Monthly Archives: March 2008

Heart Burn and Your Diet

Posted on March 31, 2008 by The Average Joe

For some peo­ple, cer­tain fatty foods and drinks con­tain­ing a lot of caf­feine will cause heart burn. Sim­ply remov­ing these things from your diet may help along with mak­ing sure that you are not eat­ing too fast. Con­tinue read­ing →

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Waist Size Is Not Just About Aesthetics

Posted on March 28, 2008 by The Average Joe

Yes, believe it or not, your waist size can tell more about the state of your health than you think. To get right down to it, there are links between increased risks of mor­bid­ity, car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease, and other seri­ous heart con­di­tions and the fat around your waist, the vis­ceral fat. Con­tinue read­ing →

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Yoga, Are You Serious?

Posted on March 26, 2008 by The Average Joe

There are so many phys­i­cal ben­e­fits of prac­tic­ing yoga that it can be hard to name them all. The pri­mary empha­sis of yoga is on well-being of the self. It is not con­sid­ered to be ther­apy for spe­cific ill­nesses or injuries. Instead, it gives a broad holis­tic approach, where prac­ti­tion­ers learn a new lifestyle and way of think­ing and being in the world. A byprod­uct of this “new life” is the heal­ing effects of yoga. As a per­son prac­tices yoga, they often find that some ben­e­fits of yoga are the fact that some of the spe­cific dif­fi­cul­ties he or she has will tend to go away. These effects have been ver­i­fied clin­i­cally. Let’s look as a few of the ben­e­fits of yoga as they per­tain to specifics. Con­tinue read­ing →

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It’s Tour­na­ment Time

Posted on March 20, 2008 by The Average Joe

It’s March Mad­ness! Men’s Health has a unique twist on it, Mus­cle Mad­ness. Go vote to for your favorite exer­cise and check back to see which one is voted best. Con­tinue read­ing →

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Tips For When You Hit A Plateau

Posted on March 19, 2008 by The Average Joe

We’ve all been there, try­ing to lose some weight, and all the sud­den the scale stops mov­ing down. For a while now, we’ve seen it steadily move south, but all of the sud­den it stops. After a while, we start­ing think­ing to our­selves, what are we doing wrong? Con­tinue read­ing →

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You Don’t Always Need a Gym Mem­ber­ship to Get Fit

Posted on March 3, 2008 by The Average Joe

Some peo­ple will have you believe that in order to get fit you have to have a gym mem­ber­ship and spend large amounts of time of there. Now, depend­ing on your goals, that may be nec­es­sary, but for the aver­age per­son, maybe not. Con­tinue read­ing →

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