Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
Five Ways to Turn Up the Heat on Your Spring Workouts
Spring is a wonderful time of the year: The whole world hits refresh! It’s a great season to clean out closets, build new habits, and get out and enjoy the fresh air and sunshine. With this renewed enthusiasm, it’s also an ideal time to put the fire back into your fitness regimen. This week I count down my springtime checklist for better workouts and a healthier, happier, more attractive you.
#5 Update your workout drag.
Still wearing grandpa’s old cotton t-shirts and baggy shorts? Why not replace worn-out duds with sexy shorts and tanks in lightweight, moisture-wicking fabrics? While you’re shopping, make new sneakers a priority. All exercise requires a strong, supportive base, so if you feel like splurging, do it on shoes. If you can, invest in both a cross-trainer for lifting and a solid, durable running shoe for cardio work. Your feet are worth the expense.
#4 Clean out your cupboards.
Candy, cookies, pretzels, and chips add nothing to your life except empty calories and unwanted inches on your waistline. Processed meats and cheeses, white bread and potatoes, and high-fat condiments like mayonnaise and bottled salad dressings are even worse for your health. Try shopping at an outdoor farmers market for fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and nuts. Supplement those staples with fresh cuts of meat and fish from your local butcher, fishmonger, or grocery. Eating healthier can help you feel better, live longer and look sexier.
#3 Shake up your fitness routine.
If you have a particular body part you want to tone or build, find some online workouts focused on that area, and add a few new exercises to your routine. Keep an eye on Twitter and Facebook for articles and products that might be helpful, and be open to feedback and suggestions from friends. You may even want to team up with a like-minded workout bud. Change gyms, if necessary. Mix things up with outdoor sports like swimming, tennis, golf, or running. Hire a personal trainer, take a class, sign up for a race — anything! Just keep your exercise fun, challenging, and a consistent part of your daily life.
#2 You do you.
Training and shaping your body is a lifetime project that requires effort, work, and patience to accomplish great things. Customizing a plan to suit your own abilities and preferences is key. If you loathe counting calories, focus instead on portion control. Despise the idea of dieting? Turn your attention to developing a creative nutritional plan. Don’t have endless hours to spend in the gym? Start with lifting weights twice a week for 20 minutes. Do some power walking with a co-worker at lunchtime. There are myriad opportunities to slide into a health and fitness routine, make it your own, and keep it consistent.
#1 Check up before you tune up.
Only about 20 percent of Americans see their doctor for a yearly exam. Sure, we all hate waiting rooms — not to mention, a bossy doctor reading us the riot act. But high cholesterol, out-of-control blood pressure and vitamin deficiencies can be silent killers over time. So, be sure to have an expert take a look under the hood before you hit the gas on your exciting new spring fitness regimen!
source https://hotspotsmagazine.com/2018/04/17/five-ways-to-turn-up-the-heat-on-your-spring-workouts/
Laura Ingraham Has a Habit of Bearing Her Fangs at Children
Rabbi David Seidenberg recently wrote a blog post about his college classmate, FOX News host Laura Ingraham: “Back in 1984, when we were both enrolled at Dartmouth College, she secretly recorded a confidential support group for gay students, and published a transcript in The Dartmouth Review — complete with the names of the students at the meeting, students who were in the closet, back in the day when being outed could mean getting rejected for jobs and attacked by drunken frat boys.”
Many years later Ingraham expressed regret over this.
That’s something she has a knack for, apparently: doing totally reprehensible things and then offering a weak apology.
Case in point: Ingraham’s recent Twitter tantrum in which she teased Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg because he didn’t get accepted to a number of colleges he’d applied to.
As you know, Hogg is a high school student. A 17-year-old. A child. Ingraham is, purportedly, a full-grown adult. One without a filter or any compassion.
This isn’t the first time Ingraham has bared her fangs at a child. She has described the existence of transgender kids as “this new gender-bending phenomenon, which clearly is facilitated and encouraged by a popular culture that seems to have concluded that, you know, traditional gender roles are yesterday’s news.”
Traditional gender roles, which have been used to keep women subservient and men violent, and are the basis for sexism, homophobia and transphobia, are something the right-wing loves to champion, which makes sense when you consider how morally corrupt their agenda is.
Ingraham has a gay brother. You would think that might bring her around on issues of LGBTQ equality, but it hasn’t. She’s spoken out against marriage equality, saying she feared it would make Catholics look like bad people for discriminating against gays.
I could go on and on about the many racist and stupid things Ingraham has said, but you can Google that shit if you want.
Instead, I would like to predict that at some point in the future people will look back at the time when some Americans vilified young survivors of a horrific school shooting for daring to demand that elected officials do something to curb gun violence, and they will wonder how a country that valued its guns more than its children managed to survive.
That is, of course, assuming we have a future. If we continue like this, we’ll be a country full of angry, heavily armed white men in MAGA and “Who Farted?” hats. Of course, that probably wouldn’t sound like a bad outcome to Ingraham. After all, instead of having advertisers flee her show after her latest vile outburst, her ratings would go through the roof. And she wouldn’t have to apologize to anybody.
In case that golden future fails to materialize, maybe Ingraham could just try being a better person.
source https://hotspotsmagazine.com/2018/04/17/laura-ingraham-has-a-habit-of-bearing-her-fangs-at-children/