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Compiled & Prepared by
A.Narayana Prasad.,
No gym needed
Pumping dumbbells at the local gym might be
a breeze, but if you're breathless while running
up the stairs or give up within two laps of
swimming, your body is only being partially
exercised. All that bicep bulk isn't helping you
perform any better.
Maybe rolling back to the basics and
exercising the body as a unit will help. It's
called functional fitness, and it involves
exercising a variety of muscles all at once while
also focussing on your core.
The exercises - all of which are activities that
help your body deal well with real-life situations
- can also be done using regular household
objects. And the benefits are visible, people say.
But don't take this to mean that functional
fitness exercises are any easier. There's a
scientific way of going about them, and the
pressure needs to build periodically.
"Take a conventional form of exercise such as
running and squatting, and personalise it to
your body's needs. Or build an entire workout
around a daily activity," says fitness instructor
Madhuri Ruia.
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Try not to use remote controls for everything.
Even when returning home from the market,
carry your own shopping bags, and while you're
at it, keep your posture straight, walk briskly
and divide the weight equally between the two
hands.
Alternately, sitting and casually bouncing on a
Swiss ball while watching TV or reading a book
helps the back muscles immensely. Elastic bands
with varying levels of resistance, too, are just as
helpful.
Sarah Fernandes (29), a chartered accountant,
makes use of the chairs in her house to do sit-
ups. She also frequently rolls up her aerobic mat,
holds it vertical and uses it to support herself
while doing squats and other leg exercises which
help her core.
"Just make sure that your core is engaged
with whatever you do, even if it's sweeping and
swabbing. You will sense the tension when
you're out of breath.
But if your instinct says something's doesn't
feel right, stop immediately," adds Ruia. Don't
sit still, improvise Experts say that as you
experiment , you'll
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"These are effective ways to stay functionally fit at
discover new ways to exercise different muscle
groups simultaneously.
"There are three commonly known kinds of
crunches - forward, backward and reverse -
besides what you might design for yourself. And
then you can play with the way you climb the
stairs, too - take two steps at a time, climb
backwards, sprint, jog, step up and down," says
Dr Mustafa Topiwala (27), a sports trainer and
physiotherapist with Saifee Hospital.
This is also true for the resistance bands that
work out different muscle sets in your body.
Homemaker Sheetal Kher (25), mother of a six-
month old, has taken to gardening with gusto.
"Weeding the small garden in my compound
and watering the saplings is so much more
exhausting than I thought. I have to bend a lot,
and it's helping my posture," she says.
However, get some advice from a
physiotherapist before embarking on your
functional fitness regime. Get to know what kinds
of functional fitness exercises will suit you best,
and once you've got the hang of it, you can
improvise.
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Set aside a fixed time slot and gradually
increase the intensity. You'll know for sure that
you're fit when you sense an inner strength in
your core, and your muscles all hold up well
under pressure.
Eat healthy food - take in a lot of proteins,
healthy fats and vegetables.
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WHY ARE INDIANS EASY TO IDENTIFY
1. Everything you eat is savored in garlic, onion
and tomatoes.
2..You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes,
and of course aluminium foil.
3... You are always standing next to the two
largest size suitcases at the Airport..
4. You arrive one or two hours late to a party -
and think it's normal.
5. You peel the stamps off letters that the Postal
Service missed to stamp.
6. You recycle Wedding Gifts, Birthday Gifts and
Anniversary Gifts.
7. You name your children in rhythms (example,
Sita & Gita, Ram & Shyam, Kamini & Shamini..)
8. All your children have pet names, which
sound nowhere, close to their real names..
9. You take Indian snacks anywhere it says 'No
Food Allowed.'
10. You talk for an hour at the front door when
leaving someone's house.
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11. You load up the family car with as many
people as possible.
12. HIGH PRIORITY ***** You use plastic to
cover anything new in your house
whether it's the remote control, VCR, carpet or
new couch. *****
13. Your parents tell you not to care what your
friends think, but they won't let you do certain
things because of what the other 'Uncles and
Aunties' will think.
14. You buy and display crockery, which is never
used, as it is for special occasions, which never
happen.
15. You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen
table.
16.. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
17. You keep leftover food in your fridge in as
many numbers of bowls as possible.
18. Your kitchen shelf is full of jars, varieties of
bowls and plastic utensils (got free with
purchase of other stuff)
19. You carry a stash of your own food whenever
you travel (and travel means any car ride longer
than 15 minutes)..
20. You own a rice cooker or a pressure cooker.
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21. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
22. You live with your parents and you are 40
years old (and they prefer it that way).
23. You don't use measuring cups when
cooking.
24. You never learnt how to stand in a queue.
25. You can only travel if there are 5 persons at
least to see you off or receive you whether you
are traveling by bus, train or plane.
26. If she is NOT your daughter, you always
take interest in knowing whose daughter has
run with whose son and feel proud to spread it
at the velocity of more than the speed of light.
27. You only make long distance calls
after 11pm
28. (this is Best One ) If you don't live at home,
when your parents call, they ask if you've
eaten, even if it’s midnight.
29. You call an older person you never met
before Uncle or Aunty.
30. When your parents meet strangers and talk
for a few minutes, you discover you're talking
to a distant cousin.
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31. Your parents don't realize phone connections
to foreign countries have improved in the last
two decades, and still scream at the top of their
lungs when making foreign calls.
32. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to
keep them from getting dirty.
33. Its embarrassing if you're wedding has less
than 600 people.
34. All your Tupperware is stained with food
colour.
35. You have drinking glasses made of steel..
36. You have mastered the art of bargaining in
shopping.
37. You have really enjoyed reading this mail -
forward it to as many Indians as possible.
I STILL LOVE TO BE AN INDIAN
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The Management Tip
Traditional leaders see the employee-boss
relationship as a transaction: money in exchange
for labour. Transformational leaders know and
recognize that employees want much more than
that. Here are the four things your people need to
succeed:
Love: This may sound touchy-feely, but love
simply means focused concern that is exclusively
for that person's good. Show your employees you
care about them and their futures.
Growth: No one wants to be exactly where
they are forever. Create a culture that allows your
people to grow and expand.
Contribution: To feel fulfilled, employees
must know that they are contributing to the whole.
Emphasize the ways that their work matters to the
organization.
Meaning: We are meaning-seeking
creatures. Share a vision that demonstrates that all
of your employees are engaged in a larger purpose.
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