Chill Out and Reduce Anger
Posted by in Health & Fitness Articles on September 1st, 2010
Learning to Relax
This is one technique which is used to reduce the intensity of angry feelings. It may involve the use of relaxing imagery or deep breathing. You could try to look for courses and books which allow you to practice relaxation techniques. These techniques are important since they will allow you to calm down any time you start to lose your temper. Another way to describe this technique is "taking a time out" or getting a breather. Younger people would probably call it "chilling out".
If you feel yourself getting angry, walk away from the person or thing making you mad and start taking a series of deep breaths that come from your diaphragm and will clear out your lungs. Keep walking around and breathing deeply til your head clears of the feelings of rage. This technique permits you to get a clearer perspective on the situation before you tackle it head-on.
Cognitive Restructuring
This term means you have to adjust how you think. Angry people have a propensity to …
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Strength and Conditioning Workouts for the MMA Practitioner
Posted by in Health & Fitness Articles on September 1st, 2010
Core Components of a MMA Workout
There are a great many factors that are tied into a successful MMA workout. Basically, you need to enhance your physical strength levels, your endurance, and your cardiovascular conditioning. There will be cross training workouts that allow you to hit several combinations these areas at once. There are also specialization training programs designed to target a particular area and help enhance it to a greater degree.
Strength training can cover many different areas. Isometric strength can be developed in order to enhance static strength common for holding pinning or submission based positions. Developing isometric strength can entail lifting heavy weights in a slow or controlled manner as opposed to normal speed. Traditional strength training such as lifting heavy weights builds mass and makes the body stronger overall so it can perform various tasks. Those interested in seeing how a traditional free weight program works for MMA should look toward…
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Athletes: You Are Not Your Own
Posted by in Health & Fitness Articles on September 1st, 2010
It's actually a lineage. A founder up the line mastered the sport in a peculiar way. He became champion using a style of his own, and he had a secret formula for coming up with such a winning style. He had trained other selected few in this style, who also trained others. These others did likewise, and so on. You may find yourself somewhere down the line, and soon your turn to add to this lineage would come. Now, all of you in this lineage all fight for a common cause: To keep this peculiar style the champion of all styles.
It's really a battle of styles. Filipinos have a different style of playing a game compared to how the Chinese, Japanese, or Thais do.
However, the style develops and evolves, takes new forms, and comes out better than before. Due to the philosophy of aiming to be better, the style becomes updated due to the changing needs of the real arena, the real sports field "out there."
Hence, you will see that being an ace sportsman is really a corporate or join…
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Whatever Happened to Good Sports?
Posted by in Health & Fitness Articles on September 1st, 2010
In 1982, Swedish tennis great, Mats Wilander, was competing in the French Open semi-finals when his opponent was ruled out, ending the match in Wilander's favor. Wilander challenged the umpire and conceded the point to his rival. Play resumed and Wilander eventually won on his own terms, fair and square.
"Sportsmanship is openly under attack. On one hand, that's disturbing and all of the signs seem to indicate that our culture generally is moving away from any notion of civil competition. On the other hand, these challenges force us to think about why sportsmanship is important. Why should we expect, teach and demand sportsmanship from our athletes?" asks Dr. Craig Clifford, associate professor of philosophy specializing in ethics and sportsmanship at Tarleton State University in Texas and co-author of Coaching for Character (available on Amazon.com).
According to Dr. Clifford, sportsmanship is a function of character and should be understood in terms of the moral virtues – cour…
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Marriage 101: Never Ever Fight
Posted by in Health & Fitness Articles on September 1st, 2010
Fighting can be damaging. It involves emotions. When emotions get involved, you may say harmful things that you really don't mean to say, and unfortunately what's done can never be taken back.
Marvin came home drunk one rainy night. On his way upstairs he's singing his favorite song. He opened the door and found Leah on the bed. He tried to kiss Leah but to his surprise he caught Leah's hand on his cheek. It drove him angry in that instance. The painful fight lasted for almost an hour leaving Leah with a swollen body.
As much as possible, avoid getting into a heated argument. A fight can easily damage a marital relationship. The fight may start over an unimportant matter and before you both know it, it soon escalates into an exchange of offensive words.
"Never yell at each other unless the house is on fire.""H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There are four relationship factors:
- In a marital relationship you tend to be more vulnerable than in any other kind of relationship. As the re
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Right-Brain/Left-Brain..Don't Limit Your Brain
Posted by in Health & Fitness Articles on August 1st, 2010
When it comes to processing information, both halves of your brain can do it, just in different ways. The dominant side is normally used to process information, but the learning can be enhanced if both sides are used in balance. This means you'll need to pump up your less dominant side, exercise it a bit. Knowing how each half of your brain works will help you to understand how to create a balance between the two sides.
The Left Side
- Processes information in a linear style. That means that it takes pieces of information, lines them up and then puts them in a logical sequence, then comes up with a conclusion. List making is what left-brained people love to do. They love daily planning schedules, and they take great satisfaction in checking each item off the list as they accomplish it.
- Has no problem when it comes to symbols such as words, letters, and math notations. The left-brain person is at home with linguistic and mathematical problems.
- Verbal thinking. Has no trouble with
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Thy Will Be Done
Posted by in Health & Fitness Articles on August 1st, 2010
The distinction between equality and fairness is never sharper than when siblings gather to hear the reading of the will. In the blink of an eye, idealistic concepts concerning parental love and familial loyalty are shattered as the family ne'er-do-well receives the lion's share of the estate.
Instead of the money being distributed equally among siblings, it lands in the lap of the person who seems least deserving.
While parents can justify such a decision, their children probably won't be quite so generous or understanding in their views and a family crisis is certain to ensue.
For Dr. Steven Hendlin, (www.hendlin.net) a clinical psychologist in Newport Beach, California, and author of Overcoming the Inheritance Taboo: How to Preserve Relationships and Transfer Possessions (available at Amazon.com), the issue of equality and fairness is a recurring theme whenever a death occurs.
"Past resentments with siblings come into play at this time. That's what makes the inheritance …
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Singlehood…Improving Your Self-Image
Posted by in Health & Fitness Articles on August 1st, 2010
There are times when we do feel as if nothing's out there and that the world and all the so-called happy people are conspiring to make us feel more miserable and empty. Most of us blame our environments for our loneliness. Some blame other people. There are those that point to work, or family, even strangers. Whatever it is, we are not directing that accusing finger at ourselves, where the problems most likely lie – particularly, poor self-esteem.
But low self-worth need not be a grudging burden all our lives. There actually ARE ways to get around them and place ourselves in happier, more contented states of mind. Here are some points to consider whenever we think our love lives are not so fine and dandy.
- Run an inventory on how you see yourself, separating your positive traits from your negative ones. Through this list, you will be able to know how you perceive yourself and how far you are willing to change some of those nasty habits you have. This is a good reminder of the many
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How Liquid Calories May Be Making You Fat… Even Your Favorite Protein Drinks!
Posted by in Health & Fitness Articles on August 1st, 2010
By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS
Lifetime Natural Bodybuilder
www.burnthefat.com
Epidemiological research also supports a positive association between calorie-containing beverage consumption and increased body weight or body mass index. New research now suggests that soda may not be the only culprit
The primary source of liquid calories in the United States Diet is carbohydrate, namely soda. Now running a close second are specialty and dessert coffees. Did you know that a 16 ounce Frappucino can contain 500 calories or even more! That's one-third of a typical female's daily calorie intake while on a fat loss program.
A recent study at Purdue University published in the International Journal of Obesity set out to learn even more about this bodyfat – liquid calories relationship.
Researchers compared solid and beverage forms of foods composed primarily of carbohydrate, fat or protein in order to document the independent effect of food form in foods with different domi…
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The Greatest Quad Builder… That Almost No One Wants To Do
Posted by in Health & Fitness Articles on August 1st, 2010
By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS
Lifetime Natural Bodybuilder
www.burnthefat.com
In my opinion, front squats are one of the absolute best quad builders. Back squats are a tremendous mass builder as well, but front squats introduce an additional level of challenge because they require flexibility, technique, and core strength because the bar must be held and balanced on the front of the shoulders. As such, the front squat does everything the back squat does and more.
One great advantage of the front squat, especially for someone like me, having previously suffered a low back injury (herniated L4), is that the torso can be held in a more upright (vertical position). Since there is less forward trunk inclination, this removes some of the stress and shear forces from the lower back. At the same time, this upright position is closer to a bodybuilding squat and throws much more emphasis on the quads and less on the hips. It is truly a superb bodybuilding exercise.
There are t…
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