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Stomach Exercises: Crunchless Crunch

Once you learn it, the Crunchless Crunch is one of the easiest exercises you will ever do. It is surprisingly effective at flattening the transverse abdominus. There is a bit of a learning curve, as the way this exercise requires you to move your body is probably quite different than what you are used to. Most exercises focus on big movements, but the Crunchless Crunch ...

Belly dancing for depression

We’ve talked before about the health benefits of belly dancing as a form of exercise: it burns a surprising amount of calories per hour, strengthens your core and even helps to improve your sense of well-being and positivity. This article focuses more tightly on the emotional healing you can experience through belly dancing. No, belly dancing is not a magic cure for depression. It does ...

Stomach Exercises: Seated Torso Twist

Achieving a flat, toned belly is notoriously difficult because there are so many muscles in that area that need to be worked, and because fat must be burned before the defined muscles can be seen. There are a number of exercises that can help you tone those muscles specially. The Seated Torso Twist is one such exercise, which focuses on both the abdominal muscles and ...

A basic understanding of Reiki

Various forms of alternative medicine have risen in popularity in the last few decades, just as our stress levels have risen as well. This is no coincidence: since removing stress from our lives seems to be a rare option indeed, more and more people are looking for ways to relieve the stress they experience as part of their modern daily lives. Drugs and alcohol, our ...

7 essential weight loss tips

Society puts enormous pressure on people to lose weight. Even slim people often think they are overweight because the pressure is so pervasive and so lacking perspective. We hear all sorts of tabloid lies about how to lose weight. We hear about dangerous fad diets that are supposed to take off lots of pounds in just a couple of weeks. We read about wafer-thin celebrities ...

Dance to Your Health

One of the easiest ways to incorporate regular exercise into your busy schedule is with dance. Dancing doesn’t require leaving your home. You don’t have to join a gym. You don’t have to wear special clothes, though you can if you like. All you need is some music and a little time alone. Some of the great advantages of simply dancing around the house any ...

3 Stretching Exercises To Relieve Back Pain

Stretching exercises are a great way to relieve and prevent back pain. Stress and sitting or standing all day puts pressure on the spine, compressing the vertebrae so that nerves get pinched. This back strain can lead not only to immediate discomfort, but long term back problems as well that could even require surgery. Post-op recovery for back surgeries requires two to four months of ...

6 Poor Stomach Exercise Habits

The stomach is a notoriously difficult part of the body to get into shape. This is partly because there are several muscle groups that must be worked, and a routine has to cover every one to be effective. But it is also partly because of some simple mistakes many of us make when trying to do these exercises. These mistakes can render the exercises ineffective, ...

What is BMI?

You have probably heard about BMI, but do you really understand what it is? It is simply a way to measure your body’s mass and comparing it to your height to determine whether you are over or under weight. At its simplest, BMI works like charts you may have seen at a doctor’s office, listing the optimum weight range for certain heights and genders. Far ...

Stomach Exercises to Work off Love Handles

We have instructions for a lot of great stomach exercises around here – exercises that really target the abdominal muscles you need to work in order to get a flat, toned stomach. But you may be disappointed at the results these exercises have on your “love handles.” These deposits of fat collect on your sides, down by your waist, at the external oblique muscles, and ...

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