The Importance of A Leg Workout

For a lot of fitness enthusiasts, we do not give enough attention to the leg workout. Legs are often neglected because it may not be the first thing that people see on your body. Having a big chest and broad shoulders may look good to other people but the legs improve the appearance of the entire body. Legs after all, are what we use to move around everywhere. Whatever type of sport that you are engaged to,  most of your power comes from your legs - whether it's basketball, cycling, golf, bowling, swimming or the likes. If you take care of your legs now, the greater mobility you'll have when you get older. You'll go more places and see more things without worrying about how far your legs will take you.

The trick to getting nicely sculpted thighs and glutes is a good leg workout which specifically targets the following muscle groups: the quadriceps (front of the thighs), hamstrings (back of the thighs), and gluteals (butt). Building these muscles will increase energy and stamina in everything that you do, including climbing stairs, getting out of a chair, squatting to pick up a baby off the floor, or walking the grocery aisles. You want to develop these muscles in a balanced way for optimal function otherwise you end up with problems on balance, and trouble with normal daily living activities. When doing leg workouts, you should develop both legs in a balanced way. If not, it can pull the hips and pelvis out of alignment, which challenges stability and eventually leads to back, hip, knee, and ankle pain. You might have experienced that sometimes when you stand, walk, sit down and get up, or climb stairs, your knees wobble with a little side-to-side movement at the knee joint.  It’s the strength and support of the inner and outer thigh muscles that help control this wobble.  If your inner & outer thighs are not strong enough to support the knees and hold the legs in good alignment, you will have problems getting the knee joints to track properly and this can be a contributing factor to knee pain.

When doing overall body strength training along with a proper diet, you can reduce your overall body fat, which includes leaning out your thighs. It is very important to realize that you can't spot reduce fat from anywhere on the body - including thighs.

Leg workouts really are a hidden secret to your dream physique, I hope you realize that now if you didn't before! 

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Keeping Your Brain Healthy for The Rest of Your Life

The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program (Keep your Brain Healthy for the Rest of Your Life) by Dr. Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan,  is a guide book on how to prevent having Alzheimer’s disease. The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program is about how to sustain your memory, incorporate foods into your diet and brain exercise. 

The book shares to us on how to eat right, meditation and most especially, using your brain. Dr. Small shared many cases where making simple lifestyle changes made huge differences in patient’s lives. He stressed out that everyone can make lifestyle changes that will improve their brain health. Included in the The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program is information about its known causes, statistics around one’s genetic weakness for getting the disease and statistics regarding the newest drug used in the treatment of Alzheimer’s.

It’s a very interesting read for anyone who fears Alzheimer’s in their future. The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program is really for anyone who is concerned that he may have the disease and comparison between normal memory loss in the aging process and the actual illness. What I like about The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program is that it was defined in a language or level that I can easily understand. It gives a clear history of the disease and how Alois Alzheimer presented the first report about the disease that was later named after him. 

About the Authors

Gary Small, M.D., is director of the UCLA Longevity Center. Named one of the world's leading innovators in science and technology by Scientific American, he appears frequently on Today, Good Morning America, PBS, and CNN. He is also author of the bestselling The Memory Bible.

Gigi Vorgan has written, produced, and appeared in numerous feature films and television shows. She is the coauthor of five other books with her husband, Dr. Gary Small.

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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration was originally published on 1939 and has a total of 12 editions. The author, Dr. Weston A. Price, DDS, traveled around the world with his wife in search to find healthy people and to discover what their diet was. He went to remote areas in different countries wherein these people only eat indigenous foods but when he later introduced modern foods (white sugar, powdered milk, white flour, canned goods, etc.), signs of physical degeneration became evident.

Dr. Price documented 12 cultures throughout the world in which every individual that belong to that culture had perfect teeth, robust bodies, thick bones and resistance to disease. What these cultures have in common were focus on animal products that were essential for development and health.

I highly recommend having this book to every household. It has been an eye opener which gives you another perspective on how you define the word DIET and NUTRITION. Full credits to Dr. Price and his wife for the depth of knowledge and amount of research they had done for this book. 

Imagine that this book has been published for 75 years now and has been rated 4.47 out of 5 stars.  

About Dr. Weston A. Price

Dr. Price has been called the “Isaac Newton of Nutrition”. The world has become his laboratory to study isolated human groups. Wherever he went, Dr. Price found that people who have straight teeth and freedom from decay were typical due to their traditional diets that are rich in essential food factors. I could never forget the quote that he wrote on the book dedicated to his nephews and nieces, “I am deeply interested not only in your health individually but in the efficiency and welfare of your families. It is particularly important in these times of industrial and financial stress, that children shall not suffer defects which may mark and handicap them for their entire life." We all can relate to that.

To learn more about Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, click on this link.

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