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		<title>Ab Doer Twist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The long term standing fitness product, the Ab Doer Twist, made it&#8217;s mark in fitness world. Not even sure how long it&#8217;s been there, but feels like forever. The Ab Doer Twist works like an ab chair, which helps you workout on your abs in a sitting position, in a very pleasing manner. The Ab [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The long term standing fitness product, <strong>the Ab Doer Twist</strong>, made it&#8217;s mark in fitness world. Not even sure how long it&#8217;s been there, but feels like forever. </p>
<p>The Ab Doer Twist works like an ab chair, which helps you workout on your abs in a sitting position, in a very pleasing manner.</p>
<p>The Ab Doer blog has moved to it&#8217;s new location:<strong> <a title="Ab Doer Twist" href="http://www.abdoerproducts.com/">AbDoer Twist</a></strong>.</p>
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		<title>P90X by Tony Horton and Beachbody</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who is Tony Horton and what is P90X? 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. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Who is Tony Horton and what is P90X?</h2>
<div id="attachment_387" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.fitnessforless.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/P90X-Extreme-Home-Fitness-Workout-Program-13-DVDs-Nutrition-Guide-Exercise-Planner_-Sports-Outdoors.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-387" title="P90X Extreme Home Fitness Workout Program - 13 DVDs, Nutrition Guide, Exercise Planner_ Sports &amp; Outdoors" src="http://www.fitnessforless.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/P90X-Extreme-Home-Fitness-Workout-Program-13-DVDs-Nutrition-Guide-Exercise-Planner_-Sports-Outdoors-300x300.jpg" alt="P90X Extreme Home Fitness Workout Program" width="300" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">P90X Extreme Home Fitness Workout Program</p></div>
<p>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: <strong>Power 90</strong>, and <strong>Power 90x</strong>, is his determination to <strong>focus</strong> on <strong>flexibility, speed and balance, as much as muscle growth</strong>. From my prospective that creates 10x more appealing body, then having a large, muscular, &#8220;body-building&#8221; type of the body.</p>
<p>Tony Horton developed this extremely hard program together with Beachbody company. When I say his program is hard, then I mean it. <strong>The program is hard but extremely beneficial</strong>.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a combination of so many things, but the outcome is amazing, and that you can see from Tony&#8217;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).</p>
<p>All this will tone your body to the maximum, and create a beautiful, lean, muscular figurine with amazing sense of balance, orientation and speed.<br />
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<p>What more would you want from a fitness program?</p>
<p>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 &#8220;tone&#8221;, but in addition to that, I was getting an adrenaline rush, sense of exhausting, excitement, and amazing balancing exercise. Well, with Tony&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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&#8217;s a true change. All in one. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love both other programs too, and still use them.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <img src='http://www.fitnessforless.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Tony has another video program called &#8220;Power Half Hour&#8221;, which helps to bring your cardio to a needed level for a serious P90 exercise.</p>
<p>As in any other professional exercising, you will net get out of this training with less than an hour workout! Period.</p>
<p>If you think you&#8217;ll do 15 minutes and then go back to sit on a couch, you are on a wrong website, don&#8217;t read this anymore, just close it and forget it.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;chabbo&#8221;, and the world changed for me once I started melting pounds. And trust me, I&#8217;m not just saying this. I was a major chubby!!!</p>
<p>You will workout with a whole group, you have a progress indicator, and you will love it, but don&#8217;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.</p>
<p>Now it&#8217;s your turn.</p>
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		<title>Minimum aerobic training</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A minimum aerobic exercise should be 12 minutes.Why? That&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.fitnessforless.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/minimum-aerobic-training.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-106" title="Minimum aerobic training is 12 minutes" src="http://www.fitnessforless.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/minimum-aerobic-training-300x198.jpg" alt="Minimum aerobic training is 12 minutes" width="300" height="198" /></a>A minimum aerobic exercise should be 12 minutes.Why?</p>
<p>That&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Slow ending and relaxing will allow organism to eliminate lactic acid and reduce a chance of muscles inflammation.</p>
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		<title>Food and Sex?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 20:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aphrodisiac NUTRITION 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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><a href="http://www.fitnessforless.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/food-sex-apples.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-96" title="Apples are amazing" src="http://www.fitnessforless.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/food-sex-apples-300x191.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="191" /></a>Aphrodisiac NUTRITION</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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).</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;drop&#8221; potency.</p>
<h3>Serotonin is for a great atmosphere</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Something more about stimulating food</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Sexual glands and hormones govern the most important functions of humans. They produce men&#8217;s and women&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Food and drinks that are sexually stimulating for centuries been used to improve libido. Hence it is popularly known adage &#8220;Love enters through the mouth.&#8221;</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Stimulating food is a special feeding regimen, provocative stimulus for a particular group of sex cells and hormones.</p>
<p>It stimulates sexual passion, irritant and enhances motivation, sexual impulse and the achievement of sexual activity.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;youth&#8221;.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>In addition to feeding regimen very large effect has a way of life (maturity, physical and spiritual activities &#8230;).</p>
<h3>Balanced diet</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Is the best fresh natural food, acts, cereals, pulses and aphrodisiacs &#8230; especially green and red vegetables, celery, garlic, okra, hot peppers, asparagus, artichokes, lamb, nuts, honey &#8230;</p>
<h3>Do not forget the romance!</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Natural Aphrodisiacs</h3>
<p><strong>1st Stimulative FOOD, FOOD and beverages</strong></p>
<p>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).</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>The main sources of energy and properties</h3>
<p>Energy foods provide the body energy while maintaining a sensual pleasure, relaxation, affect mood, stimulate and increase blood flow in blood vessels and tissues.</p>
<p>* vegetables (artichokes, celery, peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, asparagus, beans, leeks, cabbage, cauliflower, green beans, peas, lentils, pumpkin, garlic, onion, radish, carrot, potato);<br />
* Fruit: Walnuts, almonds, nuts, prunes, strawberries, raspberries, apples, peaches, pears, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, mulberry;<br />
* grains allowed: (corn, rice integral);<br />
* wheat not allowed for gluten enteropate: (barley, wheat germ, whole black and graham bread, flour, integrated, black and white);<br />
* meat (beef, beef, veal, mutton, lamb, kid, rabbit, chicken, turkey, duck, wild boar, veal concern with celery, black liver, ground lean meat);<br />
* 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);<br />
* milk (2-3.25%) and milk products (sour cream, yogurt, cottage cheese, young cream, hard cheese, sheep cheese);<br />
* wild plants: mushrooms (champignons, mushrooms, other fungi), nettles and dandelion, Guarana;<br />
* eggs, especially egg yolk (but beware, contains a lot of cholesterol);<br />
* phosphoric acid and phosphoric compounds in foods;<br />
* Fat: vegetable oils (sunflower, corn), wheat germ oil blend with ordinary oil than 1:20;<br />
* sweeteners: sugar powder, honey, jelly.</p>
<h3>Aphrodisiacs Foodstuffs and spices</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The spices besides improving organoleptic properties of food, are among the aphrodisiacs because they encourage sexual stimulation.</p>
<p>* Aromatic spices: vanilla, cinnamon, clove and ginger) in combination with vitamin C and irritating spices: pepper, cayenne pepper, mustard and certain medicinal plants.<br />
* herbs (mint, basil, thyme, lavender, monkshood, thyme, rosemary, ginger, savory, cumin, Lorber);</p>
<h3>APHRODISIAC FOR HIM</h3>
<p>The raising of male sexuality acting substances UTIU the desire and erection:</p>
<p>- 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);<br />
- Cholesterol from egg yolk, testosterone, which drives most involved in the mechanism of erection;<br />
- Vitamin C protects blood vessels and capillaries, giving them flexibility, important for maintaining an erection;<br />
- Phenylethylamine, improves the ability to maintain an erection and orgasm intensity. Sources: chocolate.</p>
<h3>APHRODISIAC FOR HER</h3>
<p>The raising of women&#8217;s sexuality operate three substances that positively affect the sexual stimuli.</p>
<p>Woman they are most needed:</p>
<p>- Magnesium, helps the body to easily submit stress. Sources: dried fruit, dark chocolate, corn, whole rice, lentils, wheat germ;<br />
- Tryptophan (amino acid), activates the desire to participate in the regulation of mood. Sources: dark chocolate, dried fruit, peanuts, nuts, beef, milk;<br />
- Vitamin B group, reduce stress and return the goodwill. Sources: brewer&#8217;s yeast.<br />
- Phenylethylamine increases intensity of orgasm. Sources: dark chocolate for cooking.</p>
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