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A workout at Curves is full of resistance training, cardio
A: Curves, a fitness chain with more than 10,000 locations in 44 countries, has been fabulously successful in getting middle-aged, previously inactive women to the gym. According to the company’s Web site (www.curves.com), it serves more than 4 million women worldwide.And it’s still growing.Clients do a 30-minute circuit workout that combines cardio with resistance training on hydraulic weights. Unlike typical weight machines, the hydraulic machines don’t have plates or weights. "The faster and harder you work the equipment, the more the resistance," says Bonnie Barczykowski, who owns six Curves franchises in the St. Louis area.Everyone uses the same machines; there are no adjustments. Each exerciser spends 30 seconds on each machine; as she gets stronger, she will do repetitions more quickly, and as she does that the resistance will increase."We have women who need load-bearing exercise, maybe a 75-year-old with osteoporosis, and she can get the very best workout for her," Barczykowski says.
Exercise fights host of mental woes, experts say
What if one therapy could help ward off addiction, depression, stress and even Alzheimer's, all the while keeping you slim and feeling great? That mental-health "treatment" is as close as your own two feet exercise. "Exercise improves blood flow to the brain, it helps the body detoxify, it puts you on a better cycle of physical behavior, and it leads to decreased stress. It also improves thinking and mental function and decreases your tendency toward addiction," said Dr. Marc Siegel, an internist at New York University Medical Center and an associate professor of medicine at the NYU School of Medicine in New York City. With each new study, experts are getting a better understanding of the intimate connection between health of the body and that of the mind. And exercise the body's key method of staying healthy appears to be crucial to mental health, too.
Move, Move, Move For Greater Weight Loss
Incidental activity is very important in the process of losing weight as you can burn more calories than relying on dietary means alone. Fat is burned from the body when cells oxidize to release energy in the form of exercise or movement. When the exercise is done slowly to moderately then the majority of energy is taken from the fat stores. The loss of fat comes from fat cells all over the body, not from one or more specific area's so spot reduction of a certain area is not possible. The main priority of this article is to show you the quickest and safest way to lose fat from the body. The key to effective aerobic training that burns off the maximum amount of fat is long-term consistency not intensity. It doesn't matter if you run a mile, jog a mile or walk a mile you will burn exactly the same amount of calories.
GAA: Cardio health will be the main focus of initiative
A health questionnaire will be issued, through clubs, to players across the country and any irregularities will result in a medical examination.
The move comes almost three years after Tyrone captain Cormac McAnallen`s sudden death from an undetected heart condition.
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