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Here are a few really good waist exercises for waist reduction and flattening. If you want less of a JELLY BELLY and a more firm, tight, sexy waist, then this article will help you accomplish that. What you know about waist exercises is probably ALL WRONG. Read this now to get your waist issues handled now so you can be proud of your stomach and show the best you possible.

Waist exercises for Waist Reduction Fast

1. I always recommend vacuum poses #1

For flattening your belly, you can’t beat this exercise. Whether you have a layer of fat over your abdominal muscles or whether you want more definition in your abs, this exercise helps. Situps and crunches don’t really help much if you have a layer of fat. They don’t help to flatten out and burn off that fat.

For the vacuum pose, stand up straight. Inhale. As you’re exhaling, suck in your belly hard and fast. Hold for a few seconds. Release. That’s it. The goal… a minimum of 5 minutes doing that each day. If you do that, I can almost certainly assure you that you’ll lose nearly 2 inches from your waist in a month. Are you up for the challenge?

2. For waist definition and toning, hula hoop

The area around your where your waist and hips are… that’s what hula hooping targets really good. It helps to create a nice feminine HOURGLASS CURVE there.

Now, 1 thing. Don’t waste your time with kid’s type hula hoops… those cheap ones. They won’t work for this because it’s impossible to keep those spinning around you. They’re too light which means they spin too fast. You won’t be able to keep up with it so it’ll fall to the ground within 2 spins.

The only option you have is getting a weighted hula hoop. They’ll spin around you slower. This makes hula hooping practical and useful for you. Your goal… 10 minutes a day.

These are 2 of the top waist exercises for waist reduction and flattening… give them a try.

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Here are a few exercises to get rid of belly fat fast. They’re easy, kinda unusual, yet way more effective than crunches and jogging on a treadmill.

exercises to Get Rid of Belly Fat Fast and Easy

1. Hindu Squats

This is the cardio exercise that slashes and slices off belly fat extremely fast when done consistently. A great benefit to this is that you can do this exercise at home.

What you do is squat up and down as fast as possible while keeping your back relatively straight. Now, each rep only counts if your fingers are able to swipe or touch the floor. So your arms will be hanging down and participating.

You can either leave them hanging down or swing in semi-circles to give your squats a momentum. Either way, aim for 100 total reps each day for 1 week. After that, increase the amount of reps by 100 each week until you can easily do 300-500 repetitions everyday for 5 days a week.

You don’t have to do all the repetitions at once. A great way to get in all the reps is to do this exercise during tv commercials. Since each 1 hour tv program has about 22 minutes of commercials, that should be plenty of time to get at least 200 repetitions.

2. Vacuum Pose

This probably the best exercise for getting rid of belly fat. My clients average 1.75 inches lost in less than a month using just this exercise alone.

Here’s how you do it.

Suck in your belly button as much as possible. The key to this is sucking in your belly button, not your upper belly area. Suck it into your lower back and hold that “pose” for 15-60 seconds. Keep repeating until you’ve done at least 5 minutes total for the day. If you can do 10-15 minutes, even better. But 5 minutes is more than enough.

3. Spinning in a circle like a 4-year old child

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By doing that, you balance out your hormones and other bodily functions that are controlled by the Endocrine System. Once that happens, weight loss naturally happens.

So give those 3 exercise a try to get rid of your belly fat fast.

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When a patient comes in for consultation we as physiotherapists have a duty to perform a careful history and examination to rule out serious problems and identify the cause of the symptoms. While most patients will have musculoskeletal conditions as an explanation of their symptoms, a small number will have a serious underlying condition of some kind. These people need identifying and referring urgently to a medical specialist for review. The medical community has developed a series of routine enquiries to be performed at consultation and these are referred to as flags in the sense that they should bring immediate attention to the matter.

Red flags has been developed as a concept which expresses an increased risk on examination that serious pathology is present although often in reality it is not. All practitioners from doctors to physiotherapists to alternative therapists should know the red flags and ask the red flag questions in their examinations. They should also be aware of how to refer patients on when necessary. Serious conditions may not be obvious in any examination at times but having a checklist of red flags is vital, as going logically through a list limits the likelihood of skipping questions and missing important matters.

Loss of weight: If someone has lost a lot of weight in a short time then the reason for this should be explored as there may be many valid explanations for this. Being on a diet can explain this, or the unwillingness to eat of people who are very depressed, upset or anxious. Heavy workers who suddenly have to stop work can also lose significant muscle mass. Red flags should be reported as positive if no defined reason for the weight loss can be found.

Loss of appetite/eating poorly: If the person does not want to eat or has lost their appetite recently, the remarks about weight loss above apply.

Feeling unwell: If you ask people with chronic pain problems if they feel well in themselves they often answer yes. Anyone who complains of persistently feeling unwell, especially with loss of appetite and weight loss, should be regarded with suspicion.

Pain at Night: Back pain and many other conditions are painful during the nights but any pain which is worse at night or on lying down should be regarded with suspicion and recorded as a potential red flag.

Morning stiffness: Musculoskeletal conditions are often stiff in the morning after a night without much movement of the joints. However, if the stiffness is severe and lasts for more than an hour or most of the day if could indicate an arthritic disease.

Previous History of Cancer: Any previous problems with cancer should be enquired about as the condition might recur and explain the presenting symptoms.

Control of Bladder and Bowel: Incontinence can be caused by many conditions from having had children to irritable bowel syndrome to neurological conditions. However, any new incidence of incontinence or retention (difficulty passing urine) should be flagged up for medical review.

Saddle anesthesia: The saddle is the perineal area, the skin around the genitals and anus. An alteration or loss of feeling in this area, for instance when drying oneself with a towel, could be the indicator of a serious problem.

Increased Tone: This can be apparent on walking but is more often noticed by testing the limbs to assess any increased muscle tone. Clonus, increased reflexes and heightened tone point towards a problem with the central nervous system.

Muscle Weakness. Weakness may occur due to damage to a joint or muscle or due to one of the spinal nerve roots being affected. A condition which gives widespread weakness or weakness in more than one nerve root should be flagged as suspicious.

The Age of the Patient: Between twenty and fifty-five years of age is the typical age range for most musculoskeletal conditions to present initially. If a patient is seen with the onset of their condition in younger or older life there is an increased risk of a medical condition to explain their symptoms.

Importance of the Patient’s Age: Typically, painful conditions such as low back or neck pain come on in adult life between 20 and 55 years old. Anyone whose pain problem arises when they are much younger or much older has a higher risk of an underlying medical problem.

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I took some time to write a simple list about all the Wii games that are compatible with the Wii Balance Board (Wii Fit Board). Most of them are already released, some will be by early next year. I also included a small summery for each of the games.

1.All Star Cheer Squad – basically you have to play a cheerleader who moves up to become the head cheerleader. Start of as the rookie who has to try out for even getting accepted into the squad. The more you play the game the more advanced routines you will learn. You can play career mode or mini game mode style.

2.Academy Of Champions: Soccer – the tile says it all, a game basically for boys who love soccer. This title includes 12 mini games. Or play the story line to battle against a football academy. Try to make your team win the championship.

3. Avatar – the game to the upcoming film Avatar. The film is by James Cameron. The game is an action based adventure game, which takes place at an alien planet. Will be released at the end of November.

4. Daisy Fuentes Pilates – a great workout game not only for all the pilates lovers, but also people in general who want to improve their posture and do some more exercise without going to the gym. This game includes 10 pilates routines. There are 5 pre set routines and 5 customizable ones. The game starts at the level of beginners, but will move up in difficulty to advanced. You can play this game in English or Spanish. The commentator is Daisy Fuentes that will guide you all the way with her great tips in subjects like health and fitness.

5. DanceDance Revolution Hottest Party 3 – a sequel to the DanceDance Revolution games. You can either play with the dance pad or as the title of this article says, with the Wii Balance Board. The game can be played in workout mode, story mode, lesson mode or kids mode. This rhythmic game is the best one until now, because all the previous titles didn’t include the Wii Balance Board. It includes also more than 50 tracks of music.

6. Diva Girls- Divas On Ice – a nice girlie game who want to try out as ice princesses. There is a career mode available, but also mini games. Defiantly a game for girls for the age of 8+.

7. doctor Fizzwhizzle’s Animal Rescue – a game where you have to advance in stages to rescue animals. An arcade kind of game. You have more than 180 levels to play and can rescue 60 different animals. It includes also a kids mode with quizzes about animals.

8. Don King Boxing – a boxing game where you step into the ring to fight against the greatest boxers in real venues like Madison Square Garden or Boardwalk Hall. See if you can make it to the top – in career mode. This is one of the top rated games of this year. You should try this game, even if you are not too much into boxing. This gives you the workout of a fitness game, but still makes it fun to play. Has a teen rating.

9. EA Sports Active More Workouts – This is the sequel to the EA Sports Active Personal Trainer game that was released about a year ago. One of the highest rated Wii fitness games. You can use the Wii Balance Board, the Wii remote and Nunchuk to play this game. This game adds 35 new exercises that target the whole body. More Workouts is made to be played in the winter as it focuses on warm-weather games like surfing, jet skiing and rafting. It also keeps players motivated with a 6-week-challenge that tracks the players progress.

10. EA Sports Active Personal Trainer – This was probably the most successful game for the Wii Balance Board. You can play sports like running, basket ball, volley ball, roller skating, boxing, baseball, dancing, and many other games. This game includes a rubber resistant band for muscle workouts and a pouch for jogging and running. If you want to play this game with a friend you can get the gear also separately. Sign up for the 30 day challenge with its 20 minute workouts to get into shape. This game will make your living room into a gym without the need of leaving the house.

11. Go Play Circus Star - Go try out to become the greatest circus performer. Play in career mode and play stage-by-stage or play mini games. Most of the games in this title are compatible with the Wii Balance Board. One of three games of the Go Play series.

12. Go Play City Sports – Another one of the Go Play series. Play six street games like stick ball, kickball, street hockey and soccer. In career mode you have to stand up for yourself and become the top athlete of your street. A fun and casual game for the whole family.

13. Go Play Lumberjacks – The last one of the Go Play series. This title takes you to the outdoors where you can play five different event categories. In each one of those categories you compete against three other players. One of the fun games is defiantly the water log game where you have to balance on a log.

14. Gold’s Gym Cardio Workout – Another great fitness title. What makes this game unique it that when you buy it, you get a free one week trial at any Gold Gym. In the game your workout is chosen according to your own fitness level. So you don’t have to worry that you will not be able to keep up. Includes boxing, running, rope jumping and many other sports.

15. Imagine Fashion Party – A game for all the girls who love to live the world of fashion. Includes office mode where you play a designer that get challenged by difficult clients. Or try to be a make-up artist and style your models before they hit the runway. You can even own your own TV show just like the one from Heidi Klum. This game also lets you share pictures through the Wii Wifi connection.

16. Imagine Party Babyz – For all of you who love the cute baby games like baby food throwing, dancing and hula hoop. There are more than 30 fun mini games to play. Or go for the career mode where you are in charge of a daycare center.

17. Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009 - Another one of the popular fitness games for the Wii. This is a boot-camp-style game that focuses on four workout types: weight loss, intervals, hill climb and strength training. Just like in real life the game starts with warm-up, keeps you in your target zone to burn calories and cool-down for stretching. It even has a competitive mode where you play against a friend to find out who can burn more calories. The game is lead by fitness guru Jillian Michaels, that not only guides you through each exercise but also offers lifestyle tips.

18. Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2010 – The sequel to the boot-camp style fitness game. It adds on to the other game with a resolutions mode. In this mode you can plan ahead your routines for up to six months. Just like the first game it focuses on cardio like running, bicycle, swing kicks, jumping jacks. Strength training includes exercises like lunge kicks, push-ups, back kicks, sledge swings and many more. It offers very accurate motion tracking to give you a real-life experience. This is a recommended game if you want to get into shape fast.

19. Marble Saga Kororinpa – one of my favorite fun games from all Wii games. It includes more than 100 levels for the Wii Balance Board. Don’t be fooled because I called it fun games. This game will defiantly challenge you while you try to move across the mazes and collect all the orange gems. If you collect also the green gems (one per level) you can unlock more stages at the end. Not only can you choose the difficulty but also different marbles – each with their own strengths. Collect all the stomp-temple-parts and you unlock the ability to design your own mazes at the end. You will play in 7 different worlds, each one with their own characteristics. So after you played the whole game you can even connect via the Wifi to get more advance levels. Check out the leader boards via the Wifi to see you is the best in the game.

20. Mario And Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games – Compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. Choose your favorite character from players like Mario, Sonic and Donkey Kong. This game targets primarily the fans of these characters. You have the option to play the game in single player, multiplayer and festival mode. Festival mode means that you go through all the Olympic events to become the greatest Olympic champion. This game includes winter themed games like skiing, hockey, bobsled and figure skating. But you also play dream events that won’t happen in real life like dream snowball fight. You move your character with a combination of the Wii Balance Board, wii remote and nunchuk.

21. Mountain Sports – Another winter themed game that features six full length sports to make your gaming experience more satisfying. These include skiing, snowboarding, biathlon, tobogganing, bobsledding and curling. The goal of the game is to become the champion of the white mountain. Most of the games make use of the Wii Balance Board (5 out of six)

22. My Fitness Coach – This fitness game includes 500 exercises like cardio, flexibility and strength training. You can choose your favorite environment to suit your mood. Also customize your music with styles like Latin music, hip hop, oldies, music from the 80’s,… As you progress the workouts will get more demanding. It also includes a meditation garden to practice stretching and yoga.

23. My Personal Golf Trainer - The only golf game that makes use of the Wii Balance Board. Not yet release thus not much more information available.

24. NewU: Fitness First Personal Trainer – another fitness title that was released in 2009. Just like many of the other fitness based games your own personal virtual trainer guides you through a set of exercises. This game will try to get you in better shape through fitness and healthy living without you ever having to leave the comfort of your own home.

25. Overturn – a wii ware title that you can get through the Wii Shop via the Wifi Connection.

26. Playmobil: Circus – This game combines the playmobil characters with the circus theme to attract primarily the younger players. You can unlock more than 16 circus tricks to impress the crowd. Two multiplayer modes are available: versus, where you compete against a friend and teamwork, where you work together to reach your goal. Play acts with elephants, magician, tame the lion and many more wacky games.

27. Punch Out - The sequel to the popular game of more than 15 years ago. Play against characters like Glass Joe and King Hippo. Most of the names will be familiar if you played the first game. In career mode you will have to win against 13 opponents. Each one has their own characteristics and weaknesses. Boxing games are not only fun games to play but will definitely get you into shape as you use your whole body to play. The Wii Balance Board makes the game even more realistic.

28. Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party – The only title of the Rayman Raving Rabbids series that is compatible with the Wii Balance Board. This game focuses on TV series, ads and TV classics. Play either in story mode where you will go through one week of television with unique tasks and very hilarious challenges. Or play party mode with up to 8 players, four of which can play simultaneously. In all these mini games your overall goal is to help the rabbids destroy the daily TV viewing and thus drive Rayman crazy. Two of the 65+ games are Beestie Boarding (slide down a hill filled with obstacles where the board is a wildebeest) and Garden of Weeden (get rid of all the weeds in the garden by spraying them with poison – apply pressure to the Wii Balance Board to succeed in the challenge). Overall, one of the number one party games.

29. Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip – Shaun White will instruct you to become a great snowboarder. Turn the board so you glide down the mountain just like on a real snowboard. You can enjoy the scenery with the unique camera system and beautiful graphics. Or go for the challenges to compete in snowboarding events. There are four ventures to explore: Alaska, Europe, Japan and Park City.

30. Shaun White Snowboarding World Stage – was just recently released. Is the sequel to the Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip game. This game just like the previous one has the rating 10+. Can you make it in the half-pipe to be better than everybody else? A nice game if you live far away from any snow, but still would like to know how it feels to snowboard.

31. Skate City Heroes – A skating game that takes place in a futuristic city on top of skyscrapers. You have to race between trains, hoover over cars and other crazy moves. The goal of the game is to out-race your opponent with your skills and moves. You need to free a friend and make peace in the city. All these if you can become the skateboarding master. Has a multiplayer mode for up to four players.

32. Skate It – A more realistic skating game where you can customize your own skate park with ramps, rails, benches and many more skate-able objects. The career mode lets you compete in skate venues to become the skater of the year. This is the game for you if you are into skating and the whole skate culture.

33. Ski And Shoot - A biathlon style game that includes original world cup tracks. But you can not only compete in those original sport spots but also play real time biathlon sports icons like Kati Wilhelm and Michael Rosch. Choose from 20 different tracks and more than 15 international locations. As the title says, you will focus on cross country skiing and target shooting.

34. Snowboard Riot – another Wii Ware title that you can get through the Wifi Connect Shopping channel of your wii.

35. Stratosphere Yoga – not much yet known about this title or when it will be released.

36. Super Monkey Ball: Step And Roll – Planned release is in February of 2010. This is a sequel to the popular Super Monkey Ball series. You play a monkey (several different ones to choose one each one with their own strengths) in a giant bubble that has to finish levels and collect bananas on the way.

37. The Biggest Loser - The game to the popular TV show “The Biggest Loser”. Not only for those who want to loose weight but also for those who want to stay in shape and not gain weight. Trainers Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels will guide you through exercises, motivate you and stand by you all the way. This title includes more than 88 exercises which target the upper- and lower body, the core and cardio. It also teaches you yoga poses and thus improves your posture. The Wii Balance Board can be used in over 66 exercise. Choose from 4, 8 or 12 week challenges and see if you can stay above the yellow line in weigh-in. To all those above mentioned features it also includes more than 50 healthy recipes and a daily planning calendar.

38. Vertigo – An action game where you have to control a metal ball. Try to keep it from falling off the sides just with the balance of your body. Sounds easy but is in reality very tricky. The game is set in a futuristic environment on top of skyscrapers and tall buildings. It includes 54 levels and has 4 different modes. You can even customize your own ball to give it its unique controls.

39. Walk It Out – an upcoming walking game. This game will be released in January 2010. The more you take steps and walk, the more beautiful your world will become. This game features more than 120 songs which should keep you focused and motivated. The game keeps track of your progress and burned calories with charts and graphs. You can use the Wii Balance Board, the Dance Dance Revolution controller, the wii remote and the nunchuk to play the game. This is a very popular game in Japan, where it is already released.

40. Water Sports – The game focuses on summer themed games like windsurfing, jet skiing, kite surfing and wake boarding. You have different locations to choose from like Australia and South Africa. Do tricks and combine them to get lots of points.

41. We Ski And Snowboard - Choose from 14 courses and from beginner to advanced in this great skiing game. Choose if you want to go skiing or snowboarding. You are in the Happy Ski Resort where you can focus on just casual skiing, competitions or tricks with your snowboard. Explore the surrounding area by helicopter. You can even decide at what day-time you would like to experience skiing: during day, afternoon with its warm light or night under the light of fireworks.

42. We Ski – Again you are in the Happy Ski resort. This game lets you only do skiing but you will for sure enjoy the great two mountains. You can even try black diamond slopes. Just like in the previous game, you can choose the time of the day, and which course you would like to try. Overall a fun game for the whole family.

43. Wii Fit – The most famous game for the Wii Balance Board. This is the game that got released first with the Board. Part of the title focus on your balance like the Balance Games and Yoga games. Our family’s favorite are the Balance games. You start off with 5 games. The more time you spend exercising and playing the more games you can unlock. The other categories are Strength Training and Aerobics. You can even create a Wii Fit Channel – a mode where you don’t have to put in the DVD to do a daily body test. Each time you do a body test you will be weighed and your balance will be tested. According to that you will get a score that is your Wii Fit Age. Don’t take it too seriously if you are 10 or so years older than your real age. This should just motivate you to do daily exercises and keep in shape.

44. Wii Fit Plus - The just recently released sequel to the Wii Fit game. It combines the two games so you can play both of them from one CD. The difference is that you can now customize your workouts much easier and even decide if you want to do 20, 30 or 40 minute workouts. This game adds six new yoga activities and strength training exercises and 15 new balance games. A very fun game for the whole family not only if you are into fitness and weight loss.

45. Wii Music – Use the Balance Board to play 60+ instruments. But it does not matter if you press buttons at a certain time like in other music games. This is a very casual game, where there is no right or wrong. Just enjoy yourself while playing in a band. You can invite up to 4 people to play with you in your band. And you can even connect with friends through the Wifi connection. Choose your flavor like rock, jazz and Latin.

46. Winter Sports 2 The Ultimate Challenge – a winter themed game where you try out in 18 disciplines from 11 different winter sports. In this game you are in the center of sporting events that are broadcast all over the world. Some of the activities include snowboarding, ice skating, biathlon and ski jumping.

47. World Championship Athletics - Compete in 28 different summer themed sports games. Some of these are: high diving, hurdles and pole vault. See if you can win the gold medal and improve your own personal best.

48. Yoga - just recently released yoga game that focuses not only on yoga itself but also on its unique lifestyle. It lets you choose between story mode, where you start off as a complete yoga beginner and end up as a yoga guru. Training mode, where you can learn new poses. And Routine mode where you customize a workout that puts together several yoga poses. This game is a must if you liked the yoga exercises in the Wii Fit game.

Most of the games are just casual games that you play for fun. Some of them are excellent fitness games like Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus. And my pick for the most fun game from the whole list: Marble Saga Kororinpa. In this game you have to balance a marble through a maze and collect colored gems on the way. Might sound boring to you, but when you play it you get really addicted. You can play this game also with the Wii Remote only. (Not less fun!)

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Have you tried to lose weight recently? Are you tired and confused by all the different “CARDIO” styled dance classes?

Well there’s hope for you yet! Meet Zumba Dance…

Zumba Dance is a blending of Latin and International music dance themes creating a vibrant, successful fitness system! The routines feature aerobic/fitness interval training with a combination of fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt the body.

ZUMBA utilizes the principles of interval training and resistance training to maximize caloric output, fat burning and total toning.

It is a blend of body sculpting dance movements and easy-to-follow dance steps.

So how many calories does Zumba burn?

An average class can burn from 500 to 800 calories! You can of course burn more or less depending on your intensity and fitness level. Your Zumba instructor will work with you to get the maximum results… fast. Hows that for different! Better than exercising at home listening to some boring cd … right?

Along with the Zumba dance classes it is important to follow these fat loss, fool-proof nutrition tips that will maximize the amount of calories you burn:

* Eat veggies – Mix and match fresh veggies for variety. They are full of fiber and will help you burn more fat.

* Snack – Go ahead just snack on good stuff, like nuts (especially almonds) veggies fresh and dried fruit.

* Nuts – Almonds, macadamia nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts and pecans are great for you. Spice up that yogurt and salad by throwing a few in.

* Steel cut oats – Cook a ¼ cup with 1 cup of rice milk (trust me its delicious and you wont need sweetener) for breakfast

* Protein – Protein is a fat burner. How you ask? Well your body burns more calories digesting protein than eating any other type of food. Eating protein also prevents muscle loss when dieting.

* Yogurt – Will help you lose weight and at the same time protect your muscles. Yogurt is also a simple & convenient snack. It is also high in protein.

Follow these tips attend as many Zumba classes as you can and you will quickly maximize your calories burned.

So how many calories does Zumba burn? Follow these tips and you will burn enough to have that body of your dreams!

In Summary:

Want to learn more about how many calories does Zumba burn Zumba is a fat burning, body shaping and fun workout program. Any one any age can get results fast. To learn more about losing weight, quickly reshaping your body and having fun while doing it… Click to http://ZumbaFitnessnj.com for class schedules in New Jersey and free Zumba tips, tricks and DVDs.

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Here are 3 of the best exercises for your waist, belly, and hips. I’ll give you a hint and just say you probably didn’t know about these exercises.

exercises for your Waist, Belly, and Hips

1. For your waist, do vacuum poses

This is great for losing inches off of your waist. I have had clients lose 3 inches in 1 month doing just this exercise. Here’s how you do it… suck in your belly button as far as you can into your lower back. Hold that position for 15-60 seconds. Release and rest briefly. Then repeat. Do this for a minimum of 5 minutes each day. But to lose 3 inches in a month, you’ll need to do it for 15-20 minutes a day.

2. For your belly, do belly rubs

Rubbing your belly actually works for spot reducing your belly fat. What you do is rub your hands together for 10 or more seconds to generate kinetic heat. With one of your hands, rub small circles around your belly button while you lie down on a bed or the floor.

The logic behind why this works is because the heat penetrates through your skin and into the fat cells in your belly. The heat then helps to dissolve and loosen up the fat for it to be excreted. A second reason is that rubbing your belly in circles helps to stimulate a more efficient digestive process. Do this for 4-6 minutes a day.

3. For your hips, hula hoop

Yep, just grab a $3 hula hoop and start twirling it around your waist. Do this for 10 minutes a day to tone down your hips and waist. I use the hula hoop while watching tv commercials. Quick and convenient.

These exercises for your waist, belly, and hips will do a great job in improving those areas within just a few short weeks.

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Setting up an obstacle course is a wonderful child physical activity. Children get lots of exercise while having fun. An obstacle course can be set up with items you may already have. Usually an obstacle course is set up outdoors, but can be a wonderful indoor activity when the weather is bad.

To set up an obstacle course, think of terms such as jump, hop, crawl under, climb over, walk along, go right or go left. A child physical activity includes practicing gross motor skills, balance and coordination. Plan out the course by listing the skills you want the children to practice. Eight to ten stations is a good number for school age children.

Use a ladder flat on the ground to run through
Crawl under a table or broom hung between 2 chairs
Hop through hula hoops set on the ground
Step over an obstacle such as yardstick between 2 chairs at knee height
Walk across balance beam (4″x4″ board)
Weave in and out of poles made with PVC pipe inserted in sand buckets
Squeeze through 2 objects placed close so child walks sideways
Throw ball into wastebasket
Carry an object on a spoon (water balloon outdoors, small ball indoors)
Jump or skip 5 times with jump rope
Bounce or dribble ball to next station (at least 5 times)

You can adjust this child physical activity to fit the ages, abilities and number of children in your group. Make the obstacle course simple at first and gradually increase the difficulty of each station.

If you want, time the kids to see how fast they can complete the course. Record their individual times and see if they can practice to improve their own times. Make certificates of accomplishment and completion of this child physical activity; the obstacle course.

As a mother, grandmother, and child development professional, Nancy Johnson, shares over 20 years experience working with children and planning activities on her website, Creative-Child-Activity-Notebook.com. Check it out for more school age child activity ideas including learning, holiday, party, nature, and child learning activity ideas.

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Got hot hips? Want them? Well, I’m going to show you how to shape your hips really fast to get a nice feminine curvy look to them. Nothing hard involved. I promise.

Hot Hips exercises

1. Hula Hoop

Yeah, who’d thunk that a simple $3 hula hoop would answer your quest for getting hot hips. But it’s probably the best thing you can use to get that nice feminine, sexy belly dancer look to your hips.

All you do is twirl the hula hoop around your waist for 10 minutes everyday. Simple.

You don’t even need to do all the 10 minutes at once. You could easily break it up into 2 minutes mini-workouts. The best way to do that is to hula hoop during 2 minute tv commercials. A 30 minute tv show has on average, about 10 minutes of commercials and down time. So use that time.

2. Hindu Squats

This is great for the hips because it burns off so much fat from your hips and waist area. The toning and slimming effects are tremendous.

What you do is squat up and down fast… as fast as you can. Be sure to touch or swipe your finger tips on the ground to show that you went down far enough. Your goal is to do 100 repetitions in under 5 minutes.

So can you spare 5 minutes to do this simple exercise? Do you want hot hips? Oh, you do? Ok, then you have 5 minutes to do this exercise. If you don’t have 5 minutes to do this, then you don’t really want hot hips. It’s just a dream and I’m waking you up.

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First, click http://www.weightlossguide4women.com to get your free 19-page report “How Spinning Around in a Circle Like a 4-year old Child will Skyrocket your Weight Loss Success”. This will give you a jumpstart on how to lose 10 pounds fast.

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Third, with my advice, you won’t starve, have to go to the gym ever, or basically do anything that is a hassle for your busy life. Listen, I understand you want to lose weight and get hot hips without changing much in your diet or exercise plans… I get it. I have this completely covered. I’ve worked with over 3,700 clients. I know a 1 size fits all plan doesn’t work. So I’ve come up with lots of “tricks” to personalize weight loss specifically for you and your lifestyle.

Fourth… there is no fourth. Just enjoy the free report and my website. If you don’t lose 10 pounds with just my free information… I’d be amazingly surprised!

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If you’re anything like the average Joe, you work hard during the week usually performing rigorous or repetitive tasks such as hammering or heavy lifting, typing or repetitive mouse clicking. Then you come home and relax by sinking into the couch and doing nothing for several hours. Follow that up with spending the weekend performing more rigorous, repetitive tasks such as gardening, laundry or a larger ongoing project like painting the bedroom walls. Or perhaps you use the weekends to play and go skiing or rock climbing. Then you notice that your shoulder hurts when putting on your shirt or closing a door or perhaps it’s become so painful that you can’t lift your arm to brush your teeth or wash your hair.

You’re not alone. What you are probably experiencing is tendinitis in one or more of the shoulder muscles, which is quite common……but there is help!

The problem

Your shoulders are incredibly flexible joints that allow your arms to move through a large range of motion. They are used in almost every activity and they take a lot of punishment on a daily basis. As a result, they are prone to a wide range of injuries that can cause pain and limit your range of motion. Normally the body is able to heal itself quite well during sleep. Unfortunately the average American is so busy with work, chores, bills, errands etc. that when it’s time to sleep we just stare at the ceiling and think about tomorrow which only keeps us awake and creates more stress and less healing.

Many times these injuries are simply caused by wear and tear. For example, a common injury is tendinitis of one of the rotator cuff muscles called the Infraspinatus. This is a small triangular muscle located on the back of the shoulder blade. It covers the lower portion of the scapula and its tendon attaches to the back side of the humerus (large bone of upper arm). Like the other muscles of the rotator cuff, the Infraspinatus is weaker than the surrounding muscles due to its poor mechanical advantage which makes it more susceptible to injury. Through poor posture and/or repetitive overuse such as, reaching behind you into the back seat of your car and lifting a heavy object, swinging a tennis racquet or hastily pulling off your jacket, the tendon develops micro tears and becomes inflamed and painful. The resulting pain can lead to overcompensation from other muscles in the body which leads to chronically tightened muscles and trigger points.

Trigger points are small knots in the muscle tissue that are very common around the shoulder and can refer pain and tenderness into the muscles or joints. The referred pain can mimic other shoulder problems and can feel as if the injury is actually in a completely different area or muscle.

The reason it takes so long to heal

Without being treated tendinitis can take several months or even years to heal and even then you may not get back your full range of motion. This is due to, as mentioned before, overcompensation of other muscles in an effort to prevent further injury and pain, which can cause chronic tightening of these muscles and can eventually lead to more severe conditions such as adhesive capsulitis or frozen shoulder.

No there isn’t a miracle drug or cream or instant treatment that will make this injury disappear overnight. Chances are it took several years to get to this point and unfortunately it’s going to take some time and a personal commitment to your own healing to reverse it.

Do I need surgery?

I am happy to say NO, you may not need surgery!

If your massage therapist is a skilled neuromuscular therapist and you are willing to be proactive with your own healing you can expect at least a 90% recovery in as little as six weeks without surgery, injections or drugs.

1. You will need to locate the exact muscle and tendon in need of repair. Your therapist can help you with this by performing a few resisted range-of-motion tests.

2. The next step is to release the trigger points in the muscle tissue; this will almost immediately relieve some of the pain in the shoulder and possibly in the back and neck as well.

3. Next it will be necessary to properly palpate the injured portion of the tendon, usually the most tender part, and friction the area using focused cross fiber strokes (this is known as cross fiber friction or deep transverse friction) designed to break down scar tissue and reestablish blood flow, followed by stretching the target muscle.

4. Finally the muscle must be restrengthened using light weights and/or elastic bands such as a Theraband.

It should be noted here that there are other types of shoulder injuries that deserve special consideration such as sprains and dislocations which typically result from falls. It’s natural to reach your arm out to catch yourself when falling, but the impact can strain or tear the shoulder ligaments. If the impact is severe enough, the humerus may be knocked right out of the socket and the shoulder can become dislocated. With a severe trauma, the bones may actually fracture or break. When this is the case the arm needs to be immobilized and a proper diagnosis by a physician will be required.

Sometimes the only option is surgery. The best medicine in this case is prevention. As soon as you develop any pain or discomfort in your shoulder, see your massage therapist or other health care practitioner immediately for assessment and treatment. Don’t risk getting this serious and debilitating shoulder condition.

Joseph Sweeney is a nationally certified massage therapist specializing in orthopedic and sports injuries. His practice is located in Louisville, Colorado. For more information and to contact Joe visit his website at http://www.focusedtouch.com

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Here’s an exercise schedule for maximum weight loss. It’s perfect for busy people who can’t get to the gym. The great thing is that you simplify your workouts while getting significantly better results… FASTER. If you don’t have much time for working out, then take the next 2 minutes to read this article for the solution.

Exercise Schedule

1. Workout while watching tv… during the commercials

I know you watch tv. Don’t bother saying otherwise. Even super busy people take time to relax. That’s good. I’m going to make this work for you. Here’s what you need to know. Tv commercials last about 3 minutes at a time. There’s about 7 breaks for commercials. So that’s about 20 minutes in 1 hour of tv watching that you can get in a workout. You don’t even need to do it all in 1 hour either. Spread out your mini-workouts. It doesn’t matter.

What to do? There’s plenty of things. If you have stairs in your home, walk up and down them for 3 minutes non-stop. Get a mini-trampoline and get jumping. Use a hula hoop. Do jumping jacks. Jump rope. See, plenty of options. Look at your options, don’t look for excuses.

2. Take 5 minutes for this special COMBO routine

What is it? It’s running up your stairs and walking down them. Now obviously, you’ll need some stairs in your home. If you don’t have them, review the options in the first part of this article. You do this for 5 minutes non-stop. That’s it. Quick and effective.

If you want to lose weight, this is a good exercise schedule for maximum weight loss.

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