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The Online Slimming Club web site has been developed to offer everything that a
local slimming club can provide and much more, but without the time, expense, the
travel and the embarrassing public weigh in.
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Free Diet Newsletter : March 2004
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Dear Member
Welcome to our the new members who have joined our club this month. Hopefully you are all taking advantage of the lighter mornings and evening to get on and do some exercise. Basic aerobic exercise such as running or walking is best done in the morning, the earlier the better, this way you don’t spend the day thinking that you’ve got to find the time to fit in your exercise. Use the evenings to try something new, find some of the more unusual types on offer below.
Regards
Ronny
‘Alternative’ Exercise
Kickboxing
Originally, the martial arts were created in order to preserve life through self defence. Nowadays, people come from a variety of backgrounds, all with their own reasons for wanting to train. Some want to learn how to defend themselves, some wish to improve fitness, some enjoy the competitive aspect of the tournaments, whilst others just want to have fun.
The martial arts are a vehicle for physical, mental, personal, and emotional development.
Physical Advantages: The training improves endurance, strength, muscle tone, coordination, balance and flexibility - consistently challenging the body (burning fat in the process!)
Spiritual Advantages: The training improves self esteem, confidence and self-discipline. It stimulates the mind and develops inner strength and is an excellent way to release (by shouting! punching and kicking out) stress.
There are many classes available at local leisure centres from beginners to advanced.
Alternatively try Kathy Smith’s Kickboxing Workout Video.
Golf
Golf is good for you. It's a game that burns up calories, reduces cholesterol and can reduce stress.
Golf is great for keeping you in trim. Every round you play, you walk between four and eight miles, and burn around a thousand calories.
Brisk walking is known to increase cardio-vascular capacity, improve your lung capacity and your blood flow. When playing golf, your heart rate pumps away at between 90 and 120 beats per minute. This low intensity workout won't turn you into the next Steve Redgrave - but it is perfect for gently burning off fat.
Even the simple act of swinging your club or bending down to place your ball on its tee or pick up your ball helps keep your joints supple and muscle groups in trim.
Playing golf is not only physically good for you, it also releases powerful, natural, mood enhancing drugs called endorphins into your bloodstream. As long as you don't strive to play with Tiger Woods-like perfection, just having a stroll in the open air and enjoying a round of golf with your friends helps to make you feel better. If the sun is shining - even better!
Golf offers a mental challenge. You're always thinking when we play golf, whether it's counting endless shots, working out your Stableford score or just calculating yardages and club selection. All that mental exercise is good for you.
Many clubs offer beginners courses from around £45, check your local yellow pages.
In-Line Skating
In-line skating, or rollerblading, has skyrocketed in popularity.So what do millions of people who in-line skate know that you don't?
Benefits:
• Improves, balance, movement and coordination
• Improves cardiovascular development and lung capacity
• Strengthens lower back and leg muscles
• Promotes weight loss by burning as many calories as running in one hour
Pilates
Pilates, pronounced Pi-laa-teez, is an 80-year-old method of physical conditioning that features hundreds of exercises completed either on a mat or on various pieces of specialized equipment.
Pilates is often referred to as the “thinking person’s” exercise. To gain maximum benefits, during each exercise you think, sense, and feel what your body is doing. For example, during any given exercise you may be asked to feel how your spine is moving, how your abdominal muscles feel, whether you are straining anywhere. With Pilates you learn to focus intently on all muscles and joints that are working.
This stimulating exercise technique for both the body and mind is now recognized globally and is a suitable means of conditioning and rehabilitation for people of all activity levels.
How Does Pilates Work?
In a nutshell, Pilates teaches people that effective exercise is about quality rather than quantity and that our bodies are integrated systems made up of interrelated parts. To truly target specific muscles or actually get joints to move properly means paying attention to efficient body mechanics.
Strengthening muscles and improving joint mobility does not happen by doing more repetitions faster and harder. Pilates is not about numbers. Rather it is about positive physical changes occurring because people begin to understand how muscles and bones work together.
The strong, integrated, Pilates-trained body is built on awareness, attention to detail, and the realization that you must always work with your body rather than against. “No pain, no gain” has no place in a Pilates session.
Who Benefits From Pilates?
Pilates-based exercise can be adapted for just about anybody - from elite athletes to those looking to keep their bodies fit and healthy to people who may have injuries.
Athletes and dancers use Pilates to stay highly tuned, injury free, and ready for peak performance. For the general public, Pilates offers a refreshing change from more traditional types of exercise. You become stronger, more flexible, and rejuvenated WITHOUT jarring or straining your body in the process.
For those in rehabilitation, Pilates is unsurpassed. The modified Pilates exercises are restorative, safe, and beneficial.
This popular form of exercise can be found at many leisure centre or try Pilates Weekly Workout Video by Lynne Robinson
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