The team has been trying zumba for a while and these are the benefits of Zumba. But one thing that stands out is the experiences of Homebuddy Mum. Here are a couple of her videos.
As a weight loss exercise.
Yes, definitely because you are moving your body to a fast beat. Your body is using up energy, generating heat, sweating, burning fat. At the beginning, you may feel tired after 1 song. But as you do more Zumba sessions may it be 2 times a week or 3 times a week. You’ll feel more alive and energetic. My wife Homebuddy Mum, loves Zumba, she posted a couple of videos about it. She does it 3 times a week, now she has more energy, and she’s back to her slim, sexy self. Did you know that Moms would definitely benefit from this exercise, it helped my wife stay fit even after having our youngest daughter. She lost weight and enjoyed every moment of her time during her Zumba sessions.
As a muscle toning workout.
Even though, it’s a full body workout, it doesn’t really target any specific body part unless you would ask your Zin to target specific body parts such as your arms, legs, or butt per song then it can. Let’s just say it increases your endurance, it’s good for the heart, it’s a feel good exercise.
Is Zumba for everyone?
Our suggestion : Try it! For those who love dancing and want to keep fit, zumba will definitely be a memorable and fun exercise that you would gladly spend time and enjoy doing. Zumba is a very social form of exercise and it’s safe for any fitness level! We tried it and we enjoyed it. More importantly it’s a very social exercise and helps reduce stress.
I’ve been reading health fitness articles on my spare time and since I was asked If I could share my thoughts and contribute on this site. This article is mainly influenced by the post: Benefits of Exercise
Most moms are too busy taking care of their family. While other focuses on building their career. That leaves doing some physical exercise on their least priority.
This should not be the case. How can you take care of your family or to have a higher position you want at your office if you will not take good care of yourself? Make sense, right? Eating healthy meal and getting 8 hours sleep is not enough.
So, here are 6 benefits of exercise that may entice those loving mothers to put on their rubber shoes.
Weight Loss
This maybe the first reason to why moms will consider to do some exercise. Who wouldn’t love eating? After finishing a very stressful project that you want to indulge yourself to your favorite milk tea. Or after giving birth it’s very hard to lose those baby weight. As your food intake increases balancing it with exercise will increase the metabolic rate as well which help with weight loss. Having a firm body and muscles on the shoulder is a plus.
Helps with Skin Health
Exercising can also help the skin stay healthy and vibrant. Pores open up when you sweat it flushes out toxin. It also makes you look younger.
Energize the Day
Starting your day with any kind of exercise will give you all the energy that you need. From cleaning and moving the furniture in the house; to picking up the kids at school and running errands. You will still have the energy to cook meal at night feeling less tired.
Helps with Sleep
After finishing a lot of chores during the day and still can’t get the good night sleep that you want. Doing aerobics helps you get a deeper and longer sleep.
Improves Brain and Mental Health
As you exercise, the heart rate increases which helps the flow of blood and oxygen to the brain. This means regular exercise prevent you from chronic disease such as diabetes and heart attack. In addition to this, exercise is a powerful depression fighter; a natural and effective anti-anxiety treatment and relax you muscle when under stress.
Helps with Menstrual Cramps
It is common for women to have menstrual cramp as part of their Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS). It has been studied that doing stretching and moderate-intensive exercise may reduce the pain from having menstrual cramps.
Helps Improve Sexual Health
After a long day work. All you want to do is to get home and throw yourself on bed. But once, you start doing physical activities you’ll get excited to go home early and have romantic time with your husband. Exercise can improve sexual performance and sexual pleasure. Not to mention, you’re getting back the curve that was lost for years.
You may want to try different physical activities at first until you’ll find the right one for you. Here are some activities you may consider: running/brisk walking, Zumba, trampoline, weight lifting and boxing.
Enjoy these activities with your friends, your kids or even your husband.
There you go! So, skip your fave TV program and getting to your feet to do some crunches. You only need an hour and I guarantee you’ll love exercising.
Remember, taking care of yourself is also part of taking care of your family.
Planking is a very simple and short exercise that you can do anywhere, anytime but don’t get fooled by the simplicity, it’s easy to do but very hard to keep doing.
So the team tried planking for about a month, no competition but the only deal we had is that we list the duration of our planks, how many times we do the planks, and also record our experiences and here are some things we discovered and experienced.
The first week we tried 1 minute, three times a day, by the end of the day, we reconciled to do 30 seconds, three times a day then gradually increasing the duration of the planks.
Posture
Careful not to put pressure on our lower back and hips, we amazingly aligned the position of planks, on the second week of planking we noticed that we had been sitting and standing straight planking does help with our posture. Especially for us, who usually sit in front of the computer or couch and/or slouching all the time. Correcting our posture helps our planking and thus helped us maintain a longer plank. As planking strengthens the core it also helps reduce back pains.
Planking benefits the body and the muscles as we’ve learned later that it strengthens the abdominal muscles, works out the four muscle group in the stomach. Helps control the beer belly from getting out of hand, though I didn’t get the six-pack abs I was dreaming about at least I got it toned down a notch and not going wild (think Dad bod).
Energy
We were able to hold our planks longer as the week progresses, we also noticed that we’re much more active and flexible that we started adding other variations of planks but during the first few days my body was already shaking and in pain as we stare into our timer waiting for the clock to reach the desired time.
Appetite
With increased energy comes the increase in our appetites, we never followed a strict diet but we tried to eat healthy but cutting down on bacon, the body tends to reject some foods that we usually like before we did the Plank Challenge so we ate less of the junk foods and more of the carbs and the proteins.
Mindset
During the first few days of the planking challenge, I was prepared to quit. But encouraged by the tFI team, I decided not to abandon the challenge. Overall we felt more alive and ready to take on the next challenge, I’m glad I didn’t quit early in the game, for every exercise or any physical activity the body releases Endorphins which helps relieve stress and boosts your mood, which is the “feel good” chemicals your body releases, partner it with the fact that body is fit and healthy gives a very positive active mindset.
Lifestyle
With changes to our body, the 30-day plank challenges encouraged us more to stay fit, healthy and eat right. We plan to continue doing planks and adding it to our daily regimen. We plan to do more Biking, hiking, and other outdoor activities, we are really excited to share all of our experiences in the coming days.
The warm-up. One of the most important aspects of working out, or any physical activity. At the same time, it is also the most ignored / neglected. Ask any fitness guru or any professional athlete. They will tell you just how important warming up really is!
Let me tell you a few very important facts about warming up.
The main objective of doing a warm-up is to slowly raise the body temperature in a state where the muscles will be at its optimum level of performance. At a higher than relaxed temperature, your muscles gets loosened up and well lubricated. This state is what we want to achieve before doing our main physical activity, or the workout itself.
So, how do we do the warm-up? I get that a lot. The key to a good warm-up session is to keep it simple. First, think of the main activity you will do. Whatever it is, warm up by doing some movements exactly like it or very similar to it, but of less intensity. Much less. Here are a few examples:
If you will be doing a sprint or a marathon run, do some light jogging or a few jumping jacks.
If you were to do high-intensity dancing, do a few jumping jacks or skip rope
If the workout would be of a martial arts nature, I would recommend a few light kicks and strikes
If you would be doing a bodybuilding type of workout, though, It will be different. You would have to do a light warm-up set for every muscle group you would be attacking.
For instance, if it happened to be a chest day, you will be doing all sorts of chest exercises. Probably the bench press, the flyes, the pec deck or the crossover. All these movements attack the chest muscles. The ideal warm-up before you do your heavy chest work is to probably do a few reps of push-ups. (that is if push-ups are easy for you).
So, should stretching be included in the warm-up routine? OH HELL, NO!!! Never stretch a cold muscle!
Please keep in mind that the objective of stretching is not to loosen up or warm the muscles up. It does nothing for warming up. As in nothing, nil, zero, naught, blank, zilch, dry hump! Stretching does not do anything to increase body temperature. The main objective of stretching is to increase the range of motion ONLY. It is safe to say that stretching should be done, after the workout, when your muscles are thoroughly heated and lubricated, ready to be trained for flexibility. If the activity or workout you need to do requires better flexibility or a wider range of motion, go ahead and do your stretching routine, but ONLY after you are thoroughly warmed-up. Capisce?
The idea is, an ideal warm-up routine shouldn’t last any more than 5 minutes. Even 3 minutes should suffice. The warm-up routine should leave you warm enough to get the muscles well lubricated and ready for action, or even a bit breathless. Once you achieve this state, your muscles can do pretty much anything you would sanely subject them to.
Considering the very low level of difficulty of warm-ups, everything to gain and nothing to lose, the dangers of not doing it, do you suppose you could now promise yourself to do a warm-up routine every time you would workout?
These are the best exercises to start your day right, these may not be a full list of what you can in a day but are tips to help you feel fresh and living healthier. Mornings can be a chore but if you start it right the whole day is pretty easy.
Yoga
First of all, Yoga and stretching exercises are a great way of starting your day right. A quick 30-minute yoga session can work wonders for the rest of your day. It’s also good to follow up with another Yoga session once you come home from work. There are different types of Yoga to suit your needs for better results it’s best to start with an easier level once you get used to the routine step it up a notch by going to a more challenging exercise. From there you can customize your workout session by mix and matching gentle and challenging poses for added difficulty and a more fulfilling morning routine.
I would suggest taking a few yoga classes before doing your own yoga sessions at home so you understand the dynamics of the workout. There are a lot of online resources and books that you can follow at the comfort of your home, better weigh in your options also to help get you started on your Yoga journey you can start here: https://www.yogajournal.com/
Running/Brisk Walking
Running/Jogging/Brisk walking or whatever you want to call it is, in my opinion, the most basic form of exercise don’t let the term “basic” fool you. Running is a fun and enjoyable exercise you can do every day without the need for an expensive outfit or gear, a quick 1-mile run, a run around the block, a 30-minute run or a brisk walk can set the tone for the rest of your day. Maintaining a daily scheduled running session can lead to a more fit and healthier you.
Benefits of Running/Brisk Walking
You can get an awesome workout and a feel-good vibe after a quick run. If you stay with your running regiment. Running improves your health as the increase in air intake and blood circulation improves lung function and boosts the immune system. You can lose weight and also helps relieve stress. Running is a confidence booster and helps with fighting depression. Running though a simple exercise has a lot of benefits to your body.
Cycling / Biking
I enjoy biking in the mornings before I start work, it helps sets the tone for the rest of my day, may it be work or play. Biking improved my mood, my appetite and helped with my stress. I started taking 1-hour bike rides the distance I achieved is 8km (roughly 5 mi). I set a goal for how far I can go for an hour of bike riding. After a week I targeted 12km but still maintaining my 1 hour goal. Of course I had to amp up my speed because I never increased my ride duration. At first, it was pretty hard to achieve as I get tired easily but with patience and dedication, I’m now at my 25km goal.
From weight loss to better leg muscles, Biking has a lot of benefits to the body and mind and also your well being it can improve your navigational skills, better lung health, and an awesome sex life. If you ride your bike to work, then you are also helping the environment by lessening your car ride, gas consumption, and parking space.
Calisthenics/Breathing Exercises
Breathing techniques are well known for stress release but it also improves the lungs in preparation for the activities I’ve stated above. Without a basic foundation of breathing properly, you won’t be able to last long on your daily morning activity as well as the rest of the day. Add in calisthenics which can be done with minimal or no equipment to target certain muscle groups, want to target your flabby arms then start with a simple achievable goal and stick to it until you get results.
A daily morning workout of pushups, planks, and crunches will evolve to a superhuman workout better than weightlifting. Here’s a beginners guide to calisthenics it’s not as hard as you think, you may have already been doing this every morning but have forgotten all about it because of your hectic lifestyle. It’s time to step back, relax and enjoy life.
Benefits of Calisthenics
The benefits are strength, flexibility, and endurance without the heavy bulk weightlifting gives us though it does help with weightlifting as you have more strength. Calisthenics can be done practically anywhere, anytime. Here are more benefits of calisthenics, be sure to read up to get you started.
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