Wednesday, November 11, 2009

How To Get A Flat Stomach

In order to get flat stomach, forget about stomach crunches. First of all, you need to burn your fat first and this is when cardio exercise comes handy. When you get rid of your tummy fats, then only you do crunches as they help to build your six pack stomach muscles.

1. Cardio exercisesFor people who wanted to lose weight and burn away the extra fats, cardio is the best choice. All you need to do is exercise at an average intensity where each session needs about 30 minutes to 60 minutes. Cardio helps burn fats and calories and improve your heart and lungs. It's good for your heart. It's a good training if you want to be stronger and it's even better to those who needed to lose a lot of weight.

2. Benefits of cardio exercises First of all, cardio is good in strengthening your heart as well as the whole body. When you do cardio, your heart needs to work harder to provide you with the large amount of oxygen needed. If you do a stronger exercise, your body tends to need more oxygen and with that, oxygen-free process will take place. But, to burn fat, it requires oxygen and that is why average amount of workout is the best. Stronger exercise only burns carbohydrates but not calories and the fats stored in your body and it shows little effect to losing weight.

3. Measure the training intensityWhat you need to do to know the intensity of your daily training is to measure your pulse. It varies according to your age and what you need is to train your heart at the maximum pulse. Calculate with this formula; "Tmax = 220 - age". Cardio exercise is best done at 60% to 70% of your maximum heart pulse. It helps to burn fat and improves your endurance. In short, it's good for your health.

4. Appropriate amount of cardio in a weekStart with 30 minutes, 3 times a week. When you are confident enough and is used to the training, you can increase to 60 minutes or the do it 5 times week. You can increase your intensity but remember not too much.

5. Top in cardio exercise list
- Bike riding: a standard cardio exercise that can burn up to 500 calories in 30 minutes
- Swimming: good exercise for the whole body. 30 minutes of swimming can burn 400 calories.- Tennis, Squash: you'll burn up to 400 calories in 30 minutes as you play.
- Running: run for at least 30 minutes and you can burn 300 caloriesCardio exercise is great for overall health, weight loss, stronger heart, high blood pressure and diabetes

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Monday, November 9, 2009

Say Bye Bye to Dark Circles!

Dark circles are always women's enemy and now not only that, even men has the same issue as well. Dark circles are formed usually due to late night sleep. But it's ok now that we have a solution to it. You can make them at home and it only costs you very little. You don't have to waste a huge amount of money anymore trying out different kind of products available in the pharmacies and be disappointed after that. You can try making this instead.

  1. Use potatoes that you can find in the supermarkets. Peel off the skin and throw them into your food processor.
  2. Then stuff these raw mashed potatoes into cheesecloth before applying them onto the dark spot below your eyes.
  3. Beware not to let the juice drip into your eyes. Just leave them for about 20 minutes before removing it.
  4. Wipe clean your eyes and apply your eye cream. That completes your dark circle treatment.

This method helps as grated potatoes are known to be containing catecholase, a kind of enzyme that is used in normal cosmetics ingredients to lighten human skin. This DIY is absolutely going to be effective in lightening your dark circles. Just repeat this routine for a few times and you'll get the result you want. But the best effective way is of course, to sleep early and have enough 8-hours sleep to prevent your dark circles from popping out again.

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Sunday, November 8, 2009

Fragrance and Personality?

Choosing a perfume to your liking is as easy as snapping your fingers but it can be hard that you need to scratch your head when there's a wide selection for you to choose from. But did you know that fragrance can represent your personality? The perfume you use tells people about you and what kind of person you are whether you're a tough person, the girly kind, sexy, young and sweet, one with personality or sporty. It's not only about you, liking the scent or not. Often, there are people who like a particular scent and some don't. It reflects on your lifestyle as well.

When you go for perfume shopping, take your time to hunt for the right one before deciding on the one that suits you best. It might take you weeks to get one, but trust us, it's worth the time. As they reflects the inner you, only the one that you think is the most suitable will last longer. Even if you've decided to change one, the fragrance will still fall on the same category.

It often happens that the perfume doesn't smells the same as the one you sprayed at the samples counter as sometimes, your nose did some tricks on you. After a while of smelling it, the scent slowly fades away and blends with your surroundings and turning into a different scent. It's not about the perfume, but your nose just decided to smell differently. Don't try too many samples at a go, and start with the lighter ones before sampling the richer scent. Take a break in between before you start sniffing on samples again.

Colors of the packaging often tells you what kind of perfume it is whether it's a strong one or a lighter one or whether it's the floral scent or fruity. You can always find some information on the bottle, so read them over before trying them. Often brighter colors reflect fruity scent and those in pastel colors reflect floral scents. Either that or you can always ask the sales person for help and to collect more information and understand your own fragrant well. Thus, you'll get to know your own personality more.

It's always best to take a break in between samples and don't force yourself to get one now on the spot. Get some opinion from people and try a few more till you found your best.