FRESH REMEDIES FOR OPEN PORES

FRESH REMEDIES FOR OPEN PORES

Kick-Throughs

Assume a bent-knee push-up position with your palms loaded, hands underneath your shoulders, knees bent at 90-degree angles, and you should be positioned on the balls of your feet.

Kick your right leg underneath you as you roll on to your right hand to assume a one-arm, one-leg hip bridge position. Hold for a count and then reverse the movement, keeping this going for 30 to 60 seconds at a time.

Kick-Throughs

Ab Exercises Every Man Must Do

Want to dominate your office mates in the next company basketball game? Work on your abs.

Adding core exercises to your gym regimen can benefit your overall athletic performance, finds a recent review in Sports Medicine. Researchers analyzed 24 studies that examined the relationship between core stability training and athleticism, and found that people who trained their core saw improvements in tests of general strength—like squat load and vertical leap—at the end of their studies.

Ab Exercises Every Man Must Do

INTERVAL TRAINING

At the end of the day, they have to make do with the same machines and equipment. The idea is to make it challenging, interesting and exciting. Interval or circuit training, attempts to break through a routine and sets higher goals for the body to achieve, sprucing up things for gym-goers. Spending ,10 -minutes on a cross trainer, jogging for the next 20 and perhaps being put on the deletion for another 15 min­utes, will not just burn ample calories, it might even help you keep better time!
INTERVAL TRAINING

WATER SPORTS

Summers are here, and cities perhaps have more pools than basketball courts. As the heat gets unrelenting, it’s the cool water and its added resistance that makes it that extra bit fun.

Water aerobics are only just com­ing up, though swimming remains a good old option

WATER SPORTS

PERSONAL TRAINERS

So, we also found out that it doesn’t just stop at acquiring the latest gym equipment. If actors of her league can have personal trainersworking on their bodies at 3 am or being flown across the globe, the region’s residents are in no mood to feel like lesser mor­tals.

Fitness instructors are finding individuals demand­ing their time, expertise and singularly focussed atten­tion.

PERSONAL TRAINERS

HOME GYMS

As much as you’d want to avail the newly opened health centres  fitness programmes, your office leaves you with little time to pursue those. In scenarios where busy work timings are a part of every other office goer’s life, home gyms are set to be a convenient option.

State-of-the-art gym equipment is no longer hard to -source, and bulging pockets make it easier to order some for the basement that can double up as a gym. This is one of the many options of being fit that will be a hit with fitness enthusiasts.

HOME GYMS

WEIGHT TRAINING FOR SPOTS

Weight training employs the use of weights such as dumb­bells, to train specific muscle groups. More popular with the boys, women are now opening up to include it in their regimen.

Fitness guru also stress on the need of this programme to work on muscles that in turn burn more fat than simple cardio workouts. However, the coming times are seeing eager up their arms, inner thighs or back areas that can be targeted by using specific weight exercises.

WEIGHT TRAINING FOR SPOTS

RUN WITHOUT YOUR SHOES ON

This new form of plain old running has a unique logic to it. Proponents of barefoot running argue that running without wearing anything on your feet is healthier, reduc­ing chronic injuries to the feet that occur by constant ‘heel striking’ with padded shoes.
RUN WITHOUT YOUR SHOES ON

THE BUDDY SYSTEM

Spinning isn’t entirely new to the region. If’s an organised indoor cycling class with a group of people following a regimen that challenges their stamina. However, having fun remains the key to getting fit.
THE BUDDY SYSTEM

DANCE FITNESS

Dance forms are now out of dance academies and into gyms, where trainers take up zumba, hip-hop, bhangra and Bollywooddance classes that double as high intensity cardio work­outs.

So, while regular gym outs bore me, I regained motivation when I learnt that zumba, with its uplifting music, was being taught. I look forward to this ‘workout’.

DANCE FITNESS

PILATES HAS A FRIEND

So, there’s ‘Cy-Yo’, which includes 10 minutes of yoga, 40 minutes of speed cycling and another 10 minutes of yoga to calm down. Another new trerid being introduced is called Tog Fit, which has pilates and yoga combined. Here, traditional yoga is inte­grated with strength train­ing core muscle building and butt firming excercises
PILATES HAS A FRIEND

MIND/BODY WORKOUTS

This year is about holistic healing apart from ‘smart’ health. Yoga is constantly picking up steam, with loyalists swearing by its – healing properties.
MIND/BODY WORKOUTS

FUNCTIONAL FITNESS

Think leaning over a bench, holding the weight in one hand with your arm hanging straight down, and then pulling the weight up as your elbow points to the ceiling finishing with your upper arm parallel to the ground. This exercise will build the muscles of your back, shoulders, arms, and work your whole body. It’s all about targeting your core area. As we take on more chores, we need to remember to use weights intelligently.

FUNCTIONAL FITNESS

2012 Fitness Fundaments

What forms of fitness does 2012 bring for the looks at 12 ways to sweat it out this year for a healthier.

It’s been a while since I India acknowledged the necessity of taking up the task of being fit as seriously as we would take filing tax returns. Though, in a strange paradox, this enlightenment was timed imperfectly with an inundation of fast food joints into almost every nook and cranny of every other town and city.

Nevertheless, after being publicly thrashed by health experts for aping the West and importing obesity and other related health disor­ders, we now seem to have come a long way and adopted ways to regain lost health.

Apart from laying siege to yoga with a revenge, we’ve taken up every fitness fad that was ever invented. While earlier there were cardio workout DVDs that friends and relatives brought from abroad, we soon had our own local gyms, where we headed to sweat it out, though elders couldn’t fathom why a run in the park couldn’t suffice.

2012 Fitness Fundaments