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When it comes to physical health, there are few things more important than “lung power.” Great martial artists like Bruce Lee knew physical strength and robust health depend on your lungs.

The strong men of my father’s era knew it too. Part of what gives you the capacity to live robustly is getting enough oxygen. But without your awareness, you are probably losing lung capacity. Your lungs tend to shrink with age.

Sooner or later, you get tired more quickly, you’re less virile, you get colds and the flu more often, and it takes longer to recover from illness.

I’ve proven that it doesn’t have to be that way. You can stop this loss of vitality by taking a few simple steps to build your lungs back.

By the time you reached 20, you stopped growing lung tissue and your lung capacity stabilized. This lasted for about 10 years. Then, around 30, your lungs started to decline. The alveoli that deliver oxygen to your blood began to die off. Slowly, most folks limit their daily activities so their lungs can keep up.

Unless you prevent it, you lose 20 percent of your vital lung capacity by about age 35. By 50, you’ve lost 40 percent of your breathing capacity and the decline continues for life.

Exercising daily has become the mantra for good health. While studies show that any amount of physical activity you get will be of benefit to your health, the research is also clear that the more you exercise, the greater the health benefits (as long as you have no signs of overtraining). Exercise not only lowers your disease risks, it improves your quality of life as you age.

If you’ve wasted time and money on scam cellulite solutions, you’re going to be happy — and sad — to hear what I have to say. The truth is that the solution to your cellulite problem has been right in front of your face all along.

And yes, it’s the classic 3-step system of the right diet, the right exercise, and getting social support. There’s nothing fancy, nothing expensive, and nothing magical about any of these. Perhaps you expected me to promote some magical seaweed that’s harvested off the coast of the Canary Islands only between November and December when the moon is full? Well, if that’s the case, I’m sorry to disappoint you.

I’m going to admit something that might shock you. I’ve been a professional fitness instructor for about ten years. During that time, I’ve studied quite a few different fitness programs. All of them required exercising for long periods of time. I was trained to think that I needed to keep my body going for 45-60 minutes to get a good work out… the kind that would burn off fat and increase both the strength of my heart and the capacity of my lungs.

If you look in any gym, you’ll see hordes of people sometimes spending as much as one or two hours working out. These people are under the mistaken belief that they are doing the best kind of exercise for their muscles. Unfortunately, they’re actually mistaken. What happens is that when you do these long extended exercises, you force your body to become more efficient. In order to do that, your body shrinks the muscles so they can operate more effectively as your body tries to horde energy.

When the nice weather rolls around, a lot of people start doing slow, boring cardio workouts outside. But if they really wanted to get more results in less time, they would be better off doing higher intensity interval training either by running or on a
bike.

Say goodbye to the dreaded long hours spent on cardio machines and get ready to tone up with interval training. And the best part is — it only takes 15 minutes after your resistance workout!
The new wave of cardiovascular exercise is interval training, and it is the most economical way to get results fast. According [...]

I often get asked, “What’s the best way to burn fat and lose my belly?… Do aerobics work better than interval training?… Does resistance training help at all?”

During the last few months, I have been researching data and testing different forms of training to find the ultimate weight loss formula. What I learned may surprise you. The bad news is there are no magic pills. The good news is long aerobic sessions are unnecessary and workouts don’t need to last hours. To [...]