Author: Dorothy Scott

What Pilates Can Do For Your Figure?

Dorothy Scott

One of the perks of having a dynamic Pilates manly friend is they can closely monitor your exercises. These days, life is so fast. We all rush around, most of the time using our cars and not getting the exercise that our bodies crave. We age faster as we take on greater stresses and strains and eat too much. In this article I’m going to share with you what Pilates can do for your posture and your figure.

It’s not often that any of us see people with excellent posture. Many of us spend hours being bent over a computer screen. What most people don’t realise is that bad posture can cause a lot of problems. For one it’s the leading cause of back pain. According to the founder of Pilates, Joseph Pilates ‘You are only as old as your spine is stiff.’

We’ve all been there. Every once in a while we’ll watch a sport or exercise technique that takes our fancy. We imagine ourselves slim and looking good. So we go along to the local gym a couple of times, but then resume our previous habits again very quickly. Watching television every night for hours on end, doesn’t do much for a good figure.

What I’m gong to tell you here is what will make all the difference to you and your figure.

Pilates is a very effective body conditioning technique that is used by world class athletes. Not only does it strengthen the muscles, but it enables better posture by aligning the spine and the pelvis. It also reduces stress, improves breathing and makes you look leaner and more toned. If that isn’t enough then the increased serotonin that it delivers will certainly make you happy.

Pilates works by putting the focus onto the quality of movement. It’s not enough to move your body any old way, it’s about using particular muscles to control the speed at which you move. If you haven’t been exercising for sometime, your muscles will have pretty much ‘deactivated’ and Pilates will provide the means to wake them up. Muscles that have not been used for so long will affect the surrounding muscles and you’ll be left with an imbalanced body that will contribute to back pain and other injuries.

The goal of Pilates is to promote elasticity and flexibility. You won’t be over training any particular muscles, as is easy to do down the gym. You’ll gain a flat tummy from the focus that is put on the core of the body. In particular the area of the abdominals and the spine will be worked out so that your body is in alignment. This will help with posture.

Pilates is the type of exercise that won’t build you up. It will make you look longer and leaner. It will also realign your body so that no muscles are over compensating for the weakness of others. You’ll look like one of those fit athletes that are in the Summer or Winter Olympic Games after a few months. That is definitely something to aim for.

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What Can we Learn About Stomach and Gut Inflammation?

Dorothy Scott

How to improve gut health, means eat bananas, garlic, and ginger. The medical term for stomach inflammation is called gastritis. This is when the lining of the stomach becomes inflamed. Symptoms of gastritis vary among individuals, and in many people, there are no symptoms. However, the most common symptoms include:

  • Nausea or recurrent upset stomach
  • Abdominal bloating
  • Abdominal pain
  • Vomiting
  • Indigestion
  • Burning or gnawing feeling in the stomach between meals or at night
  • Hiccups
  • Lose of appetite
  • Vomiting blood or coffee ground-like material
  • Black, tarry stools

How your gut may be playing with your mind? This is called stomach and mood disorders:

If you’ve eaten a fabulous meal recently, the experience was pleasant, comfortable and pain-free because your stomach and the intestinal system worked seamlessly to move the food along and eventually absorb it.

Our gastrointestinal tract, or gut, is sometimes described as our “second brain”. This is because it is controlled by its own complex nervous system comprising hundreds of millions of neurons – more than all the nerves in your spinal cord.

The gut and brain talk to each other through nerve signals, the release of gut or stress hormones, and other pathways. We have long known that emotions can directly affect the gut function.

But lately we’ve been discovering that it works the other way too: our gut actually has an effect on our brain. And because it’s easier (and generally safer) to manipulate the gut than the brain, this knowledge provides the possibility that doing so could treat some chronic psychological and brain diseases.

How the bugs in your gut alter your brain?

Everyone’s gut is chuck full of bugs (trillions of them) that can be good, bad or indifferent. They hang out all the way from the mouth through to the end of the bowel.

The bugs talk to the nervous system through pathways, including the immune system, that keeps them in check. Experimental work suggests and imbalance in these bugs can affect the brain and, in some cases, may lead to anxiety or depression.

Altering gut bacteria is a new way to treat many diseases of the gut and possibly the brain, including through diets (changing your diet rapidly changes your gut bugs), or by providing “good” bacteria and suppressing “bad” bacteria, that can be done with probiotics. Other method includes transplanting stool from healthy people to those in need.

Intriguing observations could also unlock new ways to manage currently incurable degenerative nervous diseases. For instance, altered gut function manifesting as constipation is often the first symptom of Parkinson’s disease.

And studies are currently exploring the role of the gut in neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis.

But for the moment, new evidence suggests when the gut is inflamed, it may affect the brain and lead to psychological dysfunction.

What is the name of a vegetable that is still in season in the winter and has been used for both culinary and medicinal purposes around the world? It is called “Fennel”.

Fennel is high in potassium and in some cultures, it is used to aid digestion. Fennel stimulates the secretion of gastric juices that reduce inflammation of the stomach and intestines as well as help combat constipation. If that isn’t reason enough to give this veggie a second look, some research suggests that fennel seed extract can be protective against cancer. A fennel casserole is a great choice for a family meal to help focus on health and wellness of a whole family.

What do you know about GMO’s (genetically-modified organisms)?

GMO’s have been linked to many different health problems across America. The US Government approved this scientific method in the 1990s and its methods effect vegetables, fruits and grains.

Studies have linked GMO’s to gluten disorders that affect 18 million Americans. The Genetic Literacy Project also states the studies have linked genetically modified animal feed to severe stomach inflammation and uteri in pigs, as well as genetically modified corn to rat tumors. These issues are just a small fraction of the problems that have been studied and reported.

There are easy ways to avoid GMO’s, such as buying locally, consuming organic foods or even growing veggies yourself. Now we know why we should grow our own vegetable garden every year.

Muscle And Fitness – Build Lean Muscle And Six-Pack Abs

Dorothy Scott

If you are a Pilates teacher training Sydney you need also to build your name so that you will have more clients. Don’t get carried away thinking that building muscle and fitness is hard to understand, it isn’t, but you do need to be educated about the right and wrong ways to do things. This is important so that you don’t injure yourself, but also so that you don’t waste your time with some ineffective program that will not deliver the results that you want.

Why should you read this article? There is a lot of information on the internet about building muscle and fitness, much of it is generic in nature, and doesn’t have enough information to help you, or is just plain wrong. This article will give you the overall process – this isn’t meant to be a whole program in one article – and you can slot in the exercises you enjoy, some of the meals you like, or take some information from David’s site and use that.

So that we’re clear – there isn’t any magic cure that will build you muscles and burn fat without effort. You are going to have to put the effort in, and if you do, you will get the results that you are looking for. Please stop looking for quick ways out – now!

To get a noticeable overall effect, you need to target your body fat percentage, as well as build muscle. For most people, it means losing excess body fat, and the lucky few it means eating enough to put on muscle. The basic idea is that you need to consume enough calories to be at your basal metabolic rate (BMR) plus about five hundred calories – the extra is required to build muscle. If you eat good quality foods, such as beef, pork, chicken and fish, so long as it is lean. You can make up the calories you require mostly from the calories you consume, but a little can come from your body fat – not too much otherwise your body will try to hold on to the fat (it will think you are starving!) One of the biggest parts to building lean muscle and fitness, and getting 6-pack abs is that you must diet properly, if you party all the time, you’re not going to achieve your potential.

When you start to build lean muscle and fitness, it is likely that you will not have much of either, and therefore it is important to build a good base of both muscle and fitness on which to improve. This base should be a useful, or functional strength, and muscle mass that you may then build muscle strength and density, and increase your metabolic rate to burn more calories. This first stage, you are likely to see results very quickly, and you are likely to notice an increase is your muscle size, although the muscle will be rounded and not very well define at that stage, your body fat percentage may have reduce a bit but that real gain in that area are yet to come.