Enjoying A Healthy Lifestyle with
Bryant and Anita Hewitt
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Food To Chew On:
Wednesday – Walk in Wisdom
1 Corinthians 1:25 (NKJV)
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than
men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Thought For The Day:
“Walk
in Wisdom…redeeming the time.” Colossian 4:5
May
the winds wash you this day by the cleansing Power & The Blood of the Lord…
Have a Healthy Hump Day with HHWN J
Elderly Flexibility Stretching
Exercises for Seniors
Upper Body Stretches
Improve
your upper back, arm and neck mobility with these excellent stretching
routines.
Start
a upper body stretching program today by choosing 2 or 3 upper body stretching
exercises to perform 3 times per week.
Most
stretches can be held for 30 seconds.
Repeat
3 times. You can then choose 2 or 3 new stretches every week.
This
will add greatly to the flexibility of your arms, chest and upper back.
So
give it a try and see how much better you can reach to those high shelves!
Is the Kettlebell all Hype?
“Kettlebell”
is a word that I and probably many of you have been hearing quite a bit lately.
I get tons of questions about what I think about “kettlebells.” I think they
are a great supplemental tool for some athletes, but they are widely overhyped
with ridiculous untrue claims (pretty much just like anything ‘new’ in the
health and fitness industry). We as
humans are constantly searching for the “answer” or the “system” or “tool” or
“be-all-end-all” to our health and fitness problems and goals.
Enter
the kettlebell craze, and you have dramatic claims, myths, and an overall
misunderstanding in every aspect of this exercise tool. I am going to shoot
down some of these claims and explain the difference between average fitness
seekers and athletes. (who should and shouldn’t be trying use of kettlebells).
I am going to keep it short and hit a couple key points, otherwise I could rant
for days about kettlebell problems!
First,
let’s discuss legitimacy. When I performed a simple google search using the
word kettlebell, which by the way, is underscored in red every time I type it
due to being unrecognizable as an actual word, the search results were flooded
with marketers statements with such claims as “Kettlebells improve your 40-yard
dash” and “This super-simple ‘handheld gym’ guarantees faster fat loss, rapid
muscle gain, higher performance, and dramatic power – in just minutes a day!”
Can
you say overhype? I don’t believe in a second, any of those ludicrous claims,
and hopefully neither do you. Now, besides marketers trying to prey and make
money, there is a whole other batch of people even more intense who pronounce
their love for kettlebells and claim their superiority over all else: these
“fitness professionals” who use and teach “kettlebell training.” This elitist
group, who almost seem brainwashed, or part of some kettlebell cult,
emphatically defend the kettlebell while denouncing all other forms of
exercise!
A Healthy Menu For
Wednesday
For
breakfast select one low-fat blueberry waffle, 2 tbsp. sugar-free syrup, ½ cup
fresh raspberries and 1 cup nonfat milk. Enjoy coffee or tea sweetened with a
sugar substitute, too. Your lunch meal includes 2 scrambled eggs, 1 oz. low fat
cheese, 1 slice of toasted whole grain bread and 1 tsp. soft margarine and ½
cup fresh pineapple. For dinner, choose 3 oz. broiled salmon, ½ quinoa, ½ cup
broccoli and cauliflower mix. Have 4 oz. low fat yogurt with ½ cup sliced
strawberries for dessert.
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