need for that surplus fat to be stored.
if you’re into a sedentary lifestyle, change it. Here’s what happens when you don’t exercise. Since you are not burning off enough calories, those ever accommodating cells spread and store the excess fat. But unlike a tanked-up ship that sails the sea to use its fuel, you don’t. On the other hand, a grounded ship would rust and if you continue to fill its tank with fuel, it will overflow. That’s exactly what happens to an overeating, non exercising human. The overflow is the unseemly bulge. The rust is seen in different ways – tiredness, not looking forward to the day, low spirits, poor health.
But then, aren’t fat people jolly folk always laughing at everything including themselves? Except for a few, most get into the ha-ha sphere because that’s the only way they can cope.
Group therapies have shown that almost all fat people admit to putting on a facade. What they are doing, in essence, is switching on a self-defence mechanism. By laughing at themselves, they pre-empt the jokes against them by others. Their laughter is their fortress.
Psychologists have discovered that many overweight people are so due to various insecurities plaguing them. They eat to satisfy a certain gnawing emptiness inside.
The feeling of emptiness could be due to some vaguely perceived, but not entirely understood, unfulfilled desires. It could be for larger things – like identity, or creative satisfaction, power, for a meaningful role in society, or for recognition.
In Attitudes, a television programme, two fat women admitted that they deliberately put on weight to get attention. One said, “Every time I overeat and gain inches, my husband buys me a new dress.”
In short, the hunger is not for food. It may sound like a peculiar reason to remain fat, but insecurity is the biggest plague of modern times. Sometimes such people go in for crash diets, with, predictably, no or very little effect. They find themselves getting increasingly snappish and moody. They feel deprived and let down. They even feel that they were happier when they were fat. So it’s back to food and more food to put the laughter back in their lives. Or so they feel.
What fat people need is fire in their minds. A strong, powerful self-image that grips them and makes them lay less emphasis on food and appearance. It’s when the self-image takes over insecurity that they will find the motivation to get into fitness.
The best way to break this vicious cycle is to start exercising. This feeds the fire in the mind and makes them eat less, starting a more fulfilling cycle. As they burn more calories than what they take in, witness what happens in the body: The nervous, endocrine and circulatory systems function smoothly together as a team and release fat for energy. The nervous system jets out fat from the cells, the circulatory system picks it up and carries it to the liver. The liver converts it into energy which in turn is used by the muscles. The result: loss of weight. Simultaneously, muscles get strengthened and the person feels tauter and healthier.
This way, the self-image gets a boost. And as the Number One feeling grows, the world seems a brighter, more secure place. The message is complete. For, a healthy life itself is a medal.
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By: Ruff Raun
Trying to achieve a truly complete full body workout that will enable the exerciser to get the maximum results in the least amount of time, is a matter of quality intense repetitions with accurate natural movement and resistance.
Men and women alike can benefit from an intense, fatburning, muscle building workout that Iv’e been benefiting from for the past 35 years now and can produce tremendous results for a serious fitness program.
I, like most people, am strapped for time and always have been, so whats a person to do if they want to have an productive, healthy, physical workout and don’t have two hours to spend at a health club. I was a member for almost 15 years at The Chicago Health Club (Ballys total fitness).
The regimen relied on a continuous, non stop, progressive muscle group rotation workout and as Bally’s popularity grew, so did the crowds, preventing me from being able to effectively use the system that was working out really well for me. I ended up quiting and it would only cost me $50.00 a year for life. Instead I’ve been using a workout program that duplicates the one I started using in the 70′s and still use to this day.
The introduction of the Nautilus machines was the best thing that happened for me as far as my fitness goals were concerned back in 1973 when I first joined Bally’s. I was using free weight just like everyone else but really felt so much better if I was able to get an intense nonstop routine going and usually there was some sort of waiting around for the proper weights, so the Nautilus full body non-stop regimen was perfect and allowed a very beneficial workout in only one hour.
Most peoples fitness goals are to achieve the best possible physical shape and are’nt looking to accumulate large amounts of muscle mass or to be super ripped. But, you can’t help but get ripped with this regimen that produces a complete uniformed healthy looking, attractive physique while enhancing strength, flexibility and stamina.
The key to the success of this regimen is the non-stop continuous full body muscle group rotation, consisting of three sets of ten reps of each muscle group. Once you begin, there is no resting between sets and when done correctly, the muscle building affects will be noticable on each rep. This is an intense workout and isn’t recommended for the unconditioned body so be sure you have conditioned yourself for a week or so before you apply this but the benefits are worth it.
Once a person has been involved in this regimen for some time and have finally got the weight and shape they have been desiring, it now has become a smaller task of staying in shape, instead of the grueling task of getting in shape. I personally only need 45 minutes, three days a week to stay in shape. Don’t overtax yourself with more than an hour of this regimen. Start out with one upper body set (chest, arms, or shoulders, etc.), and immediately after, do a lower body set ( abs, legs, or buttocks, etc.) and keep rotating the muscle groups until finished. Don’t forget to always apply some cardio into the regimen.
I also do at least two different type of exercises for each muscle group to insure a complete full sculpted result. For instance, arm routines consist of three bicep and three tricep sets.
By the way, all your workouts should include at least 10 minutes of cardio and always warmup and stretch before you begin.
Since the Nautilus type equipment provided the proper movement and resistance, copying the same effective routine only made sense, so I am deploying a resistance band workout with all the bands, handles and strategically anchored bands ready to go for a non-stop, intense, fat burning, muscle building, body shaping, and short and simple workout regimen.
When performed properly with good posture and resistance, you can feel the effects hours afterwards and will notice a physical transformation in about two to three weeks and a significant change in about a month, depending on your workout ethics and commitment.
No fitness program is complete unless there is a good nutritional diet plan involved.
This is also excellent for the ladies. Most women don’t want to build muscle mass, so use less resistance and apply more reps and watch the pounds come off while you build your strength and get the shape you are desiring.
You can transform your body if you do this on a consistant basis, gauranteed.
An entire exact workout kit will be available in early 2008, including video and all necessary bands, handles and anchor setup.
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