What is a Calorie?
Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
Age (in years) :

How BMR helps you determine your Daily Calorie Needs?
Or you can simply use this equation -->
What is HIIT?
HIIT vs Cardio
The Afterburn Effect (EPOC)
How to Switch to HIIT
Plan your own HIIT
1. Choose your exercises and Pick your total timing.
2. Determine your Workout/Rest Ratio.
3. Session time will decide the activity time.
4. Long Intervals to recover.
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Lose, or gain quality weight.
Better health with better food
Reduce fat(obesity) related to health risks
Keep up with the energy for your workout
1. Pre-Workout Diet
Some best examples :
- 2 to 3 bananas
- Cornflakes
- Oatmeal
- "200 ml Cold Milk + 2 Bananas" Shake.
- 2 boiled sweet potatoes and a peanut butter sandwich.
- Brown bread with peanut butter
- Roasted gram flour (sattu)
2. Workout Hydration
Make a habit of keeping a 1 or 2 liter-sized bottle full of water with you when you start to exercise. This will help you easily track the amount of water intake at a time.
3. Post-Workout Meal
Some best examples :
- Mixed Peanuts + Chickpea + Green Moong Soaked in water for 6 hours (20 to 30 grams each)
- 4-6 Boiled eggs
- Fish
- poultry meat
- Yogurt and fruit
- Light Tofu
- Soya chunks ( not more than 50 grams a day)
4. Afternoon Main Meal
5. Sunset Snacks.
6. Evening Meal
Other examples :
- Macaroni
- Vegetable with curry and salads
Do's and Don'ts
- You must avoid the habit of eating deep-fried meals from hotels, restaurants & roadside vendors on an everyday schedule like breakfast or possibly your main meal. As they may use low-quality trans-fat oil (which is generally solid at room temperature) which is extremely bad for your health.
- Make a habit of cooking your own food which will help you track the right nutrition more accurately.
- You don't have to completely give up on all your favorite junk foods. Consider a cheat day in a week when rules will be ruled out.
- Avoid using oils that contain trans-fat for everyday cooking. Olive oil is a healthy option followed by coconut or mustard oil.
- Avoid eating rice twice a day because that's not necessarily required. If you feel more hungry, stick to the food with more protein and fiber.
- Drink water half an hour before your main meals to trigger better digestion.
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When it comes to Cardiovascular (or Aerobic) Exercises, the job is to involve more in an activity with a high rate of repetitions which will increase our heartbeat which helps in faster blood circulation providing more oxygen to the body.
The higher rate of oxygen promotes good cellular respiration and increases your metabolic rate which apart from keeping the heart and lungs healthy, will also help your skin glow and but unwanted fat more effectively.
Research says that Cardiovascular exercises help older adults to keep a good memory of things comparing to those individuals who do not exercise regularly.
There are a number of cardio activities, majorly running, jogging, swimming, cycling, etc. to do, however, the ongoing pandemic outside is a major reason for me to cover this article with the exercises that are effective and restricted to our home comfort.
Also if you are a beginner, looking for losing some weight, or a pro athlete who is missing his outdoor activities right now, it times to lace up your shoes and get into action.
Important Tips for Cardio Workout
- Fresh Oxygen is the primary fuel to our body's each and every part for better performance. So it is important to pick up a place which is open to the outdoor surroundings. For example your backyard, balcony, terrace, etc.
- Prefer wearing light weight sport shoes which give you a good balance.
- Keep breathing from your nose during the exercise, keeping your mouth closed for as long as you are good to go.
- Avoid tracking your cardio exercises with a clock and manage to sync it with some energetic songs, 2 to 4 minutes of duration for each set. Good music is a key component for cardio exercises to keep the enthusiasm high.
- Keep a bottle full of water next to you to keep hydrated every 5 minutes for high-intensity exercises and 10 minutes for medium intensity exercises.
Hereby listed 7 indoor exercises that you can easily do at your home without too much of movements involved.
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1. Jumping Jacks (side-straddle hop)
It is one of the most common aerobic exercises which is also a good warm-up for your body, therefore a good choice to start with, and is a total body workout including legs, belly, shoulder, etc. That's why it is also a good resistance exercise where your muscles are also getting worked out.
It helps in reducing belly fat fast with the rate of burning 20 calories for 100 repetitions which will take around 2 minutes. For beginners, doing it in 3 sets of 100 reps each will burn a total of 60 calories.
2. Staircase Running
It is one of the major intense cardio workouts which work your leg muscles and joints. It burns many more calories than running in a sane time period because our body works against gravity, more like climbing a hill. It burns the overall fat of your body at a very high rate depending on your running speed.
It can also be practiced with a 1-feet high box-like structure(which can bear your weight) by quick up and down an alternate motion by both your legs.
For Beginners, 2 sets with each of 2 minutes non-stop running with a 1-minute break in between.
3. Running in Place
4. Burpees
5. Mountain Climbers
6. Dancing
- Balance and coordination improvement.
- A happy and confident mind
- Increased blood Circulation
- Fat Burning.
- Stronger Bones
- Overall muscle utilization and much more.
7. Skipping Rope (Jump Rope)
Skipping is a professional sport for increasing lung capacity which will work your whole body from a good metabolism, a healthy heart to ripped muscles and stronger bones. It can burn 15 to 20 calories a minute. Alone a Jump rope(or skipping) exercise 30 minutes at time(including breaks) can burn more than 500 calories for the day that may start giving you remarkable results in just two weeks of course.
One sentence for you from any person with two possibilities of his/her expression on your 'gained' weight. The second one could be the reaction to a result of quality weight-gain nutrition. Whereas, if you might have encountered the first face, in any recent meet or a get-together, it probably alarms you to monitor your nutrition intake and physical activities to keep yourself healthy and good-looking. Or you may have a clear idea that you need to lose weight for sure but finding it difficult to start?
Losing weight has always been considered a 'hectic' activity as it's a slow and gradual process that insists on being loyal to your food and workouts. The first thing our mind visualizes after hearing about losing fat is a picture of ourselves struggling through intense workouts surrounded by heavily loaded gym plates. Well, there are alternatives as we know it majorly depends on our food (80%), followed by the exercise (20%).
Here are 5 easy daily habits to implement to lose weight more effectively :
In 2015, a research journal published an article on 'Efficacy of water preloading before main meals' tasking a group of people to drink 500 ml of water 30 minutes before their main meals for a 12-week follow-up and the result was exceptional, concluding "water preloading before our meals may lead to a fair weight loss at follow up."
Apart from researches, there are personal experiences being shared on the internet where the writer has claimed to lose 3 pounds of weight in 12 weeks, following the water pre-load idea.
Green Tea
Green tea is known to be one of the most popular health drinks when it comes to burning fat. Because of the presence of caffeine in it, which releases a compound called catechins(antioxidant) that acts as a stimulant and has been proven fruitful in fat burning and improves exercise performance in various studies. The metabolic rate of a body can also be elevated with green tea and the presence of amino acid(theanine) in it helps in reducing the stress that keeps our mind relaxed and avoid sedation.
Non-exercise physical activities
Unless you involve yourself in the least of any physical activity, it is difficult to lose any weight because your body needs to burn calories in order to prevent unnecessary weight gain.
Let's see a few options to keep your body moving when you're planning to save your workout for the future. That will include:
- Making your bed right after you wake up.
- Adding a morning walk to your schedule.
- Preferring to take stairs over lifts.
- Preferring outdoor sports over indoor games when possible.
- Involving yourself in household activities like cleaning and cooking food etc
Monitor your diet
Make a habit of preparing your own food which will make you more self-dependent and help you monitor the number of calories you consume with proper nutritional supplements. Also, it is important to eat slowly and chewing your food properly in order for the essential food particles to breakdown completely which leads to good digestion.
It is very important to choose what we eat because there is a variety of food available around us promoting both good and bad health. Not all food containing fatty acids is bad for your health and vice versa. Read more on: NOT ALL KINDS OF FAT ARE BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH
Fast food under Moderation
Now you don't really need to give up on all the yummy restaurant dishes and fast food. All of us surely have a couple of names in our favorite 'junk' food list from which it is difficult to bend over. No problem! Consider it in moderation and you don't need to choose between health and taste. Like once or twice a week. Even the legendary wrestler "Dwayne Johnson- The Rock" loves to break the rules on Sundays and it doesn't really affect his determination and output. Look at this picture of his Sunday-"the cheat meal day"-
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Last but not least, our health & body is our own responsibility and what it's going to take from you is 'little steps' day by day to implement. You can't become an athlete overnight however, surely can survive like one for the rest of your life.
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1. BICYCLE ABDOMINAL CRUNCHES:
- Strengthens core muscles
- Improves flexibility
- Lower the risks of back injuries
3. PLANK :
4. नौकासन (NAUKASANA) / BOAT POSE :
- Improve the function of digestion.
- Also, maintain the blood sugar level.
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