Two Breathing Exercises for Better Sleep

Deep breathing is one of the best ways to lower stress in the body. This is because breathing deeply sends a message to your brain to calm down and relax. The brain then sends this message to your body. Those things that happen when you are stressed, such as increased heart rate, fast breathing, and high blood pressure, all decrease as you breathe deeply to relax. Breathing exercises can help you relax, because they make your body feel like it does when you are already relaxed. Counting breaths and 2-to-1 Breathing are two breathing exercises to help you relax and fall asleep.

Dream Body Workout: 1000 Rep Challenge

This video a 1000 rep, fat melting, sweat pool of a workout for you. For a workout breakdown, click
here.

5 Herbs That Increase Testosterone Naturally

Low testosterone in men can cause many serious side effects, including weight gain, bone loss, depression, muscle loss, gynecomastia (breast enlargement), decreased libido, and decreased energy and mental concentration. After age 30, most men begin to experience a gradual decline in testosterone. There are natural herbs that can help to increase endogenous (in the body) production of testosterone and prevent the symptoms of male hormone decline. The top five herbs that increase testosterone are:

Choosing an Intermittent Fasting Method

In the last of a series of articles about the benefits of intermittent fasting, short fasts of 16-24 hours, Mark Sisson describes the pros and cons of several of the popular methods.

Assuming you’ve been keeping up with the series, you should be saying to yourself “Hey, maybe this fasting thing would be a cool thing to try out, and it might even make me healthier/live longer/lean out/lose weight/etc.,” which is a sufficiently extensive list of benefits, don’t you think? I could probably go on theorizing and speculating about all the reasons why you should consider intermittent fasting, but I’d rather move on to the implementation. Thinking about fasting, reading about fasting, and reciting the benefits of fasting are all pointless if you don’t know how to go about doing it.

First, let’s go over the different variations of fasting. I’ll give a quick rundown. Each involves not eating for a period of time, unsurprisingly. Read more

Amazing Spiderman Workout

HASfit's Amazing Spiderman Workout displays several explosive and fun bodyweight exercises for strength and power.

10 Dumbest Things about Bodybuilding

Bodybuilding and fitness are not necessarily the same thing. From truTV, here are the ten dumbest things about bodybuilding.

Lifting weights, when combined with proper diet and cardiovascular exercise, is a recipe for good physical and mental heath. But when it is taken to the extreme, it can get seriously stupid. Here are the ten dumbest things about bodybuilding. Read more

Health & Fitness Solutions 5-Year Blogiversary

Health & Fitness Solutions went online April 10, 2007, and five years and 678 posts later, it's still here. I wouldn't have expected it since I only kept up my first blog Police State USA for about a year. Thanks to all the readers for reading up to this point, and I hope you keep coming back for more.

Premature Ejaculation: 3 Natural Remedies

Premature ejaculation refers to the circumstance when the male lacks control over his ejaculation and ejaculates before the female can orgasm. Premature ejaculation (PE) is the most common type of sexual dysfunction in men under the age of 40. Premature ejaculation will most likely create feeling of frustration and shame for the man suffering from this condition. In order to find a solution to this problem, one can turn towards natural remedies for premature ejaculation.

The 8 Most Nutrient Dense Foods on Earth

Though dietary supplements have their place, it's still best to try to eat a nutritious diet as well. So, what are the best foods to eat? Jill Ettinger reveals the eight most nutrient-dense foods on earth.

We all know which foods we do best to avoid (right?). Despite the alluring appeal of Oreos, Mountain Dew or McAnything, processed foods provide little nutrition and a whole lot of risks. But when it comes to the good stuff—what are the best foods to put into our bodies? While experts all agree we need a variety of foods for a healthy diet, do you know which are the healthiest of the bunch? The answers may surprise and delight you. Read more