Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption or EPOC is the formal label for the afterburn effect caused by intense exercise. Short but explosive bouts of exercise use up the glycogen and ATP stores in your muscles and cause an abnormal buildup of lactic acid. Your body must work after your workout to remove this lactic acid and replace your ATP and glycogen stores. This post exercise work requires oxygen and burning calories. Your post workout metabolism will continue to burn calories from 6-12, even 24 hours after training, depending on the type of exercise and your exercise intensity. For this r ..read more

Nearly two thirds of your body is water. Water provides 80% of the volume of your blood, 75% of your muscles, 23% of bones and 74% of your brain. You can easily see how important it is to drink plenty of water and stay hydrated. Whether you’re drinking water from a bottle or out of an instant hot water machine (this instant hot water dispenser article listing the best options if you want to buy one), water is essential to our diet. Too little water can leave you thirsty, cause headaches, muscle weakness and fatigue, and dizziness or lightheadedness. To avoid these symptoms, ensure that you dri ..read more

Sugar, we are drowning in it. It’s in the foods we eat, most everything we drink, and if something tastes bad, we add more sugar to it. Good thing it’s packed with Vitamin … oh, wait, there are no vitamins in sugar, no minerals, no nutrients whatsoever – only calories. So why do we need it? At some point in your past, someone you love introduced you to sugar. Maybe it was a cookie, a chocolate bunny or a cupcake, but you tasted sweet sugar and it made your mouth happy, and you wanted more. But sugar also made your brain happy. Sugar is quickly digested and moves rapidly into your bloodstream a ..read more

Stretching before you exercise is extremely important for your muscles. A lot of people don’t understand the different ways you can stretch and that you should warm up different muscles in your body depending on what exercise you’re about to do. For example, as you can see on radracquets.com/stretches-for-tennis/, tennis requires numerous stretches because you’re using your whole body. Think you don’t need to take time to warm up before you exercise? Here are seven good reasons why you should take 3-5 minutes to properly warm up before you hit the gym, the track or the courts.   Warming u ..read more

Exercise combined with healthy eating are easily the two most important steps that you can take to improve your fitness and health. For many years, experts have recommended a minimum of 30 minutes at least 5 days a week for a total of 150 minutes of moderate exercise weekly. But for many of us, finding an available two and a half hours of free time to exercise is difficult if not impossible. Luckily, more recent research suggests that we should focus on increasing our activity level gradually as even small amounts of exercise each week can produce big changes in our overall health and fitness ..read more

If you have ever tried to lose weight and failed, which just about everyone has, there may have been a variety of different factors that caused you to fall short of your goals. One reason that many people really don’t think about when looking at the causes is the impact that your own mind has on your efforts. The reality is that we all have an internal dialog going throughout the day, and it can be more than a little surprising to hear that voice inside your head telling you all the reasons why quitting is such a good idea. That voice can be silenced, but you have to train it, just as you woul ..read more

Creating art is an inspiring way to stimulate your brain, improve your emotional well-being, and possibly get physically healthier as well. Art, when used as therapy, has been shown to be helpful in the healing process for patients suffering from mental, physical, and emotional problems – the creative process promotes healing in the following ways: Art stimulates creativity and imagination. Many identify as either left-brained or right-brained thinking, you are generally more artistic (right-brain) or analytical (left-brain). When an artistic person creates art, he or she enhances already exis ..read more

We’ve known cinnamon as a common spice, usually added to our favorite, carb-filled drinks and pastries to amp up the musky, sweet flavor. Your favorite apple pie will never be perfect without it; but did you know that other than delighting our taste buds, cinnamon also does wonders to our health? Now pull that platter of cinnamon roll close by, and we suggest you dig in and enjoy its delicious flavors as you read on. Cinnamon has long been used for its medicinal value since the olden times, and many of its positive effects are now backed by modern research. Some of its health benefits may asto ..read more

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