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10 Reasons To Get Into A Great Shape
Fitness | July 22, 2014
10. TO STAY LOOKING YOUNGER.
Consistent exercise may be the answer to your prayers and questions on how to maintain a young, vibrant look. It may be the best medicine we can have for anti-aging process. When we get older we become more frail, we start to lose our muscle tones and our bones lose their density. We can definately put a break on that process by working out with weights to build bone mass and muscles, doing more cardio for endurance and stamina and eating well of course. Exercise is known also as the largest contributor to growth hormone release which is known for slowing down the aging process and promoting youth and vitality as well.
9. BECAUSE LOOKING GOOD IS FEELING GOOD.
Every day workout not only contributes to slimming down and adding muscle tone, but also makes our skin looks more radiant and can fight stress and anxiety. I don’t know a one person that walks out of a gym, yoga studio or after a good workout that will look unhappy and stressed out. Exercise can improve and change our mood tremendously and give us a calm that will last for hours.
8. TO SLEEP BETTER.
It is guaranteed that on the day that you have exersiced you will not only feel amazing and refreshed but also will sleep better at night. Shawn Talbott, PhD, nutritional biochemist explains that exercise sharpens the body’s sensitivity to the stress hormone cortisol, which can enhance sleep. Exercise is essentially a release valve for cortisol, helping you sleep more soundly and greet the day looking more refreshed, Talbott explains. “It sends a message to the brain that you’re using the cortisol for its original purpose — movement — and that it’s safe to turn off the tap afterward.” Your body is able to use the downtime for the tissue-repair work that keeps you both looking and feeling great.
7. HAPPINESS COMES FROM THE INSIDE.
Physical activities are know to release endorphins, which are the chemicals that promote happiness. Researchers from the Penn State University found in their study that the more physically active people reported greater general feelings of excitement and enthusiasm. The important part is to convert the exersice to a daily habit. Even 20 minutes will get you a full daily happiness boost and put a smile on your face for rest of the day. All you need is to start working out with me in the Zgym on a daily basis! I keep telling you that 🙂
6. BECAUSE BEING FIT BRINGS SELF-CONFIDENCE.
Confident people radiate certain physical appeal and charisma. Daily activities contribute to staying fit and healthy, which directly effects our self esteem and self perception. We can also benefit from exercises that make us literally taller, stretch and strengthen our muscles and correct our bad posture. It is almost impossible to be feeling down and sad when we are walking with our head up and a smile on our face. It is an investment in your mind, body and soul.
5. TO FEEL STRONG AND HEALTHY.
Increasing your heart rate several times a week or a day will give you an incredible boost of energy and will make you feel stronger. You will be amazed how all of the sudden you can clean the entire house, wash yours and perhaps even neighbors car and take a dance or yoga class after. It will also help your immune system, by increasing your immunity levels and decreasing your chances of developing any diseases. Physical activity helps flushing bacteria out from the lungs and the temporary rise in your body temperature may prevent any bacterial growth.
4. TO CHALLENGE YOURSELF.
We all tend to get stuck in our daily routines, not only at the gym or running around the same block every day but also eating the same food and watching the same old shows on television, rather then going out for a walk or trying out a new workout. To challenge our self we need to step outside of that same repetative way we are living and exercising. Try to cook something entirely new, go for a swim, bike ride, crate an art project or learn how to play a new sport, the trick is to do something different to keep the excitment growing at the gym, studio or home and to avoid and overcome any boredom.
3. TO REDUCE RISK OF INJURY.
A workout injury can happen to anyone at anytime, but it is definitely more common to be happening to the people that are not exercising on a regular basis. Besides doing the right thing like a dynamic stretching before and after your workout and a classical warm ups that will loosen your muscles and joints, you can reduce risk of injury by getting in a stronger shape. If you have a good agility you can easily avoid a pedestrian while biking, good balance will provide a stability when you will need it, and a power will help you in many situation when you need to hold or move something out of the way.
2. REACH YOUR POTENTIAL.
We all have many goals in our lives that we want to accomplish. Sometimes we are not even aware of our own potentials or what our bodies are capable of until we overcome an obstacle and reach the goal. The closer to the goal we come or the weight loss we achieve the more comfortable we feel. Try to hike the tallest mountain near by or camp by the lowest point of a canyon, learn how to ride a horse, take a scuba diving lesson or join the Zgym and try to do a workout with me every day. Think about how ecstatic, motivated and joyous you will feel when you will succeed and overcome anything that you thought you couldn’t.
1. TO BE READY FOR ANY NEW ACTIVITIES.
By building more muscles and stamina every activity becomes more easier. Because we become more productive and happier while exercising it also increases our enthusiasm and willingnes to try something new and challenging. When you are in a great shape you can not only start doing a different workouts in the gym or at home but also enjoy more outdoors activities like hiking, kayaking or tennis and even try a rock-climbing. Nothing will prevent you from joining a random sports game and you will be able to except any challenges from now on.
We all have different dreams and goals and not all of you are going to relate to all of the 10 reasons, but I think that almost all of you can pick at least 5 that will be enough to push and motivate you to get into a great shape and maybe even the best shape of your life. If there are more reasons that I have not mention in this article, please share them in the comments below. The more the merrier 🙂
Best,
Z.
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Helps me fight anxiety and bouts of depression! Also, allows my children to experience a healthy lifestyle through excercise and nutrition and have a great role model to establish a foundation and knowledge of what being healthy should look like.
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I agree with the 10 reasons! 🙂
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me too!
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Yep. Zuzka, im a teen and i was wondering could you do a how to gain muscle for teens? Amd things to eat to support my training? Please (: could you also do like a healthy school snacks video or blog post? Sorry for the number of requests, i just need your advice for these questions xx
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Zuzka may you also please please please please pleaseee do a ketogenic diet meal plan for the week!! Or list foods to eat each day/per meal and stuff.. please it would help alot x
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Ditto to this:-)
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Makes you a better person to be around! Think of your friends and family – when you exercise and are in a good mood, they get to enjoy that too 🙂
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#s3, 5 and 10 to elaborate – I’m soon to be 55 and have worked out regularly and kept in shape for most of those 55 years. My friends who have not done so have not only put on weight, they also have aches and pains, blown-out knees, etc., making it difficult for them to get around or join in fun physical activities and/or suffer with heart problems and diabetes. It is heartbreaking to see this.
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good for you you should be proud of yourself
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I just was at a family get together and everyone had pains and health problems. Most of them manage them with drugs and are overweight and unable to exercise/play with the kids. I remember my brothers and sisters playing and it does break one’s heart to see them in such a state.
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About 3 years ago I saw some of my relatives’ health rapidly deteriorating, and sadly it was predominantly caused by unhealthy lifestyle. It was literally a wake-up call for me, and I started exercising. Eventually I found Zuzka, and even though I tried other programmes, I figured that her zwows work best for me.
I actually hate exercise. I never get the endorphin rushes and never experience that energy boost afterwards: that’s the main reason I was so unfit, even as a child. However, knowing the difference it makes to the quality of life, particularly as we get older, is the main motivation for me.
Stories like yours are fantastically reassuring. Somehow I grew up with the idea that a woman turns into a wreck by her fifties (when I was a kid, most 50-year old ‘grannies’ actually looked the part). Now I am almost 31, Zuzka’s age, and it is great to see so many fit women of all ages completely crushing this stupid stereotype.
I want to be like you in 20+ years: fit and healthy. In fact, it should be a norm, not an exception, because a 10-minute exercise a day is something everyone can easily fit in their schedule, but over time it makes an enormous difference on the fitness level.
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Thank you! I needed to hear that!
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I agree with every point!
Can you please write smth about the morning workouts?
I used to do your 4-minutes morning workout, but it’s been 3 years or so, so I’m wondering if there’s something new about working out before breakfast.
Also, please write about the overall time-picking for exercising. I know your ZCUT was performed every morning, but what about food? Was it before of after the breakfast?
I’m sorry for this off-topic and thank you in advance!
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10 reasons why you should pay someone to edit your texts:
10) Because, as they are now (littered with grammar and spelling mistakes) they look unprofessional.
9) Because, as they are now, they contribute to other people’s illiteracy.
8) Because, as they are now, they don’t help you improve your English. After living in an English-speaking country for so many years, your English is still very flawed.
7) Because, as they are now, they are sometimes difficult to decipher.
6) Because, as they are now, they make you appear like someone who only focuses on superficial things, while totally neglecting more important ones.
5) Because, as they are now, they make you come off as a person who does not value culture and education (which also include being able to write properly).
4) Because, as they are now, they are just plain ugly to look at.
3) Because, as they are now, they make you come off as a very sloppy person.
2) Because, as they are now, they make you come off as lazy.
1) Because, as they are now, they promote illiteracy.
So, do your brain work-out and stop slacking.
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You are back at trolling again…she speaks 2 languages…how many do you speak???? English and troll?
I totally understand what she is saying…get a life Elena. You really are despicable. Always trying to degrade Zuzka you are pathetic.
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And just so you know this is not meant to be an English lesson. It’s motivation to workout and hopefully change your life, body and health!
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She speaks 2 languages? And is that supposed to be a lot? She’s been living in the US and Canada for the past seven years now and her English is still incredibly flawed. Besides, I am suggesting she pay someone who edits her texts: she’d be helping the country’s economy and her texts would look way more professional. Yes, I know this is not an English lesson, but she communicates in English and, given she charges for her services, she should always provide a professional service. Also in the way she writes her blogposts.
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How many languages do I speak? You don’t want to know. And I am not an English native speaker, nor do I live in an English-speaking country. I just work out my brain, as well as my body. Unlike Zuzka here, whose brain seems to be m.i.a.
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Ugh … Elena really? Can’t you just move on? Hopefully the next time I read your post it will be as useful as Zuzanas.
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p.s. they are not ‘texts’. How are you going to critize someone on a language you can barely speak or spell yourself?
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English and grammar lesson #1
You cannot start a sentence with “because”.
Elena really, just give it up. Your sentences are just as bad if not worse. Not only that, At least Zuzka’s messages are positive. Yours make you seem reductive. Go look that one up…
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toronto, canada
Not to mention that the content of the message is flawed also. #1 and #9 are the same. What an awful comment. I’m sad to see it on such a positive motivational post.
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I like reading Zuzka’s writing just as it is. She writes exactly as she speaks and it’s like she is right there talking to us as we read it!!! Does that make sense? 🙂
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Do you realise that just as some people are sick and can’t exercise, spelling and grammar is more difficult for some than it is to others?
I am also bilingual, but near flawless writing in both my mother tongue and English came to me with no effort. It has nothing to do with my cultural level, it is just how my memory works.
I know people who went to Eton, and still struggle to spell because they are dyslexic. I am not saying Zuzka is dyslexic, but I suggest that you simply try to see a larger picture and stop pontificating and judging others.
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Hi Violetta,
I have to disagree with you. In Zuzka’s case, it’s plain obvious that she hasn’t studied English, nor does she consider it important to improve her writing (and speaking) skills. It’s a matter of effort. I agree that some people have a better talent for foreign languages than she does (she still has a very thick accent and does not seem able to improve), but it’s plain obvious that she has not made the choice to improve her English. I think it depends on the fact that improving her English won’t improve her looks (the main thing she focuses her efforts on: from aesthetic surgery, to various cosmetic procedures, to exercising). As she clearly does not wish to make an effort herself, she could at least realise that she needs to have her articles edited and proof-read.
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Elena, problém není problém. Problém je váš postoj k problému. Chápete?
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Hahahaha! Ano!!!
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I have never liked the Czech language. Sorry, but it just doesn’t appeal to me.
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I have to contradict you: bad spelling and bad grammar are indeed a problem.
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Look, anyone can find something that they do better than others and then pick on everyone else and bully them just the way you do here.
You are probably going through stressful times, and need to vent your emotions somewhere. People do this on the web all the time, it happens with virtually everybody.
You see, nobody is actually angry with you here, because we come here to support each other, to get the community feeling and such things.
I hope things get better in your life. It sometimes looks like it is all unfair and the whole world is against you, and there’s no way out. But then if you consistently work on the solution, get support from friends, try to regain some balance, it works out eventually. Nobody’s life is a fairytale, and it is worth while to be kind and supportive, even with strangers on the web.
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Violetta, it’s an interesting post (and I thank you for it), but you start off from a wrong assumption. I just can’t stand bad spelling, especially on a professional page.
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I’d like to disagree with this incredibly negative and unnecessary comment. I’d been looking up Zuzka’s page for workouts/motivation for 5 years and her blog posts improved in terms of vocabulary! Although I was happy with her before too, because I like her content and personality. You on the otherhand didn’t make no contribution to anybody’s life with this comment of yours. Go make yourself useful!
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OH MY GOD!!!!
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And -1 Elena whatever your surname is… Jealousy will chew you up.
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Pobre chica lo que debe de estar sintiendo, tener 10 razones para criticar la manera de escribir de alguien! O debe de estar muy aburrida o la envidia que tiene debe ser taaaaaan pero taaaaan grande que no le queda otra opción que criticar, ya que nunca tendrá lo que tiene Zuzka : un cuerpazo ! Me da pena pobrecita…. De verdad.
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Hay mujeres que tienen un cuerpazo y un cerebrazo. Esto es lo que me gusta. Por lo tanto, no te des pena. De verdad.
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I think you will age very well!