My Fitness Video

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I give the basics on abdominal crunches, lower abdominal leg raises and oblique exercises.

Quick Diet Tips

This was emailed from one of my LinkedIn fitness groups:

http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=44201371&gid=134566&articleURL
=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyyogaonline%2Ecom%2Fblog%2F2009%2F06%2F17%2F5-quick-eating-tips
-for-weight-loss%2F&urlhash=x5hB&trk=news_discuss

Disclaimer: I am not the author of this article. Consult a physician before dieting and exercising.

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Obliques: Wedge and Step

Ouch!

Put your right elbow and forearm on the floor. Put your legs on a step or two, according to ability. (Two steps are harder than one step.) You can put one ankle on top of another or cross them. The latter is the easier position. Raise yourself in a wedge with your head, neck and back straight. Raise your right leg, which should be the leg closer to the floor, two or so inches in front of your left leg, which is still resting on the step. Repeat as many times as you can. Breath out when you raise your leg. Turn around and repeat, raising your left leg.

Disclaimer: None of the above information can be taken as a substitute for advice from a medical professional such as a physician.

My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on www.louizapatsis.com, http://www.authorhouse.com, www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.

Food or Fat for Thought

Here's another article sent from a doctor on LinkedIn. Note: This article does not represent my views.

Link: http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=45180907&gid=1898242&article
URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eodemagazine%2Ecom%2Fdoc%2F64%2Ffat-is-where-its-at%3Futm_source%3
DOde%2BNewsletters%26utm_campaign%3D23a9210afc-Weekly_Newsletter_061709%26utm_medium%3Demail
&urlhash=4PSM&trk=news_discuss

I do agree that there is a fat phobia among people. As a scientist, I would say there is a case for good or bad fat.

I also think, as was written in an early post on fat, that one can experiment, follow their intuition and read up with their bodies to see what works for them. Do not forget that mind to an extent for each person is over matter: If you think what you eat will be good or bad for you, it may well be!

Body Building Article: Signs Your Workout Is Weak

I received this from a LinkedIn contact: Disclaimer: None of the above information can be taken as a substitute for advice from a medical professional such as a physician.

My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on www.louizapatsis.com, http://www.authorhouse.com, www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.

Disclaimer: None of the above information can be taken as a substitute for advice from a medical professional such as a physician.

My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on www.louizapatsis.com, http://www.authorhouse.com, www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.

Swiss Ball Stir and Abdominal Muscles

In an article in today's New York Times, it was written that abdominal crunches are bad for the spine. If you do them as I have described in an earlier blog post that you can find by searching, your spine will be [mostly] straight and you do not have to worry about hurting it. However, I did find the information in this article
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/core-myths/#comments useful, and I loved a Swiss Ball exercise.

Here it is:

Place your forearms and elbows on a Swiss Ball. Your body is straight behind you and steady yourself on the balls of your feet. Now stir the Swiss Ball clockwise and then counterclockwise. Do it each way for 2.5 minutes. Rest. Repeat until you cannot do it anymore. Then stand up and reach up to stretch your abdominal muscles. Lie down and hug your knees to stretch your lower back. You will find that I added some variation and stretching to the exercise.

Disclaimer: None of the above information can be taken as a substitute for advice from a medical professional such as a physician.

My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on www.louizapatsis.com, http://www.authorhouse.com, www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.

Abdominal Circles

Sit on the floor and lean back on your elbows. Raise your legs bout half a foot from the floor. Do clockwise circles about a foot in diameter, both legs together or one at a time. Do four sets of ten repetitions. Repeat in a counterclockwise fashion.

If you can, raise or lower your legs an inch and repeat the above. Make sure each leg does circles in each direction. If you can, do this in both subsequent positions: with your legs higher and lower than the first position.

Disclaimer: None of the above information can be taken as a substitute for advice from a medical professional such as a physician.

My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on www.louizapatsis.com, http://www.authorhouse.com, www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.

Complexes Exercise Training

I was sent this via LinkedIn as well. I would not do this more than once a week four weeks straight. But it seems like a good way to get off a plateau. (See earlier post on plateaus by searching for it.) See http://www.linkedin.com/news?actionBar=&sik=1243962836233&aIdx=0&articleID=36576529.

Check out PocketGuide to Fitness at www.louizapatsis.com, www.authorhouse.com, www.amazon.com and www.bn.com.

Disclaimer: I am a not a medical professional and have not done or supervised a complex workout.

Set Point and Metabolism

I was forwarded this article from someone on LinkedIn. It is about set point: How you are programmed by genetics to have a certain metabolism and be within a certain weight range. This makes sense. The article is by a doctor. You can alter your metabolism by getting off a plateau, as with interval training, and intention. I have not researched set point. Perhaps you can do your own research.

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