Care your skin – 6 practical tips

We forget about it many times, but the ones of us who do bodybuilding or fitness  have the skin like our main work tool. Although the changes we experience because of the training begin since a very microscopical level, like the cellular (what stimulates the muscular growth), the fact is the effects are visible in our shape. How are we caring it?

 

If you think this is a females issue, we warn you’re wrong. . Maybe, the male skin is what requires most care because of the same modifications what it’s submitted to.

 

1. Learn it deeply – Oily, dry, or neutral? As incredible as it seems, many of us ignore what type of skin we have. The oily skin shines all the time, its pores are so expanded that they hold much ddirt, it uses to appear acne or shins, it has a rough texture. The dry skin has a soft texture but it’s too tense that it gets to crack, its appearance is opaque with almost invisible pores. Consider the ideal pH (acidity/alkalinity index) goes from 4.7 to 5.75. Are you in that range?  You should know it. A dermatologist can solve your doubts, so it’s time to appoint someone.
2. Eat healthy – although some trendy food or product appear each certain time, the true is that eating balanced is the better for your skin to keep healthy. However, there is natural food that optimizes it: carrot, potato, pumpkin, mango, peach, papaya, kiwi, bell pepper, red fruits, watercress, pomegranate fruit, olive oil, nuts, derry, eggs, and blue fishes. Do you realize?
3. Take a mindful bath – It seems an obvious suggestion but many of us think the personal cleanliness is only the act of keeping clean. Not exclusively. The bath time is perfect to relax and meet again yourself and  your physical assets. Add who wwork out,  sweat more than the average people, so we have to be more meticulous with that so-personal moment, especially if we talk about commissures (armpits, crotch, amid buttocks) or very hairy zones where the sweat can promote the bacteries to flourish. The bad smell? Precizely, the bacteries cause it. Use proper products according to your skin type or the conditions it can develop. Do you remember the dermatologist? He also can guide you.
4. ever moisturize it – Drinking water or consuming food rich in it is a practical and natural way  to guarantee elasticity to the skin as well as promoting its regeneration at ccellular level. The use of creams or products is a choice of external use, but the aloe vera natural gel have proven to be a much better choice, especially if you use to do mechanical or chemical hair removal.
5. Manage the stress – How are you dealing with your daily life? If your skin becomes red, starts to itch, appears hives or acne, they might be warning signals. As well as you train physically, train mentally to face the daily problems, one each time, understanding you’re bigger than them. Thus, you can accept they exist but also you can have them under control, and better if you can solve them. Meditating, talking to a true friend, granting you moments to do nothing, or to do some of your hobbies are going to help much, and your skin is going to thank you too.
6. Ever enjoy it – Never consider your skin like the clothes you wear but like a key feature of your identity. Find moments through the day to connect with it, feeling good with it. When you self-compensate, your own skin projects it. It’s not magic but pure biochemistry:  the hormones we naturally flow when we work out, they do that part of the job. Another way to stimulate them aside the physical training? Yes. Ever smile even when there’s no motivation. Good humor makes wonders.

 

If you want to learn more or if you want to take your particular case, contact us to our Twitter account, WhatsApp, or chulucanasgym@gmail.com

  

Let's Return To Nature

By Ronald Benites

There is a place where all the effort and sacrifice we display at the gym is tested - the natural mean, outdoors, right there where electtricity and technology are limited use, where we are among the Creation.

Very few of us remember, or want to remember, that much before wireless and smartphones existed, human beings had to be in-shape for going amid the forests, the mountains, and the water, looking for our livelihood. It was necessary to be well fed but also having strong and flexible muscles for moving forward fastly, sagaciously, successfully. Despite it, surviving was impossible.

Inclusive when we were setting down as human settlements as towns or first cities, constant physical activity was basic to sustain our life.

As our knowledge allowed the technology developed muchly, we also were losing the connection to tat mean where we encourage or were encouraged to survive. In some sense, the confort of a roof or the immediacy of a click have been taking off our ancestral spaces, and altough we try to recreate few yards away our homes or inside them, it's not the same.

So, for who works out hard constantly at the gym or a sportscenter, the return to Nature must not be considered as an extravagant but necessary activity, not like an extraordinary milestone but a frequent habit.

The reason is so simple as the contact to Nature revitalize us when breathing pure air, forcing to be in constant physical activity, solving our lacks with creativity, getting amazed by the processes and interactions of living beings to the landscape... because we came from there and we have to return there as often as we can for cleaning our soul.

We could say that unfortunately our urban spaces drown our natural spaces much more everytime, but we are responsible in some sense about that process when we refuse to propose an ordered growing and a more rational exploitation of the environment, and the manner we live.

So it's desirable that we must incorporate the respect and conservation of our natural spaces where we can intervene preventively for our physical, mental, and even spiritual health, also demanding our basic services to be correctly implemented and satisfied. Spaces where we can practice physical activity and sports, meditate, produce healthy food, and even follow therapies of diverse kind too.

Our actual or aspirant authorities have there a straight interesting agenda item they must not skip but promoting, managing and defending.

Personally, I enjoy a lot being in contact to Nature. I feel I clean my soul, and there are fortunately many spaces around Chulucanas, my city, where I can reload myself after going some minutes up by walking, running, or biking (actually, the pictures of myself on this article were taken in this place).

But I confess  I have a big predilection by the mountains, abouth those I am going to feel ever wondered.  You know. Maybe become living there some day further, eating tasty and healthy, working out my body and soul while listening to the animals or the creeks' water in the background... in the end, returning to that space where the human learned once upon a time to be human.

The benefits of the placebo effect

A strategy to improve the treatment of chronic illnesses.

 

Every year around the world, there are millions of people diagnosed with a chronic illness, what means a set of conditions weakening the health in the long-term that, if not having immediate attention, can get worse as the time goes by. Some people asume the news as a death sentence despite the strategies and the treatments have advanced so significantly in the last three decades.

 

In fact, many of them are now designed to attack the existent ill more precise, reducing the disgusting secondary effects they used to cause years ago. But the conventional medicine won’t be useful if the patient doesn’t adopt an attitude going beyond the active principles and the prescribed doses.

 

The self-convincement of a future improvement to experience plays in a big part for dealing and even surviving the chronic illnesses. The holism insists that the mind plays much in the recuperation processes of the person, even provided to be adequately harmonized.

 

This flow suggests the human body prones to get ill or to attract the illness if the deharmonization vulnerates it. The problem aggravates if we believe there are people or stuff that can propitiate such illnesses. That’s called nocebo effect. An example is the charm or the witchcraft.

 

There is a division among who practice the holism about if it must or must not add to conventional medicine. However, independent specialists advise to add for improving the effects and guaranteeing the success of treatments. But, if the holistic theory of every illness breaks out by the accumulation of wrong decisions or guilt between the conception and the 12-year-old is taken, is it possible to reverse the frame?

 

The opposite of nocebo effect is the placebo effect, that doesn’t refer only to the wellness sensation based upon somebody or something, but how it is conducted until getting an eventual cure. A first step is the manner how the treatment or healing plan is provided. The attitude of the healing person (a medical doctor, a therapist) based on just giving the prescription helps but it doesn’t necessarily contribute to the cure.

 

Many times, what catalyses the success of treatment is releasing the whole negative mental energy of the folk. Knowing to listen, and based upon that, knowing to advise or to guide results favoring the healing of the people. That’s why patients with chronic illnesses that have a good attention quality react better and, if they don’t heal at all, approach to a state that makes the ill to be easily manageable.

 

But, what happens when the patients comes back home?There are ways to complement the achievement of the treatment in the clinic space, what doesn’t mean turning the home into another hospital but to follow up a very advantageous strategy, and that, with the adequate attitude, will help widely the person to recuperate.

 

If we start from that the mind contributes much in the healing processes, the basis of everything is the self-valuation and releasing the guilty feeling. If many illnesses can be acquired by the uncare, for good, it must do a break-up and get aware that as much as we propitiate the cause, we can propitiate the cure. That attitude depends on the individual.

 

It’s the same if we didn’t put our lives in risk but we were exposed to by other people. In this sense, knowing to manage the resentment can be healthier than only following up the treatment exactly as prescribed. Forgiving yourself and forgiving someone else is the other ingredient. Upon those two basis, here we introduce a plan that will favor any healing process, but that, we recommend, must be agreed with specialists to assure its effectiveness.

 

1. Healthy feeding: They say that the ill person who eats, doesn’t die, and that’s pretty true. But, ever have to choose that healthy and natural food, if possible. Specialists in nutrition can help us much, although reliable websites can also help us in the effort. The hydration and the medical treatment itself are here too. Everything is complementary.
2.  Leave me breathness: The people forget completely that the air we breathe influences in our body processes, so while it’s purest, they will be better, especially the fluid stream and the own breathing process. Then, it must guarantee the air quality.
3.  Educate your senses: The soul also feeds and it does through the senses. If we don’t care what we see, feel, and hear –also what we eat and breathe—, we will generate a disorder that won’t favor the body. The noise, the graphic violence, and the physical mistreatment, just mentioning some examples, raise our stress levels and contribute to open the door to the health deterioration. Then, we should look for the opposite.
4.  Manage your emotions: We, the people, ever must fight to generate tranquility and harmony environments. The addition of the three first points favor such state. There will be a time for everything, for sure, but the idea is the negative emotions don’t become constant, if not, they will disturb any effort to balance mind, body, and space.

 

As a necessary complement, the physical activity is important. We must agree with the specialists who examine us wwhich one would be the most adequate for our healing process, but never –unless they order the opposite— it must prescind on it. Let’s remember that, like the other alive beings, the human body was designed for the action.

 

The model featured on this entry is Christiam Tineo.

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Yoga – A Different Philosophy

Contortion? A very recommendable strategy of preventive health, actually.

By Danitza Crosby*

If I had to explain what Yoga means by a gesture, I’d smile because from many aspects, we found Yoga is not just exercises and asanas. It goes much beyond and a smile also expresses it very much.

Some people have the notion that Yoga is about contortion. Perhaps that’s why few attend to Yoga centers, but the picture is clearly different in other countries.

As much as I remember, I went out at six o’clock in the morning to Colombia and Venezuela parks, where I could watch crowds who attend to practice some sports,  like exercises, tai-chi, Yoga, walkings, etc., from the youngest to the oldest. The truth is very pleasant to see population and government entities of those places interested in health.

We, from Piura’s JñakandaYoga Cultural Center, are 51 years giving this great service to the community and there are many who attend daily to our Yoga centers worldwide. It is about 51 years of hard work, years of setting up Yoga system in Peru and many upcoming years to continue teaching generations those truly live it.

As Dr. Serge Reynauld de la Ferriere says on his book Yug Yoga Yogism, “Yoga in this sense is not a simple philosophy anymore, and I pledge the grace to be the translator of great masters of ancient times for defending the pure thinking of spiritual elevation what yogism is.”

Then, Yoga leads us to look for perfection throughout methods, needed disciplines to educate again our pphysical, mental and emotional being, not stopping only in contortion exercises but looking for balance what respects natural rules of evolution, which we have close our eyes down.

Body is conscius

However, our being is smart. How many times are we sat down before aa fatty food dish and we have felt not to eat it?

The hard belief of feeding three times a day does not pay attention about our body knows consciously what hurts it and when and what it must eat. Only that, sincerely, because  an accostumed  laze, we do not make it right and even we challenge our health with so many bad costumes those just feed a bag of diseases we could prevent if we would. Many of them threaten us by a constant stress.

Learning  an adequate breathing and psyco-physical exercises plus yoga could reduce them significantly to us. Only the will to begin now is needed and to choose to care our health in the present.

I ever amaze to see elder ladies practicing Yoga, having an enviable Health and a walking that some 27-year-old or less guys would have for ghood because they have decided to change toward a healthy and natural lifestyle.

Every June 21^st we say “Happy International Day of Yoga!” Many thanks to every Yoga teachers who give this great service to our communities around the world.

• Teacher of Piura’s Jñacanda Yoga Cultural Center (link goes to a fanpage in Spanish).

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Your keyword must be balance

By Luis Curay

 

When the people are asked why they do any type of physical activity, rather if they do any kind of sport, and rather if they do bodybuilding or fitness, the two type-answers they use to give are to be healthy or, being much honest, to look like physically good and make the rest to look at them.

 

They could be very simple answers or to get out the way, but what about if you reset your brain to say something more consistent like you do it to keep a good health, gain security, and increase your energy. But those three components are the consequence. Whichh would they be the ways to get it all? Coming next, three keys that will allow to reach that purpose and life philosophy.

 

Key 1 – Balance your body: The body balances using what surrounds you – the air, the food, the people. It’s ever very important to keep and active and optimistic mind.  For example, your first thought when waking up day by day. That helps much your mind and routes your actions.

 

Key 2 – Balance your mind: When you get your energy to route your daily goal, you’ll see your mind becomes strong. It’s not easy – the mind betrays. You must break down habits, myths. But a mind becomes strong with what it listens, what it sees. From there it comes your time of concentration, breathing control, and everything gets calm – it flows like a river.

 

Key 3 – Balance your feeding: The body speaks, it says you when it needs to rest, when it wants activity, when there is an excess. Do the famous pause and listen. We must be aware that the body is a set of muscles that need exercise as well as your mind needs thoughts.

 

Extra key – Balance everything: Health, security, energy. We are a complement with the Nature, so we must understand we part of that. The Nature is wise, energetic and safe for every habitat.

 

The natural cycle is next: we are formed by good bacteria. The bad ones come but the good ones do their job, what you eat gives you energy for you to move the best way, you do your body to be strong and secure with the right movements, with the whole machinery on the right way your mind flows and it will be easier to think, decide, make the step to upgrade.

 

If you wanna go this topic in depth or you need a customized advisory, contact me on my Facebook and Instagram accounts.

Do you want to share something related? Write us at chulucanasgym@gmail.com or get us on our Twitter account. 

Winning fair

An infallible guide to triumph in sports – and life.

 

We’ve already introduced you Ronald Jonathan Benites Rangel, a Laws student with three diplommas in criminal issues, extrajudicial conciliator, ecology activist, and fan of bodybuilding and biking too. His sport journey began in 2010 when he decided he wanted to improve his physical condition through power training, and he didn’t stop until participating in three Mister Piura contests in 2012, 2013, and 2014.

 

“I did it because I wanted to prove myself how much I’ve could advance and comparing my level to other Piura bodybuilders, and, why not, everywhere,” he affirms. “Also, I wanted to prove it can participate any contest, then passing the anti-doping tests without fear to objections or accusations.”

 

“You don’t know the sensation someone has going up the stage and contest! It’s an emotion you only can describe in that same instant,” he comments so proud while his eyes shine by satisfaction. “I didn’t win but I dared.” The journey is not simple. The obstacles appear everytime, and the most difficult is the indifference to sports. “One thing concerning me is the bodybuilding has no sponsorship from companies and my town’s institutions,” he claims quiet but convinced.

 

The genetics and natural feeding that still can be gotten in an agricultural community like Chulucanas, Peru, made possible he grew, muscularily speaking, not needing to run to synthetized supplementation. “I eat everything I can but balanced, plus my exercises routine,” he tells.

 

Although in the beginning, his family didn’t see well his hobby, they realized soon it was getting benefits to him. “I like to go out with my friends but I don’t smoke, I don’t drink alcohol, I sleep enough, oh!, and I neither make drugs,” he explains. Also, Ronald has a good academic performance, he’s a student leader, and he has discovered an insight as a conferencist and motivator, getting to catch his public’s interest.

 

At a workshop for youth in Sullana, he got to convince his audience on the need to grow and consume healthy food. After the presentation, he was one of the most required speakers by the attendants to make a picture.

 

The RJ Strategy

Based upon his own experience, we thought what things worked to Ronald that could work to you, and we found a quite exigent pattern, but if you follow it up, you culd also be proud of your own results, and playing fair.

• Find the reason inside you – Almost all the people motivate to begin a fitness plan if someone else goes with them. It helps for sure but it creates dependance. So, the idea is that the spark to begin, continue, and get must break out inside you. If nobody wants to follow you, move on. The triumph or the defeat will be your own responsibility.
• Set yourself clear and realistic goals – Yes, it’s necessary you set up a personal plan –look, personal—that points out wwwhich your sport goals will be and what adequate procedures will be to reach them. Take advice from a reliable specialist to see which ones will allow to optimize your own energy without underworking or overworking. Ronald also can advise you, and we’ll have this contact below this article.
• Get away what they will say – The people have right to opine, but never forget you have right to improve. Empower your convictions, and learn to manage the critic, wwhat means valuating it depending on who comes it on. Obviously, don’t listen to who doesn’t know anything of this – it’s losing worthy time.
• Apply honesty to your own plan – Believe it or not, there are people who try to cheat themselves even when they work out. Don’t do that mistake because you’re gonna frustrate or you’re gonna do an unrecoverable damage. Don’t accept the abounding magic recipes. Everything in life is gotten by working hard, and that’s the way it is. It can take you years even, but if you are patient and perseverant, you’ll se you’ll get it, and nobody could question your triumphs.
• Penalyze and award yourself – wait! This doesn’t mean you begin to hurt yourself, but you set up appropriate penalties and awards to your goals. So, you will learn to valuate your own effort. Your coach or Ronald can advise on this issue.
• Register your process – Are you going in progress? And according to what document? Remember there are advance indicators for every sport (anthropometrics, speed or weight records, etc). Then, take some minutes to have your own statistics and so having your own objective tool indicating if everything goes OK or not. Even it can be funny you design your own personal sport database, for you to set up progress scenarios.
• Share your experience – You don’t know the huge existent disinformation, even at gyms, about physical training strategies, so it’s necessary the people who have known to follow a plan, and prove it works, can do a sort of pair advisory complementing the specialized sport advisory. Plus, you’ll feel the satisfaction to see that all your effort was not in vain.

 

Ronald is available for customized training sessions and sport advisory, as well as speaking and conferences through Ronald_27_89@hotmail.com, his Facebook account, and our Twitter account.