Helio Health Hints – Blast Your Whole Body With This Resistance Band Workout!
Use this 9 move workout to build lean muscle! Just because gyms are closed during these unprecedented times doesn't mean we can’t keep our training on track. Sometimes it’s easy to forget just how simple it can be to get a little fitter. You don’t need technological marvels strapped to every part of your body or racks straining under heavy weights on hand. You just need to push your body a little bit further than it’s used to being pushed, and one excellent way to do that is to pull a stretchy bit of elastic in several directions. Resistance bands are cheap and effective for...
Helio Health Hints – Food and your physical and mental wellbeing!
Today we’re talking about the impact food has on our mental wellbeing. Stress and exercise seem to have a bidirectional relationship — working out can help to reduce stress levels, but it’s our stress levels that often kill our motivation to workout. Stress is is also linked with troubled sleeping patterns, poor eating habits and can have a significant impact on our immune system, making post workout recovery harder. But here’s the good news — there is plenty of research to show that diet and exercise can help reduce anxiety levels, so let’s make sure we’re eating well to feel good inside...
HELIO HEALTH HINTS – LOSE WEIGHT & GET HEALTHY!
Rather than suffering through an unsustainable crash diet, use these seven easy tips to improve your day-to-day diet. Making wholesale changes to your diet overnight in an effort to eat more healthily is very rarely the right way to go. Such dramatic shifts are almost impossible to maintain, and generally no fun at all to try to stick to. A better strategy is to make a few small healthy changes that improve your diet, changes that feel achievable but still yield tangible rewards in terms of better health. To help you out, here’s seven such changes. 1. Re-Organize your kitchen “Spring clean your kitchen”....
Helio Health Hints – Reduce Body Fat in 12 Easy Steps!
Follow these easy steps to reduce body fat! The perfect six-pack is not a myth. In fact, you already own it – it’s just hiding under belly fat. And since you can’t spot-reduce fat in specific areas (whatever you might have heard from a dodgy PT or the Internet), the key to losing belly fat is reducing your overall body fat percentage. The magic number is 10% to put your abs centre stage, but there are myriad health benefits to lowering your body fat percentage. Firstly – and quite simply – you will live longer. The higher your body fat percentage, the lower your life...