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Benefits of Healing Meditation

You’re probably already familiar with the concept of meditation and its ability to relieve stress and make you happier. Meditation can also help you improve your health. State of mind Meditation teaches us to put aside all the distractions and interruptions of life and focus clearly. Practiced consistently, it helps us gain overall better clarity of mind and a feeling of inner peace. Meditation also ...

Jazz as Dance

In its early days, jazz dance was seen as a bit wild and uncouth – not for respectable society. This was fine, since jazz itself wasn’t yet getting the respect it deserved either. Jazz clubs were off the beaten path, less well known than other types of dance halls. For some time, jazz music and dance remained underground, except in a few cities such as ...

Irish Step Dancing

Looking for something completely different? Irish step dancing can provide you one serious cardio workout while also being a lot of fun. Irish dance takes a great deal of concentration, so if you’re the type who feels bored to tears by the thought of one more minute on the elliptical, this could be just what you need. Yes, we are talking about what you’ve seen ...

Losing your belly: the whole picture

The abdomen is a very difficult area to lose weight. If you’re trying to lose fat from that area, you have a lot of work ahead of you. Everyone’s got a solution: take this pill, do this new type of crunch, follow this exercise program, and you’ll lose that weight, they promise. The truth is, it takes more than one approach to lose stubborn belly ...

6 Questions to Ask When Selecting Your Sports Medicine Doctor

People tend to ask a lot of questions when making a major purchase, but not so many when choosing doctors. There’s no reason to be less choosy about someone who’s going to advise you on treatment for your body than you are about a new washing machine. In fact, given that the washing machine is replaceable and your body is not, it should almost be ...

How does Weightlifting Increase Muscle Size?

You know that weight lifting makes you muscles grow, get harder and become more defined. Have you ever wondered just how it goes that? What exactly is happening physiologically when you lift weights? What weightlifting could do for a person was understood long before anyone knew how it worked. Using opposing forces to work muscles harder made muscles more capable. Not making muscles work caused ...

Competitive Weight Lifting

Weightlifting is a great adjunct to any physical fitness routine. Because it builds muscle, which burns more calories than fat burns, weightlifting raises your resting metabolism. This means you’ll burn more calories than you used to, even just sitting around. Additionally, weightlifting strengthens bones to help prevent osteoporosis and promote good joint health. Weightlifting as a sport Weightlifting is also a competitive sport – probably ...

Lose Your Belly by Improving Your Posture

We’ve all been hearing it since childhood: stand up straight. Sit up straight. Don’t slouch! You may have thought it was all about appearance when you were young, but it’s actually to do with health. Standing and sitting up straight takes pressure off your joints and in particular your neck, helping to prevent chronic problems down the line. But it also takes pressure off internal ...

Proper Treatment for Sports Injuries

Whenever you incur a sports-related injury, you need to assess how quickly it needs to be seen by a doctor, or if it even needs to. Getting the proper treatment in a timely fashion is crucial to good healing. Some injuries need immediate attention and can’t wait for your sports doctor’s next available appointment. Others can wait a few days, but no longer. Yet other ...

Aikido basics

Morihei Ueshiba synthesized his own martial arts studies, religious beliefs and philosophy into the discipline of Aikido. The idea behind Aikido is to be able to defend yourself fully, but avoid injuring your opponent. It uses your attacker’s energy and momentum to strengthen your own moves, so that very little strength is actually required from you. Aikido is highly spiritual or philosophical. It eschews brute ...

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