GNC WELLbeING

At the best of times, you may lack the time to prepare and eat the recommended daily allowance of food and miss out on vitamins and minerals for optimum health. And if you’re trying to lower your body fat, the RDA would put you over the limit imposed by your fitness trainer. But a diet deficient in vitamins and minerals can cause your hair to lose its luster and lead to such serious health issues as heart disease and cancer. Now you’ll find help from GNC WELLbeING. It's the first one-source line of whole body health products created exclusively for fit and active women. GNC WELLbeING debuts in GNC stores nationwide and targets:

• Whole Body Nutrition: these products address your top health concerns, including strong bones, healthy hearts, stress reduction, increased joint health for improved flexibility, stronger immunity and better digestion.

• Fitness Nutrition: these products maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of any exercise program by burning more calories and enhancing energy. They also aid in weight management with products designed to increase satiety and build lean muscle.

The complete line offers more than 25 complex and robust products, including pleasant tasting vitamins, delicious healthy whey-isolate protein shakes, thirst quenching vitamin-infused water mixes, and nutritious energy/protein bars.

Browse the entire GNC WELLbeING line.

Female Body Breakthrough

According to Rachel Cosgrove, dieting alone won’t get you a Bowflex body, but a strength-training plan will. This week Ms. Cosgrove’s new book The Female Body Breakthrough bench pressed its way onto Amazon.com’s No. 1 spot. It promises to shape up your life by revealing the hidden fat-blasting benefits of strength-training. If you're looking to breakthrough a training or weight-loss goal, a steady diet of dumbells could mean getting leaner, faster.

• A 2-week Bodyweight-Only Jumpstart Phase that will help women adjust to strength training while seeing results in just days.

• Over 100 fully illustrated warm-up moves and innovative strength-training exercises using everything from dumbbells and barbells to bands and straps.

• A comprehensive nutrition plan including nutrient-timing strategies that work with workouts, satisfying foods that promote optimum health and energy, and even an indulgent snack every day.

• A Do-It-Yourself guide to program design so you can craft a program that works toward your personal goals on your schedule.

Female Body Breakthrough, Amazon.ca, $16.37.

Hyperstrike.com

Every good online fitness training tool allows you to record and track your training progress. But Hyperstrike.com offers customized workout programs and video downloads to your mobile device. But the revelation is the site’s 3D demonstrations of 600 exercise, which instruct you with proper form to exercise safely. The basic service is US $59.95 for three months and includes exercise, nutrition and FITscore testing and a selection of goals: Health, Lean, Fitness or Performance. This friendly site is easy to use and made more engaging with searchable exercise labs for members who want to find exercise by body part, equipment or workout and hundreds of articles addressing motivation, nutrition, and injury prevention. Get your free 14-day trial at Hyperstrike.com.

Yoga for Your Immune System

In cold and flu season you’re likely to wonder whether you should exercise to help speed your recovery or rest. Yoga is the one activity that gives your immune system a healthful burst as it facilitates healing through movement — all without draining what little energy you have left. When you're feeling run-down, the Journal of Infectious Diseases reports no more than 20-minutes of a little deep breathing and a little rhythmic movement will encourage your parasympathetic system to flow, which increases circulation, ventilates your lungs with fresh oxygen, reduces stress, lowers blood pressure, drains toxins and restores energy. This week, Nike offers free yoga videos featuring Maria Sharapova and her behind the moves poses that improve her game and will restore your health. Boost your immunity with yoga poses to beat the flu.

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