Thursday, July 23, 2009

Can Upper Back Pain Exercise Ease The Pain In Men And Women Over 50?

Upper back and lower back pain problems are plaguing millions of men and women over 50 everyday. Any good chiropractor could confirm this for you. In fact, you don't need to contact a back surgeon to find out the truth of this quandary. Just do a simple Google search on the term "common back pain" and you will bring up over 50,100,000 options for you to read So, you may be there a while.


To search on less potential terms but still relevant to "common back pain" just put that term in quotes just like you see it there and you would narrow the field to 15,700 web pages to review for that term.

Lets suppose you want to get some pain relief from your chronic upper back pain issues. The first thing to do is contact your doctor. Either find a good chiropractor or ask your medical doctor for advice. The only challenge is that many medical doctors will want to keep you in "network" and you may not be able to get coverage from an insurance standpoint of the visits to a chiropractor.

Chiropractors are worth their weight in gold as the saying goes. They really understand and specialize in helping people just like you with upper back pain problems.

Sometimes you may get a referral to a good chiropractor from and fellow church member or someone you know from your job. This is the best starting point because a satisfied patient is often the best advertisement a doctor could ever want.

Most of the times we go to doctor after doctor with no meaningful relief in sight. We search for doctors as if in the dark for help and pain relief. And after enduring months or years of pain, we find someone that makes our healing almost worth the excruciating pain.

Men and women over 50 who work in factories have it doubly hard. They may drive heavy construction machinery and just cannot take the constant pain and pressure on the discs in their back.

You should see your doctor and ask them for some easy back stretches you can do. Always strive to work in concert with your doctors care. Before you finish reading this article, you should Goggle search the term, "Easy back pain exercises". You will find pictures, videos and various other media such as pdf reports of just how to do these exercise for maximum value and less effort.

Hope this helps you feel better soon.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Summer Muscle: Bodybuilder Tuan Tran

Bodybuilder Tuan Tran poses for photos and video in Miami following the 2009 Musclemania Universe competition.

Your Weight in Muscle Fiber

You probably have heard that muscle weighs more than fat. Many people notice a small weight gain when they begin lifting weights consistently. As a general rule, if you lift weights 2 to 3 times a week, you can gain 1 pound of muscle per month for about 6 months. After that, the rate of increase slows down as you start to reach your genetic potential. For the same reason, you will make a lot of progress on weight progression at the beginning, but the longer you lift; your progression will lessen because you are reaching your genetic potential.

Don’t be alarmed at the extra pounds of weight from weight training because it is well worth the effort. For every 3 pounds of muscle you build, research shows you increase your resting metabolic rate by about 7 percent. For example, if your body burns 1,200 calories per day (not counting exercise or any other movement), you would burn an extra 84 calories per day with those 3 extra pounds of muscle. Many women have a difficult time outgrowing 2-3 pound dumbbell weights, because they are afraid that if they increase the weight they will bulk up.

If you are happy with the strength and appearance of your muscles, you can do a maintenance program with 5 pound weights. However, if you want more strength, you could progress to 8 or 10 pound weights and still not bulk up. Using heavier weights can increase muscle size, but it’s highly unlikely that you’ll get bulky. Women don’t naturally have enough of the hormone, testosterone, required to build huge muscles, and even if you could bulk up, you’d have to use significantly heavier weights. Another option to tone muscle is to increase your repetitions instead of increasing weight. A high-repetition/light-weight program will develop muscle tone and increase strength and endurance without significantly increasing muscle size.

I like to tell my clients to not just go through the motion when lifting weights. I use the word squeeze” a lot to describe the contraction of the muscle you should be focusing on. Think about the muscle you are working and squeeze or contract it as you are lifting. You will get a lot more benefit for your efforts if you squeeze the muscle on the lift rather than just raising and lowering the weight without focusing on the muscle.

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Thursday, July 9, 2009

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How to Build Oblique Muscle

Aside from an actual six pack, the oblique muscles help frame your abdomen and give it a great look. In this article you will learn about the necessary workouts and nutrition that go hand in hand with building oblique muscles.

The most important thing to remember here is that you need a low enough bodyfat percentage in order to see the oblique muscles. The same applies to your abs. So it's important that your diet is correct in order to reach a bodyfat percentage that is low enough to begin to see the obliques. To lower your bodyfat percentage, you need to widen the gap between calories burned vs. calories consumed. The "calories consumed" part of the equation should obviously be lower than the "calories burned" part. The bigger the caloric deficit, the more fat you will lose and the more your bodyfat percentage will drop.

From a workout perspective, performing a combination of ab crunches, twisting ab crunches, and oblique specific exercises is ideal. A great exercise to target the obliques is performed by holding a dumbbell in one hand down to your side. Keep your lower body stationary as you drop your torso directly to whichever side you're holding the dumbbell, and then raise back up. This targets the obliques and will help you put on oblique muscle.

It's very important to understand that you need a low bodyfat to see your obliques. Otherwise if your bodyfat is too high, it doesn't matter how many oblique exercises you perform, you will simply never see them. In fact, you will make it worse because the added muscle will only add size underneath the fat, which can give you the appearance of having a higher bodyfat percentage.

Friday, July 3, 2009

Ultimate Health Herbs Needed By Men Over 50

Are there some ultimate health herbs needed by men over 50 years of age? You can bet the family farm there are! However, before we discover what they are, let's have a brief history of herbal use.

Are you aware there are written records of herbs having been used by mankind dating back to 1600 B.C. when the Egyptians had access to a record of no less than 700 herbal medicines?


Even the father of modern or Western medicine, Hippocrates, had recorded more than 300 herbal therapies himself whereas another Greek physician, Dioscorides, wrote his classic "De Materia Medica," detailing over 500 herbal remedies, which was used by doctors as a medical textbook for over 1000 years.

Nowadays, more smart  and informed people turn to using herbs for everyday ailments than ever before because the natural powers of herbs have proven themselves time and again that they're whole lot more compatible to the human body than their counterpart - artificial chemical drugs - and that they produce more biologically synergistic benefits that can bring forth desired results much faster.

Just like younger fellas, men over 50 can also depend on a "certain" kind of herbs to push their vitality level higher... which then can turn them into more "man" than they can ever dream of.

Here are 7 vitally important ultimate health herbs that all men over 50 should not live without:

1. Hawthorn Berry

Hawthorn, being a heart tonic, can help to ensure regular heart rhythm and strengthen heart muscle. It is of great help at times of stress too.

2. Garlic

Garlic helps to prevent heart diseases, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and abnormal blood clots. The most important benefit among all others is its ability to slow the destruction of brain cells and to stimulate new neuronal connections.

3. Gotu Kola

A traditional blood tonic that helps to improve blood circulation, which then improves memory and boosts alertness.

4. Milk Thistle

This is considered as the "King of Liver Detox," because it can heal liver damage caused by too much alcohol and drugs. Its powerfulness far exceeds vitamin C and E combined!

5. Black and Green Tea

Drinking such healthful teas can help to detoxify, reduce and eliminate buildup of plaque in arteries and thus lower the chance of heart diseases. Free radicals, formation of cancer, growth of cancer...are out of the question with daily intake of black and green tea. Yes, it's that powerful!

6. Saw Palmetto

It limits the multiplication of protein cells and prohibits tissue swelling. Older men who suffer from frequent, painful urination and fluid retention will see quick relief after using this herbal.

7. Tribulus Terrestris

Not only is it well known for improving men over 50 sexual potency and functions, but it is also famous for improving waning muscle strength, lowering cholesterol... and has all kinds of anti-oxidant properties.

When smart and informed men over 50 take these 7 vitally important herbs together on a regular basis, they can find themselves so energized and empowered that their energy levels will often be many times better than when they were younger in their teenage years.

However, you need to be aware of the fact not all herbs meet the necessary strengths and qualities needed for ultimate health. So please do your due diligence and be very careful of where you buy your herbs from.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

BeSt Sport EvEr - BoDYbuilDing

BeSt Sport EvEr - BoDYbuilDing