Zumba Fitness Total Body Transformation System

I love Zumba. Well, actually, I’m sure you love music and dance too.

Zumba is marvelous, and I can’t stop enjoying seeing everyone so flexible and happy dancing. But instead of just looking at them, I decided to work on my own flexibility.

The secret of Zumba being so good for me, is in the fantastic and infectious latin music, filled with wiggly dancers and trainers, moving their body with such an elegance and ease. No fat, no extra weight, but hey, our goal is to get there too.

All the routines are easy to follow. You need just to observe the steps and then follow through with yours. The funniest part is that the music is so good that your body just starts shaking, moving and dancing on it’s own. You’ll even get  out of control, that’s how involving is the program.

Depending on the mood and how tired you are, you have option to go with express, or a full fitness workout. Express would fit into a category of a quick-fix routine.



Cardio is perfect to melt down the pounds, but then from there you can start working on your muscles. Each step is broken down into easy, medium and hard, so you can learn them with confidence, to a level of enjoying the dance, and performing a fitness workout.

Zumba fitness program is amazing

Make sure you prepare and drink gallons of water. When you work out indoors then you lose more water, so be well prepared for it. You don’t want to dehydrate. It’s not going to be gallons, but you will need lot of water.

You will need to learn all steps, so you can enjoy the dance, because you’ll start dancing to other meringue, samba, salsa and other Latin tunes.

They say you can burn between 500 and 1000 calories per hour, which is amazing. An hour of riding a road bike will burn 600 calories, and a heavy mountain bike ride will burn 900 calories, which means, this workout, really, is amazing.

P90X Extreme Home Fitness Workout Program

There is lots to be said about Tony Horton, but what is important when it comes to his fitness beliefs, and creation of two biggest fitness programs: Power 90, and Power 90x, is his determination to focus on flexibility, speed and balance, as much as muscle growth. From my prospective that creates 10x more appealing body, then having a large, muscular, “body-building” type of the body.

Tony Horton developed this extremely hard program together with Beachbody company. When I say his program is hard, then I mean it. The program is hard but extremely beneficial.

It’s a combination of so many things, but the outcome is amazing, and that you can see from Tony’s own body. Lot of cardio, fast, powerful movements, which improve the functions of the nervous system, generally for the purpose of improving performance in sports, and to top it all Tony is teaching us Kenpo combined martial arts (kung-fu and karate).

All this will tone your body to the maximum, and create a beautiful, lean, muscular figurine with amazing sense of balance, orientation and speed.

What more would you want from a fitness program?

I started with cycling, and it was a road cycling, and very quickly it became monotonous and boring for me, then I switched to mountain biking. More excitement, and my legs started getting a perfect “tone”, but in addition to that, I was getting an adrenaline rush, sense of exhausting, excitement, and amazing balancing exercise. Well, with Tony’s exercise you will feel the same, indoor mind you, but you will be exhausted, thrown out of balance, but happy about heavy exercise that you just did.

I used Carmichael biking videos when I started, and I used fantastic Billy Blanks Tae-Bo cardio course, but then once discovered Power 90, hahaha, that’s a true change. All in one. Don’t get me wrong, I love both other programs too, and still use them.

I am not going to ruin it for you, but just the fact that we are talking about 3 million kits sold, if not more, tells you how good and high quality this system is. Well, as far as I heard Tony is in pre-production for a new P90X MC2 system, so he continues to carve a path of his success, and who benefits also out of this? Us too.

Some people who started abruptly with P90X realized, in order to use it, they needed to refresh, or wake up some of the muscles who were resting for years Tony has another video program called “Power Half Hour”, which helps to bring your cardio to a needed level for a serious P90 exercise.

As in any other professional exercising, you will net get out of this training with less than an hour workout! Period.

If you think you’ll do 15 minutes and then go back to sit on a couch, you are on a wrong website, don’t read this anymore, just close it and forget it.

This is for those who want to have the exciting vibrant figure, with beautifully toned muscles on a skinnier figure. Muscles, which pop up and down, as you move your arms, legs, and body overall. I hope you know what I mean. I was a major “chabbo”, and the world changed for me once I started melting pounds. And trust me, I’m not just saying this. I was a major chubby!!!

You will workout with a whole group, you have a progress indicator, and you will love it, but don’t forget, it is a commitment. No lame excuses. Tony will push your body to the edge, and then let it go, and all is like that, push and let it go. That works. Worked for me, will work for you.

Now it’s your turn.

That’s the time organism needs to activates enzymes responsible for transforming fats into energy. So, after 10 minutes of aerobic training fats increase their role in energy production, while carbohydrates and glycogen reduce.

The largest effect of having fats transform into energy happens at 30 minutes. The reason for that is that our nerve system uses exclusively sugar, or actually glycogen. After 12 minutes the organism initiates a self-defending reaction to protect itself from eventually emptying all reserves of glycogen, and starts using more complex sources of energy, primarily fats. For this reason you want to exercise a minimum of 1 hour, or over 30 minutes at least. Aerobic training longer than 1 hour also activates fats for energy, but not the same as within a first hour. A training over an hour increases a risk of injury.

The time you spend resting, sleeping enough, your daily food consumption and current feelings are important factors for determining longevity of your training. The results will for sure be better if you exercise longer, but the training must be tailored for you and your condition.

It is very important you do the warm-ups. Warming up and relaxing after you train must be an integral part of every training. Your pulse must be under 55% of maximal theoretical frequency, and you need to slowly raise heart frequency towards your training zone through 5 to 10 minutes. Every training, and exercise start slowly and systematically, and equally finish it the same way.

Only that way you will allow your organism through regulating blood stream and metabolism, to prepare itself to jump from one level of intensity into another, what increases the effect of training. Entering too fast into training zone can produce sudden jump of heart rhythm, sudden loss of energy and too soon tiredness.

Slow ending and relaxing will allow organism to eliminate lactic acid and reduce a chance of muscles inflammation.

Before and after each ride you have to warm up (and relax/stabilize) your muscles, at least for 5 minutes. Stretching will help in muscles stress removal and also in prevention of injuries during ride. If you short with time, it’s better to steal 5 minutes from a ride, then avoid warmup.

Start your ride gradually

If you start abruptly with full speed, or even worse start riding up heavy hill, you will destroy your muscles. Warmup your muscles by riding for 5 minutes with average speed and effort. That will supply blood and oxygen to your muscles, and prepare them for heavier effort.

Keep training continuity, avoid catching-up through hard training

If you miss to train on your regular schedule, do not try to catch up by riding more aggressively. Heavy training with high intensity will weaken your immune system. As a consequence you will start avoiding regular training and will be missing more and more trainings. If you miss a training from time to time, it’s ok, happens to all of us, then get back slowly into shape.

Drink lot of fluids

Did you notice how you sweat way more during indoor training? Well, it’s the same thing when you ride outside, but due to air fluctuation you don’t notice it that much. Remember to drink lot of water, even if you are not thirsty.

Try to finish your ride easy, and if possible keep pedaling until you fully relax

When you finish your training or a ride, it is good to continue spinning pedals for another 5 minutes but with an easy tempo. You need to cool off slowly and stabilize your organism properly.

This is one shaky video of a beautiful and easy ride behind a Bronte Creek campground: Bronte Creek campground mountain bike ride

Cuisine and sex, correlation? There are close links influence of food on the functioning of the organism as a whole, the biochemical activity of body, brain and sexual power. Brain secretes serotonin, which affects mood. And science has found that food stimulates the senses and desires, it sends signals to the cortex, stimulates the appetite of love.

Our food intake does matter, in order to get love reciprocated with passion! The main reason is the existence of items that can be divided into a stimulating (energy), an aphrodisiac and non-aphrodisiac.

Male symbols that are not part of the aphrodisiacs are hidden among the fruit (bananas, avocados) and vegetables (green leafy vegetables, cucumber, carrots and asparagus), but in shape they are. Also non-aphrodisiacs and female symbols in the form of the (figs, oysters and caviar).

Natural aphrodisiacs, in accordance with the present name, and at your hand in the form of daily food (especially cereals and spices), drink and medicinal plants, they seem completely natural way.

Special note: meat with more fat may disrupt production of the hormone testosterone, preventing an erection, and thus affects the sexual life. Fat eventually leads to blockage of arteries that supply blood of male sexual organ, (it is one of the main causes of impotence. Also, excessive alcohol consumption leads to “drop” potency.

Serotonin is for a great atmosphere

Certain foods affect the brain chemistry. Food can increase the amount of serotonin (a neurotransmitter in the brain), which is responsible for the well-being and good atmosphere.

Something more about stimulating food

Proper nutrition, a stimulating herbal ingredients, the normal operation of sex glands and hormones stimulate intellectual development, enrich emotional lives, strengthen sexual vitality and physical health. Sexual activity is an accurate indicator of the health status of the organism. The aim of this kind of nutrition is to discover almost forgotten foods and accessories, convenience in use and newly discovered scientific achievements related to nutrition, sex and health.

Sexual glands and hormones govern the most important functions of humans. They produce men’s and women’s shelter cell whose merger creates a new life. In addition to extending the types and enhance overall physical development, strengthen the intellectual and physical life. Sexual activity increases the secretion of hormones that circulate around the body. It ensures one of the most basic, most natural, healthiest and most beautiful pleasures that exist.

Sexual activity depends on many factors: inheritance, nutrition, way of life, the burdens of work, family living conditions, stress, age, physical activity and a number of other causes.

Food and drinks that are sexually stimulating for centuries been used to improve libido. Hence it is popularly known adage “Love enters through the mouth.”

Some food (and drinks), provides energy, the second provides a relaxed and well-being, increases blood flow to the third, fourth entices desire and enforcement of sexual activity.

Stimulating food is a special feeding regimen, provocative stimulus for a particular group of sex cells and hormones.

It stimulates sexual passion, irritant and enhances motivation, sexual impulse and the achievement of sexual activity.

This diet has a biochemical effect on the metabolism of the body, stimulates sexual desire, enhances the activity of more frequent and more intense pleasure and partial recovery of “youth”.

Properly made herbal sexual menu should be aphrodisiac and energy-balanced, because only such a feeding regimen can be a real revitalization for a spiritual, physical vitality and a catalyst for the implementation of the life process. The exercise enhanced sensual pleasure depends on the way of life, shelter, and the sensitivity of the individual psyche. To maintain the physical and chemical equilibrium in the tissues and body fluids is very important vitamin A, B1, B2 and mineral salts (especially phosphorus and zinc). Vitamin A (water-melons, artichokes, carrots, spinach, etc.) is helping to convert cholesterol into active sex hormones. Vitamins B1 and B2 (potatoes, bananas, etc.) enhance the direct production of sex hormones and are essential for the proper utilization of energy in the body.

In addition to feeding regimen very large effect has a way of life (maturity, physical and spiritual activities …).

Balanced diet

Carefully selected ingredients can stimulate sexual desire and response of men and women. In every meal are very important appropriately selected foods, which should be evenly distributed proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins and other ingredients and method of their preparation. It is a condition to maintain everyday health and energy of the body. Food should be enjoyed, because only then it makes good physical and mental satisfaction that comes from the mood and relaxation.

Is the best fresh natural food, acts, cereals, pulses and aphrodisiacs … especially green and red vegetables, celery, garlic, okra, hot peppers, asparagus, artichokes, lamb, nuts, honey …

Do not forget the romance!

To create a romantic stay more comfortable atmosphere, and let the lights are dim, and a light pleasant background music. Occasional cocktail or better yet beautifully set table with the carefully selected menu of aphrodisiac cuisine that will contribute to the excitement of both partners. Feed each other, have fun, laugh. No excessive eating of food, as overflowing meal may end up just watching television.

Natural Aphrodisiacs

1st Stimulative FOOD, FOOD and beverages

Following count in stimulating foods: vegetables, fruits and seafood (especially fish). Vitamin C rejuvenates sperm and thus affect fertility. Chocolate (creating a feeling of enjoyment and contributes to a better mood).

To maintain the physical and chemical equilibrium in the tissues and body fluids is very important vitamin A, B1, B2 and mineral salts (especially phosphorus). Vitamin A (water-melons, artichokes, carrots, spinach, etc.) is helping to convert cholesterol into active sex hormones. Vitamins B1 and B2 (potatoes, bananas, etc.) enhance the direct production of sex hormones and are essential for the proper utilization of energy in the body.

The main sources of energy and properties

Energy foods provide the body energy while maintaining a sensual pleasure, relaxation, affect mood, stimulate and increase blood flow in blood vessels and tissues.

* vegetables (artichokes, celery, peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, asparagus, beans, leeks, cabbage, cauliflower, green beans, peas, lentils, pumpkin, garlic, onion, radish, carrot, potato);
* Fruit: Walnuts, almonds, nuts, prunes, strawberries, raspberries, apples, peaches, pears, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, mulberry;
* grains allowed: (corn, rice integral);
* wheat not allowed for gluten enteropate: (barley, wheat germ, whole black and graham bread, flour, integrated, black and white);
* meat (beef, beef, veal, mutton, lamb, kid, rabbit, chicken, turkey, duck, wild boar, veal concern with celery, black liver, ground lean meat);
* Fish: Sea (sardines, mackerel, tuna), shellfish (oysters, which contain arsenic in the form of non-poisonous), shrimps, caviar and river fish (all types of non-fat fish);
* milk (2-3.25%) and milk products (sour cream, yogurt, cottage cheese, young cream, hard cheese, sheep cheese);
* wild plants: mushrooms (champignons, mushrooms, other fungi), nettles and dandelion, Guarana;
* eggs, especially egg yolk (but beware, contains a lot of cholesterol);
* phosphoric acid and phosphoric compounds in foods;
* Fat: vegetable oils (sunflower, corn), wheat germ oil blend with ordinary oil than 1:20;
* sweeteners: sugar powder, honey, jelly.

Aphrodisiacs Foodstuffs and spices

Desire to encourage and enable the implementation of romantic activity (stimulate sexual passion, stimulating and enhancing sex drive), stimulate and enable the realization of these intentions.

The spices besides improving organoleptic properties of food, are among the aphrodisiacs because they encourage sexual stimulation.

* Aromatic spices: vanilla, cinnamon, clove and ginger) in combination with vitamin C and irritating spices: pepper, cayenne pepper, mustard and certain medicinal plants.
* herbs (mint, basil, thyme, lavender, monkshood, thyme, rosemary, ginger, savory, cumin, Lorber);

APHRODISIAC FOR HIM

The raising of male sexuality acting substances UTIU the desire and erection:

- Proteins, which are in eggs, meat, fish and cheese. From their amino acid the body produces serotonin and dopamine (an important part of the mechanism of erection);
- Cholesterol from egg yolk, testosterone, which drives most involved in the mechanism of erection;
- Vitamin C protects blood vessels and capillaries, giving them flexibility, important for maintaining an erection;
- Phenylethylamine, improves the ability to maintain an erection and orgasm intensity. Sources: chocolate.

APHRODISIAC FOR HER

The raising of women’s sexuality operate three substances that positively affect the sexual stimuli.

Woman they are most needed:

- Magnesium, helps the body to easily submit stress. Sources: dried fruit, dark chocolate, corn, whole rice, lentils, wheat germ;
- Tryptophan (amino acid), activates the desire to participate in the regulation of mood. Sources: dark chocolate, dried fruit, peanuts, nuts, beef, milk;
- Vitamin B group, reduce stress and return the goodwill. Sources: brewer’s yeast.
- Phenylethylamine increases intensity of orgasm. Sources: dark chocolate for cooking.

Most people don’t realize that losing weight is a constant battle with bad habits and breaking them along the way. But before that happens, you have to start thinking about yourself, constantly, and what a weight loss will bring to you.

My personal theory is that most of us who gained weight are practically “pleasers”, who want to make life easy for others, and for, who knows, what reason we start eating, or rather over-eating.

As I wrote in several other articles, only once you turn to yourself, without even telling anyone what you are doing, you will start seeing positive results. Another key point in my approach is to exercise for 1h minimum. Any type of exercise, but for a minimum of one hour.

Once you lose the excessive weight you will claim your life back, but literally. So, definitely, it’s worth it! Your confidence will be back and you will feel strong.

I remember reading about a woman who decided to lose weight when she found out she had hypothyroidism. She went from not being able to walk 500 meters to running 10K marathon in under 55 minutes. Imagine that! She said that the biggest help to her was a Nutrition Tracker.

Set your goal to work out three times a week minimum and steer towards five times! I’m pleased when I succeed in doing so, and when I don’t … better luck next week.

I know to stay active in winter is a tough, but put on a warm clothes, walk, then run a bit if you are cold, but don’t give up… Change the route, change the routine, anything to make it more interesting and to keep yourself going. That’s most important. Doing the same thing every day may get boring and slow down a metabolism, so mix things up.

I wish I had lost all the weight. I still have some pounds to lose. At the same time, weight is not the biggest issue any longer. Being healthy and being fit is. Weight is a part of that, but not all of it.

Eliminate excuses, because excuses are not acceptable. If you decided to do something about yourself, then do it!

As the saying goes, make yourself beautiful on the inside and you will be beautiful on the outside.

All about Aerobic exercise and how it helps to improve your health and appearance

Our body is moving through the muscles, the muscles require energy to operate. This energy comes from fat storage, sugar and proteins, in order to use this energy the muscles need oxygen. The supply of oxygen is been made by the lungs, heart and vascular system.

Aerobic fitness refers to the ability of these systems to maintain the required oxygen supply for a given time.

Aerobic training to a stronger heart

Aerobic Exercise creates a stronger heart, so the heart can pump more blood each beat. Diameter of the arteries and veins increased and increased flexibility, thus allowing greater blood flow, more oxygen, more energy and other important materials.

The Lungs become more efficient, they can utilize more efficiently the oxygen that is in the lung as well as they can increase the overall volume of air that passes through the lunges when in effort. The amount of hemoglobin is raising thereby able to pump more blood and oxygen.

The Positive effects Aerobic exercise has on our health

Decrease risk of heart disease

Risk of dying from a heart attack decreased by 36% according to research conducted on 17 000 Howard University students who were moderately active exercising and performed a half hour walk a day.

Drop in blood pressure

Aerobic endurance training can lead to a decrease in blood pressure of 5 to 10 units (systolic and diastole) for people who suffer from high blood pressure. If your blood pressure is correct then aerobic training help maintain the proper situation.

Improving physical fitness

You can make more physical efforts on higher levels without getting tired quickly, such as skiing, various ball games and so on.

Aerobic training to improve depression condition

Aerobic exercise causes the release of androfinium and other chemicals in the brain that cause a good feeling of uplifting. These materials have an impact on the depression condition.

Aerobic exercise and cholesterol

Endurance in aerobics training can reduce overall cholesterol, but more important is that intensive training can lead to an increased level of good cholesterol, which collects the bad cholesterol from the arteries and leads them to the liver for removal from the body.

Aerobic exercise and diabetes

Aerobics Training help reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and is benefices for people with diabetes.

Aerobic training and Colorectal cancer

The time of the food transfer in the stomach to the intestine reduced in 56% and therefore reduce the risk of colon cancer.

Aerobic exercise for bone strengthen

If the aerobic practice is against the weight of the body (walking or running), then training will actually increase the mineral density and thereby strengthen the bone.

Aerobic exercise improves general physical condition

Endurance in aerobic activity improves the physical ability to cope with situations of cold or heat.
Due to improvement in the blood stream, more oxygen reaches the brain and improves mental ability as well, especially as we grow older.

Aerobic and weight loss

Aerobic workout contributes to faster and better calorie burning also it increased metabolism and thereby increased calorie burning even at rest.

Practice has the effect of suppression of hunger, when you practice you are not hungry.

People who perform constant aerobic activity, burn fat faster and loss the weight form fat and not form the muscle mass like in other weight loss contracting only on food. Plus there is an increased production of enzymes that release of fat acids.
When the process of weight loss is accompanied by physical training, a higher percentage of weight loss is weight loss and weight loss fat muscle, as opposed to diet without exercise in which we lose much muscle mass.

Physical training is the key to improving quality of life

When people excusing they are more careful about their nutrition, they are less likely to use harmful substances such as cigarettes and alcohol and a better handle on their own, changing thinking and self-image improves.

Aerobic training is an easy way to get huge improvement in your quality of life. But it is very important to do it gradually and calculating.

Why is it a problem to exercise daily?

Why people cannot seem to persist in physical activity?

Why they cannot achieve their goals?

Endurance exercise and weight loss require effort!

Judging from the amount of money wasted on various products that ensure a decrease quick weight loss without effort, it seems that most of the population does not think so.

The persistence of physical activity, fitness and health improvement requires effort and determination.

Quick diets, special supplements various vibrating devices only drain your bank account. The bitter truth is that most people do not get to the health and fitness goals set by their own design.

Physical activity a priority

People cannot seem to be persisting in physical activity because they change their priorities; they refuse to put the first health and fitness (or other) in their lives. They will exercise tomorrow, or next Sunday, or after the holidays.

If you are not committed to yourself today, why will you be committed in a week or after the holidays? People are willing to sacrifice things for their goals. They will work extra hours at work, sometimes even without any return in order to achieve a higher paid job.

We adapt ourselves to less sleep when a new baby born. We adapt our tight schedule in order to see an important football game or episode in a series we like, but when it comes to our health, then suddenly these adjustments are too difficult to perform.

Exercise = Health

It’s just amazing how people are able to work many more hours to get a higher paid job, but cannot find the time to prevent the heart attack that might surprise them around the age of 50 on the way home from work. Did you know: about 25 thousand people each year suffer heart attacks, a third of them are women.

Now it’s time to stop with the excuses and decide whether we want to improve significantly the quality of our lives not only today but also for the rest of our lives.

Exercise a healthy and beautiful body

Now close your eyes and imagine how you will look and feel if you get yourself into the commitment to invest for the sake of your health, put your health in the first place on the scale of your priorities.

Imagine yourself 10, 15 or 20 kg less. Imagine yourself energetic, full of vitality and suddenly everyone telling you how good you look.

It’s possible and it is up to you as soon as you get the investment that required on your part than you are in the right way.

Do not delay it. Take care of your health today, now!!!