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Exercise and Your Age

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

One thing to note is that muscle mass will decrease as your age, especially when you’re starting to enter old age. Once you enter old age, the speed of muscle reduction may be more pronounced. Remember, that your muscles will support your body frame for the move. When muscle mass decreases, someone automatically will find it difficult to move in old age because of loss of strength and motor skills. (more…)

Exercise in the Office

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

For you office executives, sitting in front of computer and typing are the two major things that you often do. The longer you sit, watching videos, or other activities that could be considered only a few moves (sedentary lifestyle) was associated with greater fat storage. Now, with the tips below, we can move much more in our office. (more…)

Do Sports Anywhere, Anytime

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Who does not know that exercise is important? Sport is one of the important ways in addition to nutrition and adequate rest to get the ideal body shape and also healthier life. However, for busy people, especially young executives both men and women, the factor of time and energy, or laziness are mostly the main reasons for not exercising. Here are some tips for you to do exercise anywhere, anytime. (more…)

Train your muscles, and get stronger bones for a bonus!

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

You must be used to hear that fitness can increase your muscle strength. But latest research shows the existence of synergy between muscle strength with bone strength. So how muscle strength and bone are interconnected?

First, our bones turn out signal – a chemical signal to be received by our muscles. In reverse, the muscle also responses (known as myokines) which influence the bone strength and density. Second, the calcium that is important for the health of our bones is also needed for our muscle contraction. So no wonder if the strength of our bones will be highly correlated with the strength of our muscles. (more…)

Breath & Resistant Training

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Breathing is a natural thing we do, which make us do not realize that breathing can be one of the crucial techniques when we do weight training. In this case, what makes breathing be crucial?

Breathing techniques is related with blood pressure in heart, and by doing a good breathing technique, you minimize the performance of the heart and the blood pressure does not increase too high1. With the right techniques, you will not get the heart palpitations while doing weight training.

Then, how is the correct technique? Take a deep breath before lifting weights and then exhale while lifting weights, and inhale again while lowering weights (inhale before contraction-exhale when contraction-inhale after contraction). For example,


  • When doing bench press, take a deep breath before pushing your weights, and exhale when pushing the weights, inhale again when the weights down.
  • When doing crunch exercise, take a deep breath before the contraction, exhale your breath when the abdominal muscles contracting (when up), and inhale back during the relaxation process.

With better technique, you can get maximum results and reduces the risk of injury. Good luck!