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Muscle Building Exercises Can Do Wonders

Muscle building exercises

There are several muscle building exercises that will help you to develop a great physique. They can be divided into two categories, strength training and fat burning training. They can be done with or without weights. You will need to develop some goals and an exercise routine to achieve them.

Muscle building exercises: With all your training there are 3 important things to understand.

1. Firstly you always need to be challenging. Once you find that you can do the set of exercises easily, then put on 5 to 10 pounds more and repeat as many of the set that you can. In this way you will be continuously strengthening your muscles. You will develop more growth and burn off more fat by doing this.

2. Remember to stay focused when doing your Muscle building exercises: to do any job right you need to focus on what you are doing in order to do it correctly. Do not get distracted by anything, especially the TV. Try to do your workouts alone or with your trainer to be sure that you are focused on each set of exercises. This will ensure that you can do them better.

3. Make sure that you allow your body the recovery time it needs when you do your Muscle building exercises: Recovery time is necessary when you are developing tissue. The best way to do this is to plan your training so that you will do about 20-30 minutes workout 3 times a week. This means that you will have a day of rest in-between your workouts.

There are 2 types of machines that can be used:

1. Muscle building exercises using weights: These include popular equipment such as the Bowflex. These machines use resistance weights to strengthen, burn fat and put on growth. The Bowfex is especially easy to use as it uses resistance rods instead of weights. It also has a new type where you can just dial whatever weight you need to use.

2. Muscle building exercises not using weights: These are machines like tread mills, elliptical equipment and exercise bikes. These types of machines will build growth more slowly by endurance and strength. You can use these machines at home or in a gym.

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AIDS: a Deadly Disease

WheelCouncil.org has useful books for helping people affected by HIV. Through story telling youth can be guided to make proper life choices.

WheelCouncil has a series of story telling books, activities and worksheets for youth including facilitator’s guidelines.

Here is a sample one:

HIV Storybook

Book 4 in Power Booklet series: Activity workbook with HIV and STD information; includes delay tactics and how to make healthy life choices for young teens. Perfect for youth clubs, health classes, church programs, or for parents and grandparents. Features: youth learn what HIV is and how to control the situations they face. Information on STD’s and teen pregnancy is interspersed with stories that show how hero’s/heroines face adversity. Activities including matching games and scene plays make learning the information fun and easy to learn. Teens learn “I am somebody and I have somewhere to go.” Science based, statistically significant effects! Listed on the National Registry of Effective Prevention Programs (NREPP). An online sample of a lesson from the HIV Storybook is available here. - 48 pages

For more such books go to Wheel Council Product Catalogue.

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AIDS stands for Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome which is a fatal disease caused by a virus known as the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The virus of AIDS attacks human white blood cells and thus weakens the immunity system. Since the AIDS virus reduces the natural immunity, patients become more prone to many other infections or diseases, in fact, most patients with AIDS die from what are known as secondary infections. Death occurs because the body cannot repel the pathogens of secondary infections since the natural defence mechanism has been destroyed by the AIDS Virus.
The AIDS disease spreads through the following ways:

(a) Through unprotected sex with a person infected with the AIDS virus.

(b) Through the transfusion of blood infected with the AIDS virus.

(c) Through the use of infected needles for injections.

(d) Through an infected mother to her child either during pregnancy or during child birth.

AIDS in India was first detected in 1986 and in the USA was detected five years earlier in 1981. The disease is said to have taken the form of an epidemic in Africa and some other Western countries basically due to undesirable sexual practices. Also, in India the disease has started spreading to taking alarming proportions.
It is important to understand the symptoms of this disease, which are usually as follows:

(a) swollen lymph node
(b) regular fever
© sweating at night
(d) weight loss

The Aids virus causes severe damage to the brain and may lead to loss of memory, concentration and the ability to speak.

Prevention and Control-

At present there is no medicine or vaccine that can cure AIDS, so once a person gets it, they are sure to suffer from all the complications related to the disease. The following steps may prove helpful in controlling the infection of the dreaded disease:

-People should be well educated about the transmission of AIDS.

-Disposable syringes and needles should be used for injections.

-High risk groups should refrain from donating blood.

-Before receiving blood for transfusion, one should ensure that it has been screened for HIV.

-The common razor at the barber’s shop should not be used.

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