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How to get REAL Women's Fitness & Health

Do you want perfect fitness and health that lasts a lifetime? Do you want to look and feel better than you ever have before? Do you want fat to stay off for good? Well, I’m not selling anything. This Blog is dedicated to giving women free information for real results. Do you really know what is involved in getting real health?

A Core Fitness and Health Article

There are certain fitness misconceptions that I have wanted to settle for a long time. I also want to lay down some rules that I hope all of my readers will follow. This post will be the basis for all the rest of the posts to follow it so read carefully!

Absolute musts when it comes to real health and fitness

There are some things that you must do if you want to get real fitness and health. There is no two ways about it.

# 1: Fitness takes time so take a long term approach

This rule is the most important rule and is especially important for women. There is a huge amount of rubbish information out there and it has got many people dazed and confused.

Learning to slow down and forgetting about the quick fix is one of the most crucial things you will ever do for your health. Now, I am not saying that fast weight loss or muscle gain is not possible - it is. What I am saying is that the attitude of wanting it to happen overnight is very dangerous and usually unstable.

So, when you are assessing your fitness, health, weight loss and any other goal, try to make sure it has long term appeal and focus. It may be the difference between good long term success and short term failure.

# 2: Eat less man-made food

Perhaps this should have been rule number one as it, too, is very important.

For thousands of years humans have had excellent health from eating these foods. It is only in the past couple of decades with the introduction of mass processing, fast foods, preservatives, etc. that instances of serious illnesses and other diseases like diabetes and obesity have really hit us.

# 3: Drink water

At my other Blog I am constantly mentioning the need for drinking more water. And, I will constantly mention it on this Blog too! Drinking water is more important than you think. For years we have been told to drink a certain amount of water but it seems we still ignore all the advice.

I am going to make the outrageous claim that if you drink at least three liters of water spaced out nicely throughout the day, you will avoid the common cold, lose extra fat and live a lot longer. My mother’s Chinese doctor said that if women started drinking water they would not need to visit him. So many women’s illnesses can be avoided by drinking more water.

# 4: Make fruit a bigger part of your diet

I have already touched on the important of a natural diet in rule number two but I want to emphasize the importance of fruit.

Like water, adding more fruit to your diet can help you avoid common illnesses and stay healthy all year round. When I started adding fruit to my diet as a whole meal (as opposed to a snack) I enjoyed much greater and longer lasting energy levels as well as losing a lot of fat. I will go into greater depth in future posts but fruit really is the perfect food for the human body.

# 5: Train with weights

Weight training is sometimes avoided by women because they are concentrating on doing a lot of extra cardio. This can be a good thing if your goal is weight loss but if you want to complete the package it is important to incorporate weight training into your regular routine.

Lifting weights has an amazing impact on your heart and immune system and will also assist in the process of losing fat. Again, more detail will be provided in later posts.

# 6: Avoid addictions

I wish I didn’t even have to mention this one but, alas, I have to.

If you are still smoking with all the information and knowledge we have about its disastrous effects on the human body than you should leave this Blog right now because you clearly aren’t interested in being healthy. The same goes for drugs and to a lesser extent alcohol and coffee.

Coffee is more of a problem than you think. I consider it to be a gateway drug not because it leads to harder drugs but because it leads to snacking and bad habits! People who drink a lot of coffee generally don’t sleep well and don’t eat well and don’t operate very well without their hit. Avoid this lifestyle.

# 7: Sleep more

The body and the brain repair and recover the fastest when we are sleeping. Deep sleep is needed for a lot of deep body processes to take place and getting an extra few hours instead of watching a television show could do wonders for your mental and physical health.

A great idea is to take a 20 minute nap during the day. Many people have claimed amazing results from doing so and scientific studies have shown that 20 minutes during the day can be equal to several hours at night.

# 8: Perform high intensity cardio

I can vouch for the excellent weight loss and health benefits of doing some hard, high intensity cardio a few times a week. It is an excellent practice to get into to maintain long term bone, heart, muscle and even lymphatic health. Sprinting, martial arts or rope jumping are excellent methods of getting an intense, short workout.

# 9: Be happy!

Stress has a documented and proven negative effect on the body. You eat junk food and don’t go to the gym when you are stressed. Try to find methods that help you deal with stress in a helpful way. It is a very bad influence on weight loss, fitness and long term healthiness.

Conclusion

There are the first and most important women’s fitness and health rules. If you adopt any of them I really hope it is numbers 2, 3 and 9. I will be writing more in depth articles on each of the topics as time goes on.

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