Wednesday, August 27, 2008

All Eyes On The 50-year-old ‘Fitness Goddess’: Madonna


Louise Ciccone aka Madonna has been a driving force in everything from fashion and music to philanthropy and fitness ever since she hopped on the glamour bandwagon. Her 50th birthday seemed like a melting pot for all of her various endeavors- right from rumors about another adoption to her unusual dress and her gym visit the day after her all night birthday party.

For a little girl who grew up in a small town in Michigan, Madonna always knew what she wanted and did all she could to get it too.

I must admit her almost maniacal attitude towards exercise and fitness has inspired me to stick to my own healthy weight loss regime, which is not as taxing on the body. The main reason being, Madonna in her aspirations to stay fit and young goes to go to extreme lengths to stay sizzling hot.

Till date, she has followed weight loss personal training methods like cycling, running, ashtanga yoga, gyrotonic and even vitamin injections (I may have left out even more). And all this is just part of her fitness resume, her beauty regimen list runs longer!

While it is fine to be rigorously disciplined where exercise is concerned, you need to remember that not everybody’s metabolism and physical makeup can withstand workouts like these. Work with a personal trainer in Los Angeles who will analyze you to suggest weight loss training plans that work best for your body.

Head over to Body Makeovers for a quick consultation and you could have a better time than Madonna in maintaining your weight and figure.

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Monday, August 25, 2008

Ear Infections, Terrorism & Obesity


These three terms have to be the most unlikely combination of maladies that can be put together in a single sentence, but yet they do have a connection- one provided by obesity itself.

Let us begin with ear infections.

U.S. scientists found a link between children who contract an affliction called recurrent otitis media and taste affecting nerves that are damaged in similar infections. Something as minor as infected tonsils could also affect the weight gain problems faced by certain people.

An advanced form of the infection mentioned above, otitis externa is already known to affect tendencies towards obesity due to its origin, which is in type II diabetes. So if you are a candidate for some weight loss training or a regime for a personalized diet in Los Angeles, it would do you good to inform your personal trainer is you are suffering from any of these conditions.

Across the Atlantic, health experts in Britain are warning the populace that the growing levels of obesity are akin to the threat posed to the nation by terrorism. While it is a bold statement to make, the NHS is worried that by 2025, the rate of people suffering from type II diabetes is going to double up.

Something to definitely worry about and make you gather up your exercise and weight loss personal training gear and head to Body Makeovers for some quick fitness checkups and your very own custom weight loss personal training regime.


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Friday, August 22, 2008

Little Things That help You Workout (and function) Better

The new Speedo LZR swimsuit, trees, the Eiffel Tower, the airways in the human body and a host of other objects around us are proponents of the constructal theory. Wrapping this theory in spare words- all these objects are designed, constructed or formed in a manner as to encourage flow.

Engineering professors Adrian Bejan and Sylvie Lorente are of the opinion that ‘flow systems evolve to balance and minimize imperfections, reduce friction and resistance, while losing the least amount of useful energy in the process.’

Utilizing this unique flow system while performing your various healthy weight loss workouts not only can preserve energy, but it can also leave you less stressed during and after exercise. Even better, this optimization of energy is a subconscious trait in animals.

To get the most for your workouts from any personal trainer in Los Angles, you need to look out for a trainer who knows how to hone your inherent ‘flow’.

In any advanced athletic makeover system or weight loss training program like the ones at Body Makeovers, we pay attention to newer ways in which you can lose weight comfortably. In keeping up with the studies related to the dynamics of the human body, we devise workouts and weight loss personal training sessions that make your skeletal, muscular and ligamentous systems work in accord with each other.

To know more about how we adapt advanced weight loss personal training programs into our various personal training plans, visit us at Santa Monica Body Makeovers.

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