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Got The Blues? Work It Out!

Ever have one of those days where you just don't feel like getting out of bed? Feeling kind of blue and down in the dumps and like you'd rather just skip out on life for the day than bother dealing with it? Well, I'm here to tell you there's a little trick you should know about that works almost every time to beat that feeling of "having the blues". One of the most mood elevating things you can do for yourself when you're having 'one of those days' is to get up, get out and get a good workout in. Yup, that's right. Do the exact opposite of what you FEEL like doing and you will almost definitely FEEL BETTER at the end of it. It's been proven time and time again that working out gets your endorphins racing and increases levels of serotonin in your brain, which in turn elevates your mood. So get outside (or stay inside if you must, but I personally find that getting fresh air is great for getting a good mood on). Once you're t

Getting the Most From Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is nothing new on the internet. However, it sure is something that many come and go after. When you are looking to start your own website or blog and add some affiliate marketing links to it, there are some things that you should know. Affiliate marketing is not for everyone. It is not for anyone that is looking to make money fast, nor is it for the impatient. You have to have two things in order to be successful with affiliate marketing, and those two things are patience, and determination. When you put those two together, there is no stopping you or what you can do with your affiliate marketing business. Affiliate marketing can be done a few ways; it can be done through email, newsletters, websites, or blogs. By using any of these things, you can be successful if you are marketing to the right audience. Finding your readership, and catching them with good content is what it is all about. To do so, you need to know where they go and what they look for. Try starting

Get Ripped, How To Get Ripped Fast!

To have a world class fitness body, you must be muscular of course, symmetrical and balanced, and have a well defined six-pack, but most importantly, you have to get ripped and shredded to the bone! If you do not know how to get ripped fast, then we are about to discuss how weight training, proper nutrition and aerobic exercise will assist in getting a ripped, beach worthy body by next summer. Determine Where You Are Starting Before You Start To Get Ripped If you do not have the ripped body of your dreams than you are either one of two people: 1. The 'big guy' at the gym who looks huge in clothes but has no muscle definition when the shirt comes off. You are training like a bodybuilder, eating in a caloric surplus, getting stronger and bigger each week but would never win a fitness model show because of your excess body fat. 2. Or, are you the 'skinny guy' who thinks he is ripped because your veins are popping out of your tank top, but have no muscle

Get Big Muscles In 3 Simple Steps

Do you know what it really takes to build big muscles? Do you think it's as simple as buying a gym membership, training each body once per week, slamming back some protein shakes and trying to eat as much chicken and tuna possible? Viola, you are big enough to enter a bodybuilding contest. Can you imagine it was that easy to build big muscles? Unfortunately, your monthly gym membership, regular weight training workouts and casual eating habits, isn't going to cut it. Here are five simple steps to getting big muscles fast : Squat and Deadlift Squatting and Deadlifting are known as two of the Big Three exercises that are responsible for power and mass muscle building. Consider these two animal exercises the kings of the jungle! Without them, you do not have a chance of survival. These two exercises alone, work out about 75% of your entire musculature, including your traps, shoulders, arms, back. Gluts, hams, calves and core muscles. Not to mention the degree of in

Foods to Avoid for a Healthy Pregnancy and a Healthy Baby

Being pregnant and being an expected mother can be a wonderful time for both you and the family, but its not without its concerns and its worries. As an expected mother you are warned that there are foods that you shouldn't eat while you are pregnant, and sometimes that information can be a little overwhelming. This article will help you in knowing the types of foods that you should avoid while you are pregnant. Majority of expected mothers already know that consumption of alcohol, is a big no-no during pregnancy, as there are many consequences, as a result. However, there are some that think just having one every once in a while is okay, but they might be shocked to discover that it too is harmful to the baby. Drinking just even one or two drinks during the beginning stages of the pregnancy, can really affect the development of the baby and be quite harmful to your growing child. The consequence could be quite major, and your baby may end up with fetal alcohol syndro

Making Back-End & Residual Commissions

Residual income puts money in an affiliate marketer's pocket without any work or effort on their part. It doesn't get any better than that. Sales of back-end products allow you to get paid for work that you do more than once. The idea here is to work smarter…not harder. So what are back-end products? They are products/services you offer to existing customers, i.e. to people who have already bought a first product (front-end product. lead product) from you. Most online marketers make much more money selling customers the second, third, fourth etc. product than selling their first product. The reason is that people who've already bought from you once are much more likely to buy again. Strategies like back-end offers shifts the focus from the short sighted "take the money and run" strategy that is so much in use on the internet today. You've seen these sites all over. The focus is on getting a massive amount of traffic and then selling visitors an over-priced pro

Stubboorn Fat: Does it affect you? Part Two

When it comes to the physical make-up of men versus women, many of the differences are obvious. Men, on average, are 10-15% larger than women, weigh 20% more, and are 30% stronger (especially when considering upper body strength). Testosterone is one of the major hormones active in a man's body. Men also produce more HGH (human growth hormone). Testosterone stimulates muscle enlargement and bone growth and also raises the level of red blood cells in a man's blood stream. What you may not know, however, is that all of these factors combine to make oxygen much more available to a man's cells than a woman's cells. That means a man could be working at 50% of his capacity during physical activity, but a woman would have to be working at 70% of her capacity in order to keep up. It is not as easy for her cells to absorb oxygen. This is due partly to the fact that women have a smaller percentage of lean tissue (muscle, organs, etc.) and a much higher percentage of

Fiber, All About Fiber

If you are trying to create a healthy diet for yourself, you cannot overlook the importance that fiber will play. The main benefits you̢۪ll receive from dietary fiber include improvements in the cardiovascular and digestive system along with providing a high degree of satiety. Unfortunately, in today̢۪s world of overconsumption of processed foods, a high fiber diet is hard to come by. Here are the top facts about fiber you need to know. Promotion Of A Healthy Digestive System Fiber̢۪s primary role in the body is going to be to help promote a healthy digestive system. It does this by helping to keep the intestines in proper working order and prevent the accumulation of cholesterol along the lining. Lowering Your Bad Cholesterol Levels Another thing high fiber foods will do, is help to decrease the level of LDL cholesterol that̢۪s seen in the blood. They do this by binding with the dietary cholesterol you take in while it̢۪s in the small intestine and then remo

The Female Athlete Triad: Could You Be At Risk?

One major issue that many women who are getting serious about their workouts start to deal with is known as the female athlete triad. The female athlete triad can affect a wide variety of individuals, from someone training for a rigorous competitive sport to someone who is simply trying to take their physique to a new level. Most commonly it is seen in activities that do place a high amount of focus on the image of the body, such as ballet, gymnastics, figure skating, and women's fitness. It's important that you learn to recognize exactly what the female athlete triad consists of so that you are not only aware if you are already experiencing it but also, you learn what you can do to protect yourself from further damage taking place. The Three Main Components Of The Female Athlete Triad The female athlete triad, like the name suggests, is composed of three big factors. 1. Amenorrhea

Fat Loss Q'n'A

Q: How fast can I lose weight while using a truly effective fat loss program? Can I lose 10 pounds in a weekend like some of the diet plans claim? Answer: Doctors recommend losing fat at a rate of 1-2 pound per week. At the end of a good 12 week program, you can expect to lose 12 pounds of fat. But since you didn't gain the fat overnight, you also won't lose the fat overnight. Commit to long term goals and enjoy the process of developing proper nutrition and exercise habits. With one of those "10 pound weight loss juice diets", you might lose some weight, but it won't be fat. And you'll quickly gain it back. Those are just too good to be true. Q: Do I have to do crunches and sit-ups while on this program? Answer: No you don't. Crunches and sit-ups are not the best way to lose fat. To lose fat, you simply need to eat properly, avoid excess calories, and use fat blasting intervals/cardio. In fact, crunches and sit-ups can stress your spine, s

Stubboorn Fat: Does it affect you? Part One

Everyone walking on the face of this earth has an abundance of fat cells throughout their bodies.  In fact, if you're a healthy adult with normal body composition, you have approximately 30 billion fat cells. This is an astronomical number when you think about it. Did you ever wonder why you have so many? Have you ever wondered what those fat cells are for? The answer is, fat cells are part of our genetic code and they allowed us to use stored energy when food was scarce. This survival mechanism is very much the same today as it was 10,000 years ago. However, today our needs have changed.  There is an abundance of food in modern society today. When you consume too many calories, your body goes into storage mode for that "rainy day," so to speak, but the "rainy day" does not happen. So your body simply stores those extra calories as fat. When you eat less calories then your body demands your cells release stored fat for energy. Pretty simple equation

Is This Madonna's New Secret Fitness Weapon?

QUESTION: I was just reading about the Power Plate in a magazine. Apparently Madonna uses it to strengthen and build her muscles, and there was also a positive article about this in the Daily Telegraph. Apparently these machines cost of £2,600! They say it can do in 10 minutes what you would get from weight training for an hour. It was been developed years ago from technology used by the Russian astronauts to stop muscle wastage when they were in space. Have you heard of this and do you think it could do what it claims to do? Not that I can afford to buy one but I might try a class if there is ever one this offered this way. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ANSWER After more than 11 years in the fitness industry, I have seen so many exercise machines pop up out of nowhere, take their place as the hot item in the exercise equipment marketplace, only to fizzle out or even completely disappear in a few years, or in some cases, just a few months. Many of these fitness machines prom

The Best Cardio Intervals for Fat Loss: Part 2

If you don't have variety in your program, you are more than likely to end up at a fat loss plateau soon rather than later. Variety is one of the keys to keeping that fat loss coming. So not only should you have variety within your training week (i.e. alternate between two different interval training workouts, rather than just doing the same interval workout each time), but you should also change these workouts every 4 weeks. So you need to change your training program every 4 weeks. To modify your interval training workouts, you can… switch exercise methods (and even use bodyweight exercises for intervals) increase or decrease the length of the interval (while decreasing or increasing the intensity, respectively) increase or decrease the number of intervals per workout increase or decrease the rest time between intervals First, let's take a look at the interval methods. Here is my list of preferred ways to do your intervals, ranked in order from best to worst,

Get Paid To Podcast, Teach, or Publish a Newsletter Online

Making money online is a matter of finding an audience who you can either advertise to or receive direct payment from. Either way, you need something interesting or informative with which to catch and hold your readers' attention. Your content is everything. I'll show you how you can make money presenting and distributing content via podcast or a newsletter, and how you can connect directly with your audience as an online tutor. Getting Paid To Podcast To create a podcast, you will need a microphone and some recording software. If you have a camera, you can also produce video podcasts. You can download a free recording program from audacity.sourceforge.net, where you will also find tutorials on the technical side of podcasting. When you have the content and are able to produce good quality podcasts, you need listeners. You can find them by submitting your podcast to directories such as podcastalley.com, promoting it through a website or blog, or adve

Getting to Sleep and Panic Attacks at Night

As most doctors will tell you, there are two things that disturb sleep: physical pain and worry. It's therefore understandable that many people with anxiety report frequent sleep disturbance as a major problem. Not being able to sleep can actually be quite traumatic for many people. The first thing you need to understand about sleep is this: it's not the amount of sleep you get that's important, but rather the quality of the sleep. Quality over quantity. I am going to give you some quick tips to help tackle any problems you are having with sleep. Firstly, to break the insomnia cycle, begin by not presuming you will sleep! That seems like the wrong attitude, but if you approach each night as just a possible opportunity to sleep, this helps remove the pressure you are placing yourself under. In a way, some people have performance anxiety when they think about sleeping: "Will I be able to make myself sleep tonight?" The answer is maybe yes, maybe no.

Best Cardio Machines for Weight Loss

You don't have to do cardio to lose fat, but cardio machines can be helpful for boosting your metabolism and burning more fat. And if you use interval training, you can get more results than if you did traditional aerobic cardio. But that's another story for another time. Let's take a look at which machines burn the most calories and which ones are worth your time. An okay choice: Elliptical Machines. The biggest reason to choose elliptical machines... => you've got a bum knee. I have worked with clients with extreme osteoarthritis and we were able to use these machines for a decent workout without pain - but the results didn't compare to clients that used a stationary bike or treadmill for their interval training. So in general, I'm not overly impressed by the elliptical machine for fat loss. If you go into any gym, compare the bodies on the ellipticals to the ones on other machines...most of the time, the people on the ellipticals make no

Growing Your Affiliate Marketing Business

Affiliate marketing is a very popular business on the internet that involves a partnership between a merchant and one or more affiliates. The affiliate will advertise or promote the merchant's products and services free until a customer makes a purchase. Once a purchase has been made, a portion of the profit received by the merchant from the customer will be given to the affiliate. For this very reason, the relationship between the affiliate and the merchant is also known as revenue sharing partnership. Affiliate marketing has also been recognized as the best way for merchants to sell more products on the internet as well as webmasters or affiliates to gain income with their own website. This is where the affiliate can make really good money. Sience it's already a widespread business, you'll need to work hard to make your site stand out from the crowd. No matter if you are an affiliate, affiliate network, or merchant, you'll need to discover some secrets that will l

Have You Tried Hair Loss Blueprint Yet?

After throwing away thousands of dollars on certain, cutting edge cures for baldness that are certain only to deprive you of money, and are innovative only in the ways that they remove cash from you while failing to grow even a single patch of fuzz, skepticism is only natural in the face of another promised hair restoration technique. I know this feeling well, and nowadays I switch off my ears when some fast talking salesman is propounding the alleged virtues of another three thousand dollar treatment which has crawled out of a hair restoration lab like some kind of Frankenstein's monster. Like you probably have, I had given up on miracle cures – until very recently. However, you owe it to yourself to try Hair Loss Blueprint, a hair regrowth program that truly stands out from the crowd both in terms of its effectiveness and its practically nonexistent cost. It was the Blueprint's cost that first grabbed my attention – just $37 at the current introductory price, w

Heart Rate Means Nothing for Fat Loss

One of the biggest myths in fitness is that you have to maintain a certain heart rate in order to lose fat. But that's just not true. Unfortunately, this myth has led to a whole lot of low-intensity training and therefore, a whole lot of failed programs. The quicker you lose the "high heart rate equals the best workout" mentality, the quicker you will start to change your body. In the Turbulence Training workouts, you are going to burn more fat and more calories when you are OUT of the gym because of the high-intensity training methods that you will use. Not because your heart rate increases during the workout (even though your HR will be up there from the supersets and intervals). In the last 10 years, research has shown us two very important things about exercising for fat loss. First, lifting heavier weights leads to burning more calories after the workout when compared to lifting light weights. So that's why 8 repetitions per set is better than 12 re

Here's Why Using Camtasia Can Increase Your Affiliate Checks

Since there are already lots of people getting into affiliate marketing, it is no wonder that the competition is getting stiff. The challenge is to try and outdo other affiliates and think of ways to be able to attain this. There are also many tips and techniques being taught to these affiliate in order to best plan their strategy for their program to work effectively so that more earnings will be achieved. What better way to wow your prospects and customers than to record and publish top notch, full motion and streaming screen-captured videos. Nothing like feeling your hard work getting paid by having your customers jumping up excitedly in great anticipation to buy your product right there and then. This is Camtasia in action. It is a proven fact; giving your customers something they can actually see can explode your online sales instantly. You do not need to have trainings and education to be able to know how this system can work for your affiliate program. Anyone can create stunning

Is Your Spouse Hiding Something?

No one wants their marriage to fail. If they didn't want it to last forever, they wouldn't have gotten married in the first place, right? Well, many times things happen that we aren't able to control and sometimes, affairs happen as well. We all know this, so when we see suspicious behavior from our spouses, it can really make us wonder what in the world is going on. Maybe your spouse has stayed out later, perhaps they have ducked out of the room soon after a call came through on their cell, or maybe you found a number that had no name attached to it. Here are a few tips on what to do next. If you have the number or if you have checked your spouse's cell phone and found strange numbers with no name attached, you can find out exactly who they are. There are many websites where you can enter a number, even a cell phone number and get loads of information back. So, get the number and visit a site like www.reversemobile.com. You will be able to enter the phone