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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• Life health tips

Observing a few basic rules as part of your lifestyle can ensure long-lasting life health. The simple rules are shared with you to help you obtain long term life health.

• Importance of breakfast

It is true; breakfast improves your overall life health. When you go to sleep, your body goes without food for six to ten hours. If you don’t enjoy a healthy breakfast, the body is starved until lunch time. It means that it will either have to cut into its muscle reserve to obtain energy or will have to store the next meal as fat to prevent possible starvation.

It will lower the metabolism to preserve energy and you will gain weight. If you struggle with the thought of breakfast first thing in the morning, make use of the Herbalife Nutritional Shake or if you want to increase on your protein intake, add a spoon of Herbalife Protein Powder to your shake. This will ensure that you get the nutrients required.

• Eat smaller meals, but eat often

Instead of eating three large meals which leave you without energy, eat four to six smaller meals. You can substitute one to three of the meals with the Herbalife based products, depending on your need. (Weight loss, Weight Management or Weight Gain)

• Eat variety

Don’t exclude food groups from your diet as this will lead to deficiencies. In addition make sure that you get the vitamins and minerals to sustain optimal functioning by adding the Herbalife multi-vitamin complex to your diet.

• Exercise regularly

Exercise improves life health as it increases blood circulation, helps in detoxification, and strengthens the muscles. Use your Herbalife products and enjoy a healthy lifestyle.

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Weight loss is a serious matter and you need to treat it that way. I always wonder what motivates people to loose weight. Is it your clothes – do you want to fit in that beautiful dress. Does it motivate you if you are seeing photos of yourself when you were heavy or thin? Or is it an upcoming bikini season, or a health matter?

Did you know an orgasm releases the same endorphins chocolate does, but without the kilojoules. Here is some simply ways to keep your weight loss goals on track:

• Walk the dog – Owning a dog can help you loose weight.
• Listen to music while exercise helps most women to stick to and exercise programme.
• Have lots of sex – the more weight you lose, the better your sex life gets.
• While exercises use dumbbells that correspond to the number of kilos you’ve already dropped. You will then lift the weight you have lost.
• Join a group exercise class and make friends they will inspire you to attend your classes.Promise your friends that you will loose weight – it is hard to break a commitment

Use the Herbalife weight loss products with this easy weight loss tips and you will not go wrong.

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Herbalife Products are safe to use for any diet,  weight loss, weight gain or just weight maintenance. Herbalife Nutritional Supplements can also assist with: better skin; successful slimming improved wellness and overall nutrition.   Contact a Herbalife distributor today for assistance.