It is almost impossible to receive the required daily servings of fruits and vegetables into our diet, not to mention a wide variety.  Antioxidant green drinks and fruit drinks provide a nice supplement to ensure we ingest a wide variety of nutrients without having to pop a handful of pills several times each day.  Include these powders and liquids into a quick smoothie or favorite juice each day and your about covered.  All Day Energy Greens and Go Ruby Go powdered antioxidant superfoods mix easily and actually taste good and they’re low in sugar, sweetened with stevia, for those of you trying to keep your carbs low.

Attending the Nutrition and Sports Conference held at the University of Arizona, Dr. Robert Lutz talked about fitness and “play.”

When we play we are much happier and accepting of the exercise involved in that play. ” So, as adults with busy lives what do we play that also involves improving our physical fitness and overall wellness?”  A great start is jumping on the mini trampoline or rebounder.  An instant smile comes across your face when you step on and start bouncing.  The best part of rebounding is just be free, do what you feel, involve your kids even make a game out of it.  Rebounding exercise is a great way to improve cardiovascular fitness, strengthen the entire body, challenge your balance and best of all a nice tool for weightloss. Health benefits like lymphatic circulation are best done with exercises that slowly move the lymphatic fluid.  The lymphatic system does not have a pump like the heart does to move fluid, rather it requires muscular contraction and the pull of gravity.  Bouncing is a great way to move lymph fluid helping remove waste from our cells and does not jar the body.  

Rebounders like the Healthbounder even provide a stabilizing bar to help with balance.  Let’s face it, we all like to exercise indoors in front of the tube. This is a quiet transportable piece of fitness equipment great for that.

Thanks for the comments and to those of you using             At The Desk Software.  For the rest of us…how do we exercise at work?  You can with this four minute exercise video based from Pilates and yoga concepts of breath, movement, flexibility and activating those deep core abdominal muscles.  This software reminds you as you’ve programmed and it’s so easy to follow and benefit from this quiet video.  You get your work done and every couple of hours for a few short minutes your reminded to stop, breathe, move and back to work…nice!