The climacteric period, the end of the child bearing age, is a frightening leap in the dark, even if a few women welcome it as a relief from “buying pads”. Normally, this passage is considered something negative- women feel they are getting older and “ugly”. This is one of…
Yes, it is true: if you suffer from PCOS, you should lose weight (in case you are overweight). I always tell it to my patients. Every time I deal with this matter, I can perceive all the suffering a woman may experience when she speaks about herself, when she can’t…
The most common excuse is: “I don’t have enough time”, then “I don’t feel like doing it!”, or “I feel ashamed of myself!” I am talking about all the “good” excuse we usually find not to do any exercise. Talking up a physical activity may be difficult,… but if you…
Let’s try to explain what yoga is. First of all, we should go through the various branches of yoga, just to know what discipline we are practicing. Yoga is close to Tantra, the ancient culture of India. In this background, Asthanga Yoga, the eight limb Yoga, refers to the set…
Let’s try to explain what yoga is. First of all, we should go through the various branches of yoga, just to know what discipline we are practicing. Yoga is close to Tantra, the ancient culture of India. In this background, Asthanga Yoga, the eight limb Yoga, refers to the set…
Following the thread which leads us to look into the importance of the everyday exercise, I would like to introduce you a discipline everybody has heard of, but probably you don’t really know what it is: yoga. Why yoga? What is it? Is it useful? Yoga was born in the…
As I said in the previous article, let’s talk about training and, most of all, about weight training exercises and their benefits. Nowadays, a lot of people consider weight training just as a way to increase the volume of their muscles as it happens in the body-building. It’s not always…
Are you asking yourself why I keep on giving you only a few details a time and most of all why did I talk about walking, swimming, and running in the last article? Actually everybody may have spoken about that a lot of time, and then you may think they…
In the previous article we talked about numbers, counts, maximum target heart rate; have you succeeded in calculating your decisive 75%-80%? As in our every day routine we hardly reach these percentages, we should take into account the idea of doing some specific exercise in order to initiate our metabolism.…
In the previous article we talked about numbers, counts, maximum target heart rate; have you succeeded in calculating your decisive 75%-80%? As in our every day routine we hardly reach these percentages, we should take into account the idea of doing some specific exercise in order to initiate our metabolism.…