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Women's
Fitness Exercise 6. Calf
Strengthening
These
exercises are important to women's fitness. They accentuate the curves of
your calves, strengthen your lower legs and ankle joints and increases the
flexibility of the joints. ·
Stand
straight and relaxed behind a chair with your fingers resting lightly on
the back. ·
Slowly
raise your heels off the floor as high as possible while you transfer your
weight to the balls of your feet. ·
Relax
and hold that position for about 3 seconds. ·
Slowly
ease your heels back to the floor. ·
Take
a breath. Do a set of 10 reps. Women's
Fitness Exercise 7. A Variation of
Exercise 6
·
Stand
straight and relaxed behind a chair with the balls of your feet on a piece
of board about 1/2 inch to 1 inch thick and your heels resting on the
floor. ·
Slowly
raise your heels off the floor as high as possible while you transfer your
weight to the balls of your feet. ·
Relax
and hold that position for about 3 seconds. ·
Slowly
ease your heels back to the floor. A greater stress is placed on your
calves in this exercise. Weight lifting
research has shown that women can make remarkable gains in strength and
muscle tone without developing muscular bulk, which is disliked by some
women. We assure you that women's fitness and health can benefit immensely
from female body building and without women developing bulky muscles. You
will gain the strength and a svelte figure, but not the bulky muscles. four
nutritional facts;
What
nutrients your body needs in order to attain optimal health and fitness. What
the functions of these nutrients are. Which
foods contain these nutrients. You
see, weight loss is determined by the caloric content of the food you eat
plus the number of calories your body burns as fuel. As such, you should
know not only the foods and their caloric content but also the quantities
in which they should be eaten in relation to your body type - Endomorph,
Mesomorph or Ectomorph. Therefore, a weight-loss program is very important
to anyone who wishes to lose weight. A
program that gives you not just information, but also support and guidance
when you need it is best for you. Have you ever conscientiously followed a
weight loss diet and still failed? If so, something
was missing. Dr. Gregory Ellis states; "...
dieting is only a small part of the total weight loss and weight control
equation. Without the rest of the pieces in the equation, all plans are
doomed." The something
that is missing is point #4 above. That must be the support and
guidance you get with the proper weight loss program. WEIGHT
MANAGEMENT Many
Americans view a healthy lifestyle as something difficult to attain--and
something that's not much fun. Traditional diets have taught us that to
lose weight, we must count calories, keep track of everything we eat, and
deprive ourselves by limiting the amount--and kinds--of foods we eat.
Diets tell us exactly what and how much food to eat, regardless of our
preferences and individual relationships with hunger and satiety. Dieting
can help us lose weight (fat, muscle, and water) in the short term but is
so unnatural and so unrealistic that it can never become a lifestyle that
we can live with, let alone enjoy! While
very few diets teach healthy low-fat shopping, cooking, and dining-out
strategies, many offer unrealistic recommendations and encourage
health-threatening restrictions. Even more important, diets don't teach us
the safest, most effective ways to exercise; they don't teach us how to
deal with our cravings and our desires, or how to attend to our feelings
of hunger and fullness. Eventually, we become tired of the complexity, the
hunger, the lack of flavor, the lack of flexibility, the lack of energy,
and the feeling of deprivation. We quit our diets and gain back the weight
we've lost; sometimes we gain even more!
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