Joe Whalen – Health Habits

New Study Shows How Vaping Can Affect Your Gym Performance

In a way, it is true that there are no concrete researches to discuss how a relatively new phenomenon like Vaping can cause long term negative effects on your health. Still, there were never any claims that it was entirely risk-free. Basically, allowing any substance in your lungs that shouldn’t be there in the first place will eventually take effect badly. With that, we have a recent study here that discusses how this seemingly harmless hobby can prevent you from getting the most from your work-out, and …

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5 Helpful Apps for Designing Your Tees

In creating custom t shirt printing, you’ll need to acquire printing equipment, supplies, and other crafting stuff for decoration. Crafting shirts by hand is surely enjoyable, but doing it by hand will be hard if you’d like to include complex graphics and intricate designs.
In this article, we’ll show you 5 of the most fabulous apps that will make the shirt designing easier and more fun for you!

Snaptee

This is a convenient designer app since you can use it on both iOS and Android. Snap …

Fitness

Simple Fitness How-To’s

Want to start pumping that iron but you’re not sure where to start? Ready to try out yoga but don’t know what the hell the tree pose is? Don’t worry, we’re here for you. Check out our list of some easy exercises using your home roman chair and how you can do them so that you can get started on that weight loss and fitness journey:
Bicep Curls
Set your feet under your hips and grab the weights with your palms facing forward. Lift the weights toward your shoulders while bending your arms. Lower the weights …

Weight Loss

A Brief Food Prep Guide

Dietary success does not come from willpower or meal plans. Instead, it comes about with a proper habit and mindset. The most important foundational habit is to keep the right food around you and always make it readily available. Setting up the kitchen counter with recommended appliances from the experts will help immensely. This is what’s known as food prep. Here’s how you can go about it:
Step One: Planning
Before you go shopping, make a list of what you need. The key to this is to determine the foods you enjoy, foods that fit your health plan, and foods that you can …

Weight Loss

Losing Weight Through Calorie Restrictions

Calorie restrictions are kind of controversial. With social media influencing a large part of most people’s daily lives, tight bodies will still be there, but eating disorders and mental health issues are still very real concerns. Just saying the word “restriction” invokes visceral stress responses in a lot of the folks that have been battling and struggling with weight fluctuations and diets over the years. But that trend quickly stopped when experts stepped in.
Strategic caloric restrictions can be good for both weight loss and overall health. Below are a few tips on how to …

Weight Loss

Frozen Veggies Are Just as Good

You were probably encouraged to eat your veggies when you were a child, right? Despite this early emphasis on the importance of eating vegetables, most kids and grownups alike fail to ingest the daily recommendations of nutrients your body needs.
Are Frozen Vegetables Less Nutritious Than Fresh Ones?
There’s really no concrete evidence out there that can fully support such claims. A lot of the “fresh” veggies available to you have most likely spent a couple of days in transit. They lose more nutrients the longer they stay in transit. Chemicals are sprayed on these …

Fitness

Boosting Your Metabolism Using Exercise

Your body’s metabolism is all the stuff it does to transform food into energy so that it can keep going. Some folks have faster metabolism rates than others. A couple of things that can either make your metabolism sluggish or speedy include things that are out of your control such as your genes, sex, and age.
That said, muscle cells often require plenty of energy. This translates to them burning quite a lot of calories as well. Challenging your muscles will help you boost your metabolism and this can be done in two ways:
Increasing Your Exercise Routines
All …

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Weight Loss and Exercise

If you want to lose weight, then you need to burn more calories and drink and eat less. You really need to cut down on calories if you’re looking to shed off excess weight effectively. In fact, it just might be by far one of the most important things as far as shedding off those excess pounds is concerned.
In the long run, exercise always pays off by keeping that extra weight at bay. Studies have shown that regular exercise can help increase one’s chances of maintaining a certain weight.
How Much Exercise Do You Need?
Pace yourself when it comes to exercising. …