Improve your selfesteem
June 8, 2009 by Chris Sine
Filed under No BS Resources
1. Do what you love to do.
Everyone loves to do something, when you indulge yourself in your love you improve the way you feel about yourself. You improve your self esteem.
2. Help others out.
Nothing makes you feel a warm glow than when you unselfishly help others. of course you can argue that this in itself is selfish, but if you take that line of thought you must think that existence is selfish. Forget that. Just do a good deed, help someone out, doesn’t have to be big and it doesn’t have to cost any money.
3. Acknowledge your strengths
There is no one who has no strengths. Everyone is good at something, know what your good at and give yourself a pat on the back. Do things that bring this quality out into the open. Excercise it, make it stronger.
4. Don’t put up with crap.
There is no reason you should tolerate other people being mean to you. Even if they say they are doing it with love. Make sure people know they should be nice to you and if they refuse, walk away from them.
5. Drop your negative friends.
Hang out with people who are positive and support you. It may be fun to bitch and moan but if you hang out with these types of people you will eventually become one of them. You may have noticed that people who bitch and moan are never happy.
6. Do your research
A lot of self help books are a waste of time in the sense that the only person who can change you is you. Reading even this blog post will not change you unless you get emotionally involved with the information. Which is really hard as it’s really dry and boring. Go read biographies of people you respect, people who do positive things and attain huge success. Learn from the master not the self help guru who is always in debt.
7. Learn to accept compliments.
It’s hard to accept a compliment and not to dismiss it as being ridiculous. Someone has an opinion and it should be respected, even if you do not argree with it. If people think good about you then maybe you should too.
8. Include positivity in your life.
I’m not talking an airy fairy chant in the mirror whilst naked. I mean take a positive slant on everything automatically. The meat pie you just bit in to may contain maggots, but maggots contain a lot of protien. OK that’s a bit extreme but you get the point.
9. Compare yourself against yourself.
If you look at how you were yesterday and how you are today and there is an improvement then that is great. If there is no improvement then you know you need to improve your efforts. Don’t start comparing your self to other people. Saying you are poor compared to D. Trump is just going to make you miserable.
10. There is no need for you to put yourself down.
Seeing yourself in a negative light you are only reinforcing your low self esteem. If you want to improve your self esteem. Ask yourself, how can I improve my self esteem. The answer will always be, find one positive thing about yourself and that will do it.
Chris Sine
Fitness Trainer
E:Chris@NoBSFitnessforLife.com
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Recovery Doesn’t Happen Between sets
June 4, 2009 by Chris Sine
Filed under No BS Fitness Tips
It can take up to 20 HRS to completely replenish depleted muscles. The time taken between sets to catch your breath before the next set is only a rest period, not recovery. Intense exercising triggers complex process of repair and rebuilding that can take up to 72 hours. When doing intense exercise the muscle tares slightly and the healing process start and the muscle is repaired and made stronger.
Chris Sine
Fitness Trainer
E:Chris@NoBSFitnessforLife.com
W: www.NoBSFitnessforLife.com
Be Consistent
June 1, 2009 by Chris Sine
Filed under No BS Fitness Tips
Workouts are done an average 3 – 4 times a week even if your tired, Nutrition is best done an average of seven days a week, every week. Your body need the right food to grow and maintain a healthy appearance. Busy life makes it hard to eat right, but try and be consistent and keep your goal in mind.
Chris Sine
Fitness Trainer
E:Chris@NoBSFitnessforLife.com
W: www.NoBSFitnessforLife.com
No BS Quick Cures for Crankiness
May 29, 2009 by Chris Sine
Filed under No BS Resources
Beat a bad mood with some feel-good solutions that will work in minutes flat.
Sure, there are days when you’d like to hang a sign on your door that says, “Leave me the heck alone!” But whether you’re stewing because of a tight deadline, a bad hair day, raging hormones or a sleepless night, you don’t have to spend the day gnashing your teeth and spitting venom at everyone that dares approach. Soothe those prickly feelings in a hurry with some remedies proven by science, and get on with your day in a more positive way. Here are 8 ways to cure your crankiness right now.
1. Listen to your mom
Save favorite voice-mail or answering-machine messages from people you love so you can listen to them anytime — or simply dial up a friend or family member. The voice of a loved one can quickly dissolve crankiness. That’s because pleasant sounds can decrease the tension that triggers irritability and distract you from annoyances. On the flip side, unwanted noise raises blood pressure, cortisol (the stress hormone) and, over time, even your risk of cardiovascular disease.
2. Order the suicide-hot wings
Spicy or hot food or drinks (think Thai, Hunan) can raise your body temperature and relax your body. So if you’re starting to think that AC is short for Arctic Circle at work, grab some hot ginger tea, wear a wool or fleece top or take a sauna or longer shower at the gym and the No BS Exercises will also warm you up. Increasing your body temperature can help calm your mood by reducing muscle tension, changing brain wave patterns, inducing hormonal changes and causing vasodilation (relaxation of blood vessels), which increases blood flow to extremities and circulation in general. when you’re comfortable, you’re automatically less cranky.
3. Get rocking
Ever wonder why Grandma looks so serene in her rocking chair? Rocking yourself is a natural anti grouchiness mechanism.. The rhythm allows the brain to relax and your heart rate to slow. If you don’t own a rocker (or want to), try this rocking yoga move: Sit on the floor, draw your knees up to your chest, join your hands under your knees and tilt your head forward toward your knees — now rock forward and roll backward onto your rounded back. Find any calming rhythm to shake your bad mood — literally — such as a mantra, humming, rocking or dancing in a swaying fashion. The clincher is that any music you listen to should be slower than your heartbeat — just think slow, soft rhythms.
4. Use powder
Sprinkle on some baby powder after your shower to chill your mood before you step out, or choose baby-powder-scented antiperspirant, car fragrance or drawer liners. Why? The smell of baby powder can quell a bad mood by evoking feelings (and memories) of safety and comfort.
5. Pause four times a day
Pause a total of 20 minutes a day, five at a time, to exorcise your inner grouch, That’s the magic number, research showed that’s what it took to reduce stress, including irritability, by 50%. Whenever you pause, your brain takes your body off high alert: your breathing returns to normal, which slows your heart rate, blood pressure and stress hormones and reduces the adrenaline overload that tension creates. The most important five-minute downtime is when you wake up: “Your body undergoes the biggest change in blood pressure and heart rate in the morning, so avoid hitting the ground running.
6. Telling jokes
Learn something from men: Study findings show that they typically open conversations with a joke or at least something not serious, whereas women start off by asking or telling someone what’s wrong, and the seriousness tends to escalate. “We can learn something from men about stress. “The more you can do to smile and laugh, the tougher it is to hold on to to bad feelings.” Laughing stops hyperventilation and reregulates our breathing pattern. And just smiling sends feedback to the brain that positively affects heart rate, blood pressure and digestion.
7. Wear pastels
Choose the peach top instead of the red one today. You may think that bright colours such as orange, red and yellow are cheery and energizing, but they can actually trigger aggression because they’re overstimulating. Consider that traffic signs usually capture these colours to send us into alert mode: watch out, danger and stop. Warmer tones have a nurturing, caring feeling, and the less bright and saturated the colours, the more soothing they are.
8. Get your heart racing
Do 10 minutes or more of aerobic exercise to douse grumpy feelings, 10 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise improved people’s mood the most. Working out at a higher intensity or longer won’t make you any cheerier either. Exercise has proven strong, calming effects that can last for several hours. But we’ve also found that it’s aerobic activity that seems to improve mood the most.
Chris Sine
Fitness Trainer
E:Chris@NoBSFitnessforLife.com
W: www.NoBSFitnessforLife.com
Use Proper form
May 28, 2009 by Chris Sine
Filed under No BS Fitness Tips
In order to develop a precise technique, do every rep with good form, concentrating on position and be slow and steady. Beginners should strive to keep the rep target inside your strength capability. Find the right groove for each exercise, don’t train to failure when your just starting out. Remember, slow and steady always wins the race.
Chris Sine
Fitness Trainer
E:Chris@NoBSFitnessforLife.com
W: www.NoBSFitnessforLife.com
