Welcome to Healthy Body Tips !!!

"Mens sana in corpore sano." - Juvenal (Roman poet, late 1st-early 2nd century AD). ("A healthy mind in a healthy body.")

"May your food be your medicine, may your medicine be your food." - Hippocrate (Greek physician, 460BC-370BC)

"A good physician first find out the cause of the illness, and having found that, he first tries to cure it by food. Only when food fails does he prescribe medication." - Dr Sun Ssu-mo (Taoist doctor, 590-692), 'Precious Recipes (Chen-Chin-Fang)'.

Trophology, the science of food combining, isn't taught in schools; neither are yoga asanas and pranayama (breathing techniques).

Learning to combine your food leads to an easy digestion, proper cholesterol levels and a balance metabolism. Streching your body in yoga asanas makes your body and immune system stronger, your body and mind more flexible, opens your chackras and releases your energies (kundalini). Knowing how to breathe (stomach breathing) releases your stress.

Weight lifting (it can be simply lifting your body) makes you stronger and fitter, increases your energy level, helps lose fat and builds stronger bones.

Cardiovascular exercises (cardio) increase blood circulation in your body and your metabolism, improve your hearth condition, release 'feel good' hormones easing symptoms of depression and fatigue, and help you lose fat.

Swimming is soft on the muscles and, if you do a variety of strokes, is a total body workout. It also builds endurance, muscle strength and cardiovascular fitness. I also noticed that swimming, with the help of the water element, heals your body from the aches and stresses of weight/body lifting and cardio.

In my preparation to become an ACE Personal Trainer, I have been combining all these disciplines in my daily training for the last six months of 2010, along with some anatomy & nutrition studies, and couldn't help noticing the benefits of this training along the way.

I would like to share with you in this blog some of the knowledge acquired during my different training sessions, along with some summaries of my readings.

I hope this knowledge will help you on your path to a healthier body and mind...

Sincerely
Richard Palumbo