Who doesn’t want that prominent jawline? And to our good-luck, enhancing your cheekbones and shedding of that extra fat from your face is much easier than what you thought. After 25, your skin starts to deteriorate no matter what product you use. Doing facial exercises is the key to look younger. Also, if you hate your face fat, these exercises will help you melt it away.

Facial exercises are as important as exercising the rest of your body. Facial exercises help increase the blood circulation and counteract wrinkles as well. So, here we bring to you facial exercises that will enhance your smile, shoo away that fat and make you look younger.

DO OO-EE: The simplest of all, this exercise requires you to make the sound of 00-EE with exaggerated facial movements. Making the sound of 00-EE helps you target the muscles between your upper lip and nose and your lips as well.

DO BROW LIFTS: Exercising the muscles of your forehead is important and easy as well. Make the victory sign from your fingers and place the two fingers at the end and start point of each eyebrow. Now applying a bit pressure push the skin down with your fingers and then pull it up. Repeat this motion 10 times. You can do 3 sets with 10 movements in each set. Then, take some rest and do a set of another 3.

EXERCISE BY SMILING: This exercise will not only make your face slim but also make you look more beautiful. Practice smiling will not only firm up your smile but also make you look beautiful because you smile. To do this exercise slowly move your mouth to the position of a full smile. You can try and control each position which will give you a better control of your face and smiling capabilities. Stretch ur smile the maximum you can. Repeat 10 times.

DOUBLE CHIN EXERCISE: As the name suggests this exercise helps you get rid of your double chin. Keeping your face straight, move your lower jaw as forward as you can along with raising your chin. Come back to the starting position. Repeat 10 times.

BLAST THAT ARM FAT WITH THESE 5 SIMPLE EXERCISES: It's easy when it comes to making abs, reducing belly fat, thigh fat or lose weight in general. It's easy because the internet is choked with exercises for these. But what about arm fat? Aren't jiggle-free arms what everyone wants? Are you also struggling with that stubborn arm flab? Here’s help, as we bring to you 5 exercises, practising which daily will not only reduce that fat but will also give you toned, sexy and shapely arms.

ARM CIRCLES: Arm circle is an easy exercise and is mostly done as a warm up before any strenuous exercise such as strength training. Practising arm circles targets your triceps, back, biceps and shoulders. Practising it daily will first reduce arm fat followed by toning of muscles.

PULL-UPS: We all know pull up is a compound exercise doing which involves many small and big muscles. Pull up is an exercise that causes more than one joint to move so it can be called a multi-joint movement exercise. But most notably pulls up work on your biceps and shoulders and thus, are a great exercise for toning them.

BURPEES: Burpee is the ultimate example of functional fitness. It’s a full body strength exercise which involves your arms, chest, quads, hamstrings, abs and glutes in every repetition. Burpees are not only for athletes but for everyone. Burpees help you lose that extra fat, boosts your metabolism and tones your body like no other exercise can do.

PUSH-UPS: By working on a large number of muscles at a time, push-ups are a great body workout. Push-ups not only work on your abs and your lower body, but also on your arms at the same time. Push-ups help you tremendously to get fitter and become stronger at the same time.

JUMPING JACKS: Also, called star jumps, jumping jack is a callisthenics exercise that gets your whole body moving. Requiring the whole-body movement, jumping jacks is a great exercise for your cardiovascular system as increases your heart rate.

An hour of workout is important daily to be fit and healthy in our busy routine. It takes a lot to figure out which form of workout is the most beneficial and impactful for one’s body.

One of the main reasons to workout is to be in shape and burn calories.

Here are some workout forms which are best to burn calories but one might have to be patient to see better and effective results.

1. Walking
Without any particular techniques to follow, walking is one of the easiest and effective ways to burn calories. One requires dedication and discipline to make sure that he or she is walking everyday for a certain amount of time. You can increase the minutes of walking once you have developed stamina. Although walking doesn't give immediate results, it gives effective and long term results.

2. Kettlebell
Kettlebell workout has proven to be one of the best forms of exercise using just one equipment. It doesn't just burn calories, but also helps you lose weight in a short duration and develop strength. One should use kettle bell under someone’s supervision because of the breathing techniques that have to be followed to perform it correctly and ensure that it doesn't result in back pain or any other injury.

3. Strength Training and Crossfit
Strength training or weight lifting as it is more commonly called is a type of physical exertion in which you induce weights to burn and tone muscles. According to Nilparna Sen, a Surat-based strength coach says, “Cardio will burn calories while you are working out, but for overall strength, I will recommend strength training. It helps in the burning of calories even after the workout and in maintaining body composition.

4. Yoga and Power Yoga
A person weighing 90 kg is known to burn 228 calories per hour if he performs yoga. A yoga might be a form of exercise that takes longer to show result but if done correctly, it helps you burn calories and tone up with all the stretching.

To lead a healthy lifestyle, other than minding your diet, you also need to make an effort to partake in physical activities.

This is a habit that you need to make consciously. Be it walking, running, yoga, aerobics or swimming, even 30 minutes of some sort of activity daily can take you a long way to staying healthy.

Even cycling around can work wonders to pump up those happy hormones. What if you cycled to work?

According to a new study, cycling to office can help reduce stress and improve your work performance.

Researchers Stephane Brutus, Roshan Javadian and Alexandra Panaccio compared how different modes of commuting - cycling, driving a car and taking public transport - affected stress and mood at work.

The results indicated that cycling to work was a good bet. "Employees who cycled to work showed significantly lower levels of stress within the first 45 minutes of work than those who travelled by car," he says. The study did not, however, find any difference in the effect on mood.

The research team collected data from 123 employees at Autodesk, an information technology company in Old Montreal, using a web-based survey. Respondents replied to questions about their mood, perceived commuting stress and mode of travel.

The survey differentiated between perceived stress and mood, a more transient state affected by personality traits and emotions.

The study only assessed answers from respondents who had completed the questionnaire within 45 minutes of arriving at work. This was done to get a more 'in-the-moment' assessment of employees' stress and mood.

"Recent research has shown that early morning stress and mood are strong predictors of their effect later in the day," he explains. "They can shape how subsequent events are perceived, interpreted and acted upon for the rest of the day."

दररोज व्यायाम केल्याने वजन कमी करण्यास मदत होते, असा आपल्या सर्वांचाच समज असतो. परंतु, तुम्हाला माहीत आहे का? व्यायामही वजन वाढण्यासाठी कारणीभूत ठरतो. होय... तुम्ही बरोबर ऐकलंत. तुम्ही करत असलेला व्यायामही वजन वाढण्याचं कारण ठरतो.

व्यायाम वजन कमी करण्यासाठी फायदेशीर ठरतो, हे खरं आहे. पण गरजेपेक्षा जास्त व्यायाम फक्त वजनच वाढवत नाही तर अनेक प्रकारच्या आरोग्याच्या समस्या उद्भवण्यासाठीही कारण ठरतं. जर तुम्ही दररोज अनेक तास जिममध्ये व्यायाम करत असाल तर याचे साइड इफेक्ट्सबाबत नक्की विचार करा. कारम जेव्हा तुम्ही गरजेपेक्षा जास्त व्यायाम करत असाल तर शरीरावर त्याचा विपरित परिणाम होतो.

द हेल्थ साइटने दिलेल्या वृत्तानुसार, व्यायामाबाबत अनेक संशोधनांमधून आणि तज्ज्ञांनी दिलेल्या सल्ल्यांमधून हेच सिद्ध होतं की, एका व्यक्तीला एका आठवड्यामध्ये 2 ते 5 तासांचा सधा आणि सोपा व्यायाम आणि दीड ते अडिच तासांचा सामान्य व्यायाम करणं गरजेचं आहे.

जेव्हा तुम्ही आठवड्यामध्ये 2 ते 5 तास व्यायाम करता, त्यावेळी तुमच्या शरीरातील मेटाबॉलिज्म व्यवस्थित काम करतं. तसेच यामुळे तुम्ही वजन नियंत्रणात ठेवण्यासोबतच बॉडिदेखील व्यवस्थित तयार करू शकाल.

शरीरासाठी किती व्यायाम गरजेचा?

एका व्यक्तीला दररोज किती व्यायाम करणं आवश्यक असतं, हे तिच्या शरीरयष्टीसोबतच तिच्या उंचीवरही अवलंबून असतं. परंतु, यासाठी शरीराची स्थिती आणि वय या गोष्टीही लक्षात घेणं आवश्यक ठरतं.

एका व्यक्तीने एका दिवसामध्ये 3 तासांपेक्षा जास्त व्यायाम किंवा जिम करू नये. कारण एका संशोधनानुसार, जर व्यक्ती 5 तासांपेक्षा जास्त वर्कआउट दररोज करत असेल तर त्याला ब्लड प्रेशर आणि मसल्ससोबत हाडांच्या समस्यांचाही सामना करावा लागू शकतो.

जास्त व्यायाम केल्याने होणारे नुकसान

जास्त व्यायाम केल्याने वेगवेगळे साइड इफेक्ट्स लोकांमध्ये दिसून येतात. काही साइड इफेक्ट्स असे असतात. जे सर्वांमध्ये एकसमान असतात.

- हार्ट रेट वाढणं
- भूक फार कमी लागणं किंवा खूप लागणं
- पायांमध्ये वेदना होणं आणि शरीराला थकवा जाणवणं
- शरीरामध्ये पाण्याची कमतरता होणं
- शरीराच्या मेटाबॉलिज्म रेटवर परिणाम होणं
- आपण सर्वच जाणतो की, दररोज व्यायाम केल्याने मेटाबॉलिक रेटवर परिणाम होतो. परंतु जेव्हा तुम्ही गरजेपेक्षा जास्त व्यायाम करता, त्यावेळी मेटाबॉलिज्मवर परिणाम होतो.

जेव्हा मेटाबॉलिक रेट जास्त वाढतो, त्यावेळी भूक फार वाढते. जास्त भूक लागल्यामुळे पाचनतंत्र फार वेगाने काम करतं. अशावेळी तुम्ही जेकाही खाल, त्याचं वेगाने पचन होतं.

जास्त एक्सरसाइज केल्याने का वाढतं वजन?

जास्त एक्सरसाइज केल्याने वाढणाऱ्या वजनाचं अगदी सोपं कारण म्हणजे, मेटाबॉलिक रेटवर होणारा परिणाम. यामुळे आपल्याला भूक जास्त लागते आणि वजनही वेगाने वाढतं. यावर व्यक्तीचा कंट्रोलही राहत नाही.

टिप : वरील सर्व गोष्टी आम्ही केवळ माहिती म्हणून वाचकांपर्यंत पोहोचवत आहोत. यातून आम्ही कोणताही दावा करत नाही. कारण प्रत्येकाची शारीरिक क्षमता वेगवेगळी असते. त्यामुळे कोणताही उपाय करण्याआधी तज्ज्ञांचा सल्ला घेणं फायदेशीर ठरतं.