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Does Exercising in Hot Weather Burn More Calories?

tracybenham — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:51:47 +0000

Guest Post:

If you’re looking to burn more calories and think running during the highest temperatures each day or doing yoga in a stuffy room will do it, think again. The only extra weight you’ll lose by training in the heat will be water weight and of course, that will be instantly regained the second you drink in some much needed water. In my professional opinion, you’d be wiser to exercise in more moderate temperatures which may inspire you to exercise even longer or more intensely; doing so would definitely increase the amount of calories you burn.

Exercising in very cold temperatures, on the other hand, does result in extra calories being burned. Our bodies have to work harder to maintain our core temperature in the cold. Shivering, for example, requires our muscles to continuously flex, and this active motion does burn extra calories. Interesting, huh? I don’t recommend that any one should set their home thermostat to 20 degrees though; that would just be silly. At the end of the day, we should all plan to burn calories based on our actions. Training in a super hot environment can be dangerous. If you do choose or have to train in the heat, make sure you’re wearing proper sun-protecting if necessary and hydrating properly.

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Our Planet and Climate Change

tracybenham — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:02:33 +0000

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Why would a company that specializes in health, fitness, activities and travel write a post about climate change? Climate change affects us all.

Health effects of climate change include famine and disease.

Sports and activities are usually more fun when they are played outdoors.

Being fit and healthy is easier when you aren’t wondering about food and water.

Climate Change is happening now.

“This December world leaders will gather in Copenhagen to negotiate a global response to climate change. As a world leader in greenhouse gas pollution as well as clean energy technology, the United States needs to take bold action by implementing comprehensive clean energy policies to curb emissions.”* *(http://www.blogactionday.org/)

To find out how climate change will affect you: The Top 100 Effects of Climate Change.

This list will surprise you.

It includes things like baseball, wine, salmon and skiing.

Other areas that are mentioned that effects us all: food, sports, environment, animals, health/sickness, oceans, human costs, and even national security.

Less deer, more jellyfish.

Lower mountains, more deserts.

More floods, hurricanes and fires and disease.

The time is now.

More ways to get involved**

Add your name to those across the world calling on President Obama to lead on climate change. http://www.blogactionday.org/en/takeaction

Sign the Tck Tck Tck campaign’s “I am ready” pledge supporting an ambitious, fair and binding climate agreement in Copenhagen this fall:tcktcktck.org/people/i-am-ready

Join the UK Government’s “Act on Copenhagen” effort to promote a global deal on climate change: www.actoncopenhagen.decc.gov.uk/en

Learn and act with The Nature Conservancy’s Planet Change site: change.nature.org

Watch and help promote Current TV’s green-themed video journalism at: current.com/green

Support strong climate legislation in the US by making calls to your Senators with 1Sky: www.1sky.org/call

Put yourself on the Vote Earth map and upload your photos, pictures and weblinks to show the world future you want to see:www.earthhour.org/home

More actions and information available: http://www.blogactionday.org/en/takeaction

** List from The Official Blog of Blog Action Day.

Turn Down, Switch Off, Recycle, Walk, Change

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AHN: Fit Kids: Healthy Lunches

tracybenham — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:40:42 +0000

AHN reminds you to pack only healthy foods and all of your choices will be good.

For a few ideas on some easy ways to get kids to eat a healthier lunch – watch this quick AHN: Fit Kicks Video. (Season 2,# 16 AHN Video)

Watch all new Health, Fitness, Cooking, Yoga, Sports, Travel and more AHN Shows on our new Channel.

Active Health Network now runs on ActiveHealthChannel.com.

Don’t worry we still produce many of our exclusive shows and podcasts for numerous sites. (Check your favorite site for days and times)

Have an Active, Fun & Fit Week and we’ll see you soon here on SHE.

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Spend Time Outdoors Everyday!

tracybenham — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:14:28 +0000

Your kids follow your health and fitness habits. Make it easy for them to think that enjoying the outdoors and being active is something that everyone loves to do. Go outside and play. Take them to a park, a pool or even around the block. Let them pick the activities, sports or games. Then share some of the ones that you played as a kid.

Don’t have any kids – borrow some your siblings or friends that would love a few minutes to themselves (they will thank you for it). It will be fun to remember how much fun it to just run around and laugh for no reason.

So get outside and remember when everyday was filled with non-stop activities and adventures.

Make this weekend a Happy, Healthy and Adventurous one!

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Daily Kick in the Butt

tracybenham — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:42:08 +0000

Train your palette.

Numerous recent studies confirm that food portion sizes have increased in U.S. over two decades.

Put your stomach and appetite on a training program.

Every time you eat out order always order a Small.

Start sharing main courses. Stop ordering appetizers unless they are your meal. Share a main course and order 2 salads. Skip the bread plate or actually acknowledge that it is part of your meal and order less food.

Save money, calories and your waistline, while your stomach gets used to portion sizes

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The ‘No time to Exercise’ Workout, Instant Stress Relief, Parks and Celebrity Fitness

tracybenham — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:09:46 +0000

UP now and brought to you by the team at SHE.

* The ‘Got No Time Workout’. AHN Fit Kick up now on Active Health Network.

Watch this quick and effective workout and “then it your turn to get to work“.

*Plan your next Fun and Active Day with your Family at a National Park -Over two hundred of them are FREE.

Planning a Visit to the Grand Canyon is a Great Motivator to Get in Shape and Trave Fit!

Visit Travel Fit Now to find our more.

*Stressed and need a quick way to change your physiology? AHN: Yoga Kick on the Active Health Network.

AHN Yoga Expert, Stacy McCarthy

*Need some Motivation to Get in Shape for your next adventure. Check out Why TF Now.

*What do your favorite celebritiesdo to get in shape? Watch this AHN Fit Kick Video

Fitz and Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields talks Fitness with AHN Fitness Expert Fitz:

Coming this week on Sports Health Exercise

Daily Kick in the Butt, Ask Fitz, Get Fit on Blog Talk Radio and more No – Nonsense, Energetic and Intelligent Health and Fitness info.

Have an Active & Fit Week and we’ll see you soon here on SHE.

Active Health Network ™ , Active Health Channel, Travel Fit NOW, Active Travel Channel are all produces by the team at Sports Health Exercise LLC.

SHE is Healthy, Fit & Active Worldwide. Thanks for joining us and please share our sites, posts, videos and more with your friends and family. Together we can bury all of the hype and gimmicky health and fitness information and make the world a happier and healthier place.

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Supplements and Negitive Calorie Food for Weight Loss

tracybenham — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:33:02 +0000

Yesterday we were contacted by a health professional about our feelings about recommending supplement use and using the term “Negative Calorie Foods”. The author, who is a respected fitness professional, is debating with the publisher over including both of these options as easy ways to lose weight. The author is vehemently against recommending these methods, but the publishing company seems to think that both of these terms are important when writing a diet book.

Below are just a few of the thoughts we shared regarding supplement use:
We are in agreement in NOT recommending any supplements to help an individual lose weight. The minute you mention that taking a pill could help people lose weight; many people immediately head to their local supplement store to buy more unnecessary products. This, in turn, will leave them frustrated and thinking that the rest of your information is just another gimmick to sell your product. Real (degreed and experienced) health and fitness professionals have been fighting the diet pill and supplement companies for years over tricks like this. There are many supplements companies that show ‘research’ (purposely mislabeled, misappropriated and misused information) right up until the day that they have to pull the products off of the market. Hydroxycut, Metabolite, Xenadrine are just a few that come to mind.

Why do people have to DIE, waste hundreds of dollars, get liver and kidney damage and a number of health related sicknesses, before we stop supporting supplement use as a quick and easy way to lose weight? There are numerous medical reasons to use supplements; however, none of these reasons should be in a health book that deals with weight loss. I am a bit surprised that a company that has published numerous books in the health and fitness category would want to include such over-hyped information.

As for the Negative Calorie Foods.
I am assuming you are not talking about water. Yes, it does take energy to digest foods, but connecting that fact to a weight loss program is one of the latest marketing tricks of diet and supplement companies.

Using the term “Fat Burning” or “Negative Calorie Food” is just another attempt to confuse the public into thinking that there is an easier way to lose weight than eating healthfully, watching your nutrition and exercising. As you know, there are thousands of research studies and plenty of other factually-based information sources available that explain how to lose weight safely and effectively. None of these supports eating ‘apples all day so that you lose weight safely and permanently’ (with apples, of course, being a food that is touted as having negative calories – which they do not).

There are also hundreds of articles in JAMA, MSSE (Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise), and many other researched and evidenced based-journals that can supply you with evidence concerning supplement use.

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AHN: Food Kick – Breakfast – Why Bother?

tracybenham — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:16:12 +0000

You have heard it a hundred times, eat breakfast to lose weight. AHN licensed and registered dietitian, Christy Caggiani tells you why in this quick AHN: Health and Nutrition Video.

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Why are you Really Putting Off Getting Fit?

tracybenham — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:12:37 +0000

If you haven’t reached your health and fitness goals, now’s the time to get started!

If you wait until the kids are back in school, after your vacation, when the economy gets better, when your schedule opens up, or when a pill comes out that can make you fit while you sit on the couch – stop waiting! (Unless you are a mouse – see below!).

There isn’t a perfect time to start something new once you are out of sixth grade.

A recent study reported that sedentary mice that were feed a ‘diet pill’ burned more calories and could exercise longer than mice than the control mice. This drug may some day help bedridden patients fight obesity and diabetes, but they are a long away from seeing if these results can some how translate to people.

So health and fitness professionals can relax and not worry about how the next magical product could force them out of a job.

Couch potato’s and exercise haters -join us and come aboard. Give in and get fit, be more active and start the journey to increased energy – today. We’ll help make it easy – stay tuned for quick tips, workouts, activity and sport guides, easy healthier cooking options, recipes and so much more.

Motivation Directly to your cell phone: Sign up for the Mobile Texts – on the sidebar.

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Active Health Network is now a Channel

tracybenham — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:05:34 +0000

The Active Health Network or AHN has just launched a Channel. You can now find AHN featured on the ActiveHealthChannel.com. If you are new to our sites this is the third season of AHN, which is produces by the team at SHE.

Unlike many other health and fitness sites, AHN was founded by a fitness expert, Master of Exercise Physiology, Tracy Benham, who chose to align herself and her sites with only credible, degreed experts in unique genres of health. The Active Health Network features accurate, entertaining, and easy to understand advice on general fitness training, healthy cooking, yoga, nutrition, training ,sports and more.

The AHN gets you up close and personal with master’s of motivation while providing you with a clear vision of fitness training techniques, cooking demos, yoga and Pilates moves, sports and travel training tips and so much more. Now you – don’t have to wonder and partially guess how things are actually done by real (degreed and experienced) health and fitness professionals.

Most recently the Active Health Network has brought Fitness Television to the Global media giant America Online.

Celebrity trainer and fitness expert, Fitz, debuted the AHN: Fit Kicks video podcast series and AOL took notice and featured the show as the exclusive video podcast series for it’s first two seasons on the wildly successful fitness site That’s Fit . That’s Fit hosts between nine and eighteen million international viewers each month. That’s huge!

So what are you waiting for? Join the millions of online viewers taking the next step towards a better life. The Active Health Network on The Active Health Channel is ready to improve yours too.

Get Fit – Be Active – Have Fun with AHN!

Active Health Network : http://ActiveHealthChannel.com

For More on our shows and Pros: SHE-AHN.com

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