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calorieworkouts · 7 years ago

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30 Convincing Reasons to Start Running Now

What assures a much healthier body, a sunnier expectation, and the perfect opportunity to catch up? This is no commercial. Running is just one of the most effective butt-kicking, calorie-blasting exercises around. Still not persuaded? Below are 30 majorly factors to hit the ground running.

The Run-Down-- Your Action Plan

1. Do it anywhere

Run, that is. Whether on the treadmill or in the park, it's very easy to rack up miles. Even better: Attempt lacing up the sneakers on that particular following holiday to check out a brand-new place.

2. Make new friends

Tired of meeting duds at bench? Take a look at neighborhood running teams or internet sites like meetup.com to hit the trail with other health-minded individuals. "Twenty concerns" is equally as great over a run (boozy brunches optional).

3. Save some cash

Forget fancy tools or a costly fitness center membership. When it comes to running, all you have to get begun is the ideal shoes. (Don't stress, running spandex is optional.)

4. Visit the doctor less

It's not only apples that could maintain the doctor away. Energetic people are much less most likely to develop colon cancer. And also girls, females who regularly participate in extreme exercises like running can reduce their risk of breast cancer by as much as 30 percent.

5. Eat more carbs

Who doesn't enjoy a pasta dinner? Currently there's a reason to drink up a lot more pastas. During intense training like preparing for a race (sorry, stations searching doesn't matter) boosting carb consumption may help running performance and boost mood during harder runs Higher dietary carbohydrate material during escalated running training lead to better upkeep of efficiency and state of mind state. Achten, J, Halson, SL, Moseley, L, et al. Human Perfromance Laboratory, School of Sport and Workout Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, B15 2TT Birmingham, United Kingdom. Journal of Applied Physiology, 2004 Apr,96(4):1331 -40. Epub 2003 Dec 5. .

6. Keep it interesting

Forget boring laps around a track. Interval training assists increase metabolic rate as well as rev cardiovascular physical fitness. Incentive: Studio reveals runners that do intervals have more enjoyable while running (actually!) and might be more most likely to keep it up High-intensity period running is viewed to be more enjoyable compared to moderate-intensity continuous exercise: effects for exercise adherence. Bartlett, JD, Close, GL, MacLaren, DP, et al. Studio Institute for Sport and also Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores College, Liverpool, UK. Journal of Sports Sciences, 2011 Mar,29(6):547 -53. .

7. Live longer

Who doesn't wish to live forever? Not only do runners have fewer specials needs and also remain energetic longer compared to their sedentary equivalents, they in fact live longer. Or even as weekly running times lower with age, the healthy benefits continue ticking Reduced impairment and also death among aging runners: a 21-year longitudinal research study. Chakravarty, EF, Hubert, HB, Lingala, VB, et al. Department of Immunology and also Rheumatology, Stanford College School of Medication, Stanford, California, UNITED STATE. Archives of Inner Medicine, 2008 Aug 11,168(15):1638 -46. .

8. Get primal

Turns out Bruce Springsteen was right besides: Child, we were birthed to run. It's what transformed us from apes to human beings and also was used by our forefathers to outrun prey over long distances.

9. Slip into skinny jeans

Running is among the most effective calorie heating elements around. For a 160-lb person it could burn even more than 850 calories a hr. Not like we're counting or anything.

10. Bring sexy back

Not only can having a rockin' jogger's bod boost confidence in bed, routine workout will aid adaptability in between the sheets-- and also obtain you in the state of mind much more often.

11. Boost memory

Exercise has actually been revealed to aid keep the mind sharp as well as could possibly even lower signs and symptoms of dementia. Striking the track might likewise secure the brain against Alzheimer's, even amongst those with a household history of it Physical workout protects against Alzheimer's condition in 3xTg-AD computer mice. García-Mesa, Y, López-Ramos, JC, Giménez-Llort, L, et al. Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona (IIBB), CSIC-IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain. Journal of Alzheimer's Illness, 2011,24(3):421 -54. Cognitive feature in elderly marathon runners: cross-sectional data from the marathon trial (APSOEM). Winker, R, Lukas, I, Perkmann, T, et al. Unit of Occupational Medication, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Wien Klin Wochenschr, 2010 Dec,122(23-24):704 -16. Epub 2010 Nov 15. .

12. See the sunny side

Active people see the glass as fifty percent full not just while they work out, yet for around twice as long after disconnecting their kicks than their less mobile counterparts Long-term results of cardio workout on emotional outcomes. DiLorenzo, TM, Bargman, EP, Stucky-Ropp, R, et al. Department of Psychology, College of Missouri-Columbia. Columbia, MO. Preventive Medicine, 1999 Jan,28(1):75 -85. Exercisers achieve greater intense exercise-induced mood enhancement than nonexercisers. Hoffman, MD, Hoffman, DR. Department of Physical Medication & Recovery, Sacramento VA Medical Facility, Mather, CA. Archives of Physical Medicine and also Recovery, 2008 Feb,89(2):358 -63. . Discuss "Pleased Feet!"

13. Get a natural glow

Believe it or otherwise, functioning up a sweat can free the face of substances that obstructs pores and leads to outbreaks. A solid sweat session can also improve all-natural oils, keeping things fresh and also healthy and balanced. (Simply remember to remove makeup pre-workout and also clean delicately subsequently to avoid outbreaks.)

14. Improve self-esteem

Need another reason to go green? Joggers that ran outdoors and got an excellent view of nature showed enhanced self-confidence post-workout than those that had just undesirable scenes to gaze at The psychological and bodily wellness results of environment-friendly workout. Pretty, J, Peacock, J, Sellens, M, et al. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, UK. International Journal of Environmental Health and wellness Research study, 2005 Oct,15(5):319 -37. .

15. Stay steady

Older runners could maintain their equilibrium far better compared to non-runners, securing their knees as well as ligaments at the same time. Take that, yoga! Take care not to overdo it, though: Also much workout can result in anxiety injuries and also bone loss Age-related deterioration in leg-extensor muscle-tendon systems reduces recovery performance after a forward fall: settlement with running encounter. Karamanidis, K, Arampatzis, A. Institute of Biomechanics as well as Orthopaedics, German Sporting activity University of Cologne, Carl-Diem-Weg 6, 50933 Fragrance, Germany. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2007 Jan,99(1):73 -85. Epub 2006 Oct 25. .

16. Turn down the pressure

Running is an all-natural means to keep hypertension away-- as well as quick. Amping up exercises can assist lower blood stress in just a few weeks.

17. Build stronger bones

Resistance training is awesome, but word on the road is that running might aid create also more powerful bones compared to cranking out reps. As an impact workout, running assists develop the muscular tissue that lower-impact exercises neglect, keeping bones healthier also as they age.

18. Get an energy boost

Feeling slow? Try going for a run instead. Simply one running sesh could increase power and also try fatigue Exercisers attain better severe exercise-induced state of mind improvement than nonexercisers. Hoffman, MD, Hoffman, DR. Division of Physical Medication & Rehabilitation, Sacramento VA Medical Center, Mather, CA. Archives of Bodily Medication and also Rehabilitation, 2008 Feb,89(2):358 -63. .

19. Bring the furry friends

Dogs are man's friend for a reason-- but they can likewise be man's finest workout partner, also. When it's time to take off, grab a chain to offer your family pet a brand-new type of treat.

20. Carve that core

A solid core improves stance, enhances arm or legs, as well as assists make daily activities a wind. As well as whether we feel it or not, running engages that stomach, enhancing those critical muscles. Bonus offer: A solid core in runners could boost efficiency, too.

21. Sleep better

Runners have the tendency to adapt to set sleeping programs in order to maintain running efficiency high. Even a lot better: Operating additionally motivates greater quality sleep, which translates into far better Zzz's all evening long.

22. Do it year-round

Rack up those miles no matter exactly what the weatherman says (dress suitably, though!). Temperatures still not just right? Jazz up the ol' treadmill run to obtain the same health benefits inside.

23. Jam out, speed up

Pop in headsets when running to enhance speed and get a little music boost. We won't judge your playlist.

24. Check off those goals

Studies suggest that individuals who establish and also fulfill (or surpass) long-term physical fitness objectives (like registering for a half-marathon!) are a lot more dedicated as well as completely satisfied with their workout routines than those who trudge along aimlessly Dose relationships between personal goal setting, theory-based correlates of setting goal and also increases in exercise throughout a workplace trial. Dishman, RK, Vandenber, RJ, Moti, RW, et al. Department of Kinesiology, Ramsey Student Facility, The College of Georgia, Athens, GA. Wellness Education Study, 2010 Aug,25(4):620 -31. Epub 2009 Aug 4. . As well as who doesn't feel great regarding crossing products off their pail list?

25. Show your heart some loving

Running for merely a hr a week can decrease the danger of heart disease by almost half compared to non-runners Exercise kind as well as strength in connection with coronary heart condition in men. Tanasescu, M, Leitzmann, MF, Rimm, EB, et al. Division of Nourishment, Harvard School of Public Health, U.S.A. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Organization, 2002 Oct 23-30,288(16):1994 -2000. Reductions in occurrence coronary heart condition risk above guideline exercising levels in guys. Williams, PT. Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Donner Lab, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA. Atherosclerosis, 2010 Apr,209(2):524 -7. Epub 2009 Sep 16. . And for those already striking the advised exercise standards, an added surge of exercise could decrease the dangers of cardiovascular disease much more. (Just be mindful not to exaggerate it and also trigger more damage than great.)

26. Run stress away

Ready to pull your hair out? Rather than tuning into a truth TV marathon, attempt running an actual one. Not just does running boost the mind's serotonin levels, routine exercise could in fact redesign the brain, making it calmer and even more anxiety resistant The Tranquility Computer mouse: An Animal Design of Anxiety Reduction. Gurfein, BT, Stamm, AW, Bacchetti, P, et al. Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, UNITED STATE Department of Speculative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA. Molecular Medicine, 2012 Feb 29. doi: 10.2119/ molmed.2012.00053. .

27. Be one with nature

Want to really feel the lawn please your toes? Try minimalist sneakers or nothing at all! Just make sure to ease right into this kind of running to stay clear of injuries.

28. Increase stamina

Running consistently will boost endurance, making workouts more enjoyable as well as productive. And allow's not forget that long lasting longer isn't really restricted to the track-- it works in ... other locations as well.

29. Get there faster

Instead of a leisurely night stroll, try a jog around the community rather. It'll shed more calories in the very same amount of time.

30. Sound like a pro

We've got the running terminology to get you in the understand. Ready, established, go!

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propertyhold · 8 years ago

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The Den: The Big Reveal!

Exactly four years ago today, I became a homeowner. That decision could be characterized in a lot of ways: crazy, stupid, optimistic, deluded, exciting, terrifying, and maybe a bit ambitious. I loved this house from the second I saw it, and if I was going to buy a house (something I was not particularly equipped or intending to do), it was going to be this house. There were no other contenders.

That part—the period of falling for a property and feeling committed to its acquisition—felt easy (the actual purchase part was not, but that’s another story). The stuff that came after it wasn’t quite as easy. I’m not sure I have much in the way of original thoughts on this topic: yes, it really does take twice as long. Yes, it really does cost twice as much. Yes, at times it’s satisfying, frustrating, overwhelming, thrilling, and challenging. It’s a process that can variably bring out both the best and the worst, exposing your weaknesses and fears as much as it reveals the heights of your capacity for joy and contentment. It’s a long, strange, intensely humbling trip.

None of this is immediately pertinent to this post, I guess, but it felt weird to not acknowledge the milestone of four years! Some days it feels like the house has come such a long way, and other days it feels like the amount of remaining work is insurmountable. So with regards to the den, this is a space that—until very recently—contributed to that whole insurmountable feeling. This room has never really been anything. For a while it had a bed in it for guests (who got to wake up looking at a half-demoed water-damaged acoustic tile ceiling…how charming!), but mainly it’s just been a place for stuff to spill into as other spaces got worked on. Which feels…weird! There’s this whole space in my house that, functionally, might as well have been some off-site storage facility (which certainly would have felt cleaner and more manageable!), and now it’s an actual room that I’m actually sitting in and actually writing this blog post and actually not seeing anything crumbling around me or making me feel crappy because “oh-my-god-I’ve-lived-here-for-this-long-and-this-room-is-still-a-total-dump.” Particularly on a DIY pace and budget, stuff just takes a long time, and it’s not always easy (or, necessarily, especially productive) to pinpoint exactly why. It just does.

SO! Shall we take a looksie around the new room? Let’s do it.

Ba-boom! If it looks like a different room, that’s almost because it is. That bay window situation in the “before” shot was not original to the house and I removed it last summer as part of a larger exterior renovation, and I believe this is actually much as the room would have looked when it was built! Time saw the addition of electricity, hardwood flooring laid over the original subfloor, and hot water radiator heating, but ya know—that stuff’s not going anywhere. The rest of it is just cosmetic—one of the ways I try to approach renovating vs. decorating is by renovating with more of a restoration mindset, and decorating however the hell I want. Somebody could move in here and swap out light fixtures and repaint (or wallpaper), furnish, and have themselves much more of a time capsule vibe, but I guess I’d rather just have a…me vibe? This room feels very me, to me. ME ME ME.

Here’s where we were at the beginning of March!

And today! Much improved, yes?

Sorry, I’m a sucker for a before-and-after comparison. Did we get it out of our systems? I really wish I had taken more pictures of the room before it started getting torn apart! It’s like I had learned nothing four years ago when I had the opportunity to take true “before” photos. I’m going to blame it on the fact that I saw much more of the house as a straightforward renovation/redecorating project than what it’s become.

So, maybe this room looks crazy and maybe it is crazy and maybe I have no ability to form an objective opinion on it, but I DO know that it’s filled with so many things I love and is so comfortable and cozy that I literally do not care at all if it could also be considered stylish. I think it’s pretty. I don’t know.

I’ve mentioned lots of these things before, so forgive me if I’m repeating myself, but…

This sofa!! I bought it from Susan and Will Brinson (of the obscenely inspiring blog, House of Brinson). 400 bucks! For a secondhand, high-quality, all leather sofa that is the most comfortable thing in the world, I think that’s a great deal. Even though this room isn’t really a guest room (it was supposed to be when I started working on it!), the cushion section of the sofa is roughly the size of a twin sized bed, and I can tell you from firsthand experience (of Netflix and chilling so hard that I fall asleep) that it’s SO comfortable. I wouldn’t feel bad asking a guest to sleep here because it really does sleep like a bed, not a couch. I love the wear on the leather, and I love that I don’t have to be insane about it because it’s already been lovingly broken in by two large dogs before my own dogs, so they just add to the patina.

Womb chair, womb chair! I love this chair but Mekko REALLY loves this chair. When I was a kid, my mom looked for a lounge chair for her bedroom for literally a decade, and as a teenager I recommended this one…which she purchased…and then hated…which I was secretly kind of excited about because it meant that if she didn’t get around to reselling it as she said she would, I could ask for it when I eventually had the space to accommodate. MY SCHEME WORKED and now it is mine and it’s the most expensive dog bed in the world.

The original (well, original to the house being heated by radiators—before that it was wood stoves!) radiator got a few coats of glossy black spray paint, and I love the pairing of the black-black with the blue-black walls! I don’t know why! Particularly with more ornate radiators like this one, I think black paint is a great way to really highlight the fancy Victorian scrollwork on each fin.

Above the radiator is a collection of frameless antique mirrors, which I hoard just because. When the foil backing starts to disintegrate on an old mirror, I think the effect is so beautiful and interesting and I just buy them whenever I see them, assuming the price is good and they meet my rigorous quality standards of being in one piece.

I always thought it would be cool to display them in some kind of grouping, and this steel ledge isn’t quite what I had in mind, but I bought the ledge almost four years ago (it was supposed to go in my first kitchen renovation, but I changed my mind!), so it was nice to finally put it to use since I didn’t get my act together and send it back to CB2 at the time.

The tea light candlesticks are originally from Dwell Studio, but I picked them up a few years ago secondhand. I love them so much! The wooden tray that they’re sitting on I bought in the fall when I was in Austria. So simple and pretty.

On the wall to the right of the window, the top little piece of art was made by my mommy as a kid! I stole it out of a box of old stuff in our basement years ago, and I’ve had it hanging somewhere since. I love it—someday I’ll upgrade the frame, but an IKEA RIBBA never hurt anyone. The muscleman below it came out of my grandparents’ house after they had both passed away, and nobody knows where it came from or who the artist is.

The light is from my internet pal and long-time design crush, Logan at One Forty Three. I’m so proud of that dude! Watching his business expand and grow, and all the things he’s created since I first became aware of his work, has been so exciting. I’ve had the lamp for…probably 5 years at this point, and it still looks and works like the day it was packaged up and sent to my then-home in Brooklyn. I’m so happy to have it hanging up again.

The dark walls do swallow up a lot of natural daylight (perfect for a chill zone room like this, I think!), but that can make houseplants difficult. I’ve never had a problem keeping one of these ZZ plants alive though—perfect for low light and thrive on neglect. The pot is vintage, found somewhere around Kingston. The candlestick is also vintage and used to be half of a set of two, but I MAY have not realized that absent a metal liner in the part where the candle goes, a candle will burn down and then light the candlestick on fire, and then that will burn until somebody notices.

I’m a hazard.

I bought the dog on a trip to China in 2005. I bought the side table a few years ago from JC Penney, when Terence Conran did a really nice collection for them, and then it all went on clearance, and then I panic-bought some of my favorite pieces from the collection just BECAUSE I HAD TO and I don’t regret it because I think it was like $30 for this cast iron and white oak side table that is just so cute and very well-made.

Also you can kind of get a sense of how the Diamante wallpaper from Hygge & West in the adjoining little office looks with this room. I feel like the two play well together!

You might recognize the two pieces above the sofa from my Brooklyn bedroom and then again from my current bedroom that I showed you just a few weeks ago, but naturally I’ve already moved them and I think THIS is where they belong! These hung in my grandparents’ bedroom at least throughout my lifetime, and it’s an honor to have them here.

Also, ORANGE NAKED LADY!!! Evidently, I wrote a blog post about her back in 2013 after I bought her at an auction, but she’s never really had a permanent home until now. I’m still exactly as tickled by her as I was when I spent $60 real-life dollars on her and got made fun of by other auction attendees for it.

SPEAKING of auctions…now is the part where if you didn’t hate me already, I give you license to hate me now.

I went to an auction shortly after I started working on this room.

I saw this rug.

I wanted this rug. Immediately. Intensely.

I prepared myself to spend $400-$500 for this rug, which is a chunk of change but actually a good deal for a rug of this age and size (and, I’d argue, uniqueness), and I’d been looking for one for this room, and here it was.

The bidding started.

Nobody bid.

I bid. $45. And won.

FORTY. FIVE. DOLLARS. That’s, like, a fancy tea towel. That’s, like, five burritos.

The guy next to me literally turned to me and asked what possessed me to buy that rug. ARE YOU BLIND, SIR?

OK I’m done gloating. I love that rug so hard. The colors are so weird and good. The wear is everything I want.

I haven’t painted the door yet (since it swings into the hallway, I can convince myself it’s part of the hallway restoration, which I’ve been great at putting off indefinitely), but you get the idea.

This space is pretty narrow, and that couch is ENORMOUS, and the space between the righthand corner and the door trim is about a foot, so I needed something very slim for under the TV.

I searched and searched and racked my brain for something I could just buy and be done with. I didn’t want to build a thing. It felt like…I just built a ROOM, do I really need to make myself crazy over building something big FOR the room?

Then I built a thing and I’m so glad I did because I actually really like the thing I built! It’s essentially just a plywood box that’s covered in lath from my very own walls and ceilings. I think I started it on a Sunday morning and had it hanging on the wall by Monday afternoon, and it holds a bunch and looks cute and cost me all of about $10 for the piano hinge. Also, it was really fun! Since buying the house, it’s actually very rare that I just kind of make something that isn’t part of a much larger renovation project, and I forget how fun it is to just play around with some tools and some wood and see what happens.

By the way, on top of the cabinet thing on the far left sits a Sonos speaker, and my Apple TV is turned sideways between the speaker and the stack of books. That’s all the technology! I’ve tried to make it a tradition to buy a Sonos speaker upon the completion of each room to spread the cost out—it’s kind of spendy for me, but I do really like the system and I love that the speakers come in white or black so it’s usually possible to keep it very inconspicuous. The speakers all tie back to the Sonos app on my phone, and can be controlled independently or in unison to play music, adjust the volume, play/pause, etc. I recommend it!

I didn’t do anything particularly nice about finishing the inside (I made it! for me! and I don’t care!), but it holds a ton! I decided to put all of my weird pottery and figurines and candlesticks and stuff in there, along with extra tea lights and candles for the room. It’s so nice to have all this kind of stuff in one place! I find that I love too many things and can’t display them all at once without my house looking like a thrift store that somebody lives in, but if I rotate stuff in and out of display it keeps things looking more sane and ALSO makes me appreciate stuff more when I don’t see it all the time. Kind of like shopping in my own house when I get the itch to move stuff around, which is an extremely frequent event because I love to futz.

LEST you had not hit your limit with me over RugGate 2017 (scroll up a few photos; it literally just happened), a few weeks ago I was tromping through some funny antique mall kind of place in New Jersey and spotted this little fella for a dollar. So tiny! Those delicate little brass feet! Immediately I was charmed. I picked him up and then couldn’t put him back down, so I shelled out my George Washington to take him home.

Fast forward a couple of weeks into our new blissful life together, during which I had unofficially named him Herman, and I posted an Instagram of him, and was immediately informed from multiple sources that little Herman is…kind of valuable. Oddly enough, Herman was designed by Jacob Hermann (how weird is that!) in Denmark in the 1950s, and is highly collectable, and seems to sell for a few hundred dollars up to several thousand for a grouping.

Lesson: never pass up a good tchotchke. Just build a cabinet to store all the tchotchkes.

Finally, the light! THE PINK LIGHT! PINKKKKK LIGHTTTTTT!

Here’s what had happened. I went to Germany in the fall. Essentially I landed from my red-eye flight, dropped my bag at the hotel in Berlin, and immediately went to a flea market. I was so tired and so not thinking clearly and before I knew it, I had blown my entire souvenir budget on three vintage rugs and this 1950s chandelier. This is what it means to travel with me, and I am considering the first clause of this sentence as fair warning to anybody who might someday travel with me.

I carried the light through Germany and into Austria, where I disassembled it and shipped it home via DHL, which was FREAKISHLY fast. It arrived before I even got home! Between the purchase and the shipping I ended up spending about $250 on this thing, which is typically more than I’d spend on…most things, but I REALLY WANTED IT for no reason in particular. A month ago I worked up the nerve to unpack the box—knowing that one broken shade would pretty much render the entire thing worthless—but luckily it had arrived intact so then it was just a matter of rewiring the whole thing, remembering how everything fit together, and hanging it up.

I love you, pink light. Never leave me.

Annnnnnnnnd, here is my attempt to keep up with the bloggers and make this post “shoppable”: A THING IN THIS ROOM THAT I THINK YOU CAN ACTUALLY BUY! I love this little candleholder from the Modern by Dwell Magazine collection for Target. Mine was on a clearance rack at a store in Virginia that I visited to buy clean underwear after the Baltimore kitchen renovation, but it’s still for sale online. So cute!

Is that it? I think that might be it. Opium den—check!

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