Washington, DC Fitness Coach Says Stay Away From Crunches

By Josef Brandenburg

You will often find that a Washington, DC fitness coach would not recommend that you do crunches. Why? Because they are not going to help you get your perfect abs. Although everyone who wants great abs seems to be doing them, they are probably not getting the results you think they are getting.

Why shouldn't you be doing crunches? You may have heard that crunches and other abdominal workouts will help you to get that flat stomach and tight midsection you are after. But, there are several reasons why this will not work for you.

1. Crunches are not going to make you look better. The problem with most midsections is that there is too much stored flat lying on top of the abdominal muscles. That four, six or eight pack of abs are under there, you have them already. The problem is that you have fat on top of them. So, instead of crunches, invest in a strong fat loss program first and foremost.

2. Most people are not aware of the fact that these crunches can have a negative impact on your posture. While doing crunches, your head is bent forward while your shoulders and rib cage moves forward towards the pelvis resulting in your spine bending forward completely.

3. Some misleading information out there will tell you that crunches will help your back to feel better. Crunches do not help the back at all. The ab muscles run from the bottom of your rib cage to the bottom of your pelvis. The fibers run vertical here. There is no way possible for any crunch to be able to improve your back then. If you work with a qualified Washington, DC fitness coach, they will tell you that crunches are worthless to you.

What do you need to do?

As noted before, all you need to do is get a good weight loss plan in order to burn off the excess fat hiding your natural abs and a good Washington, DC fitness coach might just be the one to help you set up a good plan and you won't need to do any crunches.

Your internal weight belt also needs to be taken into consideration. In case you don't know what that is, your internal weight belt is made up of the muscles that support your lower back as they tighten inwards when you are moving or lifting. Properly functioning core muscles ensures that your weight belt turns on automatically when needed whether you think about it or not. A fat belly is the result of weak muscles.

Your fitness coach can uncover your perfectly fine natural abs, by helping you lose the fat that hides them. A good workout program designed by your Washington, DC fitness coach is a much better option than doing an endless amount of crunches that are going to get you nowhere. - 17273

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Why Choose Liquid Calcium?

By Neil Butterfield

Our body is built on a foundation of minerals and calcium and magnesium are two of the most important minerals that the body needs. Calcium is a building block and magnesium is necessary for the body to be able to properly use the calcium. Its time you knew the benefits of liquid calcium over pills and powder forms of calcium.

Because it is water based, liquid calcium is almost 100% available to be absorbed. This is in a sharp contrast of what many have been led to believe over the years; that pill forms of calcium is good for you. In reality, the amount absorbed from pills or even chelated calcium is less than 25%.

Foods that are rich in protein, like meat, actually cause calcium to be lost through our urine. Since calcium is slow to absorb from foods and pill forms of calcium, many people are lacking in calcium when they think they are actually getting enough. Liquid Ionic calcium is water soluble so it is absorbed right away. This ensures you are getting the dose you were promised.

It's impossible to get enough calcium from your diet, even if you eat all the right foods. That's why it is more important than ever to take a liquid calcium supplement.

Liquid calcium magnesium helps with heartburn, indigestion, and constipation. It's actually good for your digestive system overall, and the best time to take it is after you eat.

Other things calcium is good for includes; blood clotting, regulating nerve impulses, stimulating contractions during labor and producing milk.

We all know that not getting enough calcium leads to osteoporosis as we age, but did you know that in children it can cause rickets? A much more serious condition for adults is osteomalacia (the softening of bony tissue.)

Modern studies show a link between a lack of calcium and high blood pressure and colon cancer.

Common symptoms of a lack of calcium are numbness, as well as a tingling around the mouth and the fingertips. It can even cause muscle spasms and painful aches.

Calcium can even aid in weight loss. If you're not getting enough calcium, your body thinks it's starving, so you will not be able to loose the extra weight without it.

Calcitriol is a main cause of high blood pressure. Calcitriol is a hormone that constricts your arteries putting excess pressure in your heart. When you aren't getting enough calcium, calcitriol levels increase drastically. Calcium is good for your heart a good for your nervous system.

When it's that time of month, were all familiar with the irritably, cramps and a depression that comes with PMS. Adding more calcium to your diet can regulate your hormones and ease you through this difficult time.

Liquid calcium gives you five times the protection over pill calcium for diseases like colon cancer and polyps.

Since taking calcium won't hurt you, and taking too little definitely will; starting to take a liquid calcium supplement now is the best way to protect your health for the future. After all, you're probably calcium deficient and don't even know it. - 17273

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Which Should I Choose? Acai Berry Pills or Acai Berry Juice?

By Travis Van Slooten

With supplements today coming in so many different forms it can be tough for people to determine whether or not acai berry pills are the best way to get their supplements. For a long time, pills were the go to way to get your healthy boosts. You could go to any supplement aisle and see shelves with hundreds of bottles of pills all along the racks. And the reason for this was convenience. You could pop a pill and get 100% of your vitamin or nutrients for the day, just like that. But now you may be noticing some more appealing options in the supplements section. There are health bars covered in chocolate and juices to blend into smoothies. All of these new options are playing toward one thing: your palate.

Let's face it, people love to eat delicious snacks. So the best way to get people to eat healthy, or at least the best way to sell healthy foods, is to cover them in our favorite flavors like salts and sugars. Acai berry is still a fairly new supplement to the American market, but it has already received the full treatment. While fresh acai berry is out of reach, you can find acai berry drinks and ice creams and all sorts of appetizing options. But do these options really offer you the same bang for your buck that you expect from a health supplement?

First, let's talk about the acai berry juice. While yes, it can be flavorful and enticing as compared to taking capsules, acai berry juice may be giving you a little less than what you would expect from an acai product. In addition, while acai berry has yet to be proven as an aid to weight loss, more and more people are taking the acai berry as a supplement that can help with weight loss programs. The thing is, some of these juices may actually contain fillers and sugars which may bring detrimental impacts to your body. Another downside to drinking acai berry juice instead of taking acai pills is that you may be getting only a fraction of the nutrients as compared to what you get from the pills.

When you buy the pill form of the supplement, you can get your complete daily dosage in one quick gulp. You also avoid chemical coloring or added sugars that you might find in food-oriented supplements. The pills contain everything you need to get your daily dose of acai berry without adding anything else. If you aren't worried about the convenience, you may be worried about the money. Health supplements aren't always cheap and acai berry can be the same way. Buying expensive juices may be a tasty way of getting your supplement, but you end up paying the same amount for water and sugar with some acai berry as you would pay for a much larger supply of pills.

The biggest advantage of going for acai berry juices is that you get to enjoy their delicious flavors with your daily meals. Nevertheless, if the nutrient concentration is what you're after, a single acai pill can offer you so much more, while you can still have a glass of orange juice with it. Above all, you get everything you need minus the extra calories and added ingredients. - 17273

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What Can A Good Probiotic Do For You?

By Dr. Jeffrey Marrongelle DC CCN

We all know what an antibiotic is. Its a pharmaceutical that literally mean against life. Anti means against, biotic means life. Theyre used to kill specific pathogenic microbes. Things like viruses and bacteria.

Probiotics then are the opposite. Instead of trying to kill the bad in our bodies, theyre natural flora that promote the bacteria and helpful organisms that sustain life.

Did you know that there are over 500 types of life-forms (like bacteria and yeast) in your intestines that support your digestive and immune systems? Its true. In fact, without these bacteria and yeast and other types of flora, we wouldnt be able to survive.

Our natural immune system just isnt strong enough to fight off the constant attacks of bacteria and intruders on its own. Our bodies function in harmony with these flora and good bacteria to break down and defeat the bad bacteria.

Its a never ending battle.

When you take a good probiotic, you can dramatically boost your bodies immune system. Some studies suggest this dramatically increases your bodies ability to fight off seasonal illness.

But good probiotics can promote good health in other ways as well.

Studies also suggest that good probiotics can help promote mineral absorption, support your metabolism, help remove toxins, produce lactic acid and even promote good oral health.

When choosing a good probiotic, you want to avoid one that cant survive much stress. For example, if the probiotic needs to be refrigerated, thats one indication that its a weak strain that wont do much for your immune system.

In my own experience, most probiotic supplements are killed by alcohol. Even if youre not a drinker, this is cause for concern about the strength of the supplement.

As a Certified clinical nutritionist, I always recommend a good probiotic (that isnt easily destroyed) as a foundational nutritional supplement. - 17273

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How Do You Identify Acai Scams?

By Travis Van Slooten

While the acai berry has already made a huge impact on the American market, the number of acai scams that pop up on the internet have been giving the healthy berry a bad name. As with almost any successful product, there are shady people out there looking to take advantage of customers who are not wary. While the vast majority of businesses selling acai berry products are legitimate and just there to do business, there are some that want to lure you into a trap in order to take as much of your money as they can. But there are some things to be on the lookout for that might help you avoid these scams.

Who Wants Freebies?

One of the most common tactics of scammers are "free trial promotions." They use this strategy to get as much personal information as they can, including credit card details. While most of them promise not to charge you anything, others sign you up for subscription add-ons and charge you a large amount of money for it. All these can be done in just a click of a check box. Before signing up for anything, be sure to review their marketing strategies. In one way or another, you're sure to get hints that they're scammers. Above everything else, do not ever give out any of your personal information to companies offering free products.

They Disappear in a Snap

Most scam companies don't stick around for long. When you're robbing people of their hard-earned money, you don't get much repeat business. For this reason, you may want to avoid newer companies. Even though acai berry is relatively new to the supplement market, there are some companies that have been around for quite some time. You can always feel much more comfortable dealing with someone who has been selling the product for a while than with a brand new company no one has heard of. These pop-up companies could be legitimate businesses just getting started, but let someone else find that out. Spend your money on a company that is established if you want to play it safe.

Who Are They and What Are They Selling?

Another thing you can do to avoid scams is to know as much information as you can about the company and the supplements that they sell. Some companies give you a P.O. Box number instead of a complete address. These types of companies should be avoided. Legitimate businesses are not afraid to give out specific details of their location. More importantly, keep in mind that the healthy acai berries are marketed in these forms ? freeze dried, pure and organic. You don't want to have anything that's been spray dried and contains any additives. By going for pure products, you achieve the nutrition you need without paying for unnecessary extras.

Scam companies are just lying in wait for those who are gullible enough to fall into their traps. But if you are cautious in giving out important information and in learning about the product, you'll be better-equipped to deal with these false offers. Other than that, it's also important that you are realistic about your expectations from acai like instant weight loss or a miracle cure. Acai scams can take the form of either fleecing you of your money or promising results that are too good to be true. - 17273

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Acne Does Not Equal Zits

By Frank Williams

There are several different types of acne, depending on how or why the acne developed. Some of the forms of acne are: acne conglobata (chronic boils); acne fulminans (an extreme form of conglobata); acne cosmetica (caused by cosmetics); acne keloidalis nuchae (from shaving); acne medicamentosa (caused by starting or stopping a medication); acne rosacea (redness on the face); baby acne; hormonal acne; cloracne and the common variety: acne vulgaris (better known as 'puberty spots'). We will take a closer look at acne vulgaris.

Acne vulgaris can be described as: 'an inflammatory disease of the skin, caused by changes in the pilosebaceous units (skin structures consisting of a hair follicle and its associated sebaceous gland). Acne lesions are commonly referred to as pimples, spots or zits' (see article on "Acne" in Wikipedia).

Acne is most usually found in white Western teenagers, although it is to be found in every country in the world, so there could be a genetic weakness to it. It is possible that it may be an exceptional reaction to fairly normal levels of testosterone. For most afflicted, the condition lasts only until the age of twenty or so, probably only a few years or at the most ten. For other people, however, it may be a life-long problem. It most often appears on the face, upper-chest, upper-arms and back. However, an occasional spot is not the same as acne.

Acne vulgaris manifests itself in different many forms, including: whiteheads, resulting from pores which are completely blocked, trapping sebum (oil), bacteria, and dead skin cells, causing a white spot on the top; blackheads, resulting from pores which are only partially blocked, allowing some of the trapped sebum, bacteria, and dead skin cells to slowly drain to the surface (the black colour is not a result of dirt, but is a reaction of the skin's own pigment, called melanin, with the oxygen in the air); papules, which are inflamed, red, tender lumps with no head and pustules, which are similar to whiteheads, but are inflamed, and appear as red circles with a white or yellow centre.

Whiteheads do not often last for a long time; blackheads do last a long time and pustules are what people call spots or zits. Severe acne vulgaris is distinguished by nodules and cysts. A 'nodule' is a much larger and more painful type of pustule and can sometimes last for months. Nodules are large, hard lumps just under the skin's surface. They often cause scarring and should never for any reason be squeezed, since this could cause them to last for months longer.

A 'cyst' can look similar to a nodule, but it is full of pus and has been described as having a diameter of at least 5mm and, again, can leave scars and cause pain. Squeezing an acne cyst can cause a more severe infection and more acute inflammation which may last quite a bit longer than if it had not been squeezed. Skin experts have ways of reducing the swelling and preventing scarring with both nodules and cysts. It is just not true that acne sufferers are not meticulous about their hygiene.

In fact, over washing can exacerbate acne. There are many, many fake 'treatments' on the market and many, many old wives' tales. However, any good dermatologist would advise you that there is no sure-fire remedy for acne and that the patient should follow a deliberate regimen of cleansing until the acne just 'goes away' of its own accord. - 17273

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Weight Loss With Weight Loss Shakes

By Samantha Reis

Weight Loss Shakes

Weight loss shakes is a kind of skimmed milk used to weight loss. They are also one of the best diet foods taken by dieters during their weight loss period. Weight loss shakes also called as weight loss protein shakes and weight loss meal replacement shakes. Generally they are offered in the form of powder, means flavored powder.

Ingredients Of Weight Loss Shakes

Weight loss shakes normally found in power form. Thus you can get them in skimmed milk form too. Weight loss shakes consist of 75% protein. Thus they also contain many types of other nutrients like vitamins and mineral salt. One of the most important criteria for this shake is they are low in calories. One sachet of 30g weight shakes powder only contains 44 kcal to 80 kcal. Thus they also low in sugar and sodium; is an ideal food for dieters.

Burning Fat Through Weight Loss Shakes

Weight loss shakes effectively cut down calories intake of your body. They help to burn fat while maintaining muscle. Thus fat elimination factor inside the weight loss shakes play an important role to eliminate fat molecules from our body. Once fat molecules have been removed, your weight will start to reduce.

Weight Loss Shakes - Detoxification

You need to detoxify your body in order to lose weight. Thus weight loss shakes can assist you in this part. They are the best weight loss supplement that helps in trashing out toxin from your body. Once toxin removed from your body, you will feel relief and comfortable. Your weight also will start reducing once toxin has been taken out.

Weight Loss Shakes As Meal Substitution

People also called weight loss shakes as meal replacement shakes. This is because of weight loss shakes use to replace your normal meal. They contain all the minerals and nutrients needed for your body for each meal. These shakes help to lose weight as they contain low calories. Thus they effectively filled your stomach for you to not feel hungry easily.

Homemade Weight Loss Shakes

If you refuse to buy convenient pack of weight loss shakes, you can always preparing it yourself. It does not required expensive materials and complicated steps. Generally recipes of homemade weight loss shakes include materials like low fat milk, sugar free pudding and fresh fruit puree. You can either make it as cold or hot drinks.

Weight Loss Shakes - Where To Get?

There are many types of weight loss protein shakes offered in the market. You can select the best that suits your taste. However it is always advisable to go for weight loss shakes that contain low calories and low sugar. Make sure you choose the right shake for the right reason. - 17273

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The Methods To How To Prevent Hair Loss Explained

By Jimmy Stevenson

Make no mistake about how to prevent hair loss. Some hair loss is not avoidable. Each one of us loses 100-150 hairs a day in the biological phase of hair growth and loss - it is average and should not be cause for concern. Further, larger amounts of hair loss can develop at certain times in life - poor health, surgical procedure, pregnancy, life-altering events, anxiety and tension, and specific diseases. Again, these are treatable and, in nearly all instances, short-lived.

Hair loss is preventable in these ways.

1 - Stay healthy. If you need to improve blood circulation then you need to eat well and get enough exercise. If you are healthy, your scalp will be healthy too, leading to the effective growing and natural replacement of your hair. So it is important to stay healthy and get sufficient exercise to improve your body's circulation.

2 - Prevent further injury to your hair. Excessive use of harsh shampoos, dyes, and other hair treatments will badly damage your hair. When your hair is badly damaged, it falls out faster than your follicles can replace it. Similarly, employ dry heat as much less as possible - blow dryers and curling irons cause the hair to become dry and crack, as a result of which they break off in amounts excess than normal.

3 - Minimize your anxiety and stress. You are going to lose more than your hair if you have a tendency to let stressful situations get the better of you, or if you have trouble sleeping or constantly worry. However, it's unavoidable that you will lose more and more hair.

4 - Use topical treatments for your scalp. Essential oils and combinations of herbs can be very helpful in keeping follicles open and productive.

5 - Pharmaceutical lotions and pills are available to treat this condition.

6 - Start early. As soon as you experience hair loss that has been confirmed not to be a result of another health condition, begin your investigation of the wide variety of treatments available. You will have to experiment and you will have to be patient. Many products require 3-6 months before you see visible results

7- Don't give up. Right now, use the product that gives you the best results, while watching for new products and technologies to prevent hair loss. Medical research is being conducted in a great way, and tons of money is being spent into finding an everlasting, universally effective solution.

8 - If any of the prevention methods do not give you the desired results, you may opt for wigs, hair pieces, extensions or even hair transplantation.

Anxiety and misery over hair loss is not worth your time and energy, particularly if it starts to influence your temper, your social life, and your general emotional health. Thus if you desire to enrich your life, then take this guidance for how to prevent hair loss. - 17273

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Are You Trying To Get Rid Of Common Warts?

By Deborah Valley

Most of us hate to find ourselves dealing with common warts and many of us tend to panic when we find ourselves suffering from this condition. Even though it may feel as though you are the only one who is suffering from this condition; the truth is that so many of us in our society have found ourselves suffering from this condition. The truth is that most people do not even know what it takes to get rid of common warts.

In fact most likely if you have come to the internet then you have found yourself dealing with the HPV virus; which is the virus that is responsible for this condition. Many people end up coming to the internet for tips and resources that they can use to overcome this illness. Yet most people do not even think about this condition until they have been the ones who are suffering from this condition.

The good news is that if you really want to learn how to get rid of the common warts then you can learn how to do it naturally. Many people who suffer from this condition usually become depressed about their situation and they tend to find ways to live with the problem. As long as you are willing to keep researching ways to overcome this condition the truth is that there is absolutely no reason why you can not get rid of your warts.

We have discovered that using natural methods to get rid of warts is the best defense for getting rid of them. This is because all the natural methods are going to target the root of the problem this will prevent it from coming back. In fact there are rumors that products that you may have at home will help you get rid of your warts such as; duct tape, vinegar and other household products.

What everyone want to know is it really possible to get rid of warts using these products? They also have absolutely no idea on what is the correct method of beginning treatment with these types of products.

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Observe The Five Best Fat Loss Rules For The Resistant Dieter

By Susan Z Wilson

I remember reading once that "all diets work" and all diets will help you to "lose" weight. The difficulty is that rather than maintain the weight loss we tend to go back to our bad eating habits and gain all of the weight that we lost back again. I I didn't agree.

As an experienced dieter I have attempted many weight loss programs that just didn't work. I would follow the program religiously but the scale would not budge. On some of these diets, I could follow perfectly for months at a time and never lose a pound.

Biology has made it more challenging for women to lose weight. It is always easier for a man to lose weight because nature has programmed women to hold on to fat. That is because in the case of a famine, a woman not only has to be able to keep herself alive but she must also be able to keep any fetus alive. Biology has just made it more difficult for women. It's a fact of life.

But over the years I have learned quite a bit about what works to lose weight and what doesn't work. Here are the top five rules that I have come up with.

The first rule is simple. You have to eat. You must eat at least 3 meals and even as many as 6 small meals every day. Eating at regular intervals keeps you blood sugars level and it keeps you from gorging and eating everything in site later. Your metabolism will keep burning calories if it knows there is no lack. If your body thinks it is starving your metabolism will shut down and your body will conserve the fat.

The second is to only eat quality food. That means nutritionally dense food that will be an advantage to your body. Eating food that is lacking in nutritional value is a sure way to pile on the pounds. Also many cravings are actually caused by a nutritional deficit so stay away from any food that does not provide adequate nutrition.

The third rule is to have protein at every meal. There is a reason why high protein diets have been successful. It's not because they are especially nutritious but rather because protein will not cause sugar spikes and it is digested slower than carbohydrates, especially simple carbohydrates. Therefore, when you add protein you don't get anywhere near as hungry and you don't eat nearly as much.

Fourth rule is to choose quality carbs. Simple carbs, like donuts, cakes and sweets of any kind and anything that is made from white flour will spike your blood sugar, which will create more hunger, and it will just cling to your fat deposits. Complex carbohydrates have fiber and nutrients that are advantageous to your body. Complex carbohydrates include whole grains and vegetables.

The fifth rule is to start moving. Begin an exercise plan. Start walking and take the stairs. You can begin slow and move up to a more challenging plan as you become stronger but if you want to lose weight and keep it off long-term exercise is critical.

This is a lifetime commitment. Few people with weight problems master it once and never have to think of it again. It is a commitment you make everyday. But if you stick to these rules for the majority of the time you will be on your way to a lean body. - 17273

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Alternative Medicine And Natural Pain Management

By Richard Ealom

Constant Pain conditions are a rising problem in the US. And while the discussion still rages about whether or not chronic pain should be managed as a independent condition or just a symptom of a different problem it is apparent that pain managing has become a thriving segment of the healthcare business.

Consequently, the usage of pharmaceutical drugs for pain management has also reached an all time peak. Drugs like Oxicontin, Vicodin as well as methadone, are front page news in causing Americas latest drug crisis, as a result, the use of cocaine and heroin have also attained levels not seen in this country in 30 years.

Owed to the economic and scientific phenomena of the pharmaceutical transformation of the 20th century, thousands of years of knowledge were abruptly abandoned. Herbal medicine has safely and efficiently treated pain for millennia, and is far safer than the synthesized, processed medications that todays MD's seem to be all too willing to hand out like so much candy.

In the sphere of alternative medicine, there are numerous types of natural pain management that are in reality, the source of where many of our oh-so-popular pharmaceutical drugs come from.

Codeine and morphine are opium derivatives that may be helpful but are also greatly addictive, and even aspirin is a by-product of willow bark. Scores of other plants have been used in natural pain management since the distant past, such as lavender and chamomile for minor pain issues and these plants have the added benefit of also assisting with the emotional element of pain such as anxiety and difficulty sleeping. Plants like henbane and mandrake are so efficient that they are even used extremely effectively all through labor to minimize the pain of childbirth.

Some wonderful and effective herbal medicine can also be found in the spice cabinet. Spices like turmeric, and ginger are 2 of the most powerful anti- inflammatories on the planet. These plants are natural COX-2 inhibitors; they are the alternative medicine response to the popular pharmaceutical drugs Celebrex and Vioxx. In the middle east, India and all over Asia where the diets are loaded with spices such as turmeric, and ginger and cayenne, where life is also far less handy then our own, people have a far less incidence of arthritis and chronic back pain, but continue to work very labor intensive jobs such as farming and agriculture work even into their 90's.

There has continuously been an accepted school of thinking in allopathic medicine that it is all right to damage one segment of the body to heal another, thus even everyday over the counter NSAID pain relievers such as acetaminophen and ibuprofen, can bring about long term injury, acetaminophen to the liver and ibuprofen to the kidneys, in natural pain management many plants, roots, barks, and other herbs not only antistetic in nature but they are in addition anti-inflammatory and anti-spasmodic as well, and herbal medicine is kinder on the system and is more synergistic with the body allowing for superior assimilation of the necessary constitutes.

So you see that alternative medicine goes further than the usually established ideal of treating merely the symptoms and goes farther to treat many of the fundamental causes as well as some of the other components involved in recurring pain conditions.

More and more people are turning to herbal healing methods to treat medical problems while alleviating harmful side effects posed by chemical pharmaceuticals. These methods have been used and confirmed effective, for 1000,s of yrs.. - 17273

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Georgetown Personal Trainer Reveals The Truth About Crunches

By Josef Brandenburg

Most of us believe that doing crunches is one of the best ways to get those perfect abs. According to a Georgetown personal trainer, this is not at all true. Honestly any workout for your abs whether it is churches or anything else, will not help you get that perfect six pack you see on TV and magazines, so don't believe what everyone tells you.

After all the ads and information coming at you from TV, websites, magazines and books advising you to do several hundreds of crunches everyday, and all of them having the same thing to say, why wouldn't you believe it? But just because everyone is saying it doesn't necessarily make it true. Here's a good example, a long time ago just because everyone believed the world was flat, didn't make it true.

The first thing you need to realize is that the ab crunches will not make you look any better. Do you have any fat over your abs? If so, the fat layer is probably too thick for you to see the 4,6, or 8-pack abs that you were born with. For these types of cases, a well-rounded, quality fat loss program is what is needed.

In just as little as four hours a week you can slash the amount of unhealthy fat on your body in half. Working with a Georgetown personal trainer can help with that. You would be surprised at what just a few hours a week, doing the right program, can do. Why spend twenty hours working out when you only have to spend a few?

Another fact which most people are not aware of is that these crunches have a negative impact on your posture. Just picture the position you are in while doing crunches. Your head is bent forward while your shoulders and rib cage moves forward towards the pelvis resulting in your spine bending forward completely. This position is surely not very comfortable as there is no support for your back. A Personal trainer from Georgetown can guide you on losing weight along with providing proper protection and support to your back.

Now that you are aware that crunches are not going to help you get the washboard abs or a physique you are looking for, consult a Georgetown personal trainer who can design the most ideal workout plan for you. This will get you in shape and also help you lead a life in good health.

You have gotten past the lies and the misunderstandings. Now it is time to see what else is out there and actually move forward into a healthier lifestyle with the help of your very own Georgetown personal trainer. - 17273

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