Exercise Habits And Weight Control

Any exercise that circulates the blood through the heart improves fitness. Any vigorous physical activity will make your heart stronger and pump more blood, delivering more oxygen to the body.

This in itself will enable you to feel a definite difference in the way you feel, with more energy and endurance, less stiff and agile, and able to participate in activities that didn't even seem possible before.

If you don't include exercise into your diet program the chances of you controling your weight are not to good. Losing weight is only part of the equation, you need to be fit, free of heart straining problems (stronger heart).

In order to give yourself the best chance of making exercise a part of your lifestyle, you need to find the type of workouts or physical activities that you look forward to. Do the kind of workouts that will have the most effect on the areas of concern.

At the start of your fitness plan you will want to implement more cardiovascular type workouts than the resistance type. Cardio will burn more calories, which is what you want in the beginning before you start to build muscle. The amount of calories being burned will depend on how vigorous the workout routines are.

If you have been following your exercise program regularly and your losing weight, you are now in a position to take your workout program to the next step.

As a general rule, the first few weeks of your fitness program should be mostly cardio type workouts since you are still at the stage of burning as many calories as possible. 20% resistance and 80% cardio at the start can now be moved to 30% resistance and 70% cardio, provided you are getting positive results.

After sometime, your exercise program should have progressed to the point where you are now at your desired weight and now your at 40% cardio workouts and 60% resistance training. You can now decide on the shape you want, simply by adjusting the cardio and resistance to determine how much fat loss or muscle you want.

If you fianally have reached your weight loss goals and think you want to start building some muscle to get that cut look, you will be including up to 80% resistance training and only 20% cardio. Almost 50 minutes of bodybuilding (resistance training) would go into a one hour workout and ten towards cardio.

In order for your workouts to have fitness conditioning results with heart strenghtening, weight loss or body building, they must be somewhat intense and done on a regular basis with long enough workouts or physical activity (Don't over do it, especially in the beginning).

Here are a some examples of cardio type activities: Speed walking, jogging, hiking, running in place, calisthenics, aerobics, swimming, biking, etc. Get your heart pumping faster and your doing cardio.

People of all ages can benefit from exercise. Research has shown that exercise can strenghten the muscles of frail people in nursing homes. Inactivity is the biggest culprit for the elderly's physical incapabilities. Everyone needs some kind of regular physical activity to ensure your best chances of a healthy, fit aging process.

Following a good exercise and nutritional diet plan can actually increase your chances of avoiding an early death by 50% according to researchers, not to mention exercise has been found to grow brain cells in older people.

Your body taking on a nice healthy looking shape is only part of the benefits of regular exercise but your mind will benefit as well. Exercise will set loose endorphines, giving you a natural high, similar to what runners call a "runners high".

Not swaying from your fitness program is the only way insure you won't fall back into the same unhealthy condition. If you quit exercising, it's not long before all you have worked for is gone. All weight problems will return, strength and endurance will be diminished, cholesterol levels and blood pressure will also be back as though you never were involved in exercise.

Exercise is probably the closet thing to the fountain of youth and all it takes is some willingness and determination.

Hoodia Gordonii For Loosing Weight

So, Hoodia Love?

You'll be lovin' yourself more when you use Hoodia for controlling your appetite and losing the weight you want.

If what they say about this natural cactus plant is true, this might just be a miracle for millions of overweight people.

The Hoodia Gordonii plant has been in the news as a miracle cure for the overweight. ***Here's what the media's saying:

--"Imagine not being hungry all day without feeling side effects typical of diet pills, like a racing heart or queasy stomach". . .(quote from a CBS correspondent on 60 minutes)

--A drug that is going to beat fat. Hoodia will become a slimming miracle... (The Guardian. The Observer. UK)

--Bushmen Medicine to deliver breakthrough obesity remedy...(CORDIS RTD-NEWS / European Communities)

--The discovery of Hoodia's appetite-suppressing properties. Imagine this: an organic pill that kills the appetite and attacks obesity. It has no known side-effects, and contains a molecule that fools your brain into believing you are full... (BBC. UK)

--Appetite suppressing Hoodia Cactus. They have long relied on it to survive. "Hoodia is my food, my water, my medicine" - One Sanhunter said... (KOMO TV & News)

--The Magic molecule will save the west from obesity. San people of South Africa have been using for generations the Hoodia plant to successfully stop unbearable hunger and summon limitless energy, without unwanted side effects, Hoodia stops hunger and also treats sickness... (ABC, USA)

***Hoodia Gordonii is a plant that has been used by the indigenous people of the Kalahari desert as an appetite suppressant. Its main function was to quell the thirst and hunger that would affect warriors during long hunting trips. These warriors even fed their dogs slices of the plant to keep them from having interest in their food supplies. African natives still chew the leaves of the plant to stave off starvation and exhaustion.

The hoodia plant looks like a cactus even though botanically it is not a cactus, but it is often marketed as one.

Hoodia's appetite suppressant properties were only discovered about thirty years ago. The South African Council was looking for indigenous plants that could be a source of food. Among the plants screened were Hoodia and experiments on animals confirmed the plant's ability to cause weight loss without side effects.

Hoodia gordonii is very rare and is protected by national conservation laws in South Africa and Namibia. It can only be collected or grown with a permit. This is why it is so expensive.

Author: Francis Adam, http://www.weightlossdoctor.org/