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5 ways to identify your diet is healthy or requires a makeover
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5 ways to identify your diet is healthy or requires a makeover
Are you following the right diet plan? This is one concern that often plagues our minds while following a diet regime. However, you may not be following the right diet plan in some cases. Your diet may not be healthy enough and may require a prompt makeover to ensure that you get back on track health wise. How can you identify whether your diet is healthy or requires a makeover? Here are some signs that firmly indicate that your diet needs a fast makeover.
Constant fluctuations in weight
Your diet plan may help you lose a bit of weight all of a sudden and this might just bring about renewed determination with regard to following your diet plan. However, if your body has stopped responding to the diet, you may just be witnessing fluctuations in weight and the lost weight may sometimes come back. If you are not getting the desired results, your diet needs a prompt makeover. Fad dieting can help you lose loads of calories but they only return after a period of time. Frequent weight changes are a surefire indicator of the wrong diet plan being followed.
Constant cravings and urge to cheat on the plan
If you end up cheating on your diet plan a little more than desired, your diet plan is not working for sure. An effective diet plan keeps you full and satisfied without recurring hunger pangs and cravings. Your diet plan should only aim at reducing or eliminating items that you can live without and moderate the rest. A diet is a lifestyle change and if you still have cravings and hunger pangs, you may be on the wrong track!
You lack ample energy and strength each day
Your diet plan should ideally give you increased energy and strength. If you are short on energy on a regular basis and feel quite weak, you should instantly change your diet plan. A balanced and healthy diet will always make you stronger and more energetic. If it is the other way round, be sure that your diet plan needs a rapid makeover. If you are skeptical about preparing balanced meals, you can make use of the recognized diet services. For instance, Nutrisystem excels in delivering balanced and portion controlled meals. You can also diet in a safe and healthy manner, as their meals are low fat, low glycemic, low sodium, low carb and low calorific.
You do not follow the recommendations of the USDA
Perfectly following all the recommendations of the USDA will never be possible unless each and every meal portion is accurately measured to the last detail. This is not possible from a practical perspective. However, your diet plan should at least be in sync with these recommendations especially with regard to the multiple nutrients required by your body from each food group. Many diet plans thrive on cutting out essential food groups and this causes damages and problems in the future.
Increased tiredness
Is tiredness your daily companion? If it is, this may be a sign that your diet plan may not be working. Crashes in overall energy lead to such tiredness and sluggishness. If fatigue overwhelms you all day, you may not be catching up on the right nutrition. You may be consuming the wrong foods at the wrong times. You may not be paying attention to spikes and changes in blood sugar levels and may not be consuming healthy snacks as well.
These signs are a clear indicator of the fact that your diet requires a makeover!
5 ways to identify your diet is healthy or requires a makeover
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Jessica Robert passionately blogs about weight loss ideas and diet tips. Her blog displays helpful articles on easy dieting methods and weight loss ideas.
Mixed grip
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Two days ago we discussed the importance of a pronated grip. But there are variations on this grip, like the mixed grip. This one has the major advantage of handling more weight. But what else is the mixed grip good for? Read on…
Pronated grip
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Something everyone needs and everyone does in the gym, usually without thinking: grasping the barbell. How do you hold it? How should you hold it? And what are the advantages of each kind of grip? Today I will discuss the pronated grip. Read the rest of this entry »
Bulgarian squats technique
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Yet another unilateral exercise that everyone should perform now and then? Have you never heard of it? Do you like stiffness in your legs for a few days? Then the bulgarian squat exercise will be something for you! Read the rest of this entry »
Bodybuilding & nutrition programs
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Why should bodybuilders have a good nutrition guide? Nutrition is enormously important, it is as important as the workout itself. Nutrition gives us the raw materials for energy, growth and recuperation. You will never achieve your ideal body without a good diet. I've written down some of the basics you need to know about nutrition programs. Read the rest of this entry »
Why you should do split squats, lunges and Bulgarian squats
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Why are split squats, lunges and Bulgarian squats so good? I have written about split squats in the past and have been writing great things about it. But why? What are the advantages of unilateral exercises like split squats, lunges, bulgarian squats, and others?
World record chin-ups
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To measure upper body strength, the chin ups or pull-ups are used a lot (eg. the army). Usually this means you have to do a “repetition effort” without a time limit. This means you have to get as many (correct) repetitions done.
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Split squats technique
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Split squats? Chances are great that you have never heard of this exercise before. What a shame. This exercise is one great example of a unilateral exercise, that will make your tendons, ligaments and of course muscles stronger. Read the rest of this entry »
Technique of chin-ups & pull-ups
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Chins, chin-ups, pull-ups .. a lot of names for practically the same thing: a great way to show off your strength if you're small. Since you will need to pull up your own bodyweight, even beginners can sometimes get more reps done than an advanced athlete, who carries 120 lbs extra bodyweight.
Why you should bench press with legs on the ground
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Yes you might have heard that performing a bench press with the legs up will put the accent more on the pecs. And you believe those rumors because a 40 year old 250 pound bencher has told you that. Am I 40 years old? Nope. Do I bench 250 pounds? Not yet. But I do have things what that 40 year old bencher doesn’t have… good arguments not to put your legs in the air.
How to perform a deadlift
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The deadlift is called the king of all exercises, and with good reason too. There is no other exercise that will put more stress on your central nerve system, and therefore will make you stronger.
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Balancing tests
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Yesterday we discussed the importance of balance. Today let’s go over some tests to determine whether you have the balancing potential of an Olympic gymnast or a drunk bum.
Importance of balance
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What is balance? It is the ability to stay upright, or controlling your body movement. Balance is very important and used in almost all kinds of sports.
Technique of back squats
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Squats are very important. They should be the foundation of your workout. In fact, whenever I see a strength program with only a few sets or even no sets of squats at all, I’ll just throw the program away and tell whoever it is who showed it to me, to start reading up on workouts.
I will write a post about the why of squats later. But first let’s concentrate on the technique.
Why should you do full squats
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In the gym I always get a lot of looks from everyone, when I’m doing full squats. Sometimes they even ask me why on earth I would ever do full squats. Why not just quarter squats, like all of they do?
Here’s a list of advantages why everyone should do full squats.