When you’re ready to set out on an adventure that will keep you in the car for hours at a time, you have a lot to prepare: the route, the activities…and what about the food?
A road trip is a summer favorite, but yours can jeopardize your health and fitness goals if you are stuck eating truck stop food and gas station snacks. We have an alternate plan.
There are many reasons we work out, including maintaining our health, recovering from an injury, or sheer enjoyment. But transforming our bodies is one of the most powerful.
If you have your eye on making a turnaround in your physical appearance, abilities or wellness, you can start today with a few key changes that make a big difference in results.
Vitamin D is a critical vitamin to our health—its main roles in the body are to enhance bone strength, regulate the immune system and help the cells communicate.
With all that work to do, it’s convenient that our bodies can manufacture Vitamin D with the help of sunlight. In the winter months, we need to make sure we’re amply supplied.
Just like you might prepare for your next road trip, a meeting with your boss, or a big presentation, you should also prepare your body for activities and workouts.
Warming up before physical exertion provides protective benefits and helps make the most of your efforts, too. Still, many people skip this important step of their routine.
In our last edition of The XSport Life, we discussed how to address the issue of working out long term, with weight loss or fat burning goals that you haven’t been able to reach yet.
That might mean it’s time for an exercise makeover. Switching your focus, changing your pace and increasing your intensity are all good approaches. First, because exercise plans and routines are often abandoned when they don’t bring the level of results people are looking for, or when they start to get dull and monotonous.
When you look at yourself in the mirror, from the front you will see a lot of the “glamour” muscles—those are the ones featured on the covers of body-building magazines.
But what lies beyond your abs and chest are the muscles of the back. The largest geographic areas of muscle expanse are located in your back—so let’s take a closer look!
