Take The 30-Day Burpree Challenge!!
How hard could a month of burpees be? Very hard, it turns out. The burpee is a phenomenal exercise although we all do love to hate it. In fact, it’s perhaps the very best bodyweight exercise there is, working a multitude of muscles as well as getting the heart pumping. If you could only ever do one bodyweight exercise for the rest of your life, the burpee might well be your best pick. All of this might seem an overstatement, but it’s vital to comprehend just how good for you the burpee is before you try them – because once you...
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 – Top 10 Rules For Fat-Burning Exercise!
TOP 10 Rules For Fat-Burning Exercise! If blasting body fat and burning calories is one of your main exercise goals, these 10 fat loss exercise tips will ensure you get the most out of every fat burning workout minute. Choose your fat loss exercise carefully There is no such thing as the 'ultimate' calorie-burning activity. Energy burned is dependent not just on the activity itself, but on how much effort you put in, how skilled you are at it, how long you do it for, and how often. So choose a fat burn exercise that you are going to do regularly and consistently....
Helio Health Hints – 5 Reasons to change your workout…NOW!
5 Reasons to change your workout now! Just in: Your workout might not be helping you as much as it could. The truth is, you cannot do the same exercise program over and over again and expect better results — it’s best to change your routine periodically to give your body the stimulus it needs to recover and grow. Thankfully, there are common signs to tell you when it’s time for a workout reboot. If you ignore them, you could plateau, get poor results or even hurt yourself. But if you pay attention to the signs, you’ll overcome previous limits and make...