Just Keep Swimming, Swimming, Swimming
March 29, 2009 by admin
Filed under Featured, Fitness for Beginners
When sports players are recovering from injuries, they are often put through training that involves spending time in the swimming pool. There are a few good reasons behind this – first of all, it provides support and soothing for recovering muscles. But just as importantly the water provides them with resistance, which is excellent for building up muscles and making the sportsman (or woman) more ready to return to the competition field. If you have ever broken a major bone, you will have had to wear a plaster cast. When that cast comes off, the muscles in the area appear wasted and dead – without a lot of exercise they just will not be the same as they were.
Dos and Donts of Physical Fitness
March 29, 2009 by admin
Filed under Featured, Fitness Exercises
Do make sure that you warm up before any round of exercise and down afterwards. If you fail to prepare with a good warm up you may well find that you tweak a muscle pretty early on and are unable to exercise for days or even weeks afterwards. Fail to warm down and you’ll feel stiff. Either way, it’s counter productive
Don’t Start Something and Not Finish It
March 29, 2009 by admin
Filed under Featured, Fitness Tips
New Year’s Resolutions – did you make one this year? Have you stuck to it? For most people, the answers to those questions are, in order, “yes†and “noâ€. Just doing something at an arbitrary time defined by tradition is absolutely no way to govern your life. All it means is that you are choosing something, often at random, to complicate your life at a time when things may well be stressful enough already. The New Year may be a good point to decide on making a New You, but the truth is that unless you are ready, you will be more likely to set off with good intentions and then fail to keep to them.
