Archive for the ‘Fitness’ Category

The Pencil and Paper Method

Friday, December 24, 2010 5:58 Comments Off

To record a weight routine in an empty notebook, set up a spreadsheet — a table with columns and rows. Record your exercises down the side as row headings, and a series of dates across the top as column headings. If you’re using grid paper, make each column six grids wide. If you’re using lined [...]

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Touch Therapies and the Promotion of Well-Being: Massage Therapy

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 6:12 Comments Off

Techniques aimed at the reduction of experienced stress are the means by which a person either helps him or herself or is helped by someone else to feel more comfortable psychologically, that is, to experience less anxiety and sense of emotional disquiet. Factors related to the induction and experience of stress vary in any given [...]

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Do You Need Dietary Supplements?

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 11:25 Comments Off

You probably take some sort of supplements. So do I. But do we really need them for our workouts to be successful? If you read enough bodybuilding magazines, you may think that you don’t have a chance of building a good body without taking lots of expensive supplements. The truth is, you don’t need any—especially [...]

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