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Whew! Well, it’s been a long three months, but hopefully Mr Huxtable isn’t visiting your house anymore. It’s been tough making it through the holidays with the workout routine intact, but we’re managing to stick to it!
Here’s one more little trick to losing weight and gaining muscle and tone. Flutter kicks! It may seem like it can’t be that great of an exercise with a name like that, but it’ll make a huge difference in the glutes if you do include it in your routine. It’s a deceptively easy exercise; it doesn’t even include any weights or machines. Even more than that, it’s executed by laying flat on your stomach. Still think it might be for pansy’s?Check it out.
On a flat bench lie facedown with the hips on the edge of the bench, the legs straight with toes high off the floor and with the arms on top of the bench holding on to the front edge. Squeeze your glutes and hamstrings and straighten the legs until they are level with the hips. This will be your starting position. Start the movement by lifting the left leg higher than the right leg. Then lower the left leg as you lift the right leg. Continue alternating in this manner (as though you are doing a flutter kick in water) until you have done the recommended amount of repetitions for each leg. Make sure that you keep a controlled movement at all times.
Here’s a short video to demonstrate: http://videos.bodybuilding.com/watch/29271/flutter-kicks
That takes care of the part where you burn energy, but what about getting energy back, minus the huge amount of storable energy (fat). We all know vegetable are a great source of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and good carbohydrates. But it’s still hard, even with practice, to stick to a bland diet. And lets be honest. If you’re used to eating a certain way, most food is going to taste bland to you. So you’ve got to find a way to kick up the flavor so you don’t kick out the diet.
Broccoli is packed full of vitamins and minerals, including Iron, Zink, and Vitamin K, so naturally it’s a great thing to include in your diet. Hypothetically. But let’s be honest, the best way to eat it is smothered in cheese and dripping with butter, but ingredients that are chock full of fat and empty calories. so lets make that broccoli sing a different tune, one we can harmonize with.
There can be little doubt that the most common way in which we cook broccoli is to simply boil it in water. This is where the problem of particularly children coming to dislike the vegetable generally arises. The most common error when boiling broccoli is to overcook it. The florets should be boiled only for about seven or eight minutes, until softened but still relatively firm. This not only makes them a lot more palatable, it retains far more of the goodness in the vegetable itself, as opposed to it being lost to the boiling water.
Here is a link to a recipe I am going to try this week: http://weightlossandtraining.com/broccoli-recipes
It looks delicious, but you never know until you try it, so I can’t wait to give it a go!
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