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A medicine called rythm

Why shouldn’t just a dance morning be… just a dance morning?

By ChulucanasGym. Photos Courtesy Fuerza de la Juventud.

Last July 10th, a Group of boys and girls called Fuerza de la Juventud (Youth Power) summoned Piura City’s population to spend dancing in the  morning .

Their objective was to get the people involved into a healthy activity but they didn’t go deep more reasons. However, they got 50 men and women joined the idea. They also got Bodytech accepts to monitor it.

That’s the possitive, but we believe that Fuerza de la Juventud responsed much by spontaneity for ‘doing something’, according to one of its spokesman talked to us, before articulating a possibly beneficial project for a population with high levels of heart disease, diabetes, overweight, depression and anxiety.

In fact, since they joined, they follow isolated initiatives muchly fed by entusiasm –what it’s not bad- instead of strategic planning.

But, as they are a group just stepping on, they can adjust , correct and take ideas, specializing in some in particular. And dance is one of the best  they could have and they should continue in an articulated, plannedd way, with sequential goals… as dance and the whole physical activity are by definition.

Teaches, avoids, heals

Physically, diverse works take care to separate pedagogical, preventive and therapeutic aspects of dance.

Although the human being usually can move by reflexes, dance allows to organize them for make them a rhythm. This means to coordinate the ear and the muscles, eventually the eye too. When we program our reflexes to make rhythm, we develop auditive and space memory and muscles become more flexible for responsing better the next time they are stimulated to move in one or many determined directions.

Preventively, dance implies to sweat, that releases toxines. But few people realize the movement rregulates blood circulation and impacts possitively on all fluids of our body. In consequence, it reduces or controls heart conditions, improves breathing, corrects position, avoids or reduces hurts in muscles and articulations, regenerates the skin much fastly, and slows down the aging.

So, ever you have medical supervision, once those diseases have appeared, dance has shown to be a favorable therapy for recovering processes even the degenerative ones, as Parkinson’s disease.

“It helps to improve breathing because of exercises done before and during the dance, like breathing and body warm-up as arms, abs or legs, and some energy focusing exercises, something similar to meditation,” Picsi, Peru-based coach German Aguirre stresses.

An integrative activity

If physical benefits are significant, mental benefits are the equal. Since dancing is a learning process, each achieve you get contributes with much confidence, and that strengthen your self-steem. Regarding, this also implies to know better your body and its responses, what impacts on loving you more, appreciating you more.

Starting up here, when you focus your brain on dancing well, you bring it upgrade, keeping you far from any mental condition, depression especially, it doesn’t matter a diagnosis neither risky factors leading you to it. The same for anxiety.

And when dancing comes from an individual experience to a collective one, as Fuerza de la Juventud set up, and under an adequate monitoring, it improves your social skills and stimulates values as solidarity, fellowship and respect.

“Group dance has too many benefits because the persons, when joining, first have to meet for work well together so, then it helps they know much different things along the time: combined steps, lifts, maneuvers,, coach German Aguirre points on.

That’s why we consider a dancing morning can’t keep just in a spontaneous and isolated activity, but it must response to a frequent program to improve the life and health of each person, and what rebuilds us like a healthy community in body, mind and soul. The challenge is able for the vote.

Post-produced by Sheyla Benavente.

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Training Chulucanas Gym Style

Five lessons to gain muscle and courage.

By Nelson Peñaherrera (@nelsonsullana) / FACTORTIERRA.NET

Photos by Jhon Gomez / Chulucanas Gym

CHULUCANAS, Peru -- “Come in here,” Bruno Rosas, 26, guides me gently, pausing for a while the lobby he does to get a sponsorship.

Bruno is a bodybuilding fan and part of Chulucanas Gym Project (CG), what looks for promoting that discipline and fitness to expand healthy lifestyles in his community, and for getting that more contestants go to regional and national competitions.

One of the goals is to reach Mister Piura contest every March, and national ones in the long term.

But such goal requires much investment on effort, time, attitude and money.

Bruno has been very accomplished with the three first. He has developed some muscle and harmony, organizes a couple of hours in his schedule to work out, persevere. What lacks is money.

Bodybuilding, as well as almost competition sports, requires much money investment and Bruno does not own enough funds.

“I work whatever I find,” he trusts me.

His variable, scarse budget goes to his 18-month-old daughter as priority, then himself – working out.

Lesson 1: Warming Up. Bodybuilding is a discipline focused on highlight human anatomy by gaining muscle volume, even beyond the average, or the fact of keeping the shape not losing aesthetics (fitness).

At least across Piura, bodybuilding has begun to be relevant the last 25 years, what means gymnasiums opening for all likes and budgets.

Piura City started first, then Sullana, Talara, and so all province capital cities (Ayabaca and Huancabamba joined for the last 5 years), and more uncarefully in certain district capital cities.

The wave arrived in Chulucanas more than a decade ago, assuming it first like a rare thing, an eccentricity or just a women’s issue.

Lesson 2: Discipline. The wave touched Bruno two years ago and since that happened, he could not set free of it. In fact, this guy does not drink, smoke and he has got some emotional spot among the problems he must face daily.

In the end, everything gets out the gym every afternoon from 5 to 7.

If he had less things to do, he could give time to develop another of his skills: “singing.”

While, he is learning to do lobby, to stand up before a person and convincing to get support  for dress, supplements or relief to contest. To be right, he works like radar.

“Why not you tell him?,” he addresses to CG co-ordinator’s lawyer Jhon Gomez, 26, who started to work out two months ago.

Although Gomez was an athlete when he was a high-school student, his firstyears of university and proffessional career kept him out the sports and healthy lifestyles until he confronted himself many mornings ago, went to the gymnasium, and paid for his membership. He started training, that same afternoon.

Two days later, he was so achy that he promised in vain not to get up from his bed. Then, uncomfortability turned discipline, and as he has been involving more, he knew stories of many boys with much talent and attitude but few money.

Lesson 3: Go beyond the fearAfter working almost all day at an office, Jhon goes to . rite letters, visit (almost intercept) pottential sponsors, convince and get first sponsorship promises.

Inclusive, he has got into something it is not necessarily part of his proffessional profile: production of promo videos about CG.

He has turned as the producer of a couple of them, released on FACTORTIERRA.NET YouTube channel, those have got attention of cyber surfers in England and Scotland!

Also, Red Hit has recommended the features.

Videos are manufactured by CG. In fact, Jhon is the camraman.

Lesson 4: We all begin as novates. Harold Palacios, 22, works out in the morning and studies Nutrition at seat Sapientae University in Chulucanas at the afternoon.

Harold also prepares to contest but budget is not enough for him so he is one of CG members to be covered by sponsorships in the mean term.

Lesson 5: Working out continues after the gym. But those men not only breathe at the gym. Jhon Gomez is looking for specialists to get medical, nutritional and even psychological advisory, because he is conscious that some bodybuilding fans could hide conditions anger, anxiety management, depression or drugs abuse, just to mention someones.

“Boys not only have to get a good body but mental, spiritual harmony,” he states.

Meanwhile, CG continues to explore chances and making plans for projecting toward their community as a sport reference, looking for sponsorships, perseverating, reaching goals with satisfaction, although the rest do not understand them.

“Mom says me I’m becoming thin but the truth is clothes before did not fit me, I already can wear now,” one of the guys trusts me under promise not to reveal the name.

Will we see them contesting once?

It is a matter of time and hard work, the same key variables for getting the perfect body.

Suportt CG by writing Jhon Gomez at chulucanasgym@gmail.com

Watch its video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wieNJD9baoA&list=UUiuUwqP4GSoioUmhdR0q93Q

Translation corrected by esthefany Rodríguez. © 2014 Asociación Civil Factor Tierra (@factortierra). All Rights Reserved.

Pranayama - The Health In Your Breath

By Christian Palacios (also photos)

We live in shaking times. everything has been accelerated with the technology and the people sees affected by psychosomatic unbalances much everytime, like the stress and the anxiety.

The yoga is a millenial science that incorporates the practice of pranayamas (breath exercises)  and the meditation as part of a process that allows to activate the healing processes of our body, for reaching an optimal health sstate, the balance of our mind, and a calm state that leads us to the harmony with ourselves and everything around us.

The practices of pranayama allow us to get a better oxygenation of the blood. All components of the body require oxygen for its optimal function and because of pranayama we can balance the chemical processes happening inside ours.

The pranayama exercises allow us to reach a longer, deeper breath, which reflexes into a major oxygenation  and increasing of blood circulation.

Benefits Of Pranayama Practice

• Provides you more energy and vitality.
• Helps to disintoxicate the blood.
• Improves the circulation.
• Strengthen the inmunologic system.
• Helps to clean lungs.
• Reduces the depression sensation.
• Improves the digestive system.
• Benefits the spine function.
• Helps to relief thiroid  problems.

According to Dr Thakur Dass, doing pranayama can increase the normal volume of ventilation for ten times without needing workout. The researcher points out the oxygenation creates the energy, generating ATP (adenosynetriphosphate), what delays the cells degeneration, so doing pranayama acts as an anti-oxidant.

Dass affirms that doing pranayama provides the enough quantitty of oxygen to the entire body, and helps to relief breathing system diseases as the bronchitis, the laringitis, the bronchial asthma, helps in case of heart diseases as the thrombosis and allows to control the blood pressure.

It influences on the endocrine system. It helps to relief diseases as the diabetes and helps to improve the condition of kidney diseases.

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This practice  is based on the meditation and encourages the person to get learning to dominate the biological mechanisms of the body from the mind, for having a deep relaxation, that helps to sleep correctly and to avoid problems such as the anxiety and the insomnia.

If you need further information and you are in Piura City,  visit us in Reiki Yoga Piura: Magisterial Urbanization, 490 Bernal  St., in front of the  Santa Ana Park. You can also follow me on my fanpage.

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“I do it to feel good to myself”

One of the most becoming-frequent answers in persons who begin any type of training at gym, home, or outdoors, is “I do it because I want to fffeel good to myself.” And they mark aa very clear posture  compared to who go with the evident intention of building muscle or simply keeping fit.

 

The profile of the ones giving this reason is usually professional people with much job or family load, empowered during Covid-19 pandemic, which stress levels are high. In this bunch, there are also who lost relatives or quite beloved people due to the plague that passed away dozens of million lives around the world.

 

There’s no much to explain from the mental health’s perspective. The power of physical exercise as an emotional balance generator is pretty proved because of the simple reason that the training makes your hormonal segregation to be more efficient, especially that avoids or controls conditions like depression or anxiety, and rules your metabolism.

 

“I already sleep once now from 11 at night to 6 in the morning,” a 30-year-old accountant tells us in Tambograndé, Peru, requesting us to be anonymous. If he has played soccer during much time, the untreated anziety has betrayed him almost without warning. “I ate any time, I didn’t sleep good.”  From 154 pounds, he raised to more than 220 pounds! And he’s just 5.6 feet height.

 

After entering a bunch training gymnastics and functional, he is losing weight (he’s around 187 pounds), he has noticed his physical & mental health has improved, add to this that his mood passed from anger to laugh and calm. However, when we asked him to pose for some pictures, he declined: “No, thanks – I just do it because I wanna feel good to myself.”

 

It’s also like a media specialist in Piura, Peru, 31 years old, 6 feet height, who from 220 pounds, today it’s 198 pounds… and decreasing. “I don’t work out for the people to see me or to admire me but because I feel better to myself,” he repeats. And every morning, he attend to the gym for his dumbells-&-functional routine. And testimonials like theirs repeat.

 

If you’re a trainer, you’ve already noticed it. Perhaps it disappoints you that, unlike other pupils who really want to improve their physiques whether for competition or simple vanity, this bunch doesn’t put that goal foreward.

 

Don’t get wrong interpretating they are not interested in growing as visible, what they are really interested in growing inside. Your job, instead criticizing them for not being like the others or mistaking to compare them to the pretty muscled pupil of your class, is raising their personal motivation levels, encouraging them to be a better version of themselves. Maybe sometimes they need to talk to heal, so we remind you how to proceeed in these times.

 

As much as they receive this kind of feedback, it’s probable that you progressively  go stimulating their sport-competitive spirit, and themselves to be who go adding greater exigency levels until reaching similar or better results than your competition pupils or who work out to look fit. Don’t get surprised if someday themselves ask you to prepare them for the next tournament.

 

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