With the summer holiday officially over and the kids back to school it’s time to create some new healthy habits. Everybody is back in their routine at work and in the house so it’s easy to establish a new pattern that will help you become healthier, fitter and stronger. But where to start?
Sit down first [...]
I don’t celebrate my own birthday. Not because I don’t want to or for any religious reasons. No, because I’m lazy. When you have a family of five and celebrate 4 other birthdays with decorating the house, cooking for the party, the party itself and the cleaning, I don’t feel much like partying myself.
After all [...]
Everyday there is a new miracle cure for the perfect abdominals. Pills, exercise equipment, shakes…They promise us the most beautiful six pack. Unfortunately a tummy like that comes down to simple maths. The amount of calories you consume and the amount of exercise you do. More calories and less exercise equals fat. It’s very simple. [...]
Everybody has done things that they feel guilty about. Big things, small things. It doesn’t really matter what the action was, because a big thing for one person is a small thing for another. The annoying thing is that the guilt stays. Guilt is an emotion that sticks to your heart and takes over your [...]
Take a good look at everything in your kitchen presses that you use daily. Do you use it out of habit? Is it convenient? What can you replace with something healthy the next time you go shopping? This list will lower your calorie intake without a lot of effort.
Here are 10 items that you can [...]
From personal experience I know that most people are very rarely alone. I’m not talking about single people. When you live alone, go home and put on the radio or the television, you are not alone. You let other voices in your live. Other opinions. When you live in a city and with a [...]
I often hear people complaining that they don’t have time to exercise. They want to but it’s impossible to fit in their daily schedule. Working full-time, kids, housework, family or pets take up all the time there is in a day. Going to the gym 3 days a week is just not feasible and takes [...]
For some people meditation is the best thing that ever happened to them. Others feel obliged to try it because someone recommended it.
When they hear the word meditation they get views of people sitting cross legged with their eyes closed and totally peaceful. Who does not want to feel peaceful? Then they sit down, try [...]
As I described in First visit with a personal trainer there are different test that can be done to see how fit someone is. Another test is the sit up test. It’s very easy to do and you can check if you are in line with the The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) fitness [...]
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Every Monday will be Instant Happiness Tip Day to start of the week with the right intentions. It’s a new page (see at the top) and in time it will be organized as separate pages under the main page in blocks of ten tips. There are loads of things you can do to experience happiness or [...]
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