Depending upon your genetics, as well as your exercise routine and diet, your body shape may be quite different from those around you. Not everyone likes the body type or shape that they are born with, but there are ways to make the most of what you have. Here are some tips on how to identify your body type and shape as well as how to sculpt it with the best possible … [Read more...]
Supermodel ‘In-The-Making’ Mia Kang Talks Fashion, Fitness & Sports Illustrated!
Mia Kang has been modeling since the tender age of 13. The multinational model was born in Hong Kong and has been travelling ever since. She has set the modeling world on fire by appearing in the magazine, Sports Illustrated in 2016. Mia is a lady of many talents. She's got a master’s degree in finance, knows her way around a basketball court, and is an ace at catching waves on … [Read more...]
Ex-TOWIE Pascal Craymer Reveals her Workout, Diet and Beauty Secrets
Pascal Craymer is a British model and Miss England finalist. She began her modelling career in Spain, aged 18, before moving back to the UK. She is the face of Vivarini swimwear, 2010 and Nikki Beach, Marbella, and have featured in numerous music videos, magazines and photoshoots. Modelling has seen her travel the breadth of Europe, to venues including Amsterdam, Paris and … [Read more...]
Top 8 Fastest Ways to Burn 800 Calories
Your body needs calories to do everything it does; breathing, organ function, everything. It needs more calories the more active you are. This is why exercise is key to weight loss; while consuming fewer calories will help you balance your energy intake with your energy consumed, exercise will help your body burn more calories than it takes in---this will help you to burn … [Read more...]
Yoga Poses for Sculpted Inner Thigh
With warm weather around the corner, are you ready to bare your legs?Yoga for inner thigh muscles are quite relevant as they initiate the alignment of the hips and lower back and as such they play and important part in every group of poses, ranging from standing poses, backbends, forward bends etc. to keep the legs and hips aligned. WF experts have designed a yoga … [Read more...]
Foods For Enhancing Bone Density
As part of a diet for strong bones, and for your health in general, you need to eat a healthy, well balanced and varied diet that includes at least 5 servings of fruit and/or vegetables a day, plenty of wholegrain cereals and not too much sugar or fat. Building strong bones when we are young and helps to reduce the effects of bone-density loss as we get older means that we can … [Read more...]
5 Nourishing Blueberry Recipes
According to a study presented at the 2009 Experimental Biology conference, a diet rich in blueberries lowers blood cholesterol levels while improving glucose control and insulin sensitivity, lowering the risk of subsequent heart disease and diabetes. Lemon Blueberry Muffins with Poppyseeds Ingredients 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder … [Read more...]
Blueberry: Nutritional Superstar to Boost Your Bone Density
Polyphenols – an important class of antioxidants found in blueberry which give it the bluish colour– has shown to help increase bone density. A study carried out by Jin-Ran Chen and his colleagues from the Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center in Little Rock (published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research back in 2010) indicated a strong link that blueberries can … [Read more...]
For Lower Cholesterol, Make It A Double
Alcohol's heart-friendly reputation has just had a big boost especially for post-menopausal women. Research published in the journal of clinical nutrition in February revealed that having two alcoholic drinks, in one day offers more than double the protection from cardiovascular disease than one drink provides. In the long term having one drink a day lowers your risk by 5 per … [Read more...]
Belly Fat Linked To Early Death – How to fight it?
As women age, fat is more likely to build around the midsection, rather than the hips and thighs. Too much belly fat can increase your risk for heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Now an important new study links belly fat to early death. Researchers followed about 360,000 Europeans enrolled in one of the largest, longest health studies in the world. They found that people … [Read more...]
Age Spots : Treatment Options and Prevention
One of these days, do you find yourself glancing worriedly at your own hands, face, shoulder and neck. Unprotected skin, on being excessively exposed to UV rays- whether from a tanning booth, a sunlamp or years of going without sunscreen, protects itself by producing an overabundance of melanin-the pigmented cells in your skin- resulting in uneven patches. Age spots known … [Read more...]
Melasma or PIH : Skin’s Natural Response to Inflammation
If your complexion is being punished by unsightly brown patches that never seem to go away, you may have melasma or post inflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH). Post Inflammatory hyperpigmentation, or PIH, is the medical term given to discoloration of the skin that follows an inflammatory wound. It is the skin's natural response to inflammation. Post-inflammatory … [Read more...]
How Does Skin Work?
Skin is the largest of all the body organs & the one of which you are most aware of. Women Fitness in its effort to help you understand your skin and its management, will provide you with all the essential information you must possess to achieve a lifelong nourished skin. This water-proof covering and self-repairing body covering is a reflector of health and … [Read more...]
Chloasma: “The Mask of Pregnancy”
Darkened Skin is a common phenomena among pregnant women, commonly called the mask of pregnancy (but officially known as chloasma or melasma gravidarum). Women with darker complexion are more prone to this condition. Also you're also more likely to develop Melassma or Chloasma (melasma occuring during pregnancy) if it runs in your family and the effects of chloasma become more … [Read more...]
Sculpting Long, Lean and Lovely Shoulders
Toned shoulders and sculpted arms make dressing an absolute pleasure, and they also make your upper body leaner and stronger. They take time to achieve, but rest assured it can be done – here's how. As with almost any other part of the body, un-toned arms are more likely to be caused by excess fat than by untrained muscles – and the tops of the arms, like thehips, are flab … [Read more...]
Strategy for Building Muscle Mass and Muscle Density
Fitness model or natural bodybuilder look strikingly different because of a low body fat percentage and enhanced muscle mass and muscle density. These are components which can be built over time. You cannot just expect results within three to four months and think you have done the necessary work. You have to build the foundation to sculpt the masterpiece. There are … [Read more...]
Getting the Best from Strength Training
Like any sport or activity, strength training has tricks to learn and techniques to master. Strength training can involve using weights or your own body weight to challenge and build muscle. Get ready to tighten up all the leftover flab, if you want to look good in your bathing suit this summer. Here's are some tips to help you get the most from your strength training … [Read more...]
Understanding Role of Stabilizer Muscles
Your body has two types of muscle (really more than this, but the others are in your internal organs), movers and stabilizers. Movers are big muscles that move your body parts, hence the name. Stabilizers are muscles that hold your parts in place and prevent you from being damaged while the movers are moving you. According to the American Council on Exercise, "Stabilizing … [Read more...]
IFBB Bikini Pro Natalie Pennington Reveals Her Bikini Body Secrets
Natalie Pennington is half Korean and half French. She is a professional fitness competitor who currently competes in the bikini division of the International Federation of Bodybuilding (IFBB). This Korean/French Washington state native is making great strides as a professional fitness competitor. Since beginning competitive training about a few years ago, she has already … [Read more...]
World Leading Model, DJ and TV Personality Emily Scott Unviels The Secrets Of Her Super Toned Body
Emily Scott is an Australian model, DJ, record producer, and television personality. She appeared in the visuals of Robbie Williams' spring 2006 tour, and in a remake of the "Rock DJ" video clip. She was the face of Lipton Ice Tea. In 2006, she was in the ITV reality series Love Island. As a DJ she tours Europe, Australia and Asia. Scott mixed a compilation CD "Clublife" for … [Read more...]
The Female Tennis Superstar Ana Ivanovic Reveals Her Fitness Secrets
Ana Ivanovic is regarded as the most beautiful women tennis player in the world today. She is an enigma of women tennis. Ana Ivanovic is a Serbian tennis player ranked No. 1 in the world in 2008. As of January 13, 2014, she is no. 14 in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings for singles. She beat Dinara Safina to win the 2008 French Open and was the runner-up in singles … [Read more...]
5 Beauty Benefits You Can Get From Working Out
Whether you’re a regular gym junkie, a Zumba zealot or a marathon maven, you probably already know just how important regular exercise is for maintaining your overall health. However, you may not be aware that working out has benefits way beyond just shrinking your waistline and improving your mood. Believe it or not, keeping fit is also a great, way to improve your complexion, … [Read more...]
Breathing
The first thing you do when you are born is breathe, and it's the last thing you'll do when you exit. Oxygen is the most vital nutrient for our bodies and is essential for all of our organs and tissues. If we don't get enough of it, the result is mental sluggishness, negative thoughts, depression and various other health concerns. The act of breathing seems pretty simple and … [Read more...]
Counting Some Health Benefits of Meditation
Meditation is not for a few but is necessary for all human beings. The inner self of a person touches the Higher Self (the Param-Tattwa) during deep sleep daily. This unknown touch recharges the battery of man. Meditation involves sitting in a relaxed position and clearing your mind. You may focus on a sound, like 'ooommm', or on your own breathing, or on nothing at all. It's … [Read more...]
Yoga to Boost Your Metabolic Pathway
State of relaxation achieved as a result of regular yoga practice seems to be involved with energy metabolism pathways, specifically mitochondrial function, in the test subjects. A study from investigators at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) finds that elicitation of the … [Read more...]
Trunk Stability: Firing Up the Muscles
Exercises that integrate the entire body and develop trunk stability are critical for developing athletic potential. Developing trunk stability holds the key to strengthening your body from the inside out. Core building is the deepest level of strength training that can be practiced. When this kind of strength is developed you will see an increase in strength in everything you … [Read more...]
Body Crunches for Superior Abs
Virtually all exercises require us to use our abdominal muscles for stability or mobility, so the abs get a synergistic workout when we do squats, for example. A San Diego State University study found that abs respond best to exercises that work three sets of muscles at once: the rectus abdominis, which makes up the eight-pack; the muscles to the sides of it, called the … [Read more...]
Crunch: An Ineffective Ab Exercise
According to ACE commissioned study, on what is the best, most efficient route to tighter abs? The Biomechanics Lab at San Diego State University revealed a unique look at 13 of the most common abdominal exercises, ranking them best to worst. The researchers recruited 30 healthy women and men to participate in the study. The subjects, ages 20 to 45, ranged from occasional … [Read more...]
Ab Crack: The New Misguiding Fitness Craze
After going crazy for the thigh gap which didn't seem healthy, a single depressed line between the left and right abs region called the "Ab Crack" is the new fitness craze. Just like a thigh gap which is not normally achievable by healthy means ab crack which is called the linea alba, is a tendinous inscription between your ab muscles, is pretty much determined by your … [Read more...]
The World’s “Best Female Underwater Explorer” Jill Heinerth Shares Her Awe-Inspiring Success Story
More people have walked on the moon, than have been to some of the places that Jill’s exploration has taken her right here on the earth. From the most dangerous technical dives deep inside underwater caves, to searching for never before seen ecosystems inside giant Antarctic icebergs, to the lawless desert border area between Egypt and Libya while a civil war raged around her, … [Read more...]
