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Loosing weight successfully is a combination of diet and health. Below are 5 guaranteed ways to east and healthy weight loss. They are very simple, easy to fit into your busy day, often over looked and don’t need complicated nutrition or diet plans.
1. Increase your heart rate above 100 beats per minute each day for 45 minutes.
2. Complete at least 15 minutes of resisitance exercise per day.
3. Reduce your daily fat intake to 40-50 grams.
4. Reduce food portion size by half and eat more slowly.
5. Do the above for 1 …
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The large four-part extensor muscle at the front of the thigh. This group of muscles at the front of the thigh that arises in the hip and pelvis and inserts as a strong tendon below the kneecap (patella). The quadriceps straightens and helps stabilize the knee. It is the great extensor muscle of the knee, forming a large fleshy mass which covers the front and sides of the femur. It is the strongest and leanest muscle in the human body. Most commonly exercised using squats.
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Good old fashioned skipping, still brilliantexercise now and great fun to do with clients. For the best results compete with your clients, either who can do the most or who can do the most in a set time i.e. 1 minute, garenteed to get them to maximise their effort. Boxers have been skipping for centuries and they are extremely fit. Variation is the key, there are standard two foot jumps, where you do mini jumps with both feet off at the same time, alternate feet, where you kind of jog …
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Communication the the key to training the less able bodied. Discuss exercises types fully before attempting them, make sure you have fully considered the area in which the exercises are completed. Plan for any falls, so how you might get them from the floor back to a comfortable position for example. Be very positive, only in the most severe cases can no exercise be completed at all, its just a matter of slightly adjusting exercise to accommodate the individual. Any movement is better than none, some of it may have …
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Either of the two large flat triangular muscles that run from the back of the neck and cover each shoulder. They help to move the shoulder blades and draw the head backward. The trapezius muscle has several other functions:
to move the shoulder blade in toward the spine, to rotate the shoulder blade so that the topmost part of the upper arm faces up, to move the shoulder blade up and down, to bring the head and neck in a backward direction, to rotate and side bend the neck and to …
