Health and Fitness: It is never too late to be fit!

 

“Truth of the matter is that it takes motivation to push you into starting and maintaining a fitness regimen. Motivation is most needed in the beginning when a person first starts their regimen, because it is all new to them. People are creatures of habit and this is why fitness programs are easier he to adhere to the further on that you have one.One mistake that people make is that they focus intently on just one area of fitness and then pound the hell out of themselves. The will go to the gym and stare at the sign that reads, “No pain no gain” as they torture themselves on the various equipment that is there. While this may work on the short term, who in their right mind wants to be tortured regularly for the entire duration of their life?”

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Beautiful Cyclist Female Legs with Well Defined Muscles

EMBELLECIMIENTO DE LAS PIERNAS a través del ciclismo:

Al pedalear una bicicleta los músculos cuádriceps, que son los cuales modelan los muslos, los usas constantemente para subir colinas y tambien para ir en “flat” (camino recto) pero usando los engranajes más grandes de la bicicleta, los cuales requieren más esfuerzo por parte de estos músculos.

Los glúteos también están comprometidos cuando los pedaleas hacia abajo.Si usas zapatillas de ciclismo y pedales sin sujetadores, también puedes tirar hacia arriba del pedal en cada movimiento. Este movimiento hacia arriba usa los músculos llamados isquiotibiales.

El ciclismo también utiliza los músculos de la pantorrilla (en Inglés CALF/CALVES), como el gastrocnemio gemelo o de dos cabezas, el soleo, plantaris y el tríceps sural, entre otros más pequeños. Estos músculos se usan para continuar la fuerza generada por los cuádriceps y los tendones hacia abajo a través del pie y los dedos, especialmente durante la parte inferior del movimiento del pedal cuando el pie está más cerca del suelo.

Living in the Present in my World of Health

Algunas veces la realidad que cada ser humano vive puede llegar a ser difícil o puede ser pacífica. La realidad del mundo se puede intercalar con las fibras más íntimas de nuestro ser y distorsionar nuestra percepción de la realidad en que vivimos a tal punto que se pudieran generar diferentes actitudes hacia la vida, tales como agresividad, desesperación, enojo, tristeza, en fin, muchas más que sólo llevarían al individuo a desencadenar problemas y con ellos ansiedad nerviosa y otras enfermedades físicas que bien se pudieran haber evitado y prevenido.

Los dejo con un mensaje que espero ayude a alguien que lea mi blog y, por favor, pónganlo en práctica; en verdad que sí funciona.

Saludos y abundancia plena a todos.

Bristish Female Cyclist Victoria Pendleton Wins Gold Medals on Olympic track Velodrome

I am extremely happy for Victoria Pendleton, my cyclists helmet goes out to her!

The 31-year-old Pendleton gave Britain its third gold medal in two days of competition on the super fast track, just moments after Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Peter Kennaugh and Steven Burke won the team pursuit title in a world record time.

Great Britain’s Victoria Pendleton won the women’s keirin gold medal on day two of the Olympic track cycling program. Chinese rider Shuang Guo was second and Wai Sze Lee of Hong Kong won the bronze medal.

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Ovarian Cancer Not Detectable For Years

A recent scientific study indicates that ovarian cancer may not be detectable in the blood using current technology until 10 years after the disease first starts to develop.
The researchers say their work could make future efforts to develop diagnostic blood tests more efficient.

Dr Laura McCallum, Cancer Research UK’s science communications officer, said:

“Detecting cancer at an early stage when treatment is more likely to be successful is one of the most promising ways to reduce deaths from the disease. Biomarkers have the potential to offer a simple, non-invasive way to detect cancer early and scientists, including our own, are working hard to find ones that can do this reliably.
“Mathematical models like this, designed to predict the most effective biomarkers, could help improve the bench to bedside success of such tests in the future.”

Cancerous cells do not die. On the contrary, healthy cells continue replacing the old and dead cells. This makes the cancerous cells multiply amassing to a tumor. It is for the above reasons that the ovarian cancer tumors are very vigorous in body destruction. They mature to hostility without notice and thus silently killing.

Though the cancer appears asymptomatic in early stages, it is detectable in late stages. Most people are diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the 3rd to 5th stage of the disease. This is when almost nothing or too little can be done to cure the patient.

Liberty and Individual Sovereignty Chapter 12

Liberty goes along with rights and responsibilities, respect. integrity and dignity for oneself and others. Liberty has been misused by some people in the world in the last years. Some have use “freedom” to abuse others, abuse the financial systems, and no, that is not freedom. Hopefully, soon we will come together to understand that liberty is the freedom to self-ownership and with that definition, many magnificent things come to our way.

 

 

 

Female Tour de France 2012 Cycling the Pyrenees

The 6 female cyclists that are riding 3,479 kilometers are getting ready for the Pyrenees. Here are some pictures that I hope you enjoy as much as I do. Also, their website is fantastic and provides tons of information about other activitis the RÉVE cycling team has.

Props to them for what they are doing is real passionate cycling.

RÉVE Cycling Team Female TDF 2012
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The ever narrowing tunnel that is the Tour finds us in our second rest day in Lourdes surrounded by a surreal mix of history and religious commercialism. The cure, if it’s here, has a price tag. The brief pause is almost over. Laundry done, group fed, emails sent, bikes cleaned, images backed up, uploaded and finally push the button on this post. Paris is just over some very big hills. I have no doubts the team and our Dutch friends will make the Champs Elysees on Saturday.

Cyclist José María Sanchez Dies in Spain Ciclista Español Fallece

This young cyclist, José María Sánchez, 17 year old, Andalucía Cycling Team, dies on June 26 due to a vehicular crash. The car that kill him didn´t stop at a stop sign and just went through the turn without even looking, killing him almost instantly.

Like I say everytime a cyclist dies due to the stupidity of auto drivers: a piece of my cyclist heart goes with him.

STORY IN SPANISH ONLY (No media in English reported on this, that I know of):

Luto para la familia de Asportec.

Como cada fin de semana hoy tocaría hacer un repaso de las actuaciones de los deportistas de Asportec en las diversas competiciones. Hubiera escrito sobre el gran papel de David González en los Campeonatos de España, de Angel González en la Vuelta a la Subbética, … Pero desgraciadamente todo esto es secundario.

La noticia saltaba a mediodía cuando nos enterábambos de que el joven ciclista lucentino José María Sánchez, junior que militaba en las filas del Andalucía, fallecía al ser atropellado por un coche cuando se encontraba disputando una prueba de la Copa de Andalucía en Huelma (Jaén). Un desalmado se saltó un control establecido para el paso de la carrera y se llevó a un grupo de ciclistas por delante entre los que se encontraba José María. A pesar de la rápida actuación de los servicios sanitarios poco se pudo hacer por su vida al haber perdido mucha sangre.

Lógicamente como preparador suyo y como amigo escribo estas líneas en estado de schock. Apenas me salen las palabras. En mi mente se algolpan ideas como la injustica de esta vida, los recuerdos de cuando llegó por primera vez a mi casa con su padre para pedirme que le entrenara ya que lo había cogido el Andalucía y tenía mucha ilusión. Lo contento que se puso cuando lo llevaron a correr la Copa de España y el seleccionador andaluz se fijó en él. Las ganas que tenía siempre de contarme la carrera del domingo y generalmente para decirme lo bien que se había encontrado y que de seguir esa línea la victoria tenía que estar al caer.

El ciclismo es bello, épico, … pero también cruel. Por segar la vida de un chaval que tenía todo el futuro por delante. Porque deja a una familia destrozada, a unos amigos sin consuelo, … y sobre todo porque él ha sido el que más ha perdido.

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Tour de France 2012 Outlook Cycling 2 Days to go

I am looking forward to watch the Tour de France, but this year I am planning to go out to for my daily cycling training very early in the morning so I can be back home on time to watch the last 60 to 80 kilometers of each stage live. I certainly don’t want to miss my cycling work out; this year the temperature is absolutely comfortable in the morning and the sky clear and smog free. I love it!

Tour de France 2012

TOUR DE FRANCE 2012 OUTLOOK
ENGLISH:

Running from Saturday June 30th to Sunday July 22nd 2012, the 99th Tour de France will be made up of 1 prologue and 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,497 kilometres.

These stages have the following profiles:

9 flat stages
4 medium mountain stages – one with a summit finish
5 mountain stages – two with a summit finish
2 individual time-trial stages
1 prologue
2 rest days
9 new stage towns

Abbeville, Annonay Davézieux, Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, La Planche des Belles Filles, Peyragudes, Porrentruy, Samatan, Tomblaine, Visé.

ESPAÑOL:

Del sábado 30 de junio al domingo 22 de julio de 2012, se disputará el 99º Tour de Francia, que consta de 20 etapas y un prólogo antes de la homologación de 3 497 kilómetros.

Las etapas contarán con los siguientes perfiles:
9 etapas en llano
4 etapas de media montaña, una de ellas con llegada en alto
5 etapas de alta montaña, dos de ellas con llegada en alto
2 contrarrelojes individuales
1 prólogo
2 jornadas de descanso

La repartición geográfica es la siguiente:
1 en los Vosgos
3 en el Jura
4 en el Jura suizo
6 en los Alpes
11 en los Pirineos

9 ciudades etapa inéditas:
Abbeville, Annonay Davézieux, Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, La Planche des Belles Filles, Peyragudes, Porrentruy, Samatan, Tomblaine, Visé.

Avoid GMO Monsanto Foods Your Health Matters

The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) called on “Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community, and the public to avoid GM (genetically modified) foods when possible and provide educational materials concerning GM foods and health risks.”  They called for a moratorium on GM foods, long-term independent studies, and labeling.

Monsanto corn that is genetically engineered to kill insects is losing effectiveness against rootworms in four states, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said.

AAEM’s position paper stated, “Several animal studies indicate serious health risks associated with GM food,” including infertility, immune problems, accelerated aging, insulin regulation, and changes in major organs and the gastrointestinal system. They conclude, “There is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects. There is causation,” as defined by recognized scientific criteria. “The strength of association and consistency between GM foods and disease is confirmed in several animal studies.”