Fitness shoe/flip-flops

By Lonneke | May 4, 2008

It’s almost flipflop time again wiihoe. Not only because I love summer time but I am a real shoe- and flipflop addict I can say that I own dozens of pairs of shoes and flip-flops. There is a big chance that when you walk into my room, that you stumble over a few shoes of mine. If it were up to me I’d walk on flip-flops the whole year thru. But unfortunately the weather in Holland do not permit this )

Today I saw an advertisement about healthy flipflops, called Fitflops. Marcia Kilgore (personal trainer) came with the idea to make a shoe that burns your fat, take care for a better posture, ánd strengthens your muscles.(developed by Darren James and Dr David Cook at London South Bank University) This wonderful and definitely great idea came reality and are now the UK’s hottest fitness shoe’s.

I saw this flipflops today (03 may 2008) just for the first time but they already exist since 2007. ;-). Meanwhile already in various variants and color to obtain and now also for men!
This evening I told about these fitness shoes against my boyfriend, maybe he can write about it on his own blog if he like.

Note: I have not tried the shoes yet, but all I have read about is very positive and I think to buy some pair of them.

But one important thing: you must not OVERUSE them because this can damage your health. Doctor Barry Francis says “people wear flip flops all the time they are constantly scrunching their toes up into a claw. ‘That can cause problems such as tendonitis and even shin splints. People go to work in them and stand in them all day. They are also extremely unstable so you are more likely to trip over and hurt yourself. “

But for summer periods it’s ok to wear flipflops, fitflops or flat shoes. Make sure you save them for the beach and replaced with shoes with backs or proper straps to hold the foot in place.

So, if you are too busy? Is there no time to go to the fitness but do you really want to sports daily? Then these FitFlops are perhaps something for you!

Why wearing FITFLOPS?

FitFlops give you a workout while you walk.
They challenge hard to reach muscles more.
Every step you take in your FitFlops helps tone and trim your legs
FitFlops work your bum muscles more. FitFlops have been clinically proven to increase the amount of time that the gluteus maximus muscle is ‘activated’ during every single step.
FitFlops have been shown to have a significant effect on the toning muscles of your thighs: The rectus femoris muscle (one of the large muscles in the group of muscles in your thigh) is activated for a longer period of time while walking in FitFlops than while normally shod or barefoot.
Walking in FitFlops is like walking barefoot, but a little bit better
FitFlops make it easier to stay in shape.

Wanna know where to buy these lovely fitflops? Or in wich styles you can get them?

Check the official fitflop site at http://www.thefitflop.com for more info and get yours today!

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Burnout

By Lonneke | April 20, 2008

Mental exhaustion and overstrain through unusual tiredness a more frequently common problem in the business world. Perhaps you had one yourself or you know someone who ever had a burnout (or have). A burnout expresses itself in wane and cynicism. This problem, the so been named burnout, can become a real serious personal drama. A burnout happens most often with people with a large involvement. These people have earlier burden of work stress.
This will not say that everybody with a large involvement is subject for burnouts. You must have a weak spot for this and this can have several causes. These can be for example negative things that are happing at your work or your private life.
The deeper lying causes are often much more drastic and historic and might relate our education, emotional damages and unfilled wishes and ambitions.

Actually a burnout is nothing more or less than a warnings signal of our body. Your body can’t take the psychological pressure that reaches us of all sides any longer, it’s become too much and the body reacts to this.

How do you recognize a burnout?

If you want to recognize a burnout early you’ll need to be alert to the signals below, only then you can prevent worsening.

· Bad sleep

· Waking up earlier

· Tired very quickly

· Restless and hurried feeling

· listless

· concentration problems

· Vague physical complaints

· Addictive behaviour

· Lot of worry and puzzle over

· Forgetful

Frequently it starts with overwrought and overstrained feelings. The characteristics are mostly the same: bad sleeping, tiredness, concentration problems and depressive/low spirit. When we do nothing about it, these symptoms can lead to an exhausted feeling.

Complete burnout
This variant of a burnout is quite serious. As person you feels emotional exhausted, weary (nights of 12-14 hour its no exception), and the pleasure in work and life is (totally) disappeared. Sometimes this goes coupled with other physical complaints. Mostly a burnout is assigned at work, but quite often privately-factors plays also a role.

Prevent
To prevent a burnout we must do something with the causes. Only relaxing is not enough, we must change our live and way of thinking to prevent worsening. How about work? And our relationships? What do we do with the plenty of choices that we need to make?

Cure
To cure of a burnout we need to go a step further. Finally we’ll must be aware of our subconscious, to become process of our unprocessed experiences and there for the cure of a real burnout is most often a good accompaniment of a physician and/or a psychologist indispensable. Finally we need to change our total life: How we work, what we eat, our leisure activities and other (business) activities.