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Saturday 30 January 2016

Which exercise can strengthen my knee?


For your knee, we have to strengthen it.
1.Sit on a chair and raise your leg up and put it down again,repeat this for 10 times in a set of two.After few weeks, repeat the same exercise with little ankle weights, if you can manage.
2.Roll up a towel or a cloth to form a cylindrical type format and keep that under your knee with the leg extended, try to press that with the knee and then release, do this for 4-5 times.
You can follow these two exercises for a better and stronger knee muscle:))

What is Tabata?

Tabata Tabata is a high intensity interval training (HIIT) wherein you select any 4 exercises - upper body and lower body alternatively 1st exercise for 20 seconds and then 10 second rest, 2nd exercise for 20 seconds and then 10 second rest, 3rd exercise for 20 seconds and then 10 second rest, 4th exercise for 20 seconds and then 10 second rest... Repeat the next set in the same way. Play some awesome full power music and do it! You know what is the best thing about Tabata? You do it for 4 minutes and you keep burning calorie for the next 3-4 hours!! (Depending on your body weight) Check out the links of a few workouts which you can include in Tabata Upper body: Push ups: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eSM88TFzAs Triceps dips on bench: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl8_opV0A0Y&src_vid=1-Ilv1xLq2M&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_3757254895 Lower body: Squats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDEUdZ9WQP8 Lunges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HacUpgo8h80 Mountain Climber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvaQcFaxL00 Whole Body: Burpees : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfXX4PQxYK0&src_vid=1-Ilv1xLq2M&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_3646429765 Jumping Jacks : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cGbc15CO1Q Plank Walk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF19C4Xq_Rs You can pick up any 4 exercises. Grab a fruit before the workout (for energy supply) and post workout, have a nice carb-protein combo meal (for muscle recuperation). Good Luck! Let me know how it goes

Why should we not eat fruits with main meals?

Why avoid Fruits during Lunch/Dinner or post sunset? Avoid having fruits during the major meals (Lunch/dinner). Fruits are a source of sugar/energy. We mostly take carbohydrates during our lunch and dinner in the form of chapati/ veggies/ rice etc. These carbs are ultimately converted into sugar in the body, which is utilized for energy purpose. If we consume fruits as well, the excess sugar from fruits has higher chances of going into fat storage. Thus, it's best to avoid them during lunch/dinner. Here's the reason why we have to avoid fruits post sunset- Our activity levels tend to drop as the day ends. Fruits are a natural source of sugar. We need this sugar during the day when our activity levels are high, and this sugar gets utilized. After 6 or 7 pm, we have dinner already lined up plus we go low on activities, thus the extra sugar from fruits have high chances of going into fat storage. Fruits are always a good snacking option in the mid-morning or during the teatime.

Friday 22 January 2016

How does Happiness improve our Vision?




The human eye is an extremely complex piece of machinery so to speak. It consists of 30 different components working together making us able to see.

You probably wouldn’t expect that feeling happy could make any difference on the functioning of this organ.

Well, actually it can.

A study from the University of Toronto found that our state of mind had an impact of our ability to process information from a number of pictures.

People in a negative state of mind picked up fewer details from the pictures than people with positive emotions. The happy people pretty much saw everything!

Other experiments have reached similar conclusions. One study found for example that a positive state of mind improved our peripheral vision - the part of vision outside the very center of our attention.