MAXIM Australia

3 min. di lettura

For most people, two things exist: 1. A hard training session and 2. An off day. Most programs are constructed to reflect that. But for some people — those addicted to the iron — the very idea of physically taking a day off can be a lot harder, menta

Women's Fitness

1 min. di lettura

WHAT? Green Coffee Sculpting Treatment, 60 minutes, £120 WHERE? Cloud Twelve, 2-5 Colville Mews, London W11 2DA; cloudtwelve.co.uk ‘Wellness and lifestyle club Cloud Twelve is tucked away in a mews in the heart of Notting Hill, and is calm, peac

VegNews Magazine

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1 Practice Abhyanga (oil massage) by applying warm sesame or coconut oil to your body in long strokes toward your heart, followed by a warm shower. This Ayurvedic practice relaxes the body, soothes the nervous system, improves circulation, and enhanc

Men's Health Australia

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AS THE HAZE of a well-lived festive break begins to clear, you’re ready to make a triumphant return to the weights room. By the end of the first week, however, severe DOMS has left you in a defeated heap. It’s a familiar story that we can now close t

Woman's Own

1 min. di lettura

● Feeling very thirsty ● Peeing more frequently than usual, particularly at night ● Feeling very tired ● Weight loss and loss of muscle bulk ● Itching around the penis or vagina, or frequent episodes of thrush ● Cuts or wounds that heal slowly ● Blur

that's life

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A study found that being just 1 per cent dehydrated can result in fatigue. Skip the chocolate bar and drink a glass of water instead. According to researchers, chewing gum increases the amount of blood and oxygen travelling to your brain, making you

Horse & Hound

1 min. di lettura

BUILD time into your session for a cool down. Controlled walking not only promotes physical cooling and a decrease in heart and respiratory rates, but maintains circulation to remove lactic acid from the muscles. Cool a hot, sweaty horse by walking i

Cyclist Magazine

1 min. di lettura

Is it true that fit people sweat more? Yes! Sweating uses a negative feedback loop, whereby sweat rates increase to keep you cool, rather than because you’re actually hot. The evaporative process removes heat from your body. What’s the minimum amount

Woman & Home Feel Good You

4 min. di lettura

Forget signing up to an expensive gym class – we already have the most effective (and free!) piece of equipment to boost our wellbeing – our lungs. The problem is we’re not always using them to their full potential. But by making simple adjustments t

Woman's Weekly

1 min. di lettura

False: Protein needs for strength-training athletes are about twice as high as for normal people – but most of us eat more than this in our daily diet. To gain 1lb of muscle mass a week, a strength-training athlete needs 14g extra protein daily – fou

Essentials South Africa

1 min. di lettura

Why do you crave a kick-start cup of coffee in the morning? It’s because the caffeine releases adrenaline – the hormone that makes you feel more alert – into your bloodstream. It also boosts blood circulation to your brain, helping improve concentrat

Palm Beach Illustrated

1 min. di lettura

Touted by celebs such as Gwyneth Paltrow and Miranda Kerr, the beauty technique of dry brushing is growing in popularity thanks to its ability to exfoliate dead skin cells. It also has the purported benefit of improving and stimulating the nervous sy

Men's Health Australia

1 min. di lettura

Taking L-citrulline just before going to sleep helps you to hold onto hard-won muscle mass. Université Paris Descartes Taking vitamin D in summer as well as in winter has been shown to inhibit the growth of fat cells. Tehran University Can’t manage s

Oxygen

1 min. di lettura

Heat up your irksome area. If you touch an areawhere you have alot of fat, you mightnotice that it’s colder. This is becausefat deposits havevery low bloodflow. One studyhypothesized that bymaking a fatty areaphysically warmer, therefore increasingbl

How It Works

1 min. di lettura

Saliva causes cuts in the mouth to heal ten-times faster than other skin wounds After a heart attack, it usually takes about eight weeks for heart muscle to heal The liver is the only organ in the body that is able to regenerate, fully repairing

In The Moment

1 min. di lettura

Matt is the bestselling author of Reasons To Stay Alive, and wants us to fall in love with sleep again. Find Matt on page 9 A psychologist, yoga teacher and author, Suzy’s books include The Self-Care Revolution. Find Suzy on page 36 Sleep expert Neil

Men's Health Australia

3 min. di lettura

WORK THROUGH enough reps of any exercise with a challenging weight and you’ll experience the mythic pump, a swelling of blood and metabolites within the muscle that, over time, gives you the kind of superhero muscle you’ve always wanted. But what if

Woman's Weekly

1 min. di lettura

British scientists are developing a car seat with a series of electric motors in the foam, causing constant micro-adjustments that stimulate one leg after the other. This triggers muscle contraction and tricks the brain into thinking you’re walking.

Chat

1 min. di lettura

Q What skincare is best for runners? Tina Le, 41, Brighton A Running is great for your skin, it raises heart rate and boosts blood flow to deliver nutrients and carry away toxins. It can also reduce cortisol, the stress hormone that triggers oil over

Woman

1 min. di lettura

‘To really speed up fat loss, combine cardio sessions with resistance sessions to build more muscle,’ says James. ‘High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is a time-effective way to boost your metabolism, but it’s most important to choose something y

Your Horse

1 min. di lettura

“When assessing how fit your horse is, respiration is driven by the horse’s body temperature so it wouldn’t be a good way to assess fitness in the cold months versus the hot months because the respiratory rate can be higher when it’s hotter,” says Da

Australian Men's Fitness

1 min. di lettura

• When you train your abs, you must ensure there’s tension on your entire core before starting a set. Doing so will recruit more muscle fibres into action, and the greater number of fibres you fatigue during a workout, the better your gains. Fully co

Women's Fitness

1 min. di lettura

A typical warm-up should last for at least five minutes and be appropriate to your workout. Gradually bring your speed down to give your heart rate a chance to return to normal and avoid any dizziness caused by blood pooling in the legs. Add volume g

Women's Fitness

1 min. di lettura

Struggle to get out of bed for an early workout? It could be down to your morning alarm, say researchers. In a study at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in Australia, scientists quizzed 50 participants about the sound of their m

NW Magazine

1 min. di lettura

So, the holidays were fun, but now it’s back to reality and all the stresses that come with it. Four o’clock rolls around and you’re used to lying vertical on your sunlounger with an Aperol in your hand, but instead you’re staring at your computer sc

Cycling Plus

1 min. di lettura

Stamina-building rides are better than gym sessions when it comes to metabolic health, Finnish research shows. Typical measures, such as blood sugar and cholesterol levels, were much better in cyclists and runners than in weightlifters. (jamanetwork.

Woman & Home

1 min. di lettura

‘Tiredness that persists and causes anyone to fall asleep during the day, especially if they snore loudly, may be a sign of sleep apnoea,’ says Dr Norton. ‘It can cause an increased risk of high blood pressure and heart problems, so see your GP.’ ■

Boys' Life

1 min. di lettura

Add six to each number to work your way through the maze. The brain itself feels NO PAIN. The human brain is divided into two halves, left and right. The left brain controls all the muscles on the right side of the body. The right brain controls the

Women's Health Australia

1 min. di lettura

Hungry for more? The brains behind Eat Like the Animals share smart nutrition strategies: An overnight fast “switches on the repair-and-maintenance pathways in your physiology that clear out the rubbish that accumulates in your cells, repairs DNA dam

MAXIM New Zealand

4 min. di lettura

For most people, two things exist: 1. A hard training session and 2. An off day. Most programs are constructed to reflect that. But for some people — those addicted to the iron — the very idea of physically taking a day off can be a lot harder, menta