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Prom Gown Online

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Prom night is special moment for every last year student. Typically, this party requires boys to wear  tuxedos and girls should dresses with corsages on the wrists. Well-prepared for everything is a must and young girls will always do the best to dress up and look beautiful. Actually, most of your attention could goes to the dress. The prom dresses are kind of special night gown used for a special moment.

Finding the best prom dress or homecoming gown can be the hardest task. Let see one of the online shop at www.promgirl.net. This online shop has 25 years time experience in prom dresses or homecoming gown. They provide hand-made collection of prom dresses and prom gowns. Most of the collection designed by famous designer such as Alyce Designs, prom dresses Jovani, Faviana, Dave and Johnny, Niteline,  Mori Lee, Riva, and Clarisse.

The collection of prom dress is stunning with very beautiful design. You can even see the sample in famous prom magazines such as Elle Girl, Seventeen Prom, Teen Prom, and many more. Currently, the collection of prom dresses and gowns has been chosen to supply of the contestants of 2008 ABC Family’s new reality series America’s Prom Queen from elimination phase to the final episode.

The online store also provides prom dresses and prom advice for everyone before they decide to buy one. What I don`t like from this shop is that they use many links to open new new page. It seems that the website has separate site as their division. For instance,  www.promgirl.net has link to another website address in www.morilee.com, www.4prom.com. This is ineffective because someone might know one of these site and don`t know the other, hence people may get lost. It`s better if they use one website only so visitor will visit to the main site only. If they have some divisions, just put in another category or navigation on one site.

Even though you can choose from many range of collections and wide range of the prices, still as the online shop, the appearance of the site is very important, however the promgirl.net is less of colour and poor. They should make the picture bigger and reduce the amount of the text.

There is always nice to find a good deal. Low price is interesting for everyone. But again, they should make it more attractive appearances so every time someone come to the site, the hot offer will straight away attract the user. You can`t just put “sale price” with red color, but you should make it bigger font, put it in the center of the website. This could much better in result and can attract new visitors to see what hot`s on.

But overal, the product in www.promgirl.net is worth enough to look at. You can`t deny that prom dresses from this online shop is good to be considered.

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Ballet: a Series of Exercises

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

Ready to get your toes wet (or pointed)? You`ll start on the floor to help you feel your alignment, then progress to standing moves, all adapted from “the barre” – a series of exercises dancers do standing, holding onto a rail to refine technique. Here is some techniques to exercise ballet.

1.  Side-lying passe.

lie on your right rise, legs together and extended. Put your left hand on th floor in front of your chest, elbow bent, for support. Extend your arm; rest your head on it. Keep abdominals contracted and pull your rib cage down toward hips. Keep room enough between your waist and the floor so you could slie your hand underneath).

Keeping your hips square, bend your left knee height (passe). Use your abs to stabilize this position, then rotate legs out as you contract your buttocks; the left knee will rotate toward the floor. Next, contract your inner thighs and rotate legs in toward each other so your top knee goes toward the floor and your bottom leg rolls up (don`t let your hips tip forward or back; keep them stacked). Straighten your left leg back to starting position and repeat. Do your reps and then switch sides to do the other leg.

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Burn Mega Calories In One Night

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

How many calories can you burn throwing a party? We did the math so you don`t have to feel guilty skipping your daily workout to get things ready for your geusts:

Getting Ready

Activity: Cleaning the house, 2 hours.
Calories burned: 413
Activity: Rearranging the furniture, 30 minutes.
Calories burned: 177
Activity: Shopping for snacks, 45 minutes.
Calories burned: 155
Activity: Preparing food, 1 hours.
Calories burned: 148
Activity: Decorating, 1 hours.
Calories burned: 136
Activity: Calling your friends to invite them, 1 hours.
Calories burned: 106
Activity: Changing your clothes, 10 minutes.
Calories burned: 74

Being a Good Host

Activity: Dancing, 1 hours.
Calories burned: 325
Activity: Answering the door and ushering in guests, 1 hours.
Calories burned: 177
Activity: Replenishing food and drinks, 1 hours.
Calories burned: 148
Activity: standing around talking, 1 hours.
Calories burned: 106
Activity: Mopping up spills, 1/2 hour.
Calories burned: 74

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Fitness, Q and A

Question:
To get good-looking abs, is it better to do lots of crunches or sets of different of exercises?

Answer:
You don`t have to do thousands of repetitions to tone your abs, says Jaime Brenkus, the cleveland star video “8 minutes abs.” Basic crunches will get you started. “When you lie on your back and curl upward, your train the entire rectus abdominis,” says Brenkus.

However, as you progress, he recommends training your abs in regions for a few minutes four times a week. Do a sit-up with arms over your head, hands clasped, to hit the upper abs; a reserve crunch. Drawing your hips up toward your ribs, for the lower abs; and crunches with side rotations to work the obliques.

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Workout Schedule

Friday, January 16th, 2009

This 4-weeks program designed for both novices and veterants, targets all of your major muscle groups. Each week you`ll lift heavier weight and perform fewer repetitions; after 4 weeks, begin the cycle again. Througout the program, perform just 1 set of each exercise, and take about 90 seconds to rest and set up for next exercise. Do this program 2 or 3 times a week with a day of rest in between each training session. Complement your strenght program with at least two 30-45 minute aerobic workouts per week.

Warm up:
Begin each workout with 5-10 minutes of low-intensity aaerobic exercise, such as walking on a treadmill or stopping on a stair climber. Then lightly strech all your major muscles, including your buttocks, quadriceps, harmstrings, chest, back, shoulders, arms and abdominals. Hold each strech 10 seconds without bouncing.

Cool-down:
Complete your workouts with stretches for all major muscle groups. Hold each strech 20 seconds without bouncing.

Week 1:
Perform 1 set of 12 reps using as much weight as you can handle with good form. Choosing the proper weight may be hit-and-miss at first. Aim for a weight that makes the final repetitions feel quite challening, but not impossible. If the recommended weight are too heavy for you, use common sense and lighten your load.

Week 2:
Add more weight, and perform 10 reps for each move. Depending on the exercise, increase the weight in 2 1/2 – 10-pound increment.

Week 3:
Increase the weight, and perform 8 reps for each exercise.

Week 4:
Increase the weight again, dropping down to 6 repetitions for every move.

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The Good-fit Gear Guide

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Looking for the right size sports gear can leave you wondering how you ever passed trig. Here are some tips:

Bicycles. To chose the right frame, straddle the bike, feer on the ground. Allow 1-2 inches between yourself and the top tube for road/touring bikes and no less than 2 inches for off-road/mountain bikes. Because of geometry, men`s frames tend to be sturdier; 14 to 18-inches frames are generally suited for women. Once you have the right frame, you`ll need to adjust the saddle height: When sitting on the bike, your knee should be slightly bent on the down stroke.

Backpacks. The goal: to distribute the weight to that the bulk rests on the hips. If the pack doesn`t have a frame, look for adjustable padded shoulder straps and a hip belt to take some weight off your shoulders. Packs with external frames ride high from waist to head. The belt should rest on your hips; the lower crossbar shouldn`t touch your back. Internal-frame packs rise a few inches above your shoulders and fit snugly on your back. Before buying a pack, fill it up and wear it around the store. It shouldn`t dig into your hips or make your head lean forward.

Golf Clubs. Consulting a pro about the right club is ideal, because proper stance is a key sizing factor. It helps you choose the right club based on your glove size, height and swing speed. Typical club lengths for women: 36 1/2 – 37 inches for irons; 42-43 inches for woods.

Tennis Rackets. Grip the racket with your right hand and place your left index finger in the gap between the fingertips and the palm of your right hand. (Reserve hands if you are left-handed.) If the index finger fits in the space comfortably, the grip is right for you. If you can fit more than one finger, the grip is too large. If your swing is too weak, consider a stiff racket (strings and frame); it will generate less vibration and provide more power. If you have a strong swing, go for a more flexible racket.

Shape mag, October 1998

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The Skinny on Exercise

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Once excess weight is lost, how much exercise keeps it off? University of Chicago and University of Wisconsin at Madison researchers trying to answer that question followed 33 women, ages 20-50, for one year after they had lost at least 26 pounds. The results, published 1997 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found the “threshold” for weight control averaged 80 minutes a day of moderate-intensity physical activity (such as walking between 2.2 and 3.7 mph, playing softball,golf or table tennis) or 35 minutes a day of vigorous activity (jogging, active dancing, tennis).

Researchers didn`t compute daily totals but suspect the most practical approach to be alternating: doing vigorous exercise one day, moderate the next. The level is much higher than the recommended half hour a day of moderate-intensity activity to promote health and reduce disease, researchers said.

But the results should not be taken as gospel, add John Foreyt, Ph.D., a leading obesity researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. “It`s good study, but it is one study. Many people are able to maintain their body weight with less exercise [than this].” While “physical activity is a must to keep off weight loss,” he says, those who maintain a weight loss often figure out for themselves how much they can eat and how long and hard they must exercise.

Source: Shape mag, 1998

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Women Produce It Testosterone Too!

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

One might get the impression from what has been stated, that females should be completely devoid of testosterone in their bodies. Not so! While males make up to 10mg a day, female make 0.25mg. How can this be? Females do not have testes! Adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH), the main hormone released from the pituitary that stimulates production of catecholmanies by adrenal glands, also increases the production of testosterone.

It occurss like this. All sex hormones are made from cholesterol. Totally under the control of ACTH, cholesterol is altered to an intermediary called pregnenolone. If ACTH increases, so does pregnenolone, and so does testosterone. Growth of all lean this issue is thereby accentuated. In addition to this, minute amounts of testosterone are made in the ovaries, and even in muscle. So can a female stimulate the adrenal glands to produce more testosterone?

She can, and all she has to do is to take 2,000 miligrams of vitamin C every day! This produce more pregnenolone to be converted to testosterone. It`s the same for males, but they can go one further. By taking 50mg of zinc daily, they can dramatically incluence testosterone require regular adequate supplies of the mineral to boost their activity. We haven`t finished yet! Branced-claim amino acids improve testosterone levels.

Recent research reveals that supplements of 2.0grams of valine and 0.8grams of isoleucine, taken daily, can increase testosterone production after training. Immediately after training is when the athlete requires circulating testosterone most. That is when it has the most effect in promoting new protein synthesis.

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Grow Your Own Testosterone

Monday, January 12th, 2009

The well-defined musculature of the male starts to develop at puberty when the previously inactive testes start to develop the hormone testosterone. This course through the body producing major physiologycal and psychological changes. Male animals undergo exactly the same transformation; we know this from the effects of castrating pets such as cats.

The growth of bigger muscles is just one of the changes at puberty; this is the anabalic action of testosterone. Alongside this change there are so-called androgenic alterations; for instance, the growth of facial hair and lengthening of the vocal cords which leads to the voice “breaking”. A further change is that the ends  of the growing bones (the epiphyses) start to “seal”, thus stopping further lengthening. None of these change have anything to do with sex characteristics. However, sperm production and greater development of the penis do concern sexual function and are called primary sex characteristics.

Now, the powerful anabolic properties of testosterone at puberty have been known for over half a century, and it is this effect that chemistry have tried to copy, and has attracted  the attention of the athletes in power events. Modern anabolic steroids effect muscle growth far more than testosterone does.Why go to expense and effort of producing more powerful drugs if testosterone could be used instead? The answer is two. For it to work, testosterone has to be given by injection. When taken orally it goes to the liver quickly and is broken down before it reaches muscles.

Because injections are tire someone for both receiver and doctor, other anabolic steroids that can be taken by mouth are preferred to testosterone. Also, the hormone, which is strongly androgenic, can produce in females irreversible male characteristics -they do not disappear when the drugs is stopped.

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