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DECEMBER 2008
USE YOGA TO DE-STRESS THIS HOLIDAY SEASON
If you are looking for a great workout to do at home or on the road, check out “Teen Yoga” by Kathleen Kastner. It is not just for teens, but stars Miss Teen USA and can be found at www.kathleenkastner.com.
Other great yoga workouts: Karen Voight, Rodney Yee and P90X.
If you want to start with the basic sun salutations, which can be used to energize you, calm your mind or prepare you for sleep, a great website for learning the series is, http://www.yogasite.com/sunsalute.htm.
Looking for yoga inspiration, articles, knowledge, workouts, and pictures/descriptions of exercises? Check out these websites:
www.iyogalife.com
www.kathleenkastner.com
www.yogajournal.com
www.yogafit.com
Enjoy this holiday season by controlling your stress levels and learning to appreciate all that is going on around you! Namaste.
April 2008
Are you trying to get in shape and wondering what type of workouts you should do? The purpose of my article today is to give you an understanding of what types of workouts there are out there and what they do.
When you go to the gym or watch infomercials you will see workouts like Pilates, yoga, kickboxing, tai chi, Tae Bo, boot camp, ballet, weight training, step aerobics, water aerobics, spinning, Body Sculpt, Jazzercise, and hi/lo aerobics. Many celebs will tout one of these as their “magic pill”. Madonna swears by yoga, Faith Hill does Pilates and Jessica Simpson did weight training to look great in those daisy dukes. But is one type of workout really the answer? Let’s break them down by what they do and how they help. Keep in mind as we go through the list, in order to burn one pound of fat, you must burn 3500 calories. And the more muscle you have, the more calories you burn at rest.
Pilates strengthens your core and teaches you how to move your body & limbs with your core stable and strong. You burn around 200-400 calories, but, you won’t develop a 6-pack unless your abdomen is fat free!
Yoga comes in many forms and if you want to burn calories and strengthen muscles, then look for Power or Ashtanga forms. You burn around 400 or 800+ calories. And not all classes focus on the chanting and meditation, so find a style that fits your preferences.
Kickboxing, tai chi, and Tae Bo are all types of martial arts classes which can burn around 400-800+calories a session. You can build come muscle, but not a lot.
Boot camp, weight training and Body Sculpt are all activities that will build muscle and can lean out your body. Boot camp and Body Sculpt also add in a cardio component to the workout. You can burn 400-1000 calories in a session.
Ballet is a new trend that uses a lot of the Pilates principles to lengthen the muscle. You will strengthen your muscles, but not a lot and will burn around 200-600 calories.
Step aerobics, water aerobics, spinning, Jazzercise, and hi/lo aerobics are all cardiovascular activity that will burn calories but won’t build muscle. You will burn around 200-900 calories, with spinning burning the most amount of calories.
So what should you do to burn fat and tone up your body? I would get a MINIMUM of 3 days a week of strength training in and 3 days a week of cardiovascular training. That doesn’t mean you have to do 6 days a week of training. If you can only fit in 4 or 5 days a week, combine your weight training and cardiovascular training. But make sure you fill your calendar with a MINIMUM of 4 days a week worth of workouts.
If you have any questions on workouts or how to combine workouts, just send me an email |
