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		<title>Extreme Fitness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People think that building muscles is renouncing to normal life and you have to give full dedication to it, spending all your time in gym working and working non stop.
That is not necessarily like this. True that hard work is truly essential and extreme fitness needs constant and intensive work with the iron weights. Nevertheless, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People think that <strong>building muscle</strong>s is renouncing to normal life and you have to give full dedication to it, spending all your time in gym working and working non stop.</p>
<p>That is not necessarily like this. True that hard work is truly essential and extreme fitness needs constant and intensive work with the iron weights. Nevertheless, full-body work outs can help to progress and it easily fits in daily schedule.</p>
<p><strong>Genuine athletes work out looking for maximum muscle contraction using heavy weights and making room for full recovery so they can grow and continue training hard.</strong> This sort of routine prevents burnout happening because of excess training.</p>
<p>To have a better idea about how is training Extrem-Fitness, have a look at this video.</p>
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		<title>Four health tips for sports-fitness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all those interested on sports fitness, here you are some useful healthy tips. These are generally valid whatever sports you intend to practice.
A) Include vegetables in your diet.
Vegetables and fruits provide mineral supplies and vitamins, which are essential for people who practice sports fitness. When you increase your body requires more inputs of these [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For all those interested on sports fitness, here you are some useful healthy tips. These are generally valid whatever sports you intend to practice.</p>
<p><strong>A) Include vegetables in your diet.</strong></p>
<p>Vegetables and fruits provide mineral supplies and vitamins, which are essential for people who practice sports fitness. When you increase your body requires more inputs of these complements in order to be strong and healthy enough to enhance its performance.</p>
<p><strong>B) Calcium for bones.</strong></p>
<p>A rich amount of calcium in your diet will help your bones to become stronger. So if you are into sports fitness, make sure to enclose it in your daily diet.</p>
<p>Just remember if you expose your body to severe physical activity your bones will have to support an extra charge and it’s important to have them strong in order to avoid problems, like fractures or illnesses as “osteoporosis.”</p>
<p>Calcium is present in some mineral supplements and vitamines. It can be found too in foods like spinaches, soja, sardines, octopus, tofu and many dairy products.</p>
<p><strong>C) Drink a lot of liquid.</strong></p>
<p>Even the human body can resist without food for long time, it doesn’t happens the same with drinking. Two or three days without liquid intake can be fatal. That can give you an idea of how much important is water for our body.</p>
<p>Of course water is the most important ingredient in human body. Due to transpiration, we loose liquids so we need to replace  the lost fluids in our organism so as to avoid serious problems that could even arrive, in some extreme cases, to death. Hence the importance for people doing exhausting exercises, to drink a lot of water.</p>
<p>In some cases, when the effort is very high, only water may not be enough. Then drinking sports drinks will help to replace, not only the lost water but also the additional mineral salts and carbohydrates that our body looses when sweating. Especially for people practicing sports fitness those drinks can be very useful. <img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-106" style="float:right;margin-bottom:25px;margin-left:25px;" src="http://www.homemuscle.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fruites-300x281.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="300" height="281" /></p>
<p><strong>D) Warming up and stretching properly.</strong></p>
<p>Taking our body from normal to strong activity can cause muscular problems because our body is not yet ready for it. Warming up and stretching your body is necessary. Even sometimes we are anxious to start our favorite sports, or we don’t have a lot of time, warming up is never a loose of time.</p>
<p>Also, after finishing the sports, is highly recommended stretching your muscles; when they are still warm. This will help to improve elasticity and performance in the future.</p>
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		<title>Be Healthy having fun. Sports Fitness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is Sports Fitness? If someone asks you this question you will immediately think of sport in general. You would be right, fitness it has always been considered as sport activity. So, essentially all kind of sports can be considered Fitness Sports.
Normally all sport activities have a fun component. People do sport for many things [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font size=3><strong>What is Sports Fitness?</strong></font> If someone asks you this question you will immediately think of sport in general. You would be right, fitness it has always been considered as sport activity. So, essentially all kind of sports can be considered Fitness Sports.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.homemuscle.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/sport-fitness-300x201.jpg" alt="" title="sport-fitness" width="300" height="201" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-93"style="float:left;margin-bottom:25px;margin-right:25px;margin-top:25px;" /></a>Normally all sport activities have a fun component. People do sport for many things but, except in few special cases, always related to enjoying spare time. Several are the reasons that can move a person to do sport, like competition, amusement or simply self-satisfaction. As a physical activity, sports can be also considered as a kind of physical fitness.</p>
<p>Therefore, sports fitness is able to reduce the amount of fat in a person’s body because it implies a firm and severe health plan, which allows following a healthy and balanced life-style, according with the intensiveness of the sport performed. </p>
<p><font size=2><strong>Heath is the key point in sports</strong></font>, and we should learn to give it its right importance. Regular check-ups to control with your doctor your health status. Balanced diet, eating healthy and at the right time. Sleeping enough so as to give your body sufficient rest to recover itself from the daily routine. Only that way we can bear the effort that sports activities require withouht risking yout health.</p>
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		<title>Guidelines to become a fitness model</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding time for exercise should be a priority despite not always having a lot of spare time. Only some minutes a day are enough and for this not really difficult once you get used to it. You can reduce some time ot your evening television-viewing time, getting up earlier in the morning or simply using [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Finding time for exercise should be a priority despite not always having a lot of spare time. Only some minutes a day are enough and for this not really difficult once you get used to it. You can reduce some time ot your evening television-viewing time, getting up earlier in the morning or simply using some of your lunch for a quick walk. It’s really not so difficult to find some time if you really wish it.</p>
<p>We live in a World where the image is very important and that’s why fitness models have become health and beauty icons in our society. For that reason it’s not strange that some people just think of the advantages of physical fitness in order to show others how much fit they can look like.<br />
<img src="http://www.homemuscle.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fitness-model1.jpg" alt="fitness model" title="fitness-model1" width="300" height="343" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-66" style="float:left;margin-bottom:25px;margin-right:25px;margin-top:25px;" /><br />
In fact, each person that can move has the capability to do some degree of exercise; and everyone who is able to project the profits of exercise and physical fitness can potentially become a fitness model.</p>
<p>If this is your case, and you think that you have everything to become a fitness model, here are some guidelines on how to turn into one.</p>
<p><strong>Forget about the idea that fitness is only a question of body shape.</strong></p>
<p>Our society has some stereotypes as far as body-beauty is concerned. Women have to be thin and sexy and men to have to have well marked muscles and good body shape.</p>
<p>Trying to emulate this standard is fairly common that people try to do efforts in exercising not thinking to be healthier and fit but only to be like their fitness models that they admire in TV, films or magazines.</p>
<p>In fact, being a fitness model doesn’t always implies owning a perfect body shape, so you can be a fitness model just working to become healthier and not only a sexier and physically more attractive person.</p>
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		<title>Tips to achieve a fitness body</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember that “You are what you eat”
To be a fitness model, you have to understand that our body reflects the way we feed it. So it shows what kind of food we give him. Healthy food will turn into a healthier body and all the physical activities that you have in life will be more [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Remember that “You are what you eat”</strong></p>
<p>To be a fitness model, you have to understand that our body reflects the way we feed it. So it shows what kind of food we give him. Healthy food will turn into a healthier body and all the physical activities that you have in life will be more effective.</p>
<p>If you don’t believe on this philosophy, then it will be difficult you ever reach to be a fitness model and to achieve a really physical good shape.</p>
<p><strong>You must live a healthy lifestyle</strong></p>
<p>Even it’s true that there is a genetic factor that determines somehow about our health and body. Not less true is that there are other important factors that nothing have to do with genes. What you eat in your meals and, also has a big influence, eating at the right time. These, added to the kind of activity that you follow, will determine about your results. So your chance to become a fitness model will be drastically reduced if you are not able to follow an apporpiate lifestyle.</p>
<p><strong>Have a “positive self image”</strong></p>
<p>For being a fitness model, you have to make the effort to have a positive image about yourself and your body. In that context you have to give only importance to your body evolution, not regarding so much about the environment or what happens in your life.</p>
<p>Love your body and try to be yourself. Everyone has some limits so never dream to have someone else's body. That way you will gain respect for yourself, and it will make others respect you and admire you too.</p>
<p>The most important thing is that, being a fitness model is not only about narcissism and physical appearance. What is more important is the fact of being physically fit and healthy which reflects the success of a well done job.</p>
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		<title>Fitness&#8230; what is that?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is fitness?
Fitness can be defined as to be in good physical condition. It’s a general feeling that athletes are very fit, because they work is focused on performance orientated to fitness for sports. Nevertheless there is no need to be an athlete to be fit. Doing some corporal exercise will improve your fitness and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>What is fitness?</strong></span></p>
<p>Fitness can be defined as to be in good physical condition. It’s a general feeling that athletes are very fit, because they work is focused on performance orientated to fitness for sports. Nevertheless there is no need to be an athlete to be fit. Doing some corporal exercise will improve your fitness and healthiness, it doesn’t matter your age or physical complexion.</p>
<p>This theme focuses on health-related fitness, which can help feeling well and decreasing the risk of having certain health problems. Modifying your habits and your daily routine will help you to improve your fitness.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.homemuscle.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fitness-magazine.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-16" style="float:right;margin-bottom:25px;margin-left:25px;" title="fitness-magazine" src="http://www.homemuscle.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fitness-magazine-224x300.jpg" border="0" alt="Fitness magazine" width="224" height="300" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Benefits of fitness</strong></span></p>
<p>Fitness helps you feeling better and having more vigor to face work and to enjoy your leisure time. You will feel this extra energy will enhance simple activities like playing with your children, cooking or cycling. If you keep active and fit, you burn up more calories, even when resting. For this you can lose weight in case you have extra kilos. Having good physical fitness helps to an easy sleep, keep your mind attentive and reduce stress. Fitness is good for your body lowering risk of cardiovascular illnesses, colon cancer, high blood pressure and diabetes</p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>How much physical activity is adequate?</strong></span></p>
<p>Making physical activity one of the normal activities in your daily life, is necessary to improve your health. There are different options according to your time availability and also your tastes. Daily moderate exercise, like fast walking, can be done for about 30 minutes, 5 days a week or more. If you prefer stronger activities, like running, then 3 days a week 20 minutes or more will be suitable. Running increases your heart rate considerably. Children and teens should have activity one or more hours a day.</p>
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