http://simplybalancedhealth.com Motivation For Your Mind, Body and Soul Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:29:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Who doesn’t want to have a six-pack of firm abdominal muscles? A fit body can be best represented by a display of well defined abdominal muscles and part of the reason why this is associated with fitness, apart from the obvious sexy look of good abs is the fact that good ... http://simplybalancedhealth.com/2010/01/good-abdominals/ Resistance training, through the use of weights, machines, or your own body weight, forces the cells of the body to adapt to the extra loads that are being applied. The cells are broken down during this exercise process and become stronger when they are given time to recover. Unless there is sufficient ... http://simplybalancedhealth.com/2009/12/how-resistance-training-works/ Using a combination of weights and machines for training will give you the best of both worlds, with the ability of machines allowing you to use more weight under a controlled environment, and the free weights helping to stimulate the synergistic muscles for balance and control. Add to this some cardio ... http://simplybalancedhealth.com/2009/12/machines-and-weights/ There are many ways we can monitor our fitness and this is essential for a number of reasons. For most people the biggest benefit they will get from monitoring their fitness will be the encouragement they will get from seeing the progress from their efforts. There is nothing more inspiring for someone ... http://simplybalancedhealth.com/2009/12/monitoring-your-fitness/ Good nutrition is as important as the exercises we perform. By eating wisely we are assisting our body to perform better in our chosen fitness program or sport. The food we choose needs to be of high nutritional value to supply us with the necessary building blocks, in the form of vitamins ... http://simplybalancedhealth.com/2009/12/nutrition-basics/ Whether you are using resistance training, yoga, pilates, aerobic fitness training or one of the many methods to get fit and lead a healthier life there is one important ingredient that you must have and that is a personalized fitness program. No two people have the same requirements to reach their ... http://simplybalancedhealth.com/2009/12/personalized-fitness-programs/ Like Yoga there has been a vast increase in the number of people who are using Pilates as their preferred form of fitness. Once again it is the professional sports people who have helped popularize Pilates recently as they strive for a more rounded training regime that will help to reduce ... http://simplybalancedhealth.com/2009/11/pilates-for-fitness/ You need to establish a plan of attack for your training regime. Unless you know what you are going to do next, you are liable to start floundering around and miss workouts or worse still, give up altogether. The best way to decide on a training process is to prepare a program ... http://simplybalancedhealth.com/2009/11/planning-your-fitness-program/ Just as the sun can play havoc on your skin over the summer months, winter is also a time when additional care is needed to protect your skin from the extremes of the weather conditions that it will be exposed to. Often during the winter we are inside in air conditioned ... http://simplybalancedhealth.com/2009/11/winter-care-for-your-skin/ We all have the ability to make major improvements to our health and fitness but there is one thing that stops more people than anything else. It is not our genetics or the access we have to the best fitness equipment or training facilities. The thing that stops most people from getting ... http://simplybalancedhealth.com/2009/11/setting-goals/