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Pre-workout foods to support your exercise

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In response to well being and health specialists, it is very important feed your physique with the appropriate vitamins and carbs earlier than your exercise with the intention to prep your self to carry out higher. A nutritious snack earlier than train might help you keep energised all through your exercise and help in post-workout restoration too.

In an interview with HT Way of life, Navneet Kaur, MSc Vitamin and Dietetics and in-house nutritionist at Nutrabay, recommended some prime pre-workout meals:

1. Bananas – The excessive carbohydrate content material of bananas can gasoline your exercise and delay fatigue. Bananas are additionally excessive in potassium which might help stop muscle cramps and support higher muscle contraction.

2. Watermelon – Watermelons are naturally wealthy in L-citrulline amino acid, which can assist improve nitric oxide exercise within the blood, thereby rising the oxygen and nutrient provide to the muscle tissue and enhancing stamina.

3. Fruit Yogurt – This scrumptious protein-rich combo is gentle on the abdomen. It may possibly assist increase vitality ranges, minimise muscle breakdown and assist restoration.

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4. Peanut Butter Toast – It’s a nice pre-workout snack with carbs, proteins, and good fat. In addition to this, peanut butter offers quite a lot of vitamins, like magnesium, niacin, vitamin B6, and so forth, to assist exercises.

5. Path Combine – A path combine containing dried fruits, nuts and seeds might be a superb pre-workout snack. They’re straightforward to digest, a fast vitality supply and ship an array of nutritional vitamins and minerals.

In response to Dolly Kumar, Founding father of Gaia Good Well being, one of many nice pre-workout snacks that’s problem free and journey pleasant is granola bar. She shared, “This healthful low calorie and low fats snack often incorporates oats, muesli, honey and provides that prompt further gasoline to the physique. It delivers the required quantity of fibre and iron that may be consumed at any age.”

She revealed, “Carbs are one other supply of vitality boosters to your physique. Thus, having an oatmeal earlier than a exercise works as a fast snack and offers sustained vitality. Oats are wealthy in dietary fibre which offer a myriad of well being advantages. In addition to serving to improve the immunity, oats are identified to assist weight reduction because the fibre retains you fuller for longer. This wholesome cereal might be loved with skimmed milk, contemporary fruits, and crunchy nuts.”

Vivek Newar, Researcher and Founding father of Dyet Vitamin, really helpful, “For pre-workout meals, a mixture of carbohydrates and protein is extremely really helpful. Relying on the sort, size and depth of your exercise, you need to eat completely different meals in several quantities. If the coaching is scheduled to start in two to a few hours or extra, one might eat an omelette with entire grain bread; an oatmeal smoothie with whey protein and half a banana would suffice, if the bodily exercise is in two hours, or a protein bar with a chunk of fruit if the train is scheduled to start in a single hour or much less. Think about slicing again on the portion dimension of your meal whether it is nearer to your exercise periods.”

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New Osage Nation exercise complex has walking trail, pickleball courts

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The Osage Nation executive branch on Oct. 28 celebrated the completion of the first phase of the development south of Main Street in downtown Pawhuska of a new outdoor health complex.

The complex is located between Lynn Avenue on the east and Kihekah Avenue on the west. It stretches along what once was a depot site for the Midland Valley Railroad. A new concrete walking trail forms a perimeter for it. Pickleball courts, as well as fitness equipment and courses, are available for free public use. Publicly accessible parking is available on three sides.

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Casey Johnson, secretary of Development for the Osage Nation, said during the ribbon-cutting ceremony that future additions to the complex are expected to include sports fields. The loop of walking trail will offer safety from motor vehicle traffic to persons walking to lose weight or achieve other health-related goals, he said. Johnson shared that he recently needed to lose weight and ended up walking along public streets, one result of which was that he was nearly run over more than once.

Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear said the continued development of the exercise complex will require additional political and financial support. The Osage Nation executive branch established the facility without the backing of the Osage Nation Congress. Ribbon cuttings for new Osage Nation amenities typically feature recognition for members of Congress, but that was missing Oct. 28.

“We’re working on it every day,” Standing Bear said regarding additional backing for the exercise complex. Standing Bear is in his third four-year term as principal chief and has been an energetic proponent of expanding health, education and housing services.

“It’s real. It’s really happening,” Standing Bear said regarding the exercise complex. “You see, I’ve got to exercise.”

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Johnson said that the idea for the new complex came from Osage Nation executive branch deliberations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“One of the things we talked about was getting people healthy,” Johnson said. Survey work was done regarding the health of people in Osage County and the results were disturbing, he said.

“And they found that the farther away from Osage County you get, the healthier you get,” Johnson said.

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Johnson recently told the Osage News that the executive branch had invested more than $7 million in the exercise complex so far. Funding used to pay for the work came from amounts already approved and available, though not expressly earmarked for the outdoor facility in Pawhuska, he said. The Osage Nation also received donations for the project, he said.

“We’re shooting big on this thing,” Johnson said during the Oct. 28 ribbon cutting. The outdoor complex is located immediately south of the new Osage Nation Visitors Center at the intersection of Lynn Avenue and Main Street, as well as the new Osage Nation health clinic that is under construction on the south side of Main Street.

Standing Bear reiterated the political aspect of the continued development of the exercise complex,

“It’s political. I’ll just say it,” he said, adding that some people apparently don’t agree about the value of the complex. “There is a future to grab ahold of here.”

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Too Much Sitting Harms the Heart, Even in Folks Who Exercise

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Too Much Sitting Harms the Heart, Even in Folks Who Exercise

MONDAY, Nov. 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — There’s just something about sitting.

New research shows that too much time on sofas and chairs harms the heart — even among people who get the minimum recommended amount of daily exercise.

“Taking a quick walk after work may not be enough” to offset the health dangers of sitting, said study lead author Chandra Reynolds. She’s a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Her team published its findings recently in the journal PLOS One.

The data comes from an ongoing study of over a thousand former or current Coloradans, 730 of who are twins. Reynolds’ team focused on participants aged 28 to 49.

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Study lead author Ryan Bruellman said the cohort was relatively young, because “young adults tend to think they are impervious to the impacts of aging. But what you do during this critical time of life matters.”

Bruellman is now a PhD candidate at the University of California, Riverside.

A lot of the participants were sitting a lot of the time: An average of almost nine hours per day, according to the study.

Exercise rates ranged from 80 and 160 minutes of moderate physical activity per week and less than 135 minutes of vigorous exercise weekly. 

The Boulder team then assessed each person’s “heart age” using two key heart health indicators: total cholesterol/high-density lipoprotein and body mass index (BMI).

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The result: As sitting time increased, heart aging did, too.

Even when folks met minimum daily exercise recommendations — about 20 minutes per day of “moderate” exercise — the deleterious effect to the heart of all that sitting didn’t budge.

Adding in “vigorous” exercise (for example, running or cycling) for about 30 or more minutes per day did seem to help counteract the harms from sitting, however. But it still didn’t bring those harms back to zero.

According to a news release from the university, data from the twins in the study suggests that “replacing sitting with exercise seemed to work better to improve cholesterol than simply adding exercise to a full day of sitting.”

The researchers’ suggestions for folks who sit a lot: Try using a standing desk at work, get in at least 30 minutes of vigorous exercise per day or add in strenuous workouts on your days off as a “weekend warrior.”

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Find out more about the health dangers of sitting at Johns Hopkins University.

SOURCE: University of Colorado Boulder, news release, Nov. 1, 2024

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Once bodybuilders, Gold Coast couple breaking world records in their 80s

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Once bodybuilders, Gold Coast couple breaking world records in their 80s

David and Gioia Berry aren’t your typical octogenarians.

Rather than travelling the world, the 81-year-olds have opted to spend their retirement years breaking world records in fitness competitions.

“Our prime function is to try and stay as fit and healthy as we can for as long as we can,” Mr Berry said.

The pair already have an impressive list of achievements between them.

David currently holds three world records for various indoor rowing events in the men’s 75-to-79-year age category and another for the 100-metre sprint for his 80-84 age group, with a time of 17.9 seconds.

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Gioia, on the other hand, recently broke the world record on the SkiErg – short for skiing exercise machine – in the 80-to-84-year age category for 100 metres, clocking 25.5 seconds.

The Gold Coast couple, who have been married for more than 60 years, have no plans of slowing down either.

Mr and Mrs Berry have been training for the Pan Pacific Masters Games on the Gold Coast. (ABC Gold Coast: Danielle Mahe)

They’ve spent the past few months training at their local gym and pool for the indoor rowing event at the Pan Pacific Masters Games on the Gold Coast this week.

“I do a split body routine: chest and triceps on a Monday; back and biceps on Wednesdays; and we do legs and arms as well as shoulders on Fridays — so that keeps us pretty busy,” Mr Berry said.

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On alternate days, they swim about a kilometre, followed by an ice bath for recovery.

“I used to do yoga and pilates but I can’t fit that in anymore because I’m trying to train for the Pan Pac games,” Mrs Berry said.

Bodybuilding after having kids

Despite their lifelong love for health and fitness, it wasn’t until they were in their late 30s that they decided to take it more seriously by opening a gym and entering body building competitions.

“I was training with weights in the backyard when I was 16 years of age, but I was pretty skinny then,” Mr Berry said.

“I trained reasonably hard up until I met Gioia [at 17 years], and then we got married [three years later in 1964], and we had kids, and everything went on hold for a few years, and we started again probably 10 years after we were married.”

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Mr and Mrs Berry on their wedding day in 1964. (Supplied: David Berry)

At 37, Mrs Berry entered the very first Miss Australia bodybuilding competition in 1990.

But Mr Berry said convincing his wife to compete was “a real challenge”.

“She was horrified but like a true champion she bit the bullet and lined up for the comp and did very well,” he said.

“She placed fourth out of about 25 girls, most of them aged between 19 and 22 … but she got the Most Outstanding Achievement Award.”

Mr Berry entered his first bodybuilding competition about a year later at 39 and won the masters category for his age group in the Mr Australia contest.

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He ended up going on to become the first person to also win the 50s, 60s and 70-year age categories.

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Mrs and Mr Berry at the beach in their late 50s. (Supplied: David Berry)

Mr Berry says despite being prone to injuries these days, he hopes they’ll be able to continue doing what they love together.

“So far, the future is looking good as we both are still breaking records in our age categories and certainly hope we can continue for a while yet,” he said.

‘Never too late to start exercising’

Bond University academic Kieran Le Plastrier says the couple are proof that it’s never too late to start exercising.

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Kieran Le Plastrier says people should not be deterred from exercising as they age. (Supplied: Bond University)

“It turns out the literature is pretty good in that it reminds us that even if we don’t make changes till our 30s, 40s or 50s … the things we do in our 40s can make a huge difference into our older age and even into advanced age, which is anybody over 80 years of age,” Dr Le Plastrier said.

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He encourages older people to prioritise resistance training, like lifting weights, because it reduces the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and falls.

“Now, you don’t necessarily need to enter a competition and become a bodybuilder, but we know that resistance training actually leads to long-term health benefits,” he said.

“So what I would encourage us to all take away from this story is that no matter when we start, as long as we get started, we can improve our health outcomes into old age.”

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