Stiff hips are no fun, and can sideline your workout. Banish them with pigeon pose. Kneel on all fours on a yoga mat, with wrists under shoulders and knees under hips. Slide your right knee forward until it’s close to your right wrist (your shin will be at a 45 degree angle to the front of your mat), and flex your foot. Extend your left leg behind you, with your toes pointed. Lower hips towards the floor, keeping them level.
Old habits die hard. If you’re accustomed to heaping a spoon of sugar into your coffee six times a day, and can’t wait to leave the office at lunch time for a toasted sarmie, then you’re not going to like this home grown advice that you probably heard from your mom a million times over; eating more fruit and vegetables is good for you.
Women are generally pear shaped, storing fat around the hips and thighs until after menopause, when their bodies tend to become more apple shaped, laying down fat around the middle. The change in fat distribution is brought about by the shift in hormonal make up at menopause, bringing women more in line with men in terms of fat related health risks for conditions such as heart disease.
Whether you’ve struggled with your weight all your life or have never given dieting a second thought, chances are there are a few weighty issues you should consider. Should you be worried about that fat around your stomach? Does eating late at night make you fatter? Read on for answers to these common questions.
My wife, Julie, and I decided to throw a party. To me, that means a guest list of 45. To Julie, it means four couples, max. That’s where the agreement came to a tire-smoking halt. Brian Klemmer, author of ‘The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World’, chalks it up to our different personalities. Klemmer recently devised a simple test for determining key personality types. He says that by taking the test, you can improve your communication.
Expert Author: Sandra Prior | Category: Exercise If you're lifting weights the same way you did when you were at school, it's time for a change. Forget the vanity muscles. Think strength and cardiovascular fitness. Your new goal: roughly 50 per cent cardiovascular exercise (including warm up), 40 per cent weights and 10 per cent stretching. Here's an easy program to get you started.
A strong, flexible body makes everything in your life better, from running a 10km and starting a business to catching her eye. But if you’re working out the same old way, you’ve got to change. You’ve been using the same workout for 20 years. The result? Two arthritic shoulders and a sacroiliac joint that threatens to immobilize you every time you get out the car. But it’s not too late for you.
Key exercises that develop your core muscles include the deep transversus abdominus muscle (naval to spine action) and the deep pelvic floor muscles (holding a full bladder in action). Here’s how you can raise your game...
Despite all of your gravy soaked gluttony, you’ll probably gain only half a kilogram between autumn and spring. Unfortunately, research shows that most guys never lose their winter weight. Indeed, between the ages of 35 and 45, the majority of us pack on the equivalent of a pork roast. It’s a bleak prospect, especially if you consider the traditional fix; hours spent slogging away on a treadmill.
Expert Author: Sandra Prior | Category: Dating Regardless of your daughter’s age, in your eyes she will always be innocent and vulnerable. So when her date comes to the door to pick her up, it’s natural to feel protective. After all, you were just like that young chap once and, honestly, would you have let your daughter date you?
You are not what you eat. You are what you can digest and absorb. The fundamental design of the human body is a tube – a doughnut with a hole in the middle. And we, like other animals, spend our physical lives processing organic matter through this tube for waste. How good you are at this determines your energy level, longevity and state of body and mind, as well as your digestion.
Cheating is not one of those things that you cold heartedly decide to do. There is, generally, no mental to do list that reads; return DVDs, buy milk, engage in an illicit sexual relationship. It’s just one of those things that happen while your conscience is looking the other way. My conscience was definitely not the part of me doing the thinking the night it happened. I had been in a relationship for two years and admittedly things weren’t ideal.
It can be tempting to avoid face-to-face confrontations by digitally distancing ourselves and using emails, SMSs, or social networking sites, but this carries consequences, caution psychologists. Dear John letters have always been traumatic, and SMSs and emails are being used more and more. There’s a case of someone receiving an SMS from her partner saying he’d left home, and when she went to the bank she found their account had been emptied electronically. Her partner never came home again.
Expert Author: Sandra Prior | Category: Security Firewalls can detect and stop probes into your system. If your system is properly secured, any probes will have no effect at all, so all the firewall is doing is telling you about them. It’s better to spend time checking your computer’s security rather than spend money on a firewall.
Expert Author: Sandra Prior | Category: Security Sometimes it seems that you can never be safe on the Internet. You update your antivirus program, then read some story about the dangers of cookies or something. You download a ‘cookie crusher’ utility, then find out about port scanning. And spyware. And all the scary things hackers can do too your system. It’s amazing that anyone has the courage to go online at all.
Whether it’s flirting in chat rooms, blowing people up in online gaming arenas or arguing in newsgroups, the Internet is home to a vast and varied population. With such a range of activities available, is the Net better than real life? Before the Internet, there was TV. The concept was simple; you watched it until you got bored and then you went to do something else, like watching a bigger screen at the local cinema or meeting friends at the pub.
Expert Author: Sandra Prior | Category: Hardware Bluetooth is a new low cost, low powered way of connecting up to eight devices within 10m of each other, with possible connection speeds of up to 1Mbps. Personal computers, mobile phones, PDAs and a variety of other devices will be able to communicate and share information.
Friday, 5.00pm. I close down my computer and leopard crawl out of the office lest someone spots me and ruins my big night out. Yip. I am going to be spending time with six funny friends, seven if you include the bottle of Merlot, and yes, I do. Where might she be off too, you wonder? A club, some fancy dinner? Even a hotly contested game of 30 seconds. No, I am not heading for a big night out, but a big night in. Those ‘friends’ are Friends, the show. And you know what, I can’t wait.
Expert Author: Sandra Prior | Category: Security When something is stored on your computer or sent by email, it means others can get their hands on it. While few of us store secret blueprints for atom bombs on our PCs, we’ve still got information we’d rather keep away from prying eyes: the Excel spreadsheets we use to keep track of our finances, the Word documents that outline our plans for world domination, or the email evidence of our torrid love lives.
Home automation was a fun fantasy long before it became a reality for the average American home. When The Jetsons premiered in 1962, audiences relished the push-of-a-button ease with which Rosie the Robot did the housework with the help of a seeing-eye vacuum cleaner, a voice operated washing machine and a nuclear powered knitting machine. And they marveled at how Judy Jetson spoke to her husband at work via a widescreen TV.
