Kate Winslet’s Workout: 20-Minute Pilates Videos

You won’t see mother-of-two Kate Winslet sweating it out at the gym.

“I don’t go the gym because I don’t have time,” Winslet says in the February issue of UK Elle. “But I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.”

Speaking of those steamy love scenes, Winslet says it’s all her, enhanced with body make-up and good lighting. Read more

Yoga Keeps Ryan Giggs in the Game

Despite playing for Manchester United, the club that opposition fans love to hate, you will be hard pushed to find anyone who doesn’t offer Ryan Giggs grudging respect. Unlike Cristiano Ronaldo, his current teammate, or David Beckham, with whom he learnt his trade as one of United’s young starlets in the 1990s, Giggsy, as he is universally known, does not attract vitriolic hatred from the stands. He is that rare thing in football parlance, a “good lad”. Read more

How to Lose Midriff Fat

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It’s that time of year again, and also maybe that age if you are in your forties like me, where your midriff fat can start to become a bit of a problem.

The midriff fat can very soon turn into midriff obesity if not handled right and this can become a crucial health concern both in males and females. The problem is just as bad when the midriff fat attacks younger people. The troubles that come with obesity are actually more acute when it starts in youth; most of the time these people do not live beyond their mid forties or fifties due to heart and related problems. Read more

Red Lentil Soup

Red lentil soup is a quick and easy splash of sunshine and cheerful orange color to brighten your winter days. It is so easy to cook, is high and protein, does not require previous soaking and it falls to a wonderful creamy mush as it cook. Perfect for when you don’t have enough time. Read more

Being By The Sea Can Boost Your Health

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The Georgians and Victorians thought being beside the seaside was good for your health and modern science is backing up their enthusiasm. Getting outside and down to the seaside for 15 to 30 minutes a day, even in a cold climate, can significantly improve your wellbeing. Read more

Benjamin Button is Fiction But You Can Grow Older Healthier

Many of us have wondered what it might be like to live backward lives, or to have the wisdom of age with the body of youth. This is exactly that mechanism present in the excellent David Fincher film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

The title character of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is born in 1860, without explanation, as a man of 70, complete with wrinkles, long beard and cantankerous attitude. From then on, he grows younger each year, until, seven decades later, he passes on peacefully as an infant.

I thought this might be a good time to delve into many of the myths that surround aging and anti-aging and to detail some exercise routines specifically for older people. I also covered the topic of strength training for seniors in an earlier post. Read more

Self-Massage Headache Relief

Normally if you have a headache I would suggest seeking the service of a professional massage therapist, however often that is not possible, so why not try self massage techniques, which may speak to men more than females. The reason being, men still have a lower rate of seeking massage therapy services than women do. Read more

10 Benefits of Strength Training for Seniors

Strength training is just what older bodies, even very old or frail ones, need to fight the loss of muscle mass and strength, according to the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). The ACSM believes that strength training is the most important exercise for older adults who aren’t fit, and that it should come before aerobic activity, not afterward, as is typically the case.

For all older adults - not just the frail elderly - a regular program of strengthening, combined with aerobic exercises, can help reduce or prevent many functional declines associated with growing older, according to the ACSM. Read more

Yoga Video - Headstand Posture - Sirasana

Emily Collins demonstrates Headstand Posture, or Sirasana. This sometimes referred to as the king of asanas. It is an extremely important posture that can bring vitality and clarity to the body and the mind. Studies have shown that it can increase the hemoglobin content of the blood and can convey increased blood supply to the pituitary and pineal glands in the brain. This is a posture that is really recommended for intermediate to advanced practitioners of yoga. It is important to support the weight equally with the wrists, forearms and elbows only, not with the head. This develops strength in the arms and the shoulders, keeps the body centered, keeps weight off the head and avoids injury to the neck and spine.

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Introduction to Yogic Breathing

In this video, Prasad Rangnekar introduces the first principles of Yogic Breathing. How to breath correctly, how to breath deeply and to try to understand why breathing has become more important today then ever before. Breath has a profound effect on your body as well as your mind. In times of stress if we focus on the breath, and in doing so, stabilise our breath, then we can also stabilise our mind.

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