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Volleyball has been known to be one of those sports that is about as close to an aerobic workout as possible. Maybe you have even gone as far as to consider coaching volleyball as an option the first thing that you will want to cover when it comes to volleyball is the basic components that make up the game. This will ensure that everyone has a great time while also getting a vigorous workout. Like many other sports, volleyball has been around for a long time. Volleyball was first heard of in 1895 in Massachusetts by a YMCA physical director. Of course it was not dubbed as volleyball initially but rather was known as a combination of sorts, sort of a cross between handball and tennis known as Mintonette. The purpose at first was to help keep players in shape during off season. Ironically, when the game was first introduced, believe it or not players were allowed to throw the ball over the net. Around 1896 some formal rules were introduced and those rules are still intact today in the well known game of volleyball.

The basics of volleyball are as follows, you will need two teams made up of six players on each team. This would mean six players on each side of the net. Further on each side of the net there will be a front row of three and a back row of three. The game begins with the person in the back row and far right corner serving first. The opponents have three attempts to get the ball over the net and the other team scores points if the ball goes out of bounds, does not make it over the net or falls onto the court. There is a rotation with volleyball and the players as each time the control of the ball changes sides the players will rotate one position to the right. This always changes the server and allows players to have an opportunity to hit the ball from all locations.

Volleyball is really one of the simpler games to learn. It can be played both indoor and out. Some people play it year round and it is a great way to stay in shape. Some senior citizens even play it in the pool for an easy form of exercise. Often people make the game intense but others play it for leisure activity. It is no wonder why volleyball has gained such popularity throughout the years and now is even recognized in the World Olympics.

The USA Volleyball Association sets standards for the playing area that is officially used for volleyball play. Both indoor and outdoor courts are to be 60×30 and there should be a 10-foot area surrounding the court.

Depending on who is playing the game will depend on the height of the net. For men, co-ed mixed and outdoor: 7 feet, 11-5/8 inches, for women, boys 14 and younger, and reversed mixed: 7 feet, 4-1/8 inches, for boys 12 and younger is 7 feet, and for girls 10 and younger is 6 feet, 6 inches.

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During these difficult economic times, are you focusing on the problems and concerned about the future? Do you feel hopeless, helpless, or powerless? Worrying or becoming stressed about the situation will not help you feel powerful or happy. In fact, they can make you ill and then you may have doctor and drug bills.

Good news! You can open to new possibilities and feel empowered by taking positive actions. The following are 12 ideas to improve your financial situation and mental state.

1. Explore new ways to earn money by brainstorming with others, or by yourself. Let your unlimited creativity flow by recording whatever ideas come to you. Then plan your actions and follow through. For example, invent something, start a new needed business, discount your services, or offer more of your marketable skills.

2. Make a budget and notice where some of your spending will need an adjustment. For example, instead of going out to dinner with friends, invite them over for a potluck. It is economical and fun when everyone brings a dish, drink, or desert to share.

3. If you have more time now, you can use it wisely. Some ideas are to read an inspirational or self-help book, listen to a soothing, or self-help CD, or study a new skill or career.

4. Rent an inspirational DVD with others and share the cost and refreshments. Then discuss how you all benefited from it, and what new actions or solutions come to mind.

5. Feel good by volunteering your time, energy, and/or expertise. Some examples are to help children in reading or math, walk the dog of an elderly or sick person, and volunteer to help out in a senior home or food bank.

6. Save money by car pooling to work, events, and shopping. Ride a bike or use public transportation.

7. Set your intent to learn how to cook and prepare healthy food. This can help your family and you save a lot of money on drugs and doctor bills.

8. Ask for energy, time, and skill exchanges. For example, help someone with their computer in exchange for a massage or babysitting.

9. Save money on babysitters by taking turns with other responsible families.

10. For recreation, invite others to play fun games such as charades, monopoly, and trivia.

11. Physical exercise can help you be healthy, and feel emotionally better. Invite your friends and/or family to join your work-out to a yoga or aerobics DVD.

12. Laughter is very healing. Watch funny movies, have a tell-a-joke social event, or read funny books.

In summary, focus on what you can do to be happy, healthy, and prosperous, and take positive action. What you focus on is what you will create. Realize that loving others and ourselves is a priceless, free gift. Be grateful for what you have, keep the faith that things will improve, and do what you can to make a difference.

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We all have heard this adage so many times that the meaning is lost on us now.  However, this is indeed wisdom that you should give due importance. Anxiety is in one way the opposite of happiness or laughter. By this definition, it would make sense that if you laughed often enough anxiety would not be able to establish a hold on you. However, what if the anxiety already got hold on you? Could you reverse the condition with laughter? Yes, you can.

Laughter therapy is today accepted and promoted by traditional doctors because it is indeed able to do miracles. Just by laughing aloud about 10-20 minutes every day, you would reduce your blood pressure, heart problems, and respiratory problems and boost your immune system. How does this work? Laughter promotes the production of endorphins or the feel-good hormones, which in turn relax the body and mind.

Laughter also regulated the function of the endocrine glands, whereby the hormones production in the body is regularized. Hormones, as you all know, are what keep our systems functioning properly; once the hormone production is optimal, all the systems in the body perform optimally. The result is that you look, are and feel healthy.

You should seriously consider taking up the laughter therapy and laugh aloud for about 10-20 minutes every day.  Initially, it would be difficult to laugh without any reason. This is why laughter therapy works best when practiced in groups. For best results you need at least five-six people who would get together and laugh loudly; there would be a leader who stands in front of the group and laughs loudly asking the group to follow him or her, just as a lead would do in aerobics or any such exercises. Just because everyone would look so silly, people who would initially laugh forcefully would gradually enjoy themselves enough to have a good laugh.

In case the laughter therapy does not appeal to you or you are unable to practice this, there are other ways to ensure that laughter becomes an integral part of your daily life. Here are ten easy and effective suggestions:

1.    Read jokes on or off the Net

2.    See a comedy once in a while

3.    Learn to laugh at yourself; you will never run out of reasons to laugh

4.    Learn to look for the lighter side of any situation; it would take a while initially, but after a     while, you would be able to instantly see the funny part even in the worst of situations

5.    Nurture relationships with people who laugh easily and are projecting happiness around them

6.    Avoid morose, pessimist type of people, unless you feel you could help them cross over to the humorous     side

7.    Make it a point to do something that you love and gives you happiness, at least once a week. Every     three months treat yourself with a small gift and once in a year have an outing with your friends     (exclude your spouse, if he or she does not match this circle) and have a blast.

8.    Introduce a pet into your home and life. Anything would do – a fish, cat, parakeet, dog, badger,     rabbit, lizard, frog, snake and what-you-may-have. As you learn to appreciate this being, you would     feel relaxed and happy just by watching the animal(s).  The pet therapy has been proved as being one     of the best boosters of ‘the will to live’. When senior people were introduced to pets, their memory,     health and overall disposition improved considerably. People ailing with terminal diseases started     responding to medication; depressed patients made a faster transition, and stressed out people felt     more relaxed in the company of animals.

9.    Look around you and start a ‘I want to help’ chain. Help someone you know who needs help; instead of     accepting their thanks, ask them to help someone they felt needed help and so on. It is amazing what a     little kindness can do to your life and that of others.

10.    Do a good deed every week just as a regular feature. Helping others gives you a sense of achievement     and fulfillment that no professional or personal accomplishment can equal. When you know you can make     a difference, however humble this would be, in somebody’s life you would feel a sweet, quiet inner     happiness that cannot be compared with any other.

Humor has been accepted as a great catalyst in medicine, a fact endorsed by umpteen research studies on a huge repertoire of diseases, especially serious disorders. Train your mind to see the lighter side of life and you will find that when you open the door to laughter, the one leading to worry and anxiety is shut tight.

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Back problems are responsible for literally millions of lost working days throughout the World. What can you do to avoid becoming a victim of back pain?

Hot and Cold. Oddly enough, both hot and cold treatments are effective for back pain. Which one to use depends on the type and the cause of the pain.

Cold packs are useful for reducing inflammation and are good for relieving back pain in the first two days or so after minor back pain begins. Use an ice pack on the affected area for twenty minutes or so, leaving about 40 minutes between sessions.

Heat treatment is particularly useful for muscular pains in back, shoulder and neck areas. Apply a heat wrap – the wheat-filled ones that can be microwaved are good – or a covered hot water bottle to the area to bring relief. Heat increases blood flow to the affected area, which in turn delivers extra nutrients and oxygen to the injury, speeding recovery.

Become a careful gardener. Due to the bending involved, gardening can often trigger back pain – a reason why many people are wary of doing any garden activity. However, if long sessions are avoided and work done on a ‘little and often’ basis, different sets of muscles are exercised without straining any one group. Changing tasks regularly also helps spread the load.

Swimming and other water activities such as aqua-aerobics are also good for aiding back muscles. The water nullifies some of the effects of gravity, reducing spinal compression and loading. Again, the secret is to build up to greater levels of activity, letting your body become accustomed to the exercise whilst strengthening vital muscle groups.

Take care when reaching and bending. Sudden, unexpected movements are one of the most common causes of back injury – even sudden bending to tie a shoe lace can cause back trouble (take it from one who knows!) as muscle groups become ‘confused’ and act against each other. The results can be excruciating and immediate, so take extra care! Surprisingly, this type of injury can be as easily sustained by young people as by seniors.

Consider supplements and alternative remedies. Glucosamine Sulphate is accepted as being an aid to the rebuilding of cartilage and this includes the tissue supporting spinal discs. Magnetic wristbands are also known to give relief to back pain as well as pain from sprains and bruising.

One for the ladies – don’t wear high heels for long periods. They may make your legs look great but they also tip your pelvis and accentuate your natural spinal curve, which can lead to back and knee problems. Okay for a night out but try to wear lower shoes at other times.

One for the men – find a new home for that bulging wallet other than your hip! Sitting on a fat square of leather stuffed with cards and cash may be good for your credibility put it can play havoc with your sciatic nerve – and sciatica is no joking matter.

Whilst mild back pain caused by muscular strain is usually temporary and easily controlled, other back problems such as slipped discs can be debilitating and chronic, affecting the sufferer to such a degree that mobility is badly impaired. In these situations a mobility aid may well be useful, and a visit to your physician or osteopath is vital.

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Why should women embrace strength training exercises as a part of their lifestyle? The reasons are many but one main reason is that muscular tissues are intended to be used to maintain physical fitness and longevity. We all want to live a long and healthy life, strong and full of vigor! For those who have been avoiding these irons like a plague, let me list down 6 benefits of strength training.

1. It makes you strong

Do you feel frustrated for not being able to move things or carry grocery bags for long distances because you lack strength? Strong muscles develop when there is a constant overload.. When you strength train correctly and overload your muscles consistently, they will reconstruct themselves to be a little more substantial each time in anticipation of the next training session. When you are strong, the universe is your oyster!

2. It gives you balance

Balance and stability allows you to protect yourself from injury. When you injure your back as you try to carry that heavy load, this happens because of weak core muscles. Your abdominal and lower back make up the core of your body. When there is an imbalance in the muscles of either muscle group, the risk of injury increases. It is important to develop these muscles evenly for that very reason.

3. It builds and strengthens bone mass

We all fear osteoporosis and brittle bones that plague many senior citizens today. Bones physiologically stop being produced in our bodies after the age of 30. The deposit stops and the withdrawals begin. It’s our own personal bank! While it is important that we supplement our diet with calcium in our diets in the form of milk, soy and calcium-rich vegetables like broccoli and kale, there is another more direct way to maintain and even build our bone density that most women are not aware of. Training our whole body with weights and challenging our muscles to lift heavier over time is one of the best ways to avoid bone loss and muscles.

I have personally tested my bone mass reading about one and a half months before a challenging routine and measured it again after. There was a significant increase, even for me, at 40 years of age! Research has proven that the elderly will benefit tremendously with strength training no matter what age they are. Other forms of exercise will also strengthen the bones such as running, racket games, dancing and other weight bearing activities.

4. It gives your body a desirable shape

Fat hides the curves and muscles define them. Many women still hang on to the myth that lifting weights will give you big muscles. If you are referring to some of the out-of-the-ordinary female bodybuilders that you see in the magazines, chances are that they are genetically endowed and some may even take steroid hormones (which are predominantly testosterone). All of these women have dedicated their lives to strict and monotonous dieting and perform heavy training to be at the level that they have achieved.

We should not attempt to be at that level, not that we can anyway! If you look at a marathon runner, they have basically a lean stringy physique, suitable for the sport of their choice. Some competitive runners don’t like to train with weights because the additional body weight may slow them down.

Women who spend most of their time on the treadmill, cross trainers, steppers and aerobic classes will achieve fat loss if they are consistent but they will also lose muscle in the process, resulting in flabby skin on their skinny frames and unhealthy looking physiques. The curves just don’t appear on their bodies but bone protrusion and bits of hanging skin do! A healthy sexy body has well-rounded shoulders, lean and defined arms, gorgeous six pack abs, a shapely back and fantastic curvy legs & glutes.

5. It keeps your internal organs, well, internal

The muscles that we call six packs, which is the front part of the abdominals and the side muscles, which are called external and internal oblique muscles are crucial in protecting and keeping our organs tucked in. If some one punches us and we don’t have strong muscles to cushion the blow, can you imagine the harm that it will do to our internal organs?

6. It keeps your metabolism high

Another benefit of having muscles is that this wonderful tissue requires energy just to maintain itself. What this means is that it will burn calories, therefore keeping your metabolism elevated even as you sleep just to keep itself pumped. This is the obvious advantage it has over doing cardiovascular exercise. However, it is important that you include both in your routine as your heart is a muscle too and it needs to exercise just like the rest of the body.

Learn to love your body and treat it with respect and you can expect to live a rewardingly long and happier life to enjoy with your family.

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Are you aware of these fat loss myths?
• Calories don’t count.
• There is no benefit to eating more protein or fat rather than carbohydrates.
• Eating fat makes you fat.
• Eating small frequent meals will help lose weight more rapidly than the standard 3 meals a day.
• Eating big meals at night makes you gain weight.
• Eating carbohydrates early in the day gives you energy.
Anthony Colpo, a certified Australian personal fitness trainer, explains the truth or fallacy in each of these points in his book The Fat Loss Bible. It is important to realize that excess weight or fat leads to the modern nutritional diseases which have increased in the last 50-60 years.
Content of Colpo’s Book
The bulk of Colpo’s book deals with nutritional aspects, both what is wrong in the field and what is right. He obviously knows his field well enough to recognize poor experimental design. I will admit that the lengthy appeal to the literature in his book can make for tough reading especially for those who have no scientific background.
He has a chapter that covers the exercise required to lose weight correctly which will retain lean muscle. To attain this goal one has to buy into his approach.
It is possible to lose weight which includes lean muscle loss but be no more fit than before. One of the results may be that you stop the nutritional approach and regain all your lost weight and perhaps more. Not good at all.
What happens if I reach a plateau and can’t budge? How do I determine the number of calories to maintain weight? Or to lose weight? The author covers problems such as these, including emotional and psychological road blocks, and what to do about them. And his aim is to get you to realize that weight loss, the healthy way, is a marathon, a doable life long approach.
Proper Exercise Is Necessary For A Long Distance Successful Weight Loss Program
Colpo holds out the possibility of a body builder, 6 pack abs, and all that. This requires weight training. After reading the exercise portion of the book, and doing some calisthenics, I discovered how weak and out of shape I really am. I now feel I have to do it right, and realize I have a long way to go.
A number of reports present data that weight training for seniors as well as women has many benefits. These include arthritis relief, improved balance, control of blood sugar and weight, increased fat loss, improved sleep, aerobic capacity, and gain in lean muscle mass. This will result in better health and better self esteem.
The author assures women will never appear muscular like men. An interesting comment by a young female says she still looks like a girl even though following a rigorous program outlined by the body builder Colpo recommends in his book.
The author lays out the necessary nutritional steps, and accompanying exercises, to lose weight correctly. This retains muscle and helps reveal flat abs in men. The result is excellent physical condition in men and women.
The author describes various body fat compositions. You can choose the percentage you want. Then change the calories ingested when you reach the desired body fat composition.
The URL of the authors page to help you decide if this ebook is right for you is at http://frankwrite.tungsten1.hop.clickbank.net
If you buy only one ebook on this subject this year make The Fat Loss Bible the one. I don’t believe you’ll go wrong if you follow his recommendations.
The Home Page where nutritional diseases are defined is at http://www.modern-diets-and-nutritional-diseases.com/ All rights reserved.

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Being physically fit is the key to having a healthy body well into your senior years. You want to be up and about when you’re 80, not confined to a bed or a wheelchair. And it doesn’t take a miracle, either. All you have to do is practice a regular fitness routine and follow that up with a healthy diet. If you have a diet that is big on fast food coupled with little or no regular physical exercise, then you are definitely headed for trouble in your golden years. You might not even make it that long. Check out the national statistics for heart disease, and read the studies relating cardiovascular health to diet and fitness. So don’t wait, get on your feet and do something about it.

It’s a sure sign of poor fitness when you start seeing yourself get love handles. Not only is that bad for your health, it’s rather unattractive and embarrassing to have fat bulging from the sides. They may be called love handles, but we can hardly say that we love having them. In fact, what we would dearly love is to get rid of them and have a lean and healthy figure. If that’s your goal, then your fitness program should definitely be oriented towards fat-burning exercise.

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What does that mean, exactly? Well, first of all purge your mind of those images of musclebound juggernauts pumping iron. Weight training is great for fitness, of course, but it is more effective for such goals as muscle increase and body shaping. But if your focus is on weight loss, then you should put more of your time and energy into fat-burning exercises, those that involve a good cardiovascular workout.

The good thing to note is that there is a great variety in cardio fitness exercises. To run down the list, we can mention aerobics, biking, swimming, running, squash, and badminton. We can go on, but you must get the idea. You can also get the right training by using an elliptical machine, a fitness treadmill, or a stationary bike. With all the options available to you, there is sure to be one form of training that you will like. It doesn’t really matter what it is, as long as it becomes a regular part of your life’s routine.

If you can afford it, I suggest you hire yourself a personal fitness trainer. Self-motivation will always be important, but it is even better if you have someone who can personally oversee your training and offer you encouragement when you need it. Another advantage of getting a personal trainer is having someone who can design a fitness program to fit your lifestyle. You are sure to burn fat off more quickly, and the cost to you would certainly be worth the result of gaining a more attractive figure and a longer and healthier life.

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Here’s some astonishing Alzheimer’s disease information: nearly 5 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. And that number is expected to jump to as many as 16 million as baby boomers join the ranks of our senior citizens.

You needn’t be one of those millions afflicted with Alzheimer’s. Courtesy of the Alzheimer’s Research & Prevention Foundation, you can take advantage now of these 3 tips to prevent memory loss and dementia and add years of good health and mental acuity to your life.

Tip #1: Adopt a mind-healthy diet. An excellent diet that prevents Alzheimer’s disease is one that includes 20% “right” fats (rich in omega-3s from such sources as fish, olive oil and flax seed oil); 50% lean protein (from fish, chicken, turkey and soy products); and 30% complex carbohydrates (from fresh vegetables and fruits, legumes and whole grains).

Foods to avoid are ones that are high in trans-fat and saturated fat. Eaten in high quantities, these foods produce free radicals. Free radicals are a normal by-product of metabolism, but in high concentrations, they can cause inflammation and damage your cells, including brain cells. Antioxidant supplements like Vitamins C, E and B12 help your body eliminate these free radicals and improve your brain health as well. Other supplements that improve brain health and prevent memory loss are gingko biloba and Coenzyme Q-10.

Tip #2: Keep both your body and your brain active. Physical exercise is important for maintaining both a healthy body and a healthy mind. Physical exercise has been shown to reduce the risk of memory loss by as much as 50%. Physical activities can be as simple as walking, biking or dancing — or they can include activities of a more aerobic nature, such as jogging, strength training or swimming.

Don’t forget your brain when it comes to exercising. A good mental exercise is one that challenges the brain by focusing your attention, involving more than one of the five senses and breaks up your normal routine in an unexpected way. So take a break and read a book, work a crossword puzzle, play a board game, meditate or do a Sudoku puzzle. The time you spend exercising your brain will benefit your mental health, just as physical action will benefit your body’s health.

Tip #3: Balance your daily routine with some form of stress management. Stress can cause high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and is a factor in Alzheimer’s disease. It can also increase the production of cortisol, a stress chemical that increases your heart rate and damages brain cells in the memory center of your brain. It also prevents glucose from entering brain cells and inhibits your neurotransmitter function. The result is damage, or even death, of vital healthy brain cells. This leads to short-term memory loss.

Your brain is an amazing, complex part of your body, and its care and feeding is a vital part of your daily routine. Investing your time now on this important Alzheimer’s disease information will pay off in the future. And these 3 tips to prevent memory loss and dementia will help you reduce the risk of developing memory loss in the years to come.

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Yoga is a form of fitness that has been practiced over the years. It is used to give therapy to the mind and body by practicing long poses that are held and perfected. Yoga takes lots of patience and time and practice. It can strengthen your mind and body while keeping you healthy. Yoga has been used to treat many ailments and seems to help the body and mind overcome some of these troubles. With all of the benefits of using yoga it is no wonder that it is widely popular and used by pregnant women, seniors and physically fit athletic women.

Many people try yoga to distress. It has been marketed toward not only fitness but distressing. In this world where stress can surround us it is important to know that something like yoga is available to take advantage of. The poses in yoga have been proven to unclog the mind, and elevate regular day to day stresses caused by work, commuting, money and family.

Not only is yoga excellent to become stress-free or at least manage it better, it is also a fun form of exercise. Many people get bored with the gym, aerobic and spinning classes, especially when years go by and the same form of exercises is always used. For those who do get bored they may seek something else to do, some try different classes or join sport programs but many turn to yoga.

Yoga can seem intimidating at first. It is a different kind of exercise and you can`t hide on a machine. The poses look awkward and hard and not to mention it seems like you have to be really flexible. And you can`t just show up to a class unprepared, you have to have the yoga mat and a yoga outfit, it leaves many wondering what all the fuss is about. And when you do show up to a class, you are expected to do the poses in front of everyone which can be humiliating for some.

Although yoga might seem hard to get into at first, many people will agree that once they try it they love it. The yoga poses get easier with practice and the body even becomes more flexible as your muscles get used to the poses. The mat and clothes are only used to keep you comfortable, when your hands and feet are pressed against the floor or when you`re holding yourself in poses where you don`t want your top swinging around your face while hanging upside down.

There are many ways you can fit yoga into your life. You can buy DVD`s individually or in packages and sets. You can also attend a yoga class at a gym, where they might have beginner classes and intermediate ones held separately. You can also check out special yoga only gyms that specialize in that type of exercise only.

Yoga teachers have to be certified and are professionals who can help you develop your poses and work you to your full potential. The exercise benefits and long term distressing will only leave you with mountains of positivity. If you can get over your fear of it and just indulge in the art that has many worldwide using it every day, then you too will be a yoga follower. Yoga is recommended for twenty minutes a day or if that is too much then even a few classes a week is a great start.

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We have all heard the statement “Health is better than wealth” a thousand times before. I believe that this statement will never be out. Playing golf is one of the best ways to stay healthy.

Golf is a sport where the individual players or teams compete against each other by hitting a ball and trying to place it inside a hole on the ground. Through the use of various clubs, this ball game that differs from other ball games because it does not use a fixed standard playing area, originated from Scotland-although recent studies revealed that a version was played since ancient times in the land of China-and has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles. In particular, golf is played on a track of land designated as the course that consists a series of holes on its ground in which the ball has to be placed with different strokes. To hit the ball, the club is swung at the motionless ball placed on the ground from a side stance. Many golf shots make the ball travel through the air before rolling out covering the distance between the hitter and the hole.

In the United States, golf is the unofficial sport of the business world. Being such an important meeting point for men who decide to test their sticking abilities, golf has gained its popularity slowly and while once was considered the sport of the elderly, it is now played by million of golf funs all around the world. Famous athletes, like Tiger Woods, who is currently the leading professional golfer in the world, have transformed the sport to a spectacle that illustrates the individual abilities of the person who strikes the ball and makes people’s eyes gaze in excitement the outcomes of the professional or amateur athletes’ efforts.

It is generally supported that exercising can help older men feel better for themselves and boost their self-esteem. When British researchers compared 10 men, 55 to 65 years old who ran at least 40 miles a week, with 10 inactive men of the same age, they found that the runners had higher levels of certain hormones. Testosterone, for instance, which fuels sex drive and erectile function, was 25 percent higher. Growth hormone, which helps maintain muscle and bone, was four times higher. But if you wish to experience these types of results but you do not wish to have to run 40 miles a day, keep in mind that any exercise will help, such as golf.

Golf is an extremely good exercise for the body. In fact, research revealed that when middle-aged men play golf two to three times a week, over a five-month period, they burned an average of 1,750 calories per game, walked five miles on average in every game, decreased abdominal fat by 8 percent, lost 5 lb, increased the “good” HDL cholesterol by 5 percent, shrank their waistlines by an inch, lowered “bad” LDL cholesterol and triglycerides by 4 percent each, cut total cholesterol by 2 percent, decreased blood pressure, became more aerobically fit and improved endurance in their trunk muscles. For all these reasons, seniors should seriously consider taking some golf lessons and begin investing some time to play a game and bond with friends, while becoming again fit.

Extreme exercise plans are impossible to stick to and offer little hope of providing long lasting healthy lifestyles. Do all things in moderation, including eating and exercising, and you will live a fit and healthy life.

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