Choosing The Correct Sports Bra

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Sports bras are intended to provide support, motion control, and a snug fit for the breasts during exercise or sports. The right sports bra for an individual means purchasing one that is the best fit for your comfort requirements and support, accurately fits your bust size, and matches your level of activity. A proper fit is important in order to obtain the maximum in comfort and motion control during exercise.

Many women do not know how to choose the proper bra size, and as a result are wearing ill-fitting bras. To prevent this from happening, measure around your chest, under the arms, and just above the breasts. If your chest measurement is an odd number, round it up to the next even number. To fit the cup size, measure around the fullest part of your bus, and if it is in between numbers, round it up or down to the nearest whole number. The cup size is based on the difference between the chest measurement and the bust measurement with a 1” difference being an “A” cup and a 5” difference being a “DD” cup.

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Since sports bras support the breasts and minimize the motion of them during exercise, it’s important to find a bra that provides enough support for your level of activity. Most sports bras are rated by level of activity, and should be purchased based on that. The higher the impact of the activity, the more support that you need while you are performing that activity.

There are a variety of styles from which to choose, but it’s more important to look for the proper fit and support first, and then look for the style you want within that area. You must concern yourself with fit and capability before you worry about the style. Look at it as you would if you were a waitress buying a pair of comfortable shoes because it is similar in that a waitress wearing ill-fitting shoes stands to cause damage to her back and legs, and an athlete or someone who exercises frequently can cause the delicate ligaments in the breast to stretch with an ill-fitting sports bra.

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10 Tips To Minimizing A Plus Size Body Type

A plus size physique is no longer left out of the ever-changing world of fashion. Not so long ago, curvy women didn’t have the opportunity to shop from the same trendy selection as a more petite lady. Luckily, plus size clothing has taken a turn for the better. To that end, there are a few tips to help in the selection of the most figure flattering attire for your body type.

Tip # 1

Dark, solid colors are slimming. Any plus size gal will recognize that black is the ultimate color to help in minimizing those curves. In addition to classic black, navy blue can also help to instantly provide the look of a slimmer physique.

Tip # 2

Princess seams. These are ideal for plus size wear because of their slimming design. Princess seams are those that curve in, on both sides, to form a very lazy ‘C’ stitch.

Tip # 3

Long sleeves help to minimize the appearance of full-figured arms or wrists. It happens to all of us. One day we wake up and our arms are no longer the tight shape that they once were, but that is what long sleeves are for. The length will minimize a plus size wrist or forearm and draw attention to any unwanted thickness in either area.

Tip # 4

Shorts may show off plus size thighs or leg, but capris pants with an ankle bracelet will draw the eye to the ankle and will decrease any signs of a plus size presence.

Tip # 5

Most plus size ladies want to wear baggy clothes, but this doesn’t hide anything. Always go for a more figure flattering approach. This doesn’t mean to wear tight clothes, but it does mean to wear something that accentuates the figure in good taste.

Tip # 6

If you have love handles, don’t wear extremely a snug shirt with jeans as this may make the bulge a little more obvious. Instead, wear your favorite jeans with an a-line or flutter shirt. This will hide any problem areas and maximize your sense of style.

Tip # 7

Do not wear clothes that are overly tight. This is simply bad taste. Enough said.

Tip # 8

A monochromatic look, meaning clothing that is all one color, can give the wearer a taller and more slim appearance. And, after all, what woman wouldn’t want either of those characteristics in an outfit? Consider a black figure flattering top with a black pant in soft material. For a special touch, add a trendy belt, but take a look at the new you with an instantly slimmer look.

Tip # 9

A suntan will give a healthier and possibly even a slimming glow. A tan looks healthy and health is beautiful. Avoid the sun or a tanning bed, but check out a high quality self-tanning lotion instead.

Tip # 10

Control top pantyhose or a tummy control panty can help to eliminate belly bulge. Any woman, whether plus size or not, has a stomach. If you want to slim up your tummy area, either of these will help to minimize any bulge.

Fitness For New Moms

 

Becoming a new Mammy is certainly one way to incorporate lot of exercise into your life! From lifting to bending to picking up items, to carrying – seems like you never have a chance to sit still now that your precious bundle has arrived!

However, you may be feeling the need to exercise to get back into shape after your pregnancy. There’s no need to join an expensive club, though. Start by exercising with your little one!

 
One of my favorite exercises when my niece was born was dancing with her. We swayed to Mozart, twirled to 50’s tunes, and rocked gently to lullabies. Consequently, I became fitter, and Sarah has learned to appreciate all kinds of music.

Simply lifting your baby up and down and saying the words, “up”…. “down” give your arms a mini workout and help your baby learn! That’s right! Talking and moving help increase baby’s IQ! So sing to your baby, tell him or her that you’re moving “left”, “right”, “over”, “under”, “around”, etc.

Purchase a sturdy stroller and take baby out for a walk each day. The fresh air will be beneficial to you both, and it’s another great way to introduce your child to the objects around the neighborhood. You do want to make sure your stroller doesn’t jiggle too much – it’s not much fun pushing a stroller and ending up with numb hands (like you’re pushing a lawn mower!). A quality stroller will help you want to go for more walks with baby!

As your baby grows, he’ll mimic your movements. This is a fun time to incorporate some silly movement games into your “exercise” session. Watching her trying to do exactly what you do brings tears of joy and much laughter!

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As you can see, exercising with a baby is not only possible, but loads of fun as well. It’s a time to bond, teach, and take care of yourself and your little one. One day soon you’ll be telling your school age child about all the fun you both had exercising together when he was a baby. And yes, it will happen quicker than you ever dreamed!

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I Have A Dream

 

Like Martin Luther King, I have a dream.

My dream is...

· Of women loving the uniquely beautiful bodies they were born with. 

· Of no one wasting another minute of their short, precious life trying to diet into some skinny, impossible ideal. 

· Of women in beautiful, curvy, womanly bodies fully ripe and gorgeously inhabited. 

· Of women doing good work in the world and loving their families instead of obsessing about food and what size they wear. 

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· Of a world that no longer shames the naturally curvy female body. 

· Of bigotry toward body sizes fading away and becoming as unacceptable as bigotry toward skin color or race. 

· Of children being accepting of varying body sizes instead of learning to make fun of each other. 

· Of people enjoying food and loving life instead of depriving themselves and being miserable in the name of beauty. 

· Of movies that cast actresses who look like women instead of emaciated skeletons. 

· Of a world rich with love and acceptance rather than one of souls starved by hatred and rejection.

To be honest, it feels awkward to apply a great man's signature line to a different cause. And yet, I think Reverend King would understand. I think he would agree that bigotry and hatred of any kind is unacceptable.

I think he would support women living rich lives instead of starving themselves and being miserable due to extreme cultural prejudice. I think he would agree that a person can no more change their genetic body size and shape than they can change the color of their skin. And that neither shape, nor color, have anything to do with the quality of the person.

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Female Bodybuilding

Many people have the misconception that all female bodybuilders are muscle bound, steroid popping Amazons, who look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

There are certainly a small handful of women who will fit into this category and they compete in the elite championships such as the Ms Olympia, however the vast majority of women who are involved in bodybuilding are using it purely for toning the body and for fitness.
 
Female bodybuilding is an excellent sport for young women to strengthen their muscles, burn fat, and lift their overall fitness levels so they can compete at a higher level in other sports.

By lifting weights women can actually lose body fat, as the muscle they are building needs energy, and this is derived from using the energy that is stored in their body fat.

The average female bodybuilder is unlikely to build enormous muscles without the aid of special supplements or steroids.

This is due to the fact that women have a low level of testosterone in their body and it is testosterone that is needed to build the muscle that men can so readily gain.

Along with improved muscle tone, weight lifting also aids in the strength of the heart and the bones. This is particularly important because many women suffer from degeneration of their bones in later years.

Specific exercises for abdominal development will also help with the strength and support of the back and this can be very beneficial for women who are considering having a baby.

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As you can see, there are many different areas where women can benefit from bodybuilding, and specifically weight training, without the concern of looking like an Amazon at the end of their training.

Most professional sports these days have weight lifting as part of their training routine and this also applies to female sports.

A female bodybuilder will have a higher level of fitness and a lower level of body fat than the average women.

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Control Your Weight – Change your LifeStyle

 

Perhaps one of the most difficult problems when it comes to obesity is to confront and to realize intellectually that this is reachable objective. People who do not reach this level of motivation before starting a healthy plan to lose weight, perhaps it is way more difficult to achieve the healthy goals to those that it aspires.

For Instance, motivation took place through the reading of a concise article published in a local newspaper. In this article they offered a description of the dynamics wrapped in the treatment of the control of weight, which rests about three simultaneously supervised factors: the input of daily calories, the habits development and the practice of some appropriate exercises to facilitate burning fatty superfluous stored and, a narrow supervision of the prospective changes by means of periodic medical exams.

 
For that reason, the interested user's intellectual-emotional aspect is, to e, the key of the success or the failure of the Program. In order to understand and to accept reason is indispensable the substitution of the glucose and the reduction of the input of fats saturated in the daily diet without falling in the produced stress because this decision implies doing without eating, perhaps the favorite foods until then, they are the factors without which the organic bad habit could not be overcome.

Once I began this Program of control of weight, I could notice of how the glucose acts in my organism like an addictive element that it precipitates the desire to continue eating: as much the flours as the candies maintain alive appetite and, consequently, one never experiences the sensation of being satisfied, without caring quantity of ingested food.

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For this reason it was so important to eliminate the glucose of my diet so that the Program could have appropriate results. It was quite a surprise when I verified that by concluding the first day under this Plan that that sensation of permanent hunger had disappeared! Bigger still was the interior joy while observing how it lowered four pounds in a monthly basis schedule.

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