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Surfing Rules That You Should Follow

A California surfer or at least his surf board.

A California surfer or at least his surf board. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

Surfing is a great sport to participate in. However, you need to keep in mind that whenever you surf, you need to be aware that there are a few unwritten rules that you should be aware of. By following these simple rules, you can be sure that you will not only be safe from the inherent dangers of surfing but also keep other surfers safe. Furthermore, it can also prevent you from damaging your surfing gear and potentially save your life. So remember to follow these rules.

 

The first rule is that you should never drink and surf. Or, do drugs and surf for that matter.  You will have poor judgment, which can result in accidents and even death.

 

The second rule is that you should always be aware of everything. Surfing is fun if you do it safely and responsibly. Always be aware of the other surfers in the water, the current water conditions, and also be aware of any signs of dangers in the water.

 

The third rule would be staying in your comfort zone. Sure you want to try the big waves and surf like the pros do but you need to remember that you should never push yourself too far. Always stay in the waves that you are comfortable surfing. If you mastered it and you are more confident to try bigger waves.  You should do this gradually to avoid the risk of injury.

 

The fourth rule is that you need to be in shape to surf. Always remember that you need to be a strong swimmer. If you lose your board, then you need to swim to the shore and you should expect fighting rip tides which are potentially dangerous to surfers.

 

The fifth rule is that you should know when to bail. You already know that you have to hold on to your board at all times but there will also come a situation where you will need to know when to bail out of your board. This will prevent injuries on your part when you wipe out and it will also prevent injuries to other surfers that may be in your path.

 

The sixth rule is that you should always surf in patrolled beaches. It is a fact that finding a secret surfing place can be a lot of fun. But, you have to consider the fact that surfing has its potential dangers. By surfing in patrolled beaches, you can be sure that someone will be there to help you out in case you get in to trouble in the water.

 

The seventh rule is to never ever drop in. This means that you shouldn’t take someone else’s wave. Always remember that the person nearest to the breaking part of the wave has priority for surfing the wave. Dropping in is considered to be rude as well as very dangerous.

 

The eight rule is you should never surf alone. Although it would be great to have the entire beach to yourself, you have to remember that surfing alone is very dangerous. Think of your surf buddies as your backup and also as your savior. They will be able to assist you if you do get in to trouble and you also need to do the same for them.

 

These are the things that you have to remember about surfing. By remembering these rules following them religiously, you can be sure that you and your fellow surfers will be able to have a lot of fun on your day at the beach riding the waves.

 

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Proper Posture for Elliptical Trainer

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Yesterday I went to the gym for my usual sixty minute elliptical workout.  So I am going through my usual routine to prepare for my journey, placing my water in the cup holder, connecting my ear plugs to my I-Phone etc…..when I observe a guy on the elliptical to my left.  I couldn’t help but notice that he was hunched over with his head face first into the screen, arms resting on handles with his hands in a death grip on the handles.  His feet were motoring at a fast pace.  I couldn’t help but chuckle because I knew that he was going to be hurting when he finished.  This poor posture will undoubtably cause some pain and stiffness. If you are like me and enjoy the health benefits of an elliptical workout than follow my tips below.  If you do, your back neck and arms will thank you.

1. Maintain Proper Posture!

While on the elliptical trainer stand upright while maintaining proper spinal alignment.  This will prevent unnecessary strain on your lower back and minimize the risk of injury.  Furthermore, by maintaining proper spinal alignment you engage your core thus resulting in a more beneficial workout.

2. Relax your Hands and Arms!

Avoid the death grip on the handles.  All that stress and strain will just cause muscle soreness and stiffness. Just relax and run while maintaining good posture and a relaxing stride.  If you are having difficulty reaching the handles just let go and let your arms glide freely at your side as if you are running.

3.  Placement of Feet!

Place your feet on the inside of the pedals and distribute your weight in the heals of your feet.  This will prevent you from losing circulation to your feet thus avoiding the resulting numbness and tingling.

These are just a few tips that will help you prevent injury while using an elliptical trainer.  If you follow these tips you will have a pleasurable experience unlike the gentleman I observed yesterday.  He is probably at his chiropractor’s office today.

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Essential Oils for a Good Night’s Sleep

 

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CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ESSENTIAL OILSHaving a fully restful night’s sleep is important for your body and mind. By limiting your sleep, you can ultimately do damage to your body and cause it to lose energy rapidly. Stress levels will also rise with improper sleep, which makes dealing with the day’s confrontations and people interactions more difficult. Using essential oils through aromatherapy can help you maintain levels of peace, remove the day’s stress, and help you sleep soundly for the ultimate refreshing morning.

Having a fully restful night’s sleep is important for your body and mind. By limiting your sleep, you can ultimately do damage to your body and cause it to lose energy rapidly. Stress levels will also rise with improper sleep, which makes dealing with the day’s confrontations and people interactions more difficult. Using essential oils through aromatherapy can help you maintain levels of peace, remove the day’s stress, and help you sleep soundly for the ultimate refreshing morning.

A busy worker whether you’re an employee or the business owner will have you building stress throughout the day. Stress can seriously inhibit a good night’s sleep. The unsettled sleep will increase chances for increased stress and can ultimately hurt your immune system making you susceptible to disease and illnesses. Essential oils used in aromatherapy can help you relax and sleep more soundly throughout the night. Having a good night’s sleep is analogous to recharging your body’s batteries to make it most efficient for the next day. Poor sleeping habits can inefficiently relieve stress leaving it to damage your body and mind.

Some people feel that a quantity of sleep is important. It isn’t the amount of sleep that you need that is important, but the amount of highly effective sleep that is most important. Getting six to seven hours of sleep is important for your body to replenish the energy levels that it has lost from the day’s activities. However, sleeping a quality 6 hours of sleep is highly more beneficial than sleeping a poor, restless ten hours of sleep.

Essential oils used in aromatherapy can help you fully relax to facilitate your ability to fall into a deep sleeping whereby qualifying your sleep as fully effective for your body’s energy replenishment. You will notice the difference the next morning when you wake up and feel totally revitalized from the previous day. Not only will you feel replenished on the outside, your mind and body will be completely healthier from a quality night’s sleep.

There are several essential oils that can help you have a good night’s sleep. The most relaxing of all of the essential oils are Bergamot, Sage, and Sandalwood. Although each has beneficial effects separately, combining all three has the best effect on your mind and body.

Bergamot

Bergamot is a peel from an exotic fruit that smells like the popular citrus scent you get from other fruits. The potent citrus smell makes you feel refreshed and it calms your emotions to give you the euphoric feeling of a calm spirit. You can also blend bergamot with other oils to produce an uplifting feeling with a relaxing state that helps you sleep better.

Clary Sage

Clary sage is a popular essential oil to relax your spirit and it helps get rid of the restlessness from stress and an overactive emotional state. As with some other essential oils, it is distilled from the leaf of a plant that is known to relax you simply from its aromatic smell. It brings you a feeling of well-being and within twenty-four hours will make you feel like you can conquer the world.

Sandalwood Agmark

The Sandalwood Agmark essential oil will soothe you so that you no longer feel as if the stress of the world is on your shoulders. It helps you ultimately relax and keeps your emotions at bay so that you can sleep throughout the night. The fragrance of the Sandalwood is great for the mind since it is the main factor for stressful restless nights.

Although each of these bring a distinct benefit, they are most beneficial used together. You can purchase the essential oils separately, but if you really want to have the most relaxing night of your life use them in combination. The combination of the oils will guarantee you a good night’s sleep and give you the most refreshed feeling in the morning.

 Lavender

Lavender has been cherished for its unmistakable aroma and its therapeutic properties for thousands of years. Lavender is widely used and accepted for its calming and relaxing qualities. For topical, aromatic, or dietary use.

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12 Ways To Be Healthier

Self EsteemDo you want to lose weight, sleep better and boost your immune system? Here are some tips that will help you with your healthy weight loss plan.

1 Lay down and Relax!
Back pain can be avoided and the damage repaired with one easy exercise, which is lie down on the floor with your knees bent, hip width apart, feet on the floor. Do this daily for about five to fifteen minutes to release and lengthen your spine.

2 Watch the Snacks!
Crash diets don’t work in the long run; instead of crash dieting maintain a food diary to note your daily eating habits. With this you’ll be conscious of what you eat, and make healthier choices. This tip is supported by research.

3 Meditate!
The power of our breath and our lymphatic system removes waste from cells. By meditating three times a day, you’ll clear more toxins and boost your thinking power by getting 20% more oxygen to your brain.

4 Put your Utensils down!
Whether it be a fork or spoon put it down between every mouthful of food, it makes you chew your food properly, preventing digestive problems, and also prevents you from over eating.

5 Time Management-Make a List!
The most effective stress buster is to manage your time. Make a list of things you have to do. Your short-term memory can only remember, on an average, seven things. So when you overload it , your stress level escalates. By making a list you will decrease your stress level and you will feel tension free from head to toe. This will save you from headaches, depression and high blood pressure.

6 Improve Circulation!
Poor circulation could be robbing you of much-needed sleep. Your temperature needs to drop slightly before you fall asleep, so your body dispels heat via your face, hands and feet. But many women have poor circulation, which constricts the blood vessels in their hands and feet thus preventing them from dispelling heat. A hot bath before sleeping or a hand and foot massage will increase your circulation.

7 Have an apple a day!
If you buy one organic item a day, make it an apple. Research found that pesticide residues in 71% of apples the highest in fruits and vegetables.

8 Consume White Tea!
White Tea is the new green. White tea comes from the same plant as green and black but is harvested earlier and undergoes less processing. The result is that it contains more cancer fighting anti oxidants.

9 Increase Iron Intake!
The most common nutritional deficiency is iron. Tiredness, irritability and lack of concentration. Prevent it by having two helpings of lean red meat a week, or three dried apricots a day.

10 Don’t skip meals!
Eating three meals a day is very important for a healthy body. It’s the simplest way to balance blood sugar levels, which will keep your mood, energy and concentration balanced and strengthen your stress tolerance.

11 Eat Plenty of Vegetables!
Include some raw vegetables in every meal. Many of the vitamins and minerals are in vegetables are lost through cooking, so raw food is as good as it gets.

12 Focus on your feeling!
Take time to boost your resolve to walk, jog or take an aerobics class. The instant gratification of that exercise high is far more motivating than the promise of thinner thighs two months down the line.

Remember there is no easy way to get bake into shape and live a healthy lifestyle.  It takes discipline, will power and commitment to be in it for the long haul.  Once you are there you will reap the benefits of being healthy.

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Tips To Accelerate Your Metabolism

Weight Loss Plans and Free CoachingYour metabolic rate is the number of calories you burn per day. You may have read repeatedly from articles about accelerating your metabolic rate. The most common methods are consuming highly nutritious food in small amounts and performing workouts. If your metabolic rate is slower, it shows you are burning fewer calories. In order to increase your metabolic rate, you advise that you  follow the tips listed below:

1) Do not engage in fasting because you burn too many calories at once, which is really harmful to your body. In this process your muscles weaken and you face dehydration rather than minimizing the fat content.

2) Eat about 6 times a day by consuming nutritious items such as lean protein, fruits and vegetables in small portions.

3) A heavy breakfast is a key factor in increasing the rate of metabolism. Since you are awake for the whole day, your metabolic rate is accelerated.

4) Substitute healthy fats for processed carbs such as nuts, fish, olive oil, and flax oil.

5) Consume less sugar so that the insulin production is regulated and you will burn calories more efficiently.

6) Eat about 1 gm of protein per pound because the excessive fat content will be drained away.

7) Avoid alcohol intake. Alcohol is harmful for weight loss as it prevents fat burning and calorie dense.

8) Green tea and water are the best forms of beverages that do not affect the metabolism process. So use them instead of tea, coffee and alcohol.

9) Avoid night shifts. If they are unavoidable then follow the above-mentioned tips carefully.

Your metabolic rate will be dictated by your lifestyle. Follow the tips in this article if you want to speed up your metabolic rate and lose weight the healthy way.

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Simple Tips For Your Weight Loss

weight-lossThere are many fad diets and plans out there that offer easy solutions to weight loss, but the safest and lasting way to lose weight is through proper diet and exercise. To learn how to lose weight effectively and safely, and to keep it off, read through the tips below.

Make sure you have a support group or weight loss buddy to help you on your quest to lose weight. Whether it is someone you can talk to when you need it or someone who is also trying to actively lose weight, engaging someone else is a great way to keep yourself on track and motivated.

Two fantastic words for weight loss: eat salad. Not exciting enough? Research by Joel Fuhrman of “Eat to Live” shows that the most overweight people can lose prodigious amounts of weight eating prodigious amounts of nutrient-rich, low-calorie food. One key is simplicity: try an entire head of romaine, chopped very fine (the water method in the blender is useful), and topped with an entire can of chili beans. It’s a tasty, 300-calorie lunch that is jam-packed with fiber, protein, and vitamins. It will keep you full for hours, not to mention what it will do for your intestinal health.

Add low-fat milk and other low-fat dairy products into your diet. Studies suggest that Vitamin D and Calcium are directly related to weight loss success. Skipping out on your dairy intake can mean fewer calories, but it can also have a negative effect on how effectively your body burns fat.

Adjusting your bedtime ritual can help you be successful on your weight loss journey. Adding an extra hour of sleep time has been shown to help people make better decisions when it comes to the food they eat. Feeling more alert also helps to reduce stress-eating.

A helpful way to lose weight is to start reading the labels on the food that you eat. Doing so will make you aware of the good and bad chemicals that are in your food. Reading the labels also familiarizes’ you with the amount of calories you will be consuming. This knowledge can be a deterrent to eating unhealthy, which can lead to weight loss.

Plan your meals ahead of time. Taking the time to plan out your meals for the following day, can be a great idea. You will be less likely to cheat on your diet. You will also be less likely to snack.

When you are tracking your progress it can be really helpful to make charts on a computer spreadsheet software. Visually seeing the lines go up and down can help you to see exactly how you are doing. It also can help you to find periods of peaks and troughs, and see what is causing problems.

As discussed above, the best way to lose weight is through a combination of exercise and a nutritious, healthy diet. While fad diets and weight loss products may seem like the way to go, these tips will help you lose weight safely as well as keep that weight off in the future.

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The Netherlands and My Beauty Routine

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Life has been treating my family pretty well for having recently moved to the Netherlands from the States. Most Dutch folk speak English so the language barrier hasn't been too tough on us. The Dutch are very friendly and they open up about their personal lives quite easily. Its been very cold here, so the beauty routine has changed quite a bit.

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My kind of entertainment

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I enjoy a bit of TV now and then.  I'm hooked on social media and the internet.  I love interacting with people.  But my favorite entertainment doesn't involve these activities.  My kind of entertainment consists of drives on country roads, imagining silly pet commentary, meeting new animal characters, and sharing it all with you.  My mama says I've always been this way. 

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Qualities to Look for in a Babysitter

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A babysitter is a person hired by a family to look after their children, especially in their absence. Hiring a babysitter is a common practice in many US households, but there are still a few parents who have concerns utilizing babysitting services with full confidence. In particular, it is difficult for the parents to decide whether or not the babysitter they have hired lives up to their expectations.

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