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Acne Home Treatments

If you are looking for an effective acne treatment without side effects, try one or more of these five acne home remedies. These are quick to prepare and useful for those who have tried everything on the market. The ingredients are already in your kitchen! But first, do you have any of the following habits? Effective Acne Home Remedies Are you a prey to excessive use of scented lotions, hair sprays or perfumes? Try to stop using them for a while and see if the acne starts to clear up. These products can often be harmful to your skin and cause it to flare up. Try using a different shampoo like “Head and Shoulders” or “Tresemme” which has Vitamin B. Do you have a habit of wearing a cap or a hat everyday? Do away with it because you are probably allowing the flaking skin and dirt to fall directly on your face. Keep your face clean and let it breathe. Do you take drugs like Accutane, Tetracycline or a contraceptive medicine to get rid of acne? Is it working or is it making your skin dry and irritated? Replace these with internal supplements like Vitamin C, zinc and/or fish oils. These may not give immediate results but are effective home remedies for acne. They may work better than the chemical drugs prescribed or bought off-the-shelf.

Fibromyalgia Relief

Everyone experiences pain at some point in their lives, but for a select few seeking Fibromyalgia relief pain is their life. Fibromyalgia is a condition where patients are constantly experiencing pain. Fibromyalgia Relief These patients experience pain so badly they don’t even have words to describe what they are going through, often do not want to be touched, and will do anything to alleviate their symptoms, including changing their diet. for these people Fibromyalgia Relief is a big concern as the Fibromyalgia pain will just not go away. Dr. Kent Holtorf founder of The Holtorf Medical Group specializes in fibromyalgia and sees patients on a daily basis with this problem looking for Fibromyalgia relief. One important change that can help eliminate pain symptoms is diet. Many patients don’t realize how much their diet is affecting their condition. Dr. Holtorf believes there are seven main foods chronic pain patients looking for Fibromyalgia Relief should avoid, known as the seven deadly diet sins and include:

Best Triceps Exercises One overlo...

Best Triceps Exercises One overlooked muscle group is the triceps so I thought I would write a bit on the best triceps exercises. The triceps muscles are the muscles at the top of the back of your arm and are called triceps as they are muscles that have three heads. Best Tricep Exercises There are many ways that you use your triceps but most of all it is important to remember that even though everyone is working their biceps to have big arms in actual fact your triceps will make your arms bigger a lot fast than working your biceps do. So it is important to do the correct and best triceps exercises to make the most of all three heads of your triceps. Triceps kickbacks – This exercise is fantastic, I think it is one of the best triceps exercises and is done by keeping your body parallel to a weight bench iwth your hand and knee resting on the bench. in this position with your free arm bring your elbow up to your side and then being your arm up straight. This exercise is the opposite of a bicep curl and at the top you will have a great peak contraction of your triceps. http://ow.ly/44sze

Fats in Your Diet

Fats are always looked at as a negative in a diet…well in almost all diets anyway, as Atkins tends to think that they are OK. The reason that most people try to avoid fats is that they tend to be less of a priority for your body to metabolize; the body would rather metabolize the carbohydrates and then Fat or Protein. Fats in Your Diet Another issue with fat is the number of calories per gram, a gram of fat has 9 calories as opposed to Protein and carbohydrates which have 4 calories per gram. So your body is going to more than likely store any extra fat taken in as, well, fat. What Kind of Fats in Your Diet to Watch For So you should watch out for the Fats in your diet in most cases. Still it is important to take in some fats, you body can not exist without any fats and in fact stores vitamins A, D, E and K in fat. These vitamins are needed to maintain good health. One thing to be aware of is that these vitamins because they are stored in fat can build up and be toxic¦how toxic? Well I have not heard of anyone getting sick from them but without them you would surely get sick. Research has shown, because that people who consume a high-sugar diet tend to consume lower amounts of fat and vice versa. If you think about this it means that your mind will look at a sugary or a fatty food in the same way and will crave both in the same way. From: http://is.gd/tmg6aH

What to do when injured?

I have been fighting with a bad knee for a couple of weeks and it has really hampered my workout schedule.

For a week now my top priority has been to strengthen my knee by riding a stationary bike with low intensity

I can still do upper boduy weights and have worked that a lot but still I know that my stick legs will be worse soon so I need to get the intensity up on the bike.

What do you do to work arounf injuries and still train?

Fast Weight Lifting Workout

So I started my workout today with a simple circuit.

To me lately the key to all of my workouts are doing compound exercises, this way I am leveraging different muscles on each set and getting all of my minor muscles groups done. I hate remembering weight amounts but I will give as much detail as I can. Please note that I did this warmup set back to back to back in about 5-10 minutes or so.

Fast Weight Lifting Workout

Bench press  machine  - 12 reps I pushed these out ok and this was mostly warming up the shoulders triceps and chest Military press – machine – 12 reps I find that I have a bit of soreness in my left shoulder but this exercise is a good warmup for triceps and shoulders

Wide Grip Pulldowns - 10 reps I do wide grip pulldowns to get a good stretch and warmup my lats and biceps

Close Grip Rows - 10 reps  Here I am working my lats differently and also stretching out my lower back. I get the weight up higher for this than a traditional warmup because I love the lat burn.

Tricep Pushdowns with rope - 12 reps  This is just an addon to a regular pushdown where the rope allows you to get a better peak contraction. I had a higher weight on this as well. Alternating

Bicep Curls dumbell - 10 reps per arm I was just getting a good contraction for my biceps as the back exercises warm up the biceps but they could still use some work.

Seated Hamstring Curls machine 12 reps I skipped squats today to isolate a bit (maybe I was lazy?) this exercise really hits the hamstrings good and was a good warmup

Leg Press  machine - 12 reps I always love leg press as I can really feel the burn in the quads and the flex in my knees From

How To Keep Making Muscle Gains

Keep making muscle gains, never stop gaining muscle. While there are literally hundreds and thousands of muscle-building strategies circulating on the Web at any given time, whether they are capable of producing reliable gains or results is another matter.

Many, in fact, don't and leave the aspiring body-builder/ trainee more disappointed and confused than anything. It's also not uncommon for these strategies to be conflicting in nature, especially when they come from different sources.

Keep Making Muscle Gains

1. Avoid Overtraining: That's right and it (overtraining) occurs more frequently than most people would care to admit. Unless you're in the final phase of training for a contest, say goodbye to the 1 hour-long gym sessions and the 6-day training regimen.

'More' is not necessarily better when it comes to reliably packing on pounds of muscle. Plus, as you'll later learn, training less frequently, and for shorter periods will actually leave you in better position to do what actually needs to be done, i.e. training with intensity!

This is the first and I think most important tip to keep making muscle gains

build muscle all the time and try and not make yourself overtrained. That is the key.

Weight Loss tips

What do we need to succeed and what can casue us to fail? I was watching a show that I really like last night, Survivorman. Survivorman is a show where the host Les Stouab goes out somewhere on the middle of nowhere and lives for a week with no food, shelter or equipment, just him and a few video cameras. What does this have to do with fitness, besides maybe how starvation affects people? Well Lee talks about how he feels in these places, last night for instance was in the desert. People are afrain in the deseert about animal attacks, water, food, spiders, loneliness, and other stuff and he made a point of saying what helps and why. weight loss articles Really, I am getting to a point here. So Lee starts a fire. The fire to him is a way to keep himself safe from animals and warm at night. He finds a river. The river water keeps him hydrated and being full of water makes him less concerned about the lack of food. So when dieting or going through a big change in your health or your fitness what do you rely on to make yourself feel "safe"? I know that in times of trouble people rely on their families and friends. Often with family and friends though if we are trying to make a big change they are going to be worried for us if we fail. Instead of supporting you they are trying to help you down from being unrealistic, so maybe family and friends are not always the best. Rely on them if you can though!! Next thing is food. We rely on food to help us as energy but sometimes also through our emotional trouble, emotional eating is one of the toughest parts of changing our diet becasue lets face it a broiled chicken breast is not as nice as a bowl of ice cream if we are feeling down. But food is of course our fuel source and we need to rely on that. Next of course is exercise, Exercise is the one thing that we can push and feel comfortable with. Exercise of course proves our worth to us in our fitness. There is no way that we can cheat ourselves into running 5 miles or doing 30 minutes on the bike except for the faxt that some days we are dogging it and some days we are pushing our limits, still though at the end of the workout you KNOW how hard you pushed it. The last thing is community. We can feel safe in community and the people around us. This is why it is great to have a fitness partner, a diet buddy, a messageboard that we can talk of our successes and failures with like minded people. The people around us within our fitness and health circle are the ones that we rely on and at the same time the more we support them the better they can support us. So where do we go from here? The fact really is that there is always some kind of give and take. We give an give and never want to take back, at other times we take and take and never have the ability to give. These are just the constant changes in life. Years ago I read the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and even though there was a lot of stuff in there i remember the book only because Stephen Covey talked aobut this bank account of giving and recieving. As you give to people in help, comments, being nice, any kind of giving then you are building a postiive bank account that at some point they will want to give back to you for. The first time you hear the idea it seems terrible like you are giving to take away from others but that is not really the way it works, giving begets recieving is more like it. From: http://diet.calputer.com/

Jillian Michaels Diet Plan

We all know Jillian Michaels diet plan and exercise program from the Biggest Loser, it is hard, aggressive and loud. Well Jillian Michaels diet plan is now online and she is offering a free body analysis as well as a cheap $4 a week plan that will give you all the tools to lose weight now. Jillian’s passion for fitness originates from 17 years of devoted practice in the fields of martials arts, personal training, health and wellness. Best known as the undefeated strength trainer and life coach on NBC’s hit series The Biggest Loser, Jillian is a motivator and role model to nearly 15 million viewers every week. Before she was a huge TV success, Jillian struggled with her own weight. She knows as well as anyone how difficult it can be to lose weight. She was determined to reach her goals — and through dedication and hard work she did. Now she’s determined to help you reach your goals How the Jillian Michaels Diet Plan Works Jillian has combined years of training experience with the weight-loss secrets from her success on NBC’s hit series The Biggest Loser to create her new online program. This is your real solution to weight loss. Change your life by following Jillian’s triple-threat approach to success: self, science, and sweat. From: http://is.gd/GZkon1

Raw Food Cleanse: Guidance For A 10 D...

Raw Food Cleanse: Guidance For A 10 Day Cleanse If you want to rejuvenate, find new energy and bring a sense of well being into your life, plus lose a few pounds, what better way than through undertaking a raw food cleanse? raw food cleanse Raw food is almost always healthier than the foods that most of us are choosing every day. If you eat only fresh, unprocessed foods, you will automatically cut out all refined sugars and flours and most fatty foods. During a raw cleanse, you will eat very simply and your body will thank you for that! The raw food cleanse can last from 7 to 10 days. You will need to do some planning ahead of time. Social occasions can be difficult when you are eating raw so if you want to make your detox as easy as possible, try to pick a period of time when you do not have any business lunches, restaurant meals or visits to family. If people are visiting you that’s fine because you can control what you eat. It is possible to take your own food when eating at somebody else’s house but it can be hard for them to understand so it will be much simpler if you can find a clear week in your diary for your cleanse. The day before your raw food cleanse begins, try to eat as simply as possible with plenty of fruit and vegetables. Avoid eating a lot of meat or fatty, sugary foods and stay off alcohol. If you drink more than two cups of coffee/tea per day, cut down gradually in the days leading up to the cleanse to avoid caffeine withdrawal headaches during the cleanse.http://ow.ly/3ZTPi