Healthy Mind, Body & Spirit

I was an athletic and also in the cadet. I dare say I am a good one too. I was very fit then. My wife got attracted to me because of my broad shoulders, nice triceps and “buns” on my tummy. *grins*

Unfortunately I can’t boast about it anymore now. I am so out of shape due to work. Working in the internet cafe the whole day does not do good to my body.

I just bought a punching bag hoping that it would help tone my muscle. But that is surely not sufficient. Thanks to Wellsphere.com, I got below Tricep Exercises Tips. Am sure gonna put it to practice.

Do Push Ups.
Do push ups to tones your chest, shoulders and triceps. If a normal pushup is too hard, try doing a pushup from your knees.

Try dips.
To tone your chest and triceps, try doing dips. Do 2 or 3 sets of 10. If it’s hard for you, try assisted dips.

Swim.
Swimming is a great exercise for your whole body. It works your back, triceps, chest, abs and shoulders.

Close grip push ups.
If you want to work your triceps more while doing pushups, bring your hands closer together.

Tricep extensions.
Use the rope or bar at the gym and pull down until your triceps are fully extended. Do 8 - 10 reps.

Bench press.
If you’re working out at the gym, the bench press is one of the best exercises you can do for your triceps and back.

I long to hear wifey’s compliment about my body again.

A pastor was worshiping in the church service. The worship song was so appropriate and the congregations were in high worship. The pastor in his moments of adoration to the Lord prayed, “Lord, I love you with all my heart. Nothing will ever stop me from loving and worshiping You.”. Just then a sweet lady who sat beside the pastor started to sing out loud. Her breath is so smelly that the pastor immediately stopped worshiping the Lord. The problem with the pastor or us is that we can say something now and then change our mind the very next minute once the situation changed.

I think if I am in the pastor’s situation I too will react in the same way. There is nothing more irritating when talking to someone else than having to smell the foul smells that comes out from that person. It can be very suffocating to breath in the ammonia smell that comes from bad breath. Every person should practice good oral hygiene, making sure that no foul smelling ammonia is stored and ready to be released from their mouth everytime they open their mouth. Go see the tampa dentist or if you are staying in St Petersburg, go see st. petersburg dentist and correct the problem. You can check out st. petersburg cosmetic dentist should your problem is more than just foul smelling breath. Now, with the advanced of technology, I am sure there are innovative technology for you to have a pain free procedure to correct your mouth problem.

Until then, please don’t stand beside any pastor when you want to sing. He may not remember what he needs to preach on that day.

This picture says it all.

When you want to know more about heart diseases, then you must first begin to understand the various types of heart disease that are prevalent today. For example, faulty mitral valve in a newborn baby is considered as one type of heart disease and an aged man, say a 65 years old male, may have a clogged artery due to plaque deposits and this condition is also termed as one type of heart disease. Hence the most important organ of your body namely your heart may even suffer from one or more of such disease conditions.

Let us have a broad look at the various types of heart disease that are known to commonly attack persons.

Atherosclerosis

The term Atherosclerosis refers to the fatty plaque deposits over the inner walls of your arteries and this is caused due to presence of higher levels of cholesterol in your blood. The plaque will effectively block free blood flow and hence your body cells will be deprived of enough oxygen. Your heart muscles will also get affected in this circumstance and eventually will lose its efficiency.

This particular condition is referred to congestive heart failure and may lead to small heart attacks and reduce your heart s overall efficiency. Atherosclerosis is responsible for causing almost half of the entire deaths happening in the United States alone.

Rheumatic Heart Disease

Rheumatic heart disease is a yet another type of heart disease that is caused due to rheumatic fever. Rheumatic fever is known to affect persons, especially children, if the strep throat infection is left untreated.

The onset of rheumatic fever will in turn affect connective tissues and the heart valves leading to a condition wherein your heart valve will fail in its action of opening and closing properly. Rheumatic heart disease in its lesser form may not need any treatment, but in case of severity may require surgical intervention either for repairing or replacing heart valves.

Congenital Heart Disease

Normally you are born with this congenital heart disease and under such circumstance, your heart will be malformed and/or with improper functioning of heart valves. The severity of this congenital heart disease may vary very widely and the severely affected babies will exhibit quick exhaustion and difficulty in breathing, and sometimes may lead to sudden death.

Myocarditis

The inflammation in heart muscles is referred to as Myocarditis and it is usually an end result of some other infection affecting your body. A myocarditis condition will let out symptoms such as chest pain, shortness of breath and fatigue. A heart transplant is the only cure for this type of heart disease and many of the doctors prefer to treat the ailment with medications based on symptoms.

Arrhythmias

Whenever your heart loses its rhythm, then this type of heart disease is named as arrhythmias. There are two variations in arrhythmias, the first one bradycardia refers to a condition where your heart will have lower beat rate and the second tachycardia refers to an abnormally increase or higher heart rate. A yet another, but rare type of fibrillation may occur in arrhythmias, and under this condition you will feel a pulsating heart due to the difficulty in blood pumping.

If you are experiencing any of the symptoms that you may relate to some type of heart disease, then it is better you get an appointment with your doctor and get yourself thoroughly diagnosed.

Wifey started her dance aerobic 2 days ago and I joined it. It was fun and very tiring. Especially with my tummy getting into my way! Since wifey is determining to reduce some weight, we won’t going out for supper anymore. That will save some money too.

This is good since I am eating lunch almost everyday now because my mother and the maid prepares my lunch before I leave for work.

Hope to see the slimmer and fitter me soon.