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The 12 not in the gym with weights. To achieve rapid and satisfactory results when working with weights or equipment, it is essential to consider how to perform each of the years of our routine.

The warm up is essential, the technique must be correct, and certainly not least is the elongation, with these three basic principles can make a safe and injury free.

Other tips:

1. If using weights, training should be a plan developed by a specialist, train intelligently to see progress.

2. Do not lift more weight than that indicates the program is better to repeat more times to strain our muscles to the maximum that can cause injury.

3. Do not lift weights before going to run, you can actually do the reverse by following the steps of heating and stretching.

4. Using equipment safely, they must be either disks, the major cause of injury in the gym is poorly secured computers.

5. Training with absorbent clothing, perspiration does the slippery body, placing bars on the body can slip and hurt.

6. Never start weight training, first elongates, then enter 10 and 12 minutes training with jogging, biking or rope. The weights cause stress on the muscles, hence the importance of preparation. Read the rest of this entry »

The mountain of benefits of green tea continues to grow. Now the data arrives from Japan, where several studies have added beneficial properties of this infusion, associated with serious problems such as liver cancer and pneumonia.

One of them has been conducted by Toru Naganuma School of Medicine, Tohoku University, who showed that drinking about five cups of green tea per day may reduce the risk of various cancers by up to 42%, data that apply to both men and women and people with different weights.

From the same university, another group of investigators also studied the properties of green tea associated with cancer. Published in the journal Cancer Causes and Control, the study showed that green tea consumption was inversely associated with risk of developing liver cancer. The study showed that the more green tea was consumed, the lower the risk of breast cancer.

Finally, another study from the same University published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found a strong link between green tea consumption and the incidence of pneumonia in women. Researchers attribute this to the potent antioxidant found in green tea.

Well, the list is growing, particularly in relation to cancer. Green tea is a brew to be taken into account to prevent the development of this disease, not to mention its other benefits, of course.