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6 Easy Exercises to Wake up Your Lazy Muscles

Fatigue and felling “tired all the time” is a common feature in modern life. Mental tensions are often expressed as constant partial contraction of the muscles, which depletes your energy and disrupts your breathing pattern, making you tired. Muscles remain tense, even when you are inactive and think you re resting. To wakeup lazy muscles, here are 6 moves you can do to combat fatigue:

1. The big bend – Stand with hands on top of table or chair; bend forward from hips. Back up until arms are straight out. Next, stand on rope, feet wide apart; pull rope taut. Lower head, draw hips back. Feel the pull through arms, spine, and backs of legs.

2. The long stretch – This second warm-upper removes tension from long muscle fibers and tendons. You need a length of rope, ends knotted together.

Rope in hands, raise arms up and out, so rope becomes taut all around.

3. Cat Stretch – Crouch down on your hands and knees, with your arms and thighs vertical, like pillars. As you exhale, slowly lower your head and arch your back up, so that it forms a curve. Then, as you inhale, bend your head up and bring your spine down so that it dips slightly. Feel the stretch along your spine, neck and shoulders. Repeat several times, breathing slowly, and accentuate the upward and downward stretches of the spine as much as you can; do not move your head.

4. Inverted corpse – Lie near a wall and raise legs, resting them on the wall at a 450 angle, without bending knees. You may place a cushion under your buttocks, but not during menstruation. This exercise is also good if you suffer from varicose veins.

Caution: Avoid this if you have recently had a blood clot in a vein or if you have hypertension.

5. Cobra – Lie face down with your legs together. Place your hands flat on the floor, on either side of your chest. Inhale and raise your head. Exhale. Inhale and raise your chest until your ribs are off the floor. Exhale. Inhale and stretch further up and back, stopping just before your navel comes off the floor. Use your back muscles to lift your rib cage, and then use your arms. Hold for three to five breaths, and then slowly lower yourself as you exhale.

6. Meditation pose – Sit with your legs out and part them to form a V-shape. Bend your left leg and bring it towards you, placing your left foot on the floor close to your groin. Then bend your tight leg and place your right foot on your left thigh. Rest your hands on your knees. Keep your back straight and start to meditate.

Published: May 23, 2009

4 Easy Steps to Watch Your Health While You Are In the Office

By now you may know what ergonomically correct means, and you are well aware of the dangers a “non-EC” workspace can bring: sore back, headache, eyestrain, as well as neck, wrist, and shoulder pain. So why do you continue to put yourself at the mercy of your desk? Because most of us do not know how to begin to address our ergonomic needs, and even if we did, we would be afraid of what it might cost. But the price of doing nothing can be devastating. Workers with carpal tunnel syndrome (a condition associated with keyboard use and other tasks that require repetitive wrist motions) lost a median of 30 days from work in 1995, the year for which data are available.

Here are the 4 most common problems in the office with both an all-out solution and a budget-conscious quick fix:

1. Computer problem
Problem: Glare bouncing off the screen can lead to fatigue and eyestrain. Take this test to see if you’ve got a glare problem. Turn off your monitor. Can you see your clothing reflected in the screen? Now turn the monitor back on, and shade your eyes with a piece of paper. Can you see the screen more clearly? Next, hold a pad of paper above the screen. Is it more readable? If you answered yes to any of these questions, read on.

Quick fix: Believe it or not, wearing darker clothing helps. As does adjusting your screen so the background is light and the characters are dark, turning down overhead lighting, and making a hood to hang over the top of the monitor.

All-out solution: Buy a glare screen. Polarizing filters work like sunglasses. Glass filters with at least three layers of filtering material on both sides of the screen are ideal for cutting both internal and external glare. Even better are glass filters that are grounded to prevent static and dirt buildup between the filter and the computer. Look for products approved by the American Optometric Association.

2. Keyboard
Problem: Improper use of keyboards forces the wrist into unnatural positions, causing discomfort and long-term injury.

Quick fix: Try to keep in a “neutral” position. The angle between the forearm and the hand should be flat.

All-out solution: Experts argue whether ergonomically correct keyboards help. But there’s more agreement on the value of an adjustable keyboard platform or support. The keyboard position healthiest for you is with the front slightly higher than the back, allowing your wrist to assume a naturally neutral position while you type.

3. Chair
Problem: Seating that does not offer enough support and is not the right size can cause all kinds of pain. Improper lumbar support can lead to backache and fatigue. If the seat pan is too deep, it can cut off circulation behind the knees.

Quick fix: Place a rolled-up towel behind the small of your back. Or use an inflatable pillow, available at back specialty stores.

All-out solution: Spring for a better chair. Adjustability is key. Look for chairs with adjustable back rests, arm rests (movement ion and out is just as important as up and down), seatback heights (pneumatic controls are better than manual ones), and seat bottoms.

4. Mouse
Problem: A mouse can be temperamental, not responding to the pressure of your fingers. That usually leads to repeated clicking – and potential injury.

Quick fix: Take apart and clean out your mouse every few weeks.

All-out solution: Shop around for a mouse that fits the shape of your hand. Also, consider getting a mouse platform that swivels; position it as close to your side as possible.

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Hot Tips: Tips Avoid Swine Flu

New virus strain swine fl) can indeed kill. Moreover, a new virus strain can spread quickly. The reason, no one shall have a natural immunity against this new virus. And take several months to develop this virus vaccination.

But at least there are some steps that can be done to prevent the disease of swine flu that is transmitted from person to person is. Agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides some tips.

Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Then dispose of the tissue to the recycle bin.

  • Frequent-washing your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleanser is also effective to use.
  • Do not touch the mouth, nose or mouth with your hands.
  • Avoid close contact with people or the sick flu. Because influenza is generally spread through person to person through coughing or sneezing people.
  • If you’re sick of flu, CDC recommends that you do not go to work or school and rest at home.

In Mexico, the country was the most severe outbreaks of swine flu, the government of the land issue appeal for citizens not to smooch, although only smell cheek.

The government of Mexico also advice not to be among the throng of the people and not close to other people’s pain. Also encouraged the use of masks in the country.

So far at least 81 people have died due to outbreak of swine flu in Mexico. More than a thousand other people affected by this disease.

Published: April 29, 2009

Stay fit and active, remaining healthy with age

Staying Fit and remaining active isn’t always that easy. I know from personal experience that weight can sneak up on you and it happens very fast. Staying active and eating healthy is always a good choice as we get older. When young our metabolism burns all the extra fat but as we get older more works needs to go into maintaining our natural weight. They say if you eat normal and don’t exercise you can gain up to 10 – 15 pounds per year.

Playing outdoor games in order to maintain your weight such as playing baseball, basketball and other outdoor sports will help you remain healthy as you get older.

Sometimes and especially in today’s generation you simply don’t have time to play outdoor activities and you must look for other substitutions on ways to remain healthy and or loose the extra winter weight. Don’t give up there’s a way and it’s safe plus cheap. The name is Proactol and it helps reduce fat build up and in the long run will allow you to eat that extra snack or chocolate bar. This isn’t a 100% substitution for weight gain but along with exercise and diet this pill can help you maintain your healthy lifestyle.

Published: July 30, 2008

Staying Healthy and Living Long

For many people, getting to a stage where you are feeling good and healthy both physically and mentally is a rather tough task. But for all people, it is maintaining health and staying healthy that proves to be even harder.

After all, no one wants to have himself suffering from mental disorder or being infected by viruses due to not being clean or not staying away from stress. Staying away from these and keeping yourself healthy is very easy, it is more up to you to make the effort, you are key. Set yourself targets to meet, such as if you went on a diet, keep up to the diet or keep up to your regular exercise targets. To do this, help motivate yourself, think of the positives over the negatives, and it will help you get to your goal.

Too keep yourself in the best of physical health; you need to maintain two things, hygiene and fitness. Both of these can easily be achieved, for example, for fitness, regular exercise is the answer to any problems. Setting up a routine and making sure you stick to that is the best possible way and it really doesn’t matter what sport you like. Like many fitness coaches say, ‘Every sport counts’, and that is most certainly true. Whether you are doing jumping on the spot to extreme sports such as snowboarding, it all helps. The part to remember is to actually do what you set yourself and you will see that it pays of both physically and mentally.

In addition to this, maintain yourself through your hygiene. A shower in the morning and the night is easy to do and takes less than half an hour of a person’s time, but keeping clean provides a great feeling. Washing before eating, watching what you eat, all of this helps to keep you healthy. Another very important aspect is what you eat. As you may know, keeping a regular diet is very rewarding to a person. So, manage yourself with what you eat.

Lastly, health is not just physical health; you have to have mental health as well. Problems can be caused when you have too much on your mind, too much work to do, i.e. stress. Too avoid this, try not to overwork yourself and give yourself breaks. Keep your life stress free and a pleasure to live.

Published: June 23, 2008


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