weight loss

Weight Loss is always a New Year’s resolutions, everybody makes them, but few people follow through on them. The most common resolution, especially after the festive season, is losing weight. Unfortunately, there is no “quick- fix” and to lose weight effectively and safely your plan should include exercise, nutrition and supplements.

To lose weight doesn’t have to be a challenge. Herbalife’s weight management program is personalized to your unique body type and helps you to lose weight , gain or maintain your ideal weight.

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It is possible to obtain physical fitness within 12 weeks. If physical fitness is still an overwhelming concept and you feel you don’t have the time, start by making the following changes in your lifestyle.

Home and lunch hour

You don’t have to be inactive when at home. Make time for training by getting up 20 minutes earlier and when used to it, change it to 40 minutes and then one hour earlier. It is also the best time to train as no calls or responsibilities will interfere with your training session. Start by doing 10 minutes of warm up and stretching exercises. Also complete your training session with stretch exercises as it will help prevent injuries and sore muscles.

Start slow

If you are extremely unfit, do walking exercises for the first two weeks and then light exercises for another week. Once you are able to handle exercises for ten minutes at a time while still being able to manage a conversation, you are ready for a 12 week physical fitness training program. Yes it is difficult to do it on your own, but fortunately the Shapelife website is packed with motivational articles and products to help you through every stage.

Assistance through Herbalife supplements

If you need help to build your energy level, have a look at our energy drinks, vitamin supplements, protein bars, and diet products. Make sure you obtain the nutrition required when training by adding enough protein, vitamins, and minerals to your daily eating plan. Simply view Herbalife’s products page and the categories relevant to your physical fitness needs.

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The best place to do a fitness assessment is a gym or training facility equipped for doing a well planned and monitored fitness assessment.

The following activities may form part of the fitness assessment:

• Circumference measurement for neck, waist, and abdomen.
• Heart rate monitoring.
• Flexibility testing.
• Aerobic ability testing.
• Muscular and strength measurement.

Flexibility testing

It includes testing to measure your ability for stretching and reaching certain body parts. It can for instance, include a sit and stretch test where you will be required to stretch forward in order to reach your toes while in a sit position. The yardstick and measure tape are used and the furthest of three attempts is taken as the result.

It can also include a back and shoulder stretch activity where you will need to reach over your shoulder to a certain point on your back and touch the other hand. The shoulder flexibility is measured by taking the gap between the hands as the result. It should be noted that proper warm up and stretching exercises will be done before the tests to prevent injuries.

Aerobic ability

Apart from flexibility, your aerobic fitness level will be determined through a timed stepping test. The heart rate will be measured to determine the cardio fitness.

Muscle and endurance

Your ability to do knee curls and push-ups will be assessed. It should be noted that endurance will also be measured. The total number of completed cycles is taken as the result.

Although the fitness assessment may sound difficult, it is an excellent way to determine how fit you are and what level of exercise you will be able to handle without compromising your health.

Herbalife Products

With Herbalife’s range of products you can choose the program that suites you the best to help you in your fitness assessment. Choose from Herbalife’s Weight loss, Weight Gain or Weight Maintenance or even our Energy and Fitness products.

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Basic nutrition facts for low GI

Nutrition facts on the food product labels can be confusing and when ordering at a restaurant, you will be extremely lucky if the nutrition facts of the food are available. Becoming healthy and fit entail a well planned nutritious eating plan, supplements, and regular exercise. Although we cannot provide all the nutrition facts in one article, our site is filled with useful information regarding healthy eating, fitness, and supplements. The following tips are meant as guidelines only to help you make the right food choices for a healthier and leaner body.

Learn about the Glycaemic Index (GI)

If you are serious about weight loss, but want to sustain good health at the same time, you should learn how to keep the GI level in control to ensure regulation of your blood sugar. It is easier than you thought. Start by replacing the GI high foods with some GI lean foods:

• Whole wheat bread instead of white bread.
• Brown instead of white rice.
• Replace potatoes with pastas.
• Replace processed white sugar with brown sugar and where possible, with honey.

In addition, add flaxseed oil, green tea and loads of water to your diet. To lower the GI level of your meals you can also add the following:

• Organic acids such as apple vinegar to meals that contain a high level of starch.
• Green veggies to high starch meals.

Apart from taking simple steps such as not eating very ripe fruits, replacing certain foods and doing regular exercise, you can lower the GI level through Herbalife supplements. Herbalife products have comprehensive product descriptions listing the relevant nutrition facts. Visit our products pages to learn about our comprehensive range of supplements to promote good health, fat burning, endurance, and muscle building.

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With Herbalife Supplements you can start with bodybuilding exercises.  Herbalife supplements will help with the additional protein intake as well as the correct level of complex carbohydrates and nutrients for increasing muscle while burning fat.

Training tips for bodybuilding

• Select the appropriate facility and only join on a month to month basis. Train for a week or two at the gym before joining and select a facility that plays appropriate training music.
• Keep a training diary about the routines and weights used. This will help you to increase the exercises with time and to identify exercises which place too much strain on your weaker areas such the back and knees.
• Change from three large meals to 4 – 6 smaller balanced meals to keep your blood sugar level stable and to ensure sustained amino acid flow for optimal muscle repair.
• Prevent chatting during exercises as it will not only interrupt your concentration, but will also disturb the biological functioning while exercising.
• Vary the work-outs in length and focus to ensure that your whole body gets the desired work-out.
• To ensure maximum bodybuilding as your muscles get used to a certain level of resistance, you will need to increase the weights to make sure that the muscle build doesn’t reach a plateau.
• Avoid locking at the end of a resistance movement to ensure that the session is not interrupted by the resting time.

In addition to correct training make use of Herbalife supplements to help you build more muscle, and have more energy while maintaining optimal health.

Herbalife products are rich in vitamins and Whey Protein. The Herbalife Nutritional Shake is a tasty shake that will boost your exercise capacity. Visit our products page for weight gain supplements to help you build lean muscles and to learn about the wide variety of energy drinks that can be used by athletes.

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