Piloxing: A Fun Way to Workout

If you love hybrid words, you'll love "Piloxing." And no, it doesn't involve punching your cat, whilst doing the dreaded Pilates Hundred... thankfully!

It's a fun combination of Pilates and Boxing, created by Swedish celebrity trainer, Viveca Jensen. This is Jensen's way of physically and mentally empowering people through fitness.

Piloxing is mainly designated for woman (sorry guys!), and it provides an interesting blend of speed, agility, sculpting and flexibility.

The exercise also incorporates the use of one-pound weighted gloves, which add some intensity to your workout by toning arms, and boosting cardiovascular health.

Check out a Piloxing class in action below:

I think this looks like a great workout. And, if you enjoy Pilates, but get bored sometimes, this is a great way to ramp up your normal routine.

What do you think -- would this style of workout interest you?

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A Fighters Diet

If you are a fighter who is looking to cut weight, increase your performance, feel healthier and stronger, or you're just an average joe who wants to get leaner, This diet is for you! This diet comes from years of working with combat athletes!

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Cabbage Soup Diet

Learn how to lose 10 pounds in 7 days with the Cabbage Soup Diet.

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Vegetarian Diet Info

Diet And Weight Loss Advice For Vegetarians.

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Cabbage Soup Diet 2.0 - The ultimate guide

Cabbage Soup Diet 2.0 - The Ultimate Guide - Just Released No.1 Cabbage Soup Diet EBook On Cb! Much Easier To Dominate PPC (low Competition and cheap clicks!). This step-by-step Guide Converts Like Crazy During The First Months Of The Year

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World's Fattest Woman's Race Against Time

At 700lbs, 49-year-old Terri Smith finds herself in an urgent situation. In need of an MRI for her brain, she is unable to move, stand or roll on her own.

To make matters worse, even if she does manage to escape the confines of her Ohio home, she is far too big to fit in an MRI machine. They even considered using the MRI at the Cleveland Zoo, but the zoo doesn't have the appropriate accreditation to conduct MRI's on humans.

Terri's husband and daughter do everything for her from feeding, bathing and dressing her in bed. Says Smith,

My husband is my guardian angel. He's stuck by me through everything. Most men would have left a long time ago, and who could blame them -- but Myron is a living saint.

Bed-ridden for the past 3 years, Terri has been heavy all of her life. Says Terri of her weight,

It's awful how it creeps up on you. Once you cannot exercise it doesn't matter how healthily you eat, the weight just sticks. You're not burning off a single calorie.

Hmmmmm......

If I were to be completely honest, I sometimes have a high tolerance for other peoples' pain. I really do hope Terri gets the help she needs to give herself a chance to live. This is a sad, sad situation. However, it is also a largely preventable one.

And husband and daughter do sound like saints, but are they more enablers?

Weight certainly can creep up on people, but restricting calories works, and it works very well. The expenditure side of the ledger matters very little at this point until Smith can achieve some ambulation, and even then it will be a minimal contributor.

I wish her all the best and hope we can read a story of triumph in the next year or so.

What are your thoughts on this situation?

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Lean Belly Prescription

The Lean Belly Prescription is a new book from Dr Travis Stork (M. D.). The urgent-care physician is focusing on visceral fat - adipose tissue that surrounds internal organs. A large amount of research has shown that belly fat carries more health risks than fat stored elsewhere - such as hips or thighs.

You know you have visceral fat if your gut is round and firm, your waist is bigger than your hips, or your Wranglers have a waist size of 40 or higher for men, and 35 or higher for women.

The essence of the book is a series of small tips or insights to bring about healthy weight loss. Stork suggests tackling 3 of these at a time, to have an increased chance of success. He appears to have chosen the number 3 due to a study from the Baylor College of Medicine:

One group of adults took on three simultaneous health goals, while a second group attempted a single goal. Eighteen months later, those who had embraced multiple healthy changes were 20 percent more likely to have stuck with them. (from MensHealth)

Here is a sampling of suggested changes:

If you love pasta and rice: Simply switch all your refined carbs to whole-grain versions, and lose up to eight pounds in four weeks!If you love soda: Learn how to swap out 450 wasted calories with drinks that are even more delicious, and to lose up to four pounds in four weeks!If you love to graze: Nosh all day long on your favorite fruits and vegetables and lose up to six pounds in four weeks!If you love breakfast: Build yours around these simple lean protein/good carb principles and lose up to four pounds in four weeks!If you love to snack: Learn how to combine food groups to build snacks, and lose up to seven pounds in four weeks!

The book includes 4 weeks of meal plans and a basic workout plan. To be frank, in this information age we live in, much of this information can be gleaned fairly easily online (and, possibly even entirely from within Diet Blog - here's 30+ useful tips to begin with). Good on Travis Stork for addressing the issue of visceral fat, but there seems to be little new on the offer here.

If the name rings a bell - it's because Stork appeared on the Bachelor, and was host of daytime talk show The Doctors (which for some reason seems to qualify people to write diet books).

The Lean Belly Prescription: The Fast and Foolproof Diet & Weight-Loss Plan From America's Top Urgent-Care Doctor by Travis Stork. Available at Amazon (around $14).

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