So Your Lower Back Hurts???Written by Jesse Cannone
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Many of these people had suffered for years and years with aches, pains, and stiffness and lived inactive lives because of their back pain. 3. Most treatment plans offered only address symptoms and don’t address cause, which usually delivers just temporary relief for individual. In addition to helping hundreds of others eliminate back pain, I also have had personal experiences with back pain and other various conditions such as tendonitis, muscle strains and sprains, and more. In every single situation traditional treatments did nothing but treat symptoms (often times not successfully) and only approach that gave lasting improvements and relief was targeted stretches and exercises. Have you tried traditional treatments and found little relief? I am not saying these treatments are not effective at temporarily reducing pain or inflammation, but I am saying nearly all fail to get rid of underlying cause of problem. So how do you identify these muscle imbalances? Well, it isn’t easy but with a basic understanding of how your body works you can at least start looking at your situation and find out which muscles are over worked and too strong and/or tight and which ones are too weak and stretched out. It also helps if you can find a qualified health professional who specializes in identifying muscle imbalances. Unfortunately, there are still few professionals who use what I call “common sense approach.” However, your best bet is to look for a personal fitness trainer that is trained and certified in post-rehabilitation, a manual physical therapist, or an osteopath. Also, don’t be afraid to ask questions... you need to take charge of your health care and be sure to quiz them to find out what type of an approach they take in treating back pain. I also recommend you my video, "Lose Back Pain" here: http://www.losethebackpain.com . It's shows you step-by-step, how to identify true cause of your back pain and what specific exercises and stretches you need to do to correct it. I wish you best and remember key to a healthy back is movement!
Article by Jesse Cannone of http://www.losethebackpain.com. Jesse is a certified personal fitness trainer and post-rehab specialist and he has helped hundreds of individuals to eliminate their back pain. Visit his site now and be sure to sign up for his free email course on eliminating back pain.
| | Walking for Fat Loss???Written by Jesse Cannone
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Want more proof? Compare bodies of a walker, marathon runner, and sprinter. If you are not familiar with what a sprinters body looks like, it is very muscular and has little body fat while on other hand body of a walker will likely have opposite, little muscle and more fat. The sprinter does little or no low intensity exercise and does primarily short hard bursts of work while marathoner overtrains so much they burn off both body fat and muscle and that’s why they tend to look almost sickly thin. So what should you do then if your main objective is to shed those excess pounds of body fat? Two things: 1. Perform some form of high intensity cardio 2-4 times per week 2. Stabilize blood sugar to minimize storage of new fat I know some of you by now are saying “I can’t do high intensity exercise, I have a bad knee” and don’t worry, I have a solution for you. The good news is that high intensity is all relative to you and your current fitness level. For example, fast walking up and down hills may be high intensity for you... it all depends. So don’t think that you have to start running or something like that. Just slowly start to increase intensity of your cardio workouts while also maybe decreasing time because you can either work hard or you can work long. Also, you can make almost any activity or exercise high intensity.... here are a few examples: · increase your speed · use an incline or hills · increase resistance · perform intervals ( most effective method) Obviously, some exercises/activities or better suited than others but point is if you want to burn more fat and make your workouts as productive as possible you need to increase intensity. To learn more about high intensity cardiovascular exercise please check out following articles: · Forget Fat Burn Zone - http://www.achieve-fitness.com/forget.htm · In Search of Ideal Aerobics Routine - http://www.achieve-fitness.com/ideal.htm · Heart Rate Guidelines - http://www.achieve-fitness.com/cardio.htm Be sure to also check out my Burn Fat FAST! ebook and audio program here: http://www.burn-fat-fast.com - it covers everything from cardiovascular training to strength training to nutrition and more. As with any changes to your fitness program be careful and don’t over do it. Just because high intensity workouts burn more fat, don’t think that you’ll get even better results by doing it everyday - that will quickly lead to over-training and a loss of muscle which will only make it even harder to burn off fat. So if your primary goal is fat loss, don’t waste your time walking and instead focus on progressive, high intensity cardio to maximize effectiveness of your workouts.
Jesse Cannone is a certified personal trainer and author of the best-selling fitness ebook, Burn Fat FAST. Be sure to sign up for his free email course as it is full of powerful weight loss and fitness tips that are guaranteed to help you get the results you want. http://www.guaranteed-weightloss.com
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