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Showing posts with label Fitness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fitness. Show all posts

Thursday, 12 June 2014

I am back!

I am back! After a long break I am back with my culinary blog. I am staring again to promote healthy eating and healthy lifestyle. I want to where with you my healthy tips, motivation and the way to loose some weight forever. I like preparing healthy, diet, low calories dishes.  Cooking  gives me a lot of fun, de-stresses, relaxes. I hung up on healthy, unprocessed, natural products.
I love food markets and local products. Once again  I want to share with you my own rules of eating, ideas for healthy and natural meals for many occasions, advice on what to buy to eat healthy. I want to show you that you don't have to eat highly processed food, ready meals and that in about 30 minutes you can prepare healthy meal for you family.



I am waiting for your comments and your suggestions.

Little Miss Spoon

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Tuesday with Yoga - What you need for yoga class



I am  new to yoga and when  I showed up at my first class I didn’t know what to expect: What did I need to bring? Was I wearing the right clothes? Would I be expected to put my body into poses I had never heard of?
I am certainly no expert, I have come up with a helpful list of 5 Yoga Essentials for beginner yogis. All of these make great gifts for yoga lovers, too!


1) Yoga mat  


2) Comfortable, breathable, supportive yoga tops  to move around freely
3) Comfortable, breathable, yoga trousers.
4) The Yoga Blocks  to  provides the stability needed for optimal alignment and deeper poses, especially for beginners.

5) Reading material! I don’t know about you, but when I’m new to something, I like to read all about it!
Do you have any recommendations?

Monday, 4 February 2013

30 Tips For Flat Tummy



Today I am presenting you some tips to get flat tummy. I try to use them and what I can say they work.
So try them. And maybe you have any other tips? 
 

 
 
 
1.      Drink a glass of water before eating
2.      Eat 5 small meals a day
3.      Eat slowly
4.      Do cardio 20 minutes a day, 5 days a week
5.      Know your serving sizes
6.      Good posture: it strengthens tummy muscles!
7.      Swim!
8.      Strengthen your core
9.      Cut out sweets
10.  Do push-ups accurately
11.  Do reverse sit-ups
12.  Never skip breakfast
13.  Drink lots of water everyday
14.  Get at least 7-8 hours of sleep every night
15.  Cut down on alcohol consumption
16.  Reduce salt intake
17.  Avoid stress
18.  Color your plate
19.  Cut out fast food
20.  Cut out soda
21.  Don't starve yourself
22.  Don't isolate just your stomach
23.  5 servings of fresh fruit or veggies
24.  Enrich your diet with fiber
25.  Do crunchies with exercise ball
26.  Plank
27.  Leg lifts
28.  Climb stairs
29.  Do yoga
30.  Stay inspired

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Tuesday with yoga - cobra position

If weight loss is your problem, yoga can be the simple answer to losing weight if doing it in a healthy way. I would like to show you some yoga position I am doing during my classess.
My yoga position of the day is the cobra pose. It is also called the Bhujangasana. 
The cobra pose owes its name to the fact that you need to lift your body like a snake's head in this yoga position. While doing the cobra pose, your body resembles a hooded snake that is ready to strike.



Steps To Do The Cobra Pose: 
1. Lie flat on your stomach and rest your head on your folded arms. 
2. Your feet must be kept together, upturned and flat. 
3. Look upwards with your forehead facing in the front. 
4. Bring your arms to your sides so that you can support your body weight. 
5. Lift your upper body while supporting your weight on your arms. Your body must be up from your waist going forward. 
 6. Arch your back as much as you can and push your head backwards while you continue to look in front. 
This yoga position helps relieve stress as it forces  to breathe deeply. It is a great yoga pose for kids because it helps to expand  chest. The more you use your lungs, the better it functions.  The cobra pose strengthens a lower back. It helps get rid of lower back and neck pain. This yoga pose also strengthens  arms.  It is a great yoga pose for women. This is because it helps regularise  menstrual cycle.  The most obvious benefit of cobra pose is that it aids weight loss. This is one of the best ways to lose belly fat. 
Do try it. How it helped you?

Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Say yes to a yoga

Going to a yoga lessons is what I've planned to do from a long time. And I make this my new year resolution, especially after my holidays, where I've tried yoga with private teacher.
What I want to achieve from it? I just want to take care of my health and good feelings, relax my mind and body. Hope I will achieve these.




 So what is yoga and how it benefits?


The word yoga originates from the ancient Sanskrit script and its literal meaning is ‘union’. Yoga is a technique which  unifies the body, mind and soul. It is a workout that helps strengthen the body, calm the mind and purify the soul, bringing us closer to a higher power and allowing you to gain higher consciousness.

These features of yoga have just convinced me to try it. The first classes have showed me that it is not so easy as it seems to be, that it need quite a lot of efforts, that my body is not flexible at all and that I will have to make a lot of work to stretch it that it will require a lot of patience from me.
It's turned out that yoga isn't boring and that it's not only a meditation but also physical exercises.

Yoga helps to modulate stress. This in turn reduces the heart rate, thereby lowering blood pressure and easing respiration. Yoga, as an effective way to fight stress, also helps to become strong and less sensitive towards pain.Thanks to it me start to know our body, our breath and our strength.
After these first classes I've seen that I am more relaxed, I have more energy and more smile on my face:-)


I will try to show you what I've learn, what positions and what is they impact and benefits.
How about you?Have you tried yoga before, what is your experience?Or maybe you prefer other forms of fittness?