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I hear it all the time - lifting weights is perfectly safe. Funny how I only hear it from people under 30.

They say you do it correctly, your joints will be fine.

If you do it correctly, you won’t get any strength imbalances.

And if you do it correctly, its better than any other form of training.

There is one small problem: There’s no such thing as doing it correctly. Not for your whole life. At some point you′ll hurt yourself.

It could be your lower back or your knees. As for me, it was my shoulder.

You′ll get hurt eventually because you′re lifting the heaviest weights possible, usually throwing them around, and you can’t keep your form picture-perfect every time.

These little mistakes add up. And that’s why you′ll see dedicated weight lifters with constant joint pain and injuries. I have yet to meet a lifter over the age of thirty who did not have an injury or joint they had to nurse.

And they treat this as normal. Rehab is a part of their lifestyle. It never occurs to these iron-slingers that maybe they should stick to a form of training that doesn’t lead to injuries in the first place.

So trying using your own bodyweight for exercise instead of hoisting heavier and heavier weights. You can still do tough movements that feel much more natural, and with a much smaller chance of injury.

Best of all, you can burn fat, build muscle, and increase energy using just your bodyweight - no joint pain required.

If your goal is to lose body fat fast you need a simple but effective plan to follow. My 10 terrific tips will put you in the road to weight loss success. Your weight reflects your total calorie intake, the amount you exercise, and your metabolic rate, but the most important part of the equation by far is the composition of the food you eat. Here are some tips.

1. Reduce your carbohydrates. It is impossible to lose weight and keep it off without eating substantially fewer carbohydrates and particularly those which are high on the GIycemic index chart. The more processed the carbohydrate the higher the GI. That means white bread, cakes, candy, chocolate, biscuits, soda are all high GI. Most high GI foods are just empty calories. They add to your butt without adding to your health or nutrition. Worse still is the fact that that consuming high GI foods stimulates your appetite without satisfying your appetite. The result is that you eat more of the very foods you should be avoiding. Eating a low-carbohydrate, low-GI diet helps you control your appetite and reduce food cravings. Low GI foods are brown rice, wholewheat breads, wholemeal pastas. With low GI foods you feel fuller sooner, and you will find it easier to eat enough without overeating. Also you will have less temptation to snack between meals because your blood sugar will stay constant and not wildly fluctuate as it does with high GI foods. The goal is to keep your total carbohydrate intake to under 15% of your calories and eliminate all high-GI carbohydrates such as sugary foods, pastas, and breads. Lose candy, cakes and biscuits.

2. Watch your fat intake but don’t get paranoid about this. Foods high in fat have more calories per gram that carbohydrates and proteins - 9 calories per gram versus 4 for carbohydrates and protein but there is no real science behind the desperate attempts to reduce fat consumption. The more low fat foods we have introduced over the past decade, the fatter we have become as a nation! Also be very wary of low fat foods which are often packed with salt and sugar to replace the flavor that fat imparts. You need fats to absorb some vitamins and fats add flavor without actually making you fat. Avoid all trans fats such as found in potato chips which you shouldnt be eating anyway (See Number 1.)

3. Introduce more vegetables to your diet. Really focus on foods that have low caloric density (that is, low in calories but high in weight). The ideal category: low-starch vegetables, which have a low GIycemic index and are rich in valuable nutrients of all kinds, high in fiber, and filling. Even potatoes are good for you. Just dont slather them in cream and other junk. Plus they taste great on their own!

4. Include more fiber in your diet. Fruit is a great source of fiber, as are raw vegetables, freshly made carrot juice and so on. Try to eat at least 25 grams per day, including at least 10 grams of insoluble fiber. It will protect your heart and your bowels from disease.

5. Dont rush in and make radical changes to your diet. Nice and easy does it. If you make radical changes I will almost guarantee you’ll drop the diet and not the weight. Steqady progress in changing your diet is the key to successfully losing body fat. Weird and wonderful “food-combining” diets, fad diets etc only appear successful. You regain any lost weight almost as soon as you stop them because many of these miracle diets just dehydrate your body and you put the water back on very quickly. Your goal is a long term sustainable lifestyle change which you can enjoy for the rest of your life.

6. Aim for a healthy lifestyle and a healthy you, in which losing weight is one of the components, not the only one. Thin and flabby isn’t much more attractive than fat and flabby. Make health, not weight loss, your goal. If you set a healthy lifestyle as your goal, you are more likely to succeed in both improving your health and attaining permanent weight loss. Build steadily to a healthy lifestyle and the excess weight will drop away. Losing body fat is a long term goal, not a short term one.

7. Be relaxed about losing weight. Nothing will torpedo your efforts than being desperate to lose weight. You will count every ounce gained or lost and every calorie tht passes your lips. Of course its important, perhaps very important that you lose weight but if you become desperate it all just becomes hard work. Enjoy the journey. Admire your small achievements along the way. Reward your successes and dont sweat your small gains when they happen. Link your new lifestyle to positive emotions and the weight loss will be a bonus. It may take a little longer, but it will ensure that you’ll never have to lose weight again.

8. Understand that the weight loss will fluctuate from week to week. Some weeks it will seem to fall off, other weeks it takes a little longer. There are two factors at work here. To start with if you have included an exercise program, you will be gaining muscle and muscle weighs more than fat. That’s good news because the more muscle you have the faster your metabolism runs and the more body fat you’ll lose. Secondly hormonal changes, the time of the month if you are a woman, your own health or medication can all affect weight loss. Don’t be discouraged by what seems to be a slowdown. The main thing is that you are traveling in the right direction and the longer you travel in the right direction the more successful you will be in losing body fat.

9. Don’t starve yourself. The human body has an amazing built-in mechanism which detects a dramatic reduction in food intake and reads it as a stressor indicating a famine. Your body then goes into self-preservation mode and desperately holds on to every bit of nutrition you eat. The result is that losing body fat becomes impossible. The body guards itself starvation and you stay fat.

10. Eat breakfast. And a good breakfast at that. If you start the day with a good substantial breakfast containing whole grains, proteins and fats like porridge, whole wheat bread, even bacon (drained after cooking) and eggs, you won’t feel hungry until lunch. No breakfast sets you up for the munchies at morning tea and I guarantee you will eat junk and you will gain weight. Don’t get hung up on cholesterol in eggs by the way. There is no good science is saying eggs raise your cholesterol levels. This is looking more and more like another food myth.

Having a well-designed weight loss program is an essential tool to reaching your goal. It teaches you the right foods to eat, the right exercises to do and the right mental attitude to succeed. The plans with a meal planner are ideal because they simplify your weekly shopping and let you plan ahead the meals you will eat. Find a plan that works for you and stick with it. And never, never, never give up. Remember its always too early to quit.

If you have trouble staying consistent with your workouts, it might be your home environment that’s holding you back.

Thing is, I’m usually against joining ANY gym since you can get in amazing shape without ever leaving your home. But for some people, staying home to get in shape can actually be an inconvenience.

Here are a couple reasons why:

1. Distractions from family. If something comes up with your spouse or your kids, it’s hard to put them on hold so you can finish exercising.

2. Your television or computer can be much more tempting things to use than a yoga mat.

So if you find yourself having to deal with the above, check out a couple advantages to joining a gym and see if they appeal to you:

1. Working out at a gym makes you feel more obligated to finish your routine and build the health habit. Once you′re there, you′re now accountable to do what you came to do.

2. When you′re at the gym you have greater focus. After all, there’s nothing much else to do. When you′re at home you can always find other obligations or chores.

So if you′re the type that needs a focused environment to get things done, definitely look into joining a gym.

As immersed as we are in the information age, it seems like secrets pertaining to just about any subject are few and far between. While this is at least partially true, uncovering those secrets still takes some digging around. More importantly, wading through the piles of inaccurate information to get the good stuff can be a difficult proposition.

Like all things, there are some little known secrets, or things that are still considered as old wives’ tales, about growing taller. Thankfully you’ve found the right place for uncovering these secrets and slicing through that pesky false information.

Ask any kid to name one thing that’s good for their body, and they’ll probably say milk. From an early age we know all about the importance of milk (and the calcium in it) in building strong bones, and growing healthy. Surprisingly, milk’s positive effect on height gain is not so well documented.

Not only will high calcium intake help prevent shrinking in later years from bone density loss, it’s also necessary for supporting your future height gain. If your bones can’t support your increased height, this could lead to other problems that will quickly negate the benefits of your hard work.

Growing taller naturally largely revolves around increasing the production of growth hormones in your system, and one relatively unknown method of accomplishing this is through fasting, which may also bless you with additional beneficial effects. Now for many, the thought of fasting is a horrendous one, but before you skip this section, let’s stress that we’re not talking a week long fast, or even a multi day fast.

During that 24 hour fasting session, your body goes through a natural detoxification process, which flushes harmful toxins out of your body, and increases the rate with which growth hormones are produced. How often you perform these short fasts, and other issues related to fasting should be discussed with your doctor.

Lastly are stretching activities, which when undertaken for decent periods of time, have been proven to increase height by as much as a couple of inches. The proper exercises are all easily performed, regardless of physical health, though their flexibility may come into play with some of them. These routines can also help said flexibility, as well as your posture.

Through these three secrets to growing taller naturally, you can not only safely and easily gain some additional upwards mobility, but also protect it from quickly deserting you. May you grow tall and prosper.