You’ve seen a lot of the sports drinks that are sold as a good electrolyte booster, and replenishing aid to help you re energize yourself during and after a workout, and help to balance those electrolytes that are lost in the sweat your produce when working out.

I know that I will occasionally buy some Gatorade for my husband when he is sick, because he says that is the only drink that makes him feel better. However, I know that it’s a terrible idea to actually use them after working out, or even before. 

Exercise is wonderful for your body, mind and spirit.  It helps us through stressful times, helps to elevate our mood and reduce anxiety, stress and depression, increases our heart and circulatory health, helps us manage a healthy weight, and even helps us to maintain a healthy blood pressure.

That’s just the beginning of exercise benefits.  Many studies show that it also elevates our immunity, fends off several kinds of cancer, and also helps to reduce the likelihood of a bevy of other deadly diseases that are an unfortunate part of the human condition.

There has been so much emphasis these past few years on fitness training that does not take up a lot of time. People are busy, and their busy lives are swallowing up precious time that could be used to get a really good workout in.

For this reason, there are now some very short, but very effective and very intensive workouts that swear they get the job done, but just in much less time. They are efficient, because you are getting terrific cardiovascular conditioning in without taking up hours of time per week.

Jennifer Aniston has long been the envy of women across the world for it’s incredibly toned appearance. She also tends to look very long and lean even though she’s a fairly petite woman, clocking in by some accounts at just 5’5″, which is shorter than what she looks like on film or in pictures.

Even past 40, she has maintained the lean physique of a twenty year old, and many women are clamoring to keep their bodies that fit and toned looking after they pass that magical age of 40, which seems to be a marker of fabulousness if you look even better than you did ten to fifteen years ago when you hit this age as a woman.

We could all use more energy. Even if we’re naturally energetic, enthusiastic people by nature, there are times when we all suffer from low energy and a lack of endurance and willpower to get up off the couch and get stuff accomplished.

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Well, we all know that adorable, petite little Natalie Portman, as well as her naturally petite costar in the film that won so much critical acclaim and also earned Portman the Oscar, “The Black Swan”, are naturally pretty skinny girls.  However, seeing them in the Black Swan gave a new name to the word “fit” and thin!

They both appeared almost alarmingly thin, but it was all part of who their characters were, which was serious ballet dancers. Ballet dancers are notoriously worried about their weight because they have to be pretty thin to pull of the graceful moves that are required of the ballet dance form, and also because they have to be on their tip toes much of the time.

So I told you that I was thinking about having an herbal body wrap done over the past few weeks, and the perfect opportunity presented itself for me to finally do so in an economical and convenient way.

The funny thing is, I actually have a place that does it and has been doing it for several years, only fifteen minutes away from my home and never knew it until I saw an ad for it in Groupon!  Ahh, gotta love the social networking and coupon age of the internet, right!?

Along with other new and different kinds of exercise classes, one of the more interesting and fun sounding is the Zumba classes.  Zumba is an energetic Latin dance and exercise routine at the same time.

People who take Zumba classes say it feels more like a party than a boring exercise class.  Zumba is a combination of aerobics, basic dance moves and salsa.  On a per hour basis, you can burn between 400 and 1,000 calories which is impressive for such a small period of time.

I thought I’d write a fun, silly one today. I don’t know why, but for some reason the old Olivia Newton John song “Let’s Get Physical” popped into my head. If you are over the age of 30, you probably remember when Olivia was really popular.

You also probably remember the ridiculous music video of her in a terry cloth head band and a spandex workout outfit ala Jane Fonda from the eighties.

She was sweating with a bunch of big men, and looking as cute and perky as ever.

Peak Fitness is a type of workout regimen that incorporates the usage of the largest muscles in the body, along with the smaller muscles. It involves very intense, short bursts of activity, and may be worked in with short few-minute muscle training workouts as well.

I’m a big fan of these types of peak fitness workouts because they work out your body very hard, take fat off and burn calories dramatically, all in much less time than it would take you to work out for hours doing the same old ho-hum workout at the gym.