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Spring is coming and you won’t find an excuse not to move your body, it’s high time you started spring fitness to lose several kilos. With so many spring exercises to choose from there is no better thing than a portion of spring exercising.

RUNNING

Cost: 0, Kcal/hour: 600
It strenghtens your heart, improves your lungs function and blood circulation, helps to forget about stress and reduce weight. The only things you need are appropriate training shoes and clothes.

BICYCLE

Cost: bicycle cost, Kcal/hour: 300-600
It makes tighs and calves slimmer, relieves the spine, improves your respiratory system and prevents intravascular clots.

NORDIC WALKING

Cost: pole cost, Kcal/hour: 400
It is a perfect form of exercising for people of all ages, it is a walk with special pole which strengthens heart and circulatory system, improves muscle condition. There are no contraindications whatsoever.

AQUA AEROBIC

It is a form of exercising in water which relieves the pressure from joints and spine, is effective and safe. During this type of exercising you don’t feel any pain even though the muscles work very hard. Aqua aerobic strengthens muscles of hip, buttocks, back and chest, it slimmers the body, reduces fat and helps to fight cellulite.

FAT BURNING

Cost: depends on the fitness club, Kcal/hour: 600
This is exercise that concentrates on burning fat, they may be intense or of mild intensity. It is important to know that the more you want to loose weight, the more you have to exercise (at least 3-4 times a week). Fat burning helps to get slim, strengthens some muscles and improves organism functions.

PILATES

Cost: depends on the fitness club, Kcal/hour: 280-480
Pilates helps to shape slim figure. Regular exercising smlimmers your body and gets appropriate proportions, your walk becomes light and springy. It strengthens muscles of stomach, reduces back pains and improves your mood.

It doesn’t matter if the coctail party is for business purposes or just for closest friends the coctail party etiquette stays the same. So if you don’t want to make mistake with your coctail party dress or coctail party food and decoration read the rules below:

What is it?

Coctail party is a party where the guests are standing. Such form of a party enables inviting more guests that come from various circles e.g. colleagues from work and friends. The biggest advantage of coctail party is that it lasts about 2 hours, it is the done thing to come round for a moment, not shorter than half an hour. Coctail parties are usually organised between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

FOR HOSTS
1. Set the time of your party clearly, always inform between what hours you expect your guests to come.
2. Spend the first quarter near the door to ensure you welcomed all the guests
3. Make sure that all your guests were introduced to each other, observe the party closely and always talk to those guests who are standing alone or have problems with communicating with others
4. Organize everything and from tim to time make sure that snacks and drinks are on the table

FOR GUESTS
1. Don’t stay too long, if you were invited to the party which is supposed to finish at 8, leave before 8
2. Don’t take your host’s time as he/she need to talk to all the guests
3. Concentrate on the person you are talking to as there is nothing more frustrating than your interlocutor who is looking around
4. If you’re bound to talk about some uniteresting subject you can politely finish it saying that you appologize but want to talk to the host
5. If you want to talk to someone who is already talking you can approach him and ask if he can devote some time to you

A GOOD COCTAIL PARTY
For the host it is memorable when people unwillingly leave the party. The guests usually like parties where they meet interesting people not related to their business.

Dieters have found some herbal supplements useful when people want to fight with extra pounds. There are plenty of herbal weight loss products on the market and it is difficult to decideon one herbal remedy. Let’s take a look at some alternative medicine for weight loss.

Green tea

Green tea is perfect for losing weight as it helps to lead healthy lifestyle. The best way to lose weight is to substitute green tea for coffee with sugar as it reduces the number of calories consumed and gives many useful substances such as flavonoids, polyphenols. You will feel the boost of energy after drinking tea too as it contains some amount of caffeine. Green tea also inhibits fat digestion and increases calorie burning. The researches say that consumption of 375 mg of catechins from green tea for three months helps to lose up to 5% of body weight.

Guarana

Guarana contains substances that limit appetite and help in weight loss. The guarana is famous for its caffeine content that gives energy in a healthy way, increases metabolism and acts as a good diuretic. Although it doesn’t limit weight on its own, guarana increases metabolism which in the long run is effective. The side effects include anxiety, trembling and palpitations so gurana isn’t recommended for pregnant women.

Chromium

Chromium helps your body to maintain blood sugar levels. Dieters claim that chromium helps decrease body fat and increase muscle tone thank to its stabilizing blood sugar effects. It changes carbohydrates and fats into the action of insulin, it makes people lose more fat than muscle while dieting. Body mass can be reduced more effectively if patients continue chromium supplementation after the diet. Chromium is found in unrefined grains and cereals and in some brands of beer.

CLA

It is Conjugated linoleic acid is the form of fatty acid that can be found in dairy products, beef, poultry and eggs. CLA is said to decrease appetite, reduce body weight and increase muscle. The reduction of weight is especially seen in abdominal area, the disadvantage of CLA is that it may reduce the level of good cholesterol (HDL). Consumption of CLA is most effective when exercising, person’s strength is improved.

Spirulina

Spirulina is a member of a group of aquatic plants rich in protein, cartenoids, vitamins, minerals and fatty acids. Dieters suggest taking these blue-green algae as it decreases appetite and supplies good nurition during diets. Although people claim their weight was only slightly reduced it is certainly worth recommending for its nutritional and detoxificating value. The greatest disadvantage though is that it is relatively expensive.

Cayenne

Cayenne has the ability to reduce appetite, increase body heat which speeds up the metabolism and changes fats and carbohydrates into the energy. Cayenne produces ephinephrine and nonepinephrine which activate nervous system. Cayenne added to each meal reduces the appetite and hunger for snacks between meals, adding cayenne to diet regularly has slight effect on weight loss.

I always wanted to achieve a perftect hairstyle but I thought homemade hairstyles look ugly and are impossible to make. My opinion has changed quite recently when I found several tips how to get home made hairstyle.

If you want to have beatiful hair just like Jennifer Lopez or Beyonce Knowles you don’t need to visit your hairdresser every day. Not everyone possesses so much time and money as Beyonce does. There are several tips how to get shiny, wavy hair.

1. After washing your hair with shampoo rub a handful of mousse into your scalp and afterwards spray the wet hair with volumizator, start from the scalp and do to the rest of your hair.

2. Use your hair dryer and a special attachment which directs hot air to the area you’re working on, don’t use a brush, your hands are enough. To maximize the hair volume, dry against the hair growth. Leave one quarter of your hair wet.

3. Take some clips and divide your hair into individual sections. Then, unclip sections of your hair and put it on the round brush, rotate it while drying with hot air. In this way they will look smooth.

4. Put a little of serum on the strands and dump them with the hairspray.

There are several reasons why all diets promote drinking plenty of mineral water. It fulfills two important conditions: it is healthy and has no calories at all. It fills the stomach and makes people forget about hunger, mineral water reduces appetite and helps to remove harmful metabolism remainder from the organism. That is why drinking aqua is an essential part of healthy food and lifestyle. You will surely find mineral water that suits your needs.

To the gym

Always take mineral water with you but remember to buy such a bottle that will be quick to open and convenient to drink from.

To the handbag

You need a small, handy bottle that can be put to your bag easily, the bottle should be hard enough so as not to deform.

At work

You need a big bottle that will stay on your desk for the whole day, that will make you hydrated in your working surrounding.

For a trip

Each trip demands large solid bottles of mineral water which can be stuffed to your bag without a fear that they will be damaged or deformed. Large bottle will also be essential if you go somewhere and you know that it is hard to find a shop nearby.