Monday, August 27, 2012

Tips on How to Control Your Love or Intense Emotion to Avoid Blushing

Emotions make our life more interesting and colorful. It is important in our life. However, too much emotion is unhealthy. Love, friendship, and intimacy involve emotions which may sometimes become uncontrollable if not dealt with properly. It is a great feeling of falling in love, being in a relationship, or encountering intense emotions wherein you would like to express it in a proper manner. However, there may be times wherein you cannot control these feelings and end up breaking relationships. Many people feel that controlling emotions is a difficult thing to do. In fact, it is just a matter of habit. The more you do it, the easier it becomes. Gradually, controlling emotions becomes natural.

Firstly, stay calm. Enjoy the fun, friendship, love, and intimacy with significant people around you. Feel safe and secure. Realize that the people you spend time with have safe territory. Regularly give and receive quality attention. Feel a sense of influence and control over their life. Feel part of a wider community. Validate both the physical pain and the emotional reaction. It will help you understand that it is okay to feel that way.

Life must be enjoyed so don’t take it too seriously. Have fun. Life is too short so make the most out of it. Live, laugh, love, and express it. To give you better ways in dealing with anxiety, controlling emotions, and blushing, Jim Baker invites you to read his book, Blushing Breakthrough. It provides self-help techniques to stop blushing problems.

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Workout: 5 Tips for Intense Physical Training

Don't plug away at the elliptical machine or treadmill for 60 minutes. Don't do the same lifting routine for weeks on end with little progress.
Utilize these 5 tips for intense physical training to ignite your bodies growth cycle and infuse some variety into your stale workout.
These tips are drawn from tried and true methods including High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), the Tabata Method, and military style training.
Photo by Cronfield (flickr.com/photos/haurum)
Photo by Cronfield (flickr.com/photos/haurum)

Keep In Mind

Your body requires training variety to sustain growth and development. So, it is important to constantly change your work outs to keep your body guessing.
High intensity training, like all things, should be done in moderation. You don't want to end up over training or getting injured.

Intense training can save you time. Instead of doing 60 minutes of cardio you can do 20 minutes at a higher intensity level to achieve the same, or even better, results.

Photo by PFC David Thompson (flickr.com/photos/dvids)
Photo by PFC David Thompson (flickr.com/photos/dvids) 

The 5 Tips

TIP #1: Jump rope before, during and after you workout.
To warm up do three sets of 30-seconds with 30-seconds of rest between sets. Then jump rope for 15-seconds between each set of your weight lifting routine. After you are done with your workout finish off with three sets of 30-seconds just like the warmup.

TIP #2: Use the Tabata Method.
Pick at least one exercise, or even one workout day, and utilize the Tabata Method. We'll use bench press as our example, but you can use it with any exercise. Pick a weight you can lift continuously for 30-seconds. Meaning you're doing as many reps as possible in 30-seconds.

The sets are as follows: 30-second intervals, followed by 20-seconds of rest. Repeat for a total of 8 cycles.

TIP #3: Sprint intervals on treadmill or track.
After warming up for about 5-10 minutes, sprint for 15-30 seconds followed by a 2-minute light jog to recover. Repeat this 5 times.

TIP #4: Learn to crawl.
Mark off two points, perhaps 10 yards on a football field or two lines on a basketball court. Then crab walk from point A to point B and bear crawl from B to A.

TIP #5: Incorporate plyometrics.
Explosive movements are preferred, things like squat jumps, clap push-ups, box jumps, split squat jumps are a few examples. Do these in timed intervals - 30-seconds with 45-seconds rest.