Good Posture = Looking Thinner & Avoiding Back Pain

20 min - upper body, 20 min. lower body & Bonus: 7-minute Workout for Fabulous Abs & Stronger Back & Tips on Looking Thinner With Great Posture. Video 1998 lots of leg lifts & I feel worth it. Good posture is important for looking thinner & not having back pain. To achieve a toned body, one must workout until the muscles are fatigued.

Shaping Up & Pilates

 This workout has 15 min. each of Abs, Arms, Hips & Thighs. I enjoyed the ballet--I guess it is great for our hips.

Frequency, Intensity, Time to keep in mind for working out. Rule to test your heart rate--take 220 minus your age & 80% of that is the ideal number of beats per minute for heart rate. Our daily intake of fat should be 30% or less. 1 tablespoon of fat = 100 calories & 1 gram of fat = 9 calories. 30% is 50 to 80 grams of fat for the average person.

Dreaming of a Beach Body--Creatine, Pyruvate

Beach Body Sweat Cardio 3-4 (copyright 2001)-45 min. of burning calories, yoga moves & I don't think I've ever done a body blow move (talk about feeling the jiggly fat shake). Great ab workout. Don't have supplements or diet guide but learned about some ingredients in some of their supplements. Creatine is a nitrogenous organic acid that occurs naturally in vertebrates and helps supply energy to all cells in the body, primarily the muscle. Our blood consists of 1% creatine. The amount in the men's beachbody Strength & Muscle Formula is equivalent to eating 2 lbs. of raw meat. Pyruvate- explanation is a molecule of glucose breaks down to 2 molecules of pyruvate and provides further energy. This ingredient is in the beachbody Energy & Endurance Formula. I read reviews that this product tastes nasty. One Canadian stated that he gets as much energy from coffee & molasses. A ballet dancer commented that the E&E Formula helped with his depression. I will keep going to the gym, walking outside, rotating/reviewing my workouts. As long as I'm keeping up with: 1 hr. working out, losing weight, gaining muscle, enhancing my mood & I have a whey protein powder for sore muscles, I won't worry about the supplements just yet.

Dancing, Swimming, Stairs & Brain Function

It's been another year since I wrote a post. Still training 50 min. a week for the past two years. Also not ever getting bored with new "old school" video workouts. Did the Michelle Lemay hip-hop one today. (Copyright 1996, 46 min.). As we age it is a challenge for the brain and body to coordinate. I like her teaching style & need to do it many more times to get the choreography down. Also, the knee in jumping is something to be careful about.
Currently, Michelle is president and co-creator of Groove Temple TV, the media and technology company that combines today’s modern world of Fitness, Health, Music, Dance, Meditation and Technology with the ancient wisdom of Yoga. (Source: michellelemay.com) 
Does Dancing Improve Brain Function?
Psychology Today states: Two recent studies show how different types of practice allow dancers to achieve peak performance by blending cerebral and cognitive thought processes with muscle memory and ‘proprioception’ held in the cerebellum. Through regular aerobic training that incorporates some type of dance at least once a week anyone can maximize his or her brain function.
Does Swimming Improve Brain Function?
Researchers from Australia have made a surprising discovery: Simply steeping yourself in a pool of warm water increases blood flow in the brain. “We found that brain blood flow is higher when subjects were immersed in water up to the level of the heart compared to on land — laying the ground work for further investigation of its effects on cerebrovascular health,” said Dr. Howard Carter of University of Western Australia, School of Sport Science, whose new study appears in the American Journal of Physiology. (Source:medicaldaily.com)
Swimming moderately for one hour is the same as walking over 10,000 steps which is known to improve health.
Does Exercise Improve Brain Function?
Regular exercise changes the brain to improve memory, thinking skills. (Source: health.harvard.edu)
There are many workouts on the smart phone. Immortal Stair Training by Brenda Vance is one I discovered. I think it is a good aerobic, cardiovascular workout. What are some of your favorite workouts?