Here are some picks for best hair products (that really work) for under $10.00 each:

Best Shampoo and Conditioner: Pantene Pro-V Smooth and Sleek Shampoo and Conditioner – for about $5.00 each, these are a perennial favorite among experts. The shampoo retexturizes hair, smoothing shaft and avoiding frizz. When used in combination with conditioner, which helps reduce flyaway strands and provides deep conditioning, company claims that you will have up to 65% smoother hair. Allure Magazine has given these products their “Best of Beauty” Award for last seven years in a row.

Best Hair Serum: Garnier Fructis Sleek & Shine Weightless Smoothing Serum – with apricot kernel and avocado oils, this serum nourishes hair and keeps it soft, yet weightless. A word about de-frizzing hair serum: Thick ethnic hair will soak this stuff up, so use sparingly, avoiding scalp. Really, only bottom half of your hair needs serum to control split ends and provide shine.

As a fitness professional with over ten years in health field, I believe “science” of exercise has created another worrisome (and unnecessary) “checklist” to add to our already overly burdened lives.

Now, average health enthusiast spends a great deal of their energy and time concerned with: counting calories, whether this exercise is “best” exercise, what is “right” number of reps and sets and how can I get “maximum exercise benefits” in least amount of time.

Of course, lets not forget that a great many of us are motivated to not only exercise for health reasons but also because of: fear of being overweight, fear of not fitting in and fear of not looking good.

Additionally, exercise itself is a physical stress. The traditional “no pain, no gain” philosophy is based upon pushing ourselves past our physical comfort zones in order to decrease body fat while increasing lean muscle mass. The very nature of this philosophy produces more physical discomfort than it does physical pleasure.

A simple health rule is that painful experiences cause our bodies to close down (leading to aches, pains and eventually dis-ease) while pleasurable experiences helps body to open improving balance and health.

With all this stress associated with exercise I believe our focus has shifted from improving way we use and live in our bodies to worrying if we are exercising “correctly”. This has left us little room to enjoy this process of getting to know our bodies better.

However, this philosophy may not be healthy for you if:

1.Each day your body is under significant amounts of mental and physical stress. This unreleased stress eventually evolves into physical discomforts, aches and pains. This can prevent you from moving freely and thinking clearly.

2.You find process of exercise to be painful or boring. If during exercise you find your body tightens even more, then all you are doing is deepening a negative or unpleasant association between your body, exercise and stress.