Ideal Curve

By Gen Wright

 Working in an office, sitting at a desk all day is actually more difficult than it looks. It wreaks havoc on your body leaving you stiff and sore. Don’t fret! Working out isn’t just for the gym anymore. Even a short 10-minute workout in the office break room could make a huge difference to your fitness, keeping you injury-free and healthy.

Keep your expectations in check - you won’t be getting ripped with an in-office workout, but you will stay toned, flexible, and feeling great with just a few easy moves. To relieve tension and energize quickly be sure to target different parts of the body at different times of the day. Spend 5 minutes on each part of the body and you’ll see the benefits in no time!

Tone your arms!

- Keeping your arms straight, raise your arms to shoulder height with your palms facing up. Clench your fists, flex your biceps and curl them tight towards your head. Do 3 sets of 10 repetitions.

- Hold your arms straight out at your sides at shoulder height. Make little circles with your arms, move your arms forward and backward, up and down to change the direction. Do 3 sets of 20 circles.

Keep shoulders and neck loose!

- While sitting, slowly turn your head to the left and to the right. Look towards the sky, and then down towards the floor. Repeat several times.

- While sitting, lean your head to the right taking your ear towards your shoulder. Hold for a few seconds. Then lean your head to the left taking your ear towards your left shoulder. Hold for a few seconds. Repeat several times.

Keep your legs strong!

- Do the sumo squat. Stand up with your feet a little bit wider than shoulder length apart, with toes facing outwards. Lower your body down into a squat so that your legs are bent at 90 degrees (or as low as you can go). Raise your body back up to standing position. Do 3 sets of 10 repetitions.

- Do the chair pose. While standing with feet shoulder width apart, bend your legs and lower your body as if you were about to sit in a chair. Raise your body to standing. Do 3 sets of 10 repetitions.

Keep your body limber!

- Stretch your back and legs by standing with a few inches of space in between your feet. Slowly bend down and reach for your toes. Stop when you start to feel the burn!

- Stand with your feet shoulder width apart. Taking your right arm over your head, lean your body over to the left feeling the stretch all the way down the right side of your body. Repeat with the left arm stretching towards the right.

Work your hands and wrists!

- Holding your arms straight in front of you with your palms flat. Bend your wrists up and down several

times to loosen up your arms. With your right hand bend your fingers back towards your elbow and down under your arm to stretch all the ligaments in your fingers and wrists.

- Shake out the tension in your hands. Spread out your fingers as wide as they can go, tighten and release your fingers several times.

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Get The Curves That You Want With Your Body

Is That Body Building Supplement In Your Best Interest?

By Sandra B Lacher

 People have known for years that body building can transform even a car wreck of a person into a whole new package. Lots of people really enjoy the different workouts and the way those workouts make them feel. It depends on the exercises you do, however generally speaking very many feel the stress on specific muscles as well as hand, shoulder, and elbow joints. Quite a few body builders like to help themselves as much as possible, and that’s why many take advantage of external support found in supplements. There is a dizzying array and selection of supplements for those who seek support from the inside out. One question that has probably crossed the mind of any builder is if supplements are something they should use. What are some of the categories of supplements available as well as considerations if you use them are what the rest of this article is all about.

Perhaps all lifters are aware of the importance of a quality multi-vitamin. Body building requires you to make sure that you get all of the required vitamins and minerals every day. As we all know, our food probably does not provide anyone with all they need. You’ll find the best multi-vitamins from a good, quality health store. There are tons of web stores to buy supplements and vitamins, but we urge you to exercise a lot of caution if you take that route. As for another well-known supplement that gets used a lot, there is NO which stands for Nitric Oxide. This substance occurs naturally in the body in the gaseous state, and it is vital for intercellular communications. Increasing the flow of blood, which serves other purposes, is pretty much why serious lifting athletes use this supplement. Think rapid delivery of other body building supplements in the body, and that is why greater blood flow is important. Also, considering the amount and intensity of serious lifting, there is a greater requirement for NO as well as other supplements.

Next we’ll talk about something that carries more debate, anti-estrogens. Estrogen is the “opposite” of testosterone, even though it is present in males as well as females (as is testosterone). Now, estrogen controls whether or not the pituitary will produce testosterone. Ok, now testosterone is needed for strength and the ability to keep it. The reasoning is that you’ll have more strength if you eliminate the estrogen. Talk with your doctor before you pursue this particular line of supplement. Women should be especially concerned since estrogen is involved with so many other processes. Body building supplements come in all shapes, sizes and substances. Weight lifters routinely impose great stress and punishment on their bodies. Professional body builders, especially benefit from taking supplements because their bodies simply cannot keep up with all of the working out that gets done each day.

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