Exercise to Burn Fat and Get Healthy

Strengthen the heart and One of the biggest risk factors for heart disease is an inactive or sedentary lifestyle. But unlike other disease risk factors, this is one that you can control. Exercising and being active not only helps burn fat, it also offers several health benefits. Some of the benefits of exercising include:

• cardiovascular system

• Improve circulation and enhance your body’s utilization of oxygen

• Alleviate heart failure symptoms

• Increase energy levels, allowing you to perform more activities without tiring easily

• Improve endurance

• Lower blood pressure

• Reduce stress, anxiety and depression

• Improve sleep

• Make you feel more rested and relax

• Strengthen muscles

• Enhance balance

• Improve joint flexibility

• Strengthen bones

The fitness benefits of exercise include:

• Tone muscles

• Burn fat and help get you down to a healthy weight

• Boost self-esteem and self-image

• Improve overall fitness

Before you actually take up an exercise regimen, you must first talk to your doctor about a few things:

Ask your doctor about exercises that are safe for you. Depending on your age or medical condition, some exercises may be too rigorous for your. Get your doctors approval before you start lifting weights, jogging or using an exercise machine.

Ask your doctor if you are okay to push or lift weights. If chores such as mowing, scrubbing or shoveling is tiring for you, perhaps pushing and lifting weights may not be the exercise for you. Make sure to do only what you can do without exhausting yourself.

Consult your doctor if you can exercise when you are on new medications. This is because new medications have an effect on how your body responds to exercise. Your doctor should be able to tell you what exercise regimens are safe.

 

The Best Exercises for Fat-Burning and Health

There is no single exercise that will help you burn fat, lose weight or get healthy. To get the best result, you should do a combination of different exercises.

Aerobic exercises – also called cardiovascular exercises involves using large muscle groups during a steady physical activity. Aerobic exercises strengthen the lungs and enhance the body’s ability to utilize oxygen. Aerobic exercises provide the most benefits to the heart.

Stretching – stretching involves lengthening of the muscles. Stretching your arm and leg muscles before a workout helps prevent injuries and muscle strain. Stretching regularly helps improve your flexibility and increases your range of motion.

Strengthening – strengthening involves repeatedly contracting muscles until they are tired.

How Often Should You Exercise

In order to get optimal results, you should have 20 to 30 minute aerobic sessions for at least three to four times a week.

What Should Be Included in an Exercise Routine

An exercise routine should include a warm-up, conditioning phase and a cool-down.

Warm-up – a warm-up helps the body transition smoothly from rest to exercise. A warm-up reduces the stress on the heart and muscles. It also slowly increases your circulation, breathing and body temperature.

Conditioning – during this phase, the fat and calories are burned, and the body receive the benefits offered by exercise.

Cool-down – the final phase of the routine involves helping the body gradually recover from the conditioning phase. This is where you gradually decrease the intensity of your activity. It prepares your heart rate and blood pressure to return to near resting levels.

Author’s Bio

ANNe Maisie De leon

Anne Maisie De Leon has been writing content for various website since 2008. She has written blogs and articles about various topics including fashion, home improvement, health and fitness. At present Anne is a full time writer at Pin Agency whose roster of clients include Sweet Sweat, L & S Carpet, and more.

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5 Entry Level Jobs in the Healthcare Industry

Cracking into the healthcare industry is incredibly difficult at the moment, mainly due to the fact that a lot of people right now seem to have the inherent desire to help. However, most people are heading for the ‘top jobs’ and are not really having any success, after all, there are plenty of more experienced people out there. If you are serious about entering the healthcare industry then you will want to find a position that will give you a good grounding, sure, you may have to start at the ground floor, but do your position well and you will find that you quickly work your way up the ladder.

1.     1.   Becoming a medical assistant is often regarded as one of the best ways to get your foot on the first rung of that ladder. A medical assistant will have a number of tasks at their disposal, most will involve dealing with patients, which can include checking their vital signs and helping to prepare them for examinations. You will constantly be exposed to patient care, and therefore you will learn a lot of information that will take you almost anywhere in the healthcare career, this is why it is the perfect start.

2.       2.  Medical Secretary, this job is for people that have an interest in medicine but do not like the ‘hands on’ approach with patients. Here you will be scheduling appointments, billing patients and getting involved with insurance companies.  Many medical secretaries eventually move into medical record keeping, or even transcriptions. A few also use it as a starting point before becoming a medical administrator.

3.       3. Occupational Therapy Assistant. This position is for those people that have a desire to eventually become an occupational therapist. In this position you will have a ‘hands on’ role in preparing treatment plans for your patients, as well as assisting in the carrying out of the treatments. Whilst most people use this role to break into occupational therapy, some people do use it to help forge a career in counselling or even nursing. There is a plethora of options available to you once you have the experience of this position.

4.       4. A massage therapist may not seem like the best way to break into the industry, but it actually is, and the pay isn’t too bad either. You can use the experience you gain as a masseuse to break  into alternative medicine, much of which is being accepted into hospitals nowadays.

5.       5. Medical Transcriptions will transcribe medical reports. They will obtain detailed knowledge of the workings of a hospital and medical treatments, this will of course give them a fantastic array of knowledge to call upon in the future when they wish to expand their horizons.

Check around your area from time to time and see if any of these positions pop up, if they do then snap up the chance of applying as quickly as possible. These positions will be the quickest way into the healthcare industry, and everybody has to start somewhere.

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