Childhood obesity is a growing problem, as children spend less time exploring the great outdoors and more time in front of the television and computer. One way to improve a child’s risk is to motivate them to do more calorie burning activities. Here are some easy ways to encourage your child to exercise.
Grupo Mayan professionals have the following recommendations. Motivate a child to exercise by not calling it exercise. Refer to it as to play instead. Dance with your child, eat lunch in the park, enroll your child in after school classes.
When kids are active, their bodies can do the things they want and need them to do, so they will want to do more of it. Regular exercise provides these benefits: strong muscles and bones, weight control, decreased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, they sleep better and their outlook of life is a positive one.
Whether it’s swimming or riding a tricycle — it improves their abilities and helps them feel talented, especially when the effort is noticed and praised. These good feelings often make kids want to continue the activity and even try others.
Here is some age-based advice by the Grupo Mayan Experts:
-Preschoolers: need play and exercise that helps them continue to develop important motor skills — kicking or throwing a ball, playing tag or follow the leader, hopping on one foot, riding a bike, free dancing, or running obstacle courses.
-School–age: These can range from traditional sports like baseball and basketball to Scouting, biking, camping, hiking, and other outdoor pursuits.
-Teenagers: Teens have many choices when it comes to being active — from school sports to after-school interests, such as yoga or skateboarding
If your child is overweight, do not push him/her. Consistency is the key. Get them outside, moving as much as you can and provide them with healthy food to give them energy. You can begin by setting a good example and include a balanced diet for your family.
What about exercising when you are on vacations at the Grupo Mayan Resorts with them? Magical places, white sands, azure sky, crystal-clear ocean, sunny weather; the perfect scenario for your kids to enjoy and share activities with others. They will play without knowing they are exercising! The “Kids Club” is an special program created for kids from 5 to 12 years old. They have many activities to keep them in motion, like pool games, bag races, pool race, soccer at the beach, balloon war, mini dance lessons, and many more.
These are just a few tips to motivate children to exercise. The Grupo Mayan experts in health and fitness hope this will help you to enjoy more quality family time.
Tai Chi Chuan is a Chinese internal martial and healing art commonly known as “meditation movements”. Its roots can be traced throughout traditional Taoist and Confucian Chinese philosophy says the Grupo Mayan Resorts experts. It consists of sequences of slow motion movements which are carried out to find union between the mind and body. By doing these routines, you can achieve a sensation of harmony and serenity. It has been said that this practice provides health benefits as well as teaching defense skills.
Tai Chi has been proven to have favorable effects in treating chronic conditions, such as arthritis, high blood pressure, multiple sclerosis, among others. Also, it is good for diabetics to practice Tai Chi as it is claimed to improve glucose levels. The Grupo Mayan training professionals know this is not something discovered in recent times. Chinese people already know this as learned through Chinese traditional medicine, and that is why this is a very popular activity in that region. A lot of people practice Tai Chi by gathering in public places.
There are many different training styles and schools – Yang, Cheng, Wu, Sun and Wu/Hao. For example, the movements of the Sun style are recommended to treat arthritis. These exercises help in clarifying and calming the mind as well as the body. The Grupo Mayan Resorts health experts state that your muscles relax by finding balance to maintain the body weight with each movement pattern. They improve muscle strength and flexibility, as well as correcting body alignment.
Beginners should start with simple, easy and basic movements using comfortable clothes. It is recommended to use Chikung breathing techniques during a Tai Chi session.
Finally, it has been determined that back pains may be caused by the loss of flexibility, muscular strength and stress. Tai Chi as known by the Grupo Mayan training experts, activates muscles with its characteristic slow movements, help in modifying posture if it is carried out in a proper manner to avoid pain.
As in any other exercise routine, the Grupo Mayan Resorts training professionals urge you to visit your doctor before starting any Tai Chi routine. We are certain that this training form will enlighten your lifestyle in a safe and transcendental manner.
Zumba combines dance and fitness moves. Inspired by Latin dance and music, Zumba uses a variety of styles in its routines, as confirmed by the Grupo Mayan experts; including Cumbia, Merengue, Salsa, Reggaeton, Mambo, Rumba, Flamenco, Tango and Hip Hop. Music selection includes both fast and slow rhythms that help to tone and sculpt the body.
Zumba is considered a new way to exercise. It was in the mid 90’s that a Colombian trainer, Beto Pérez, introduced this technique. At Grupo Mayan Resorts, you can find professional instructors that can assist and guide you through the Zumba routines.
The Grupo Mayan instructors are convinced people of all ages can practice Zumba. You do not have to worry if you do not know how to dance or if you are not an expert, just feel and enjoy the music. If you cannot do a step, just move however the music makes you feel. When you dance and your body moves, you leave stress behind. You are in complete harmony with yourself, you flow with the music and you free your mind.
Grupo Mayan professionals also state that you can use any type of fitness clothes, like pants, shorts, sweat pants, t-shirts; clothing that makes you feel comfortable. Bear in mind that a Zumba class can take from 50 minutes up to one hour. You can expect from this class lots of fun while you practice fitness moves, such as body-toning rhythm, as well as shaking.
Some people may think that Zumba and aerobics are the same, although the main difference is that Aerobics uses continuous music and in Zumba you pause after each song to take a break. Most of those classes are cardio workouts.
Next time you visit one of our Grupo Mayan Resorts, take the time to go to a Zumba fitness class. Afterwards, you can recharge energies with a variety of fresh squeezed juices, smoothies, salads and sandwiches at the “Brio Health Bar”. Reinvigorate dancing!
It is quite common to hear comments from people that do exercise about their injuries. This is quite appalling, as some of them can be avoided or at least reduced by knowing how to listen and feel your body in the correct way. The Grupo Mayan Resorts exercise trainers state that planned routines and constant care may definitely reduce the risk.
The first thing you should be sensitive to when exercising is not to go on exercising if you feel pain. Instead of trying to overcome it by doing more exercise, that should be an alarm to take a break. Once the discomfort is gone say the Grupo Mayan experts, you may continue, as long as it does not return. If it does, you may consider changing your current activity to something different in which you do not feel pain anymore.
Another suggestion if you are beginning to exercise is not to exceed yourself. A gradual increase is recommended for the regularity and length, but to start of doing 15-20 minutes of low intensity exercises is more than enough, no more than that. If your workout includes using equipment with weights, the weight should also be increased gradually.
The Grupo Mayan Resorts exercise experts say that warms up are always a must before any routine; the same as cooling off at the end of your routine and alternating your exercises. Whatever you workout one day, don’t do it the next one. And remember to rest, as that will allow you to prevent fatigue and what is called “overuse”.
The most basic advice is to always wear comfortable clothes and proper shoes that fits the activity you perform; as well as keeping them in good shape. As soon as their start wearing down, the Grupo Mayan Resorts exercise professionals urge you to change them.
Choosing the correct activities based on your own personal fitness level is suitable to prevent injuries; visit your doctor before starting any program to have the correct one designed for your needs and resistance.
These are just a few tips to avoid having to stop your favorite sport while you recover from an injury. The Grupo Mayan experts in health and fitness hope this will help you continue to enjoy your favorite physical activity.
The Grupo Mayan exercise trainers recommend having a stretching session before starting any exercise routine. It can improve flexibility and provide many other benefits if it is done in a proper manner. There are a wide variety of styles to fit every practitioner’s needs; for example, the most popular ones are: dynamic stretching, ballistic stretching, active stretching, static stretching, PNF (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation) stretching, isometric stretching, passive (or relaxed) stretching, et cetera.
It is of utmost importance to warm-up before your stretching session, in order to avoid any undesired injuries and to obtain all the benefits of it. The Grupo Mayan Resorts experts promote supervised athletic activities to reduce the risk of injury, and in that way, improve your performance. It is also recommended to seek your physician’s advice before undertaking any workout regime.
A general warm-up can include joint rotations – counter or clockwise, or an aerobic activity – such as jumping rope, spinning classes, walking, jogging or anything similar, to increase your cardiovascular pump. Additionally, the Grupo Mayan trainers emphasize that during the stretching session, breathing control is essential. This allows for the body to reach the relaxation state needed for stretching, always keeping in mind that you need to exhale as you workout each specific muscle. It is also highly suggested by the Grupo Mayan professionals, to start your day by performing stretches every morning.
Once your muscles are warmed-up, you can start your stretching routine by holding each one for 30-40 seconds. Keep in mind; it is disadvantageous to stretch without a good warm-up.
Following your daily exercise program, you must cool-down with a brief series of specialized stretches. Complimentary, the Grupo Mayan Resorts trainers suggest healthy eating habits must always accompany a good exercise program. Eating the right foods provide the nutrients needed to sustain your muscles and provide energy to endure any routine.
At the Grupo Mayan Resorts you will find the facilities where you can exercise, warm-up, cool-down and relax after performing your daily healthy habits; as well as getting a massage at our Grupo Mayan‘s spas to finish off with a golden seal your workout routine and refresh at the Brio’s Health bar, where you can find nutritious snacks and drinks.
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The fact that you are exercising is a great start to keeping your health at a good level, say the Grupo Mayan experts, but most of the time people overlook one very important factor in exercise, and that is the flexibility factor.
It is very common to see people who used to be so limber as a child and who have been very active during their teen years, think that this ability would carry them for many years to come. Well, the bad news, say the Grupo Mayan experts in health and fitness, is that flexibility is something that is taken for granted all too often and that it does not stay with you regardless of how flexible you might have always been.
You may come from a background of tap, jazz and ballet as well as playing sports for several years and still have days where you wake up and can barely get out of bed because your joints and ligaments are so stiff due to inactivity.
Inactivity can steal your flexibility and make you older before your time, say the Grupo Mayan experts.
Some people hate exercise all together, but you do not have to exercise in order to maintain flexibility.
The only thing you have to keep in mind say the Grupo Mayan experts is that having a regular exercise program will help you to maintain flexibility easier.
When you exercise you always start out with stretching and then end with stretching in the cool down period of your regimen, this will definitely keep you flexible. Any kind of exercise whether it is just simply walking everyday or a hardcore workout, requires you to stretch in order to avoid early muscle fatigue and injury.
Something you should keep in mind is to not just maintain your flexibility, but to try to push yourself just past comfort level in order to improve your flexibility factor. The more you gain flexibility, say the Grupo Mayan experts, the longer it will stick with you and hopefully you will never be involved in a serious accident, but if you are, and were very flexible before the accident, you have an increased chance at a faster recovery time as well as a less painful therapy process to regain muscle and tendon usage.
The best way to work on your flexibility is to talk to a physical trainer who can give you tips on focussing solely on your flexibility and just incorporate that into your everyday workout.
Grupo Mayan professionals recommend that you take care when vacationing with your children so that you can protect their health. Children do not always point out when something is wrong and you should take precautions to avoid problems.
One of the most important tips is to apply sunscreen to your childrenís skin. Everyone can burn very easily when on the beach or lounging by the pool. You should apply a sunscreen that has a way to block UVA and UVB rays. For children under the age of six months to the age of ten years of age should wear at least a SPF 30 waterproof sunscreen. Over the age of ten years, children should use a SPF of at least 15. To protect really young children under the age of six months, you should keep them out of the sun entirely.
The best time to take children out into the sun is early in the morning and late in the afternoon. The middle of the day has the highest amount of heat and can be dangerous to your children. You can always find something else to do when the hottest part of the day is in effect. When taking children out, be sure to apply sunscreen not just once but often. Even if the sunscreen is waterproof, it can still wash off and leave your child unprotected.
Another way to protect your children is to plan for insect bites and jellyfish stings. Take some vinegar or meat tenderizer to treat a jellyfish bite. You can keep a small spray bottle of vinegar in your purse for such an incident. Most resorts or hotel have a first aid kit or something similar available to help your children. Grupo Mayan professionals recommend using sandals while on the beach to avoid burning their feet. Broken glass, bottle caps, shells, and many other things may cut your childrenís feet. Sandals will protect them from harm.
Pack some bottled water with you when you are on the beach or by the pool to help keep your children hydrated. Grupo Mayan professionals reveal that many people do not realize how quickly a child can become dehydrated. Do not worry about the time, your children will let you know when they get tired or are hungry. Follow the rhythm of your children to know when it is time to get out of the sun.
November 12th, 2009 in
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Many parents want to avoid taking chances with their newborns when taking a vacation. However, some parents have no problem with enjoying a vacation with their infant. To ensure proper health care of your infant, Grupo Mayan professionals have the following recommendations you might consider using.
Planning and practice are two important parts of ensuring your infant is cared for properly while on vacation. Pack a diaper bag with all the important necessities. Take a bottle (or two, or three), pacifiers, diapers, toys, blankets, medications, and burping cloths. You can be more successful if you plan for everything that could happen.
Grupo Mayan professionals recommend that you dress your child carefully to help prevent them from getting ill. Pack a hat or cap to shield your infant to help prevent damage to their skin and eyes. If you can follow your childís routine, you will have a better opportunity to keep your child healthy. If the child eats at certain times, try to keep the same times. Do not endanger your childís health just because you are on vacation.
To save money, you might consider renting or buying a stroller when you reach your destination. A stroller can be very expensive to transport on a plane. You will be slowed down with a bulky item such as a stroller. Grupo Mayan professionals recommend that you keep your infantís personal documents in a safe place that you can access easily.
Be sure to plan enough time for dealing with the chaos at the airport. Working your way through the airport (with small children) can be very trying. No matter how old the children may be, you should make plans for the trip. Sometimes you can avoid allowing your children to get upset and make themselves sick by taking a trial run. Practicing to take the children on a trip can help prepare them for what lays ahead.
Grupo Mayan travel professionals want to help you to keep your children healthy. Avoid making radical changes to their routines in order to avoid helping them to get sick so easily. Infants can make a trip with you on your vacation if you plan for the trip and keep to the routine your child has created. Parents take their children, including their infants, on trips all the time and you should not have to worry about their health on vacation if you just plan and practice.
Most of us realize that we have to protect ourselves when we go on a trip or vacation. However, how many people think about their eyes? Grupo Mayan travel professionals recommend that travelers consider caring for one of the most important parts of their body, their eyes.
If you are traveling south to some place with lots of sun and sand, do not forget to take your sunglasses with you. Donít trust your eyes to some $2 pair of sunglasses either. Invest in some good sunglasses that can block at least 70% of light The white sands of the Caribbean can reflect an enormous amount of light right into your eye and cause possible damage if not protected. Even the water can reflect much of the sunís light back into your eyes.
Pick out sunglasses that can help protect your eyes and keep them healthy. UV rays can be detrimental to your body and your eyes. Good lenses for you sunglasses should have UV protection, be scratch resistant, and lightweight. The entire pair of glasses should be light enough that you may even forget you are wearing them. Technology has come a long way and sunglasses have benefited from some major upgrades.
If you wear contacts, you can still use sunglasses to protect your eyes. However, be aware of the danger of getting dirt or sand in your eye and it getting in between the contact lenses and your eye. A scratch can be infected and ruin your entire trip. Some people have taken advantage of the new contact lenses that breathe more and allow your eye to remain moist. Keep a spare set of contacts with you on your trip and pack some contact eye solution and cleaner.
Grupo Mayan professionals also recommend that if you have the new glasses that adjust to bright lights automatically, that you give the lenses the time needed to change. Unlike the commercials that you see, the lenses do not change as quickly as you would like them to. Wait a minute or two when you approach the sun to give the glasses an opportunity to do their job. Some people add clip-on sunglass lenses to their regular glasses to get the same affect. Pack at least one spare set of sunglasses for your trip although two pairs would probably be safer for you.
Grupo Mayan professionals remind you not to forget how important your eyes are and that you keep some protective gear available to keep your eyes healthy on your trip.
A vacation is a hard place to stay fit. There is so much food, drinks, and other decadent things to do that most of us forget (on purpose sometimes) to try to be healthy. Grupo Mayan professionals reveal that you donít have to give up having fun to remain fit while enjoying your vacation or business trip.
If you travel for pleasure, your brain becomes more relaxed and you may let down your guard. Telling yourself that you can eat whatever you want without consequence because it is your vacation is not very smart. If you want to pig out on some deserts, make some smarter choices elsewhere in your meal. Ask if the meal is available with less fat or choose something that is grilled or baked instead of fried. Most resorts have no problem with lessening the sauce or other gravies that may have all the calories if you ask. However, do not go overboard or you will not get a chance to enjoy the gourmet foods.
If you plan to eat out for dinner every night, you might try to order a healthy breakfast or light lunch to help offset the decadent dinners. Do not avoid meals thinking this will help you out later. People that do this are starving the body and increasing the chances of your getting nauseas later. Consider sharing your meals if you are not alone. Can you not imagine a more romantic meal than each of you feeding the other. This way you order less and both of you can enjoy the food the way it was meant to be served.
Most of us do not want to work out when on vacation. If this is you, just make some simple changes to the activities you are planning to do. Look at each choice to see how you can add some exercise to it and still have fun. If the activity is exciting, you will not even realize you are working out. Most resorts and vacation spots have some type of gym or workout spot you can use. Fifteen to thirty minutes each morning in the exercise gym can go a long way to keeping you fit on the trip.
Grupo Mayan professionals recommend that if all else fails, just remember that the trip will end eventually and you can get back on your workout routine at home.
November 9th, 2009 in
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