Exercise & Weight Loss

 

Make Your Exercise Program Effective

Most people associate exercise with weight loss, but not all exercise is the same when it comes to burning fat cells. Exercise alone will not burn fat cells. How often have you or someone you know started an exercise program only to be discouraged at the results? For real and lasting results, we must alkalize, hydrate, get good nutrition AND get the right type of muscle maintenance exercise. It is the first three that will make exercise have the greatest impact on the body.

 

Aerobic Exercise Vs. Strength Training

Some aerobic exercise...running, swimming, biking, etc is good for us, and for our hearts and lungs, but only burns calories while you’re doing it.

Many of the activities that have been recommended as exercise by so-called "experts" in this field will do little or nothing to help build muscle mass, and in some cases may even cause serious harm. Jogging, dance aerobics, and other high-force, high-impact, steady-state activities are examples of this.

"All the aerobics activity and interest promoted within the fitness industry since the late 1960's has not fostered any long-term vascular health. Instead, it has caused an epidemic of joint and spine injury." - Ellington Darden, PhD

When taken too far aerobic exercise can cause a loss of muscle, and can prevent your body from producing the increases in muscular strength and size stimulated during strength training. Your muscles are what burns calories and fat, even while you sleep.

 

Strength training (exercise that increases muscular strength) increases the amount of calories your body burns all the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. As your muscles are broken down during training, they continue to repair for days, and your metabolism is naturally increased. Also, research from Tufts has indicated that every pound of muscle added to the body of an adult human increases caloric expenditure by an average of 50 calories per day. If one gains 5 pounds of muscle, which most people can achieve in a matter of weeks, that same person will be burning an extra 250 calories a day for doing nothing more than owning that muscle!

 

Muscle, Our Best Friend

To maintain ideal weight, it is important NOT to reduce calories to the point where the body begins to burn muscle for fuel. Remember that muscle is our best friend when it comes to turning fat cells into energy. Reducing calories is important but so is keeping the muscle we already have.

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Keys To Eliminating Excess Fat Cells

 

Alkalize...getting the right pH balance

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Nutrition...eating the right foods

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Hydration...drinking enough water

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Exercise...burning away fat cells

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Kick start your program with a Colon Cleanse

The best way to start any health program, especially a weight loss plan is with a colon cleanse. Our simple 8-9 day cleanse will kick start all of the above. During the first 3 days of the cleanse you will be eating only fresh fruits and vegetables followed by a 5 day liquid only diet. During this time you will be taking packets of herbs and bentonite clay that will literally scrub the walls of your colon. By the end of the 8th day your system will be extremely alkalized and hydrated. When you return to a balanced diet, you will be better able to absorb all the nutrition your body needs. You will have the energy to exercise and the rest is easy. read more