General Motors diet Excercises

 GM Diet and Yoga 

• Step 1. Stand with feet together and fold the palms in front of the chest. Close the eyes and chant the mantra “Ohm Mitrayah Namaha” while breathing normally.

• Step 2. Raise the arms over the head and shoulders with palms touching each other. Abdomen should be stretched by leaning backwards. Chant “Oh Khagaya Namaha” while inhaling, then exhale normally.

• Step 3. Bend forward and place the palms at the side of the feet. Touch the knees with the forehead and exhale deeply. Chant “Ohm Suryaya Namaha” during the posture.

• Step 4. Take one leg back and position the other leg in front with the palms firm on the ground. With the head raised, inhale and chat “Ohm Bhanuvae Namaha.”

• Step 5. Return to the position in Step 1. Breathe normally then chant “Ohm Bhaskaraya Namaha.”

• This is a question I hear a lot. As a matter of fact, it's a tricky question.

• Why? Because the number of calories burned during exercise depends on several factors - out of which at least one is beyond our control. Here are the determining factors:

However, the prospect of diving into a workout routine may be intimidating. If you're like many newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics, you may not have exercised in years. As long as you're totaling 30 minutes of exercise each day, several brief workouts are fine, says George griffing, MD, professor of endocrinology at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine in St. Louis.  Yoga is series of poses that are used for various purposes over centuries. More serious yogis follow such postures to promote meditation and connection of the mind, body and soul. Modern yoga practitioners meanwhile use the postures for exercise and weight loss. This is because the postures in yoga stretch and activate the muscles without stressing them out. Practitioners also get to bend, stride and come up with various poses that promote balance and flexibility. Most of the poses in yoga seem light and easy to follow, but they at the same time eat up a lot of energy-making them truly effective for weight loss. Yoga is series of poses that are used for various purposes over centuries. More serious yogis follow such postures to promote meditation and connection of the mind, body and soul. Modern yoga practitioners meanwhile use the postures for exercise and weight loss. This is because the postures in yoga stretch and activate the muscles without stressing them out. Practitioners also get to bend, stride and come up with various poses that promote balance and flexibility. Most of the poses in yoga seem light and easy to follow, but they at the same time eat up a lot of energy-making them truly effective for weight loss.

- Helps you relax before starting the diet. A lot of people feel anxious when going on a diet because they don’t believe that they are going to lose weight. Through yoga, these negative energies are released before the diet even starts. This way the individual gets to follow the diet regimen properly and easily until the end of the day and achieve significant results later on. 

  -Releases the stress incurred by the end of the day. Diets can be totally stressful especially at times when the person craves for his or her favorite foods. Through yoga, these stressful moments are battled and released by means of breathing and stretching exercises. Individuals who follow the diet are also able to keep their minds concentrated in their diet and not feel distracted by their surroundings. 

  -More active muscles. It is normal to feel weak when on a GM diet. The lack of carbohydrates and proteins keep the muscles weak and unable to move normally. However, by daily yoga stretching exercises the feeling of weakness is reduced and the body is enticed to move more during the day.

Resistance Exercise

Intervals

Sustainability

Changing Up 

  Diet Exercise for Weight Loss

  1.Strength Training:

  2.Exercise for Weight Loss
  3.Combo Workouts - Aerobics & Strength Training:
  4.Sports such as martial arts, taebo, boxing, and swimming provide an excellent combination of aerobic exercise and muscle toning.

  Sports such as basketball, baseball, soccer and golf also provide combined aerobic and muscle toning benefits, although to a somewhat lesser degree (i.e., certain muscle groups are preferentially targeted, while others are ignored).

  How Many Calories Does Exercise Burn?

type of exercise

intensity of exercise

time spent exercising

body weight (something we cannot change at the time of the respective workout)

Exercise is safe and highly recommended for most people with type 2 diabetes, including those with complications. Along with diet and medication, exercise will help you lower blood sugar and lose weight.

If that's the case, don't worry: It's fine to start slow and work up. These tips will help you ease back into exercise and find a workout plan that works for you.

"We need people with diabetes up and moving," Dr. Griffing says. "If you can do your exercise in one 30 minute stretch, fine. But if not, break it up into increments you can manage that add up to at least 30 minutes each day."

Can I do Yoga when I’m on the GM Diet?

Yes you can. Yoga is a great way to supplement the GM diet. Many people often wonder if they can exercise when on the GM Diet. While you can definitely exercise, you must be careful when it comes to high intensity workouts. This is where yoga scores highly over other forms of exercise.

Yoga is a relaxing workout regimen that is also an effective weight loss program minus the sweat and the palpitations. Most of the people that do the GM diet are required to also do some amount of low-intensity exercises to keep their muscles active. For this reason yoga is the ideal answer when it comes to keeping your body and mind active.

Yoga is considered a good partner to GM diet because of its low intensity workouts and high energy consumption. By following a ten-minute yoga session before and after a day in the GM diet program. Below are some of the benefits of practicing yoga while on a GM diet:

Below is a sample yoga workout that can be practiced everyday during a GM diet. This 5-step routine may be practiced at the start and end of the day; it lasts for only 10 minutes and can be performed at any place desired.

In all cases, however, you'll burn more calories with cardio (aerobic) exercise than with strength or resistance training.

"Strength training itself will not lead to an appreciable amount of weight loss because it just doesn't burn enough calories," says Glenn Gaesser, PhD, FACSM, kinesiology professor and department head at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

But what about all that talk that more muscle mass equates to more calories burned, even when you're at rest?

"It's a myth. It's not going to happen," says Gaesser.

The only successful studies to show a significant calorie burn following a weight-lifting workout (afterburn) were done with serious lifters, working out for 60 to 90 minutes at a time and lifting as much as they could on every set.

In fact, Gaesser says, at best, gaining one pound of muscle will help you burn 5 to 10 extra calories a day. You could do that chewing gum.

That's not to say that strength training isn't important for the overall health of the body. But when it comes to burning the most calories, go for cardiovascular exercise. And vary the intensity, says Quist.

"Do aerobic base-building workouts," he says, where you alternate between moderate and higher intensity, either within the same workout or on alternate days.

Quist also recommends cross-training -- that is, doing a range of different activities during your workouts. Not only does this help you keep from getting bored, it's better for your body. Doing different activities recruits different muscle groups. You're also less likely to develop an injury, says Quist, since doing the same thing day after day creates wear patterns on your joints.

Get creative, says Gaesser, whose graduate students teach an entire class on novel ways to burn calories. For example, he says, if you're a golfer, ditch the cart and walk with your clubs. You'll do what you love -- and burn more calories. 

Fitness writer Gerard Taylor recommends interval training as a way to get more out of any workout. Interval training consists of alternating between periods of mild to moderate effort and periods of high effort within the same workout. A running workout might consists of alternating between a jog and a sprint. A weight training workout would alternate between slow, steady repetitions and fast, focused effort. Regardless of what kind of exercise you choose for your weight loss, Taylor recommends making intervals a part of it. 

Cohen advises that the particulars of any given exercise are less important than your ability to stick to that exercise over time. To ensure sustainability, Cohn recommends people find an exercise that is enjoyable, safe and easy to access. You should pick an exercise you'll want to do more often than you don't, one that doesn't stress your body or cause you injury, and one that doesn't require special equipment or space you won't always be able to reach. For these reasons, "You: The Owner's Manual" recommends walking and yoga. These are low-impact, enjoyable exercises you can do at any time. 

Celebrity personal trainer Bill Phillips says that no matter what exercise you initially choose, you should change your routine every three or four months. According to Phillips, this keeps you energized and excited about your workouts. Cohn adds that this can help you avoid repetitive stress injuries by distributing the load over several parts of your body. 

Strength Training (Muscle Toning) works by increasing muscle mass and muscle metabolism. During muscle toning exercises, energy is provided by burning carbohydrates and fats anaerobically (without oxygen). This leads to the formation and accumulation of lactic acid in muscles. After workout completion, when relatively more oxygen becomes available to the muscle, lactic acid is being converted into Pyrrhic acid and burned aerobically to CO2 and water, releasing additional energy. Thus, additional calories continue to be burned after the completion of a muscle toning workout, even though the muscle is at rest. This is the advantage of strength training over aerobics. Moreover, as muscle mass increases, the basal metabolism of muscle (in between workouts) becomes higher and burns additional calories at rest. Therefore, strength training is in my opinion the convenient 'backdoor' to fitness - a very smart and time-efficient way of getting into shape.   

 Strength training can be done at the gym or at home - using inexpensive dumbbells, or more expensive strength training machines such as Bowflex, Total Gym, etc.

In the absence of dumbbells or machines, your own body weight can be used to build muscle mass -with exercises such as squats, step ups and step downs, gluteal squeezes, abdominal squeezes, pushups, leg lifts, abdominal routines, etc. For an in-depth discussion of strength training, see Strength Training Facts. You may also want to see a few examples of Strength Training Videos which I used and found effective.