Yoga - Pilates Which One?

While both yoga and Pilates take an integrated mind-body approach to fitness and well-being, their origins, approach to these objectives and methods differ greatly.

What's the Difference Between Pilates and Yoga? (video)

Published on Nov 19, 2012
www.PilatesTonic.com Sydney talks about some key differences between Pilates and Yoga and suggests that they are very complimentary.

Functional Fitness - Fitness For All Ages

Functional training, also referred to as functional exercise is any workout that adapts or develops exercises that allow individuals to perform activities of everyday life more easily and without risk of injury.

The truth is that just because you can lift heavy at the gym and do 20 minutes of HIIT every other day, does not mean that the next time you lift your 65 pound suitcase on your way to the airport that you won’t throw your back out.

Functional fitness focuses on training the body in such a way that it can handle day to day real life activities, like lugging groceries, picking up kids and others.

So, instead of focusing on lifting a certain amount of weight, or the proper form of a particular exercise, functional fitness trains us to become better at real life positions and to perform every day activities that we are all tasked with.

Healthy Blood Pressure How to Achieve and Maintain

One of the most important things to keep healthy is your heart. When it comes to heart health it is critical to achieve and maintain a health blood pressure.

The best time to achieve and maintain a healthy blood pressure is before you are diagnosed with hypertension (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater).

If you have already been diagnosed, it is not to late, only when they throw dirt in your face, have you waited to long. My poor old grey-headed mother almost waited to long. Being my mother she is almost as pig-headed as me and waited way to long to go to the doctor. Her doctor is trying to get the medication right, and I will be publishing quite a bit on blood pressure. So, sit back, relax, take your shoes off, and let us get started.

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Five Easy Toning Exercises

Today at Health Care Info 101I have five easy toning exercises you can do anywhere and a video that will show you how to tone your arms, leg, tummy and have buns of steel. I enjoyed the video and the exercises she show you are simple but, very effective.

Exercise is one of the few things that won't cost you your first born child, and should be an important part of our lives. Staying in shape is one way to increase quality of your life and longevity.

Most of us know what to do when it comes to exercising. The problem is where and when to do it. With our busy lifestyle, making time for exercise is a challenge.