Better health for elders

Encorage your parents ro exercise and at the same time help your parents to exercise to ensure they have better health. Your parents not only feel cared for and motivated to excercise with your accompany but they would be more happy to exercise. In addition, this is the best way to reinforce the bonding within you and your parents.

Exercise that should be included in for elderly.

1. Aerobic activity - to improve the oxygen flow to the brain and whole body. Ie. walking, swimming and bicycling
2. flexibility training - to increase nimbleness and flexibility. Ie. use stress ball to squeez and release
3. strength training - to improve and maintaing muscle strength. Ie. dumbell 1kg
4. balance training - to prevent fall. Ie. balancing by standing on one leg, ballance board or exercise ball

The Regular exercise above will also improve balance in elder people who have arthitis of the knee. Generally it will bring the benefits as follows : -

• higher oxygen uptake, becoming less breathless
• improve heart muscle funtions
• good collestrol level
• increase bone density, reduce osteoporosis risk
• increase flexibility
• lower risk of falling
• greater stregth
• faster respond
• better sleep
• increase mental energy
• better health for elders

The best nutrition for the best health for elders will be listed next... Check it out later!

How to Do Aerobic Exercise?

Aerobic excercise sounds very easy, but how to do a right way of it?

Check out the video follows which i think it is very useful. I have learned my aerobic exercise through this video. It just take you 2 minutes and do the repetition of 3 times. It can be used as warm up for your other activities.

Weight Loss and shape your lower abs

Any explaination through word and picture is difficult on exercise. Why not have a look on this video in order to have a better understanding on shaping your lower abs. I find that this is easy, useful and most importantly it works...

Shape your lower abs is one of the way towards weight loss.

5-min Ab Toning Works

Check out how the 5-min ab toning works...

How to lose fat fast?

Erasing fat is everybody dream, but how? These are some tips for you. In a month, you willl feel lighter, tighter and energetic than ever. You want to have stronger, slimmer and sleeker silhouette? Do three 25-minute cardio sessions a week.

Choose any of the proposed workout 3 times a week. You have choices as follows : -

Workout 1 : Get slim and gain energy
Start at level 4 or 5, warm up for 5 minutes at a moderate pace. Then increase your intensity to level 6 or 7 and hold that for 15 minutes. Cool down at level 3 or 4 for 5 minutes.

• Calories burned : 114 -120 for walking and 270 - 280 for jogging
• Make it harder? add 5 minutes at level 7 or 8 to the 15-minute sustained effort for a 30-minute workout.
• Make it easier? substract 5 minutes on the above

Workout 2 : Fight stubborn flab

Start at level 4 or 5, warm up for 5 minutes at a moderate pace. Go faster for 2 minutes, working at level 6 or 7; then recover for 4 minutes at your level 5. Repeat the entire 6-minute cycle twice for a total of 3 times. Cool down at level 3 or 4 for 5 minutes.

• Calories burned : 100-280
• Make it harder? Up the intensity of you go-faster bursts to an 8 or a 9
• Make it easier? Adjust your intervals to a 1-minute burst, 5-minute recovery.

Workout 3: Speed up your slim down
Cruise at level 5 for 10 minutes. Maintain your pace and do intervals for 12 minutes. Add resistance or hills for 1 minute so you're working at level 6 or 7; Lower the resistance or hills and recover for 2 minutes at level 5. Cool down at level 4 for 3 minutes.

• Calories burned : 120-300
• Make it harder?Afjust your intervals to 2 minutes high intensity, 1-minute recovery. As a rewards : more calories burned.
• Make it easier? skip the final intervals and cool down for 3 more minutes.

Have a nice 3 25-minute a week workout to see your slimmer body...