tuesdays with jennac0re on wednesday – week 12

With more and more people grappling with obesity issues owing to a sedentary lifestyle, cramming junk foods with zero nutrition value, various diets and therapies for weight loss has almost become an obsession. Gymnasiums, beauty and wellness clinics and mushrooming weight loss centres are all promulgating weight loss programmes and making tall claims of shedding your flab in minimum time. But beware of many such fake organizations that will not only burn a hole in your pocket but these short-cut solutions can have disastrous effects on your health as well. There are also a lot of popular fast safe home remedies for weight loss that can be beneficial for over-weight people with no adverse effects whatsoever.

It is advisable to always consult your physician to delve into the root cause of the problem causing obesity, and then deal it with scientifically rather than relying on hearsay and applying self-prescribed medications. It is seen that most people go for crash diets and other extreme options in reaction to social ridicule and banter that over-weight people are exposed to. But it is not only the physical appearance of a person that should instigate him/her to lose weight but over-all health that takes a toll due to obesity.

Obesity can lead to various health complications and chronic ailments like high cholesterol levels leading to cardio-vascular problems, blood pressure, hypertension diabetes, arthritis, sleep apnea or even heightened risk of cancer to name a few. It can also be the causal factor of infertility, pre-natal and post-natal complications and psychological anomalies like clinical depression with self-esteem hitting the nadir in most cases.

Obesity was earlier tagged as a First World syndrome as abundance is directly proportional to indulgence. But recent statistical findings alarmingly reveal that the malady has percolated down to the Third World as well and affecting people irrespective of country, race, age, gender etc.

Although worldwide researches indicate that the chances of getting afflicted with the disease grows manifold with age, about 27% women and 28% men are obese in the 16-24 age group as opposed to a whopping 68% women and 76% men in the 55-64 age band. But the number of children suffering from obesity has increased in leaps and bounds over the last decade owing to children engaging in less physical activities and getting engrossed in computer games, video games and the zillion other attractions that make them a couch potato!

There are a lot of medical treatment, therapies and even surgeries that helps in weight reduction. Traditional weight loss programmes like Atkins Diet which aims at checking the intake of calories through a diet regimen, popping obesity pills with short-term benefits and the final resort of Bariatric surgery or gastric reduction surgery in cases of severe obesity issues are some of the common ones.

Alternative medicine has also gained ground in the last few years with yoga, Acupuncture, Aromatherapy, Hypnosis etc having miraculous effects on patients suffering from obesity. Drinking organic green tea which has detoxifying characteristics, lemon juice with a dash of honey, lots of water in general helps cleansing your system. Eating a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables with high fibre content, avoiding oily, fatty and processed foods, abstaining from alcohol with regular exercise are some great fast safe home remedies for weight loss which can work wonders in curbing obesity.

So there’s hope on the horizon for all plus-sized individuals who can cut the excess flab out and fight obesity to lead a healthy life increasing your overall life expectancy.

Authors@ Google: Christopher McDougall

Are you just starting out and want to be a successful triathlete? Then you need to develop a triathlon schedule that is personalized to your goals and meets the demands of your lifestyle. Don’t worry. It’s not that hard to do. Just follow the steps that are outlined below and you will be able to develop a customized triathlon schedule that will keep you focused and get you well prepared to perform your best at your next race.

Use the triathlon training schedule as a guideline and adjust the plan according to any changes in your goals, exercising schedule or fitness level. Also, don’t forget to include time off for real life situations such as vacations, holiday’s, job commitments, volunteering responsibilities, or special occasions where you will not be able to train.

Here are the six steps to a triathlon schedule – all of which will contribute to your success as a triathlete: Identify your training goals, write objectives supporting your goals, determine and keep a log of your annual training hours, identify the races you want to compete in, break your triathlon season into training periods, and lastly, assign weekly hours when you will train.

Step 1. Identify Your Training Goals. When you are identifying your goals, think about what you want to accomplish within a 4 – 12 month period of time. Ask yourself some questions. Do you want to participate in a specific race? Is there a race time that you want to better? Do you want to improve your performance from the previous year? You can have overall triathlon goals or you can split up your goals and have them specific to biking, running or swimming.

Whatever your goal, make sure that it is measurable, meaning you should have a number associated with the goal. The number could be a date that you want to run a triathlon, a time that you want to beat, coming in first at a particular race, or a percentage of improvement that you want to see from race to race or year to year.

Step 2. Write Objectives Supporting Each of Your Training Goals. You need to look at your goals and determine what it would take for you to accomplish each goal. How much time will you need to train and what type of training will you need? One way to do this is to look at your weaknesses as a triathlete. What would it take to make them not weaknesses?

Step 3. Determine and Keep a Log of Your Annual Training Hours. To determine the annual hours you train, you will need a calendar. You will be populating the calendar with training types, periods, and hours.

Step 4. Identify the Races You Want to Compete in. You can do this by going on-line to find out triathlon race schedules that are near you. Once you know the race schedule, choose 1-3 races in which you would like to participate throughout the year. Pencil in the race dates on your calendar.

Step 5. Break Your Training Season into Training Periods. There are six periods you want to incorporate on your training schedule calendar. These periods are triathlon race (2 weeks), peak (2 weeks), build (7 weeks), base (10 weeks), preparation (4 weeks) and transition (3 weeks).

To do this, go to your race date on your calendar and begin to map out in colored markers the different periods associated with the timing above. For example, go to your race date and in yellow marker start marking a line from your race date to two weeks before your race date. Label this as “race period”.

In red marker, starting at the beginning of the race period, mark a line two weeks in length before the race period. This red line is the “peak period”. Do this for the build, base, preparation and transition periods. If you are unsure of what occurs in each of these periods, Joe Friel gives a very good explanation of each period in his book Triathlete’s Training Bible (2009).

Step 6. Assign Weekly Training Hours. Depending upon your fitness level, you should begin to train three days a week then move to four days a week until you eventually work your way up to 7 days a week.

At the beginning, it’s best if you start to train 3 hours per week with 4 days off, then move to adding 30 minutes each week until you are able to go 8 1/2 hours spread over 7 days with no time off.

For each week you train, you will be distributing the recommended time to train among the recommended days. So if you are to train 3 hours in 3 days with four days off, you could distribute the time in day 1 as 1.5 hours, day 2 as 1.0 hours and on the third day the training would be 0.5 hours.

After assigning the amount of time you will train per week, you will then determine the type of training. When you do this, remember to alternatively work on swimming, biking, running and weight training throughout the week. When planning your training schedule, make sure you aren’t being too overly aggressive. You want to avoid over training, injury, illness and burnout.

In order for you to see improvement as you train, you will need to keep track of your progress. You can track any improvements over time using a training log, however, you will have to keep it up-to-date as you train throughout the year.

Developing, implementing and executing against your triathlon schedule is the first step in becoming a successful triathlete. The advantages of your triathlon schedule is that it is customized to your goals and meets the demands of your lifestyle. It should be flexible to your needs, yet keep you focused and get you at your peak for your next race.

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Modelling – a bit about it?

Is anyone a model?
Can you tell me a bit about it; like good and bad things, money, diet, fitness, etc!

how old are you?..because ive been modeling for a few years now.. its really hard work..but once you find the right people to work with..its the best feeling in the world.
dieting-not fun..not EVERYONE makes you diet..grilled fish,fruits,vegitables,grilled chicken.water. <-basics.
money- winning is the best..you can win thousands. and you get paid for almost every photo shoot.
fitness-you have to stay healthy to stay on top.
hope this helps.

Jennifer Nicole Lee Inside Edition (The Sexy Body Diet) Fitness Model Program