Amazons Watch Magazine
Category

Fitness Challenges

Category
Fitness Challenges

Why 7,000 Steps May Matter More Than 10,000: What New Research Says

Why 7,000 Steps May Matter More Than 10,000: What New Research Says

Janet Coin At 8:30 on a Tuesday evening, a busy professional glanced at her fitness tracker and sighed. 6,247 steps. She had spent the day moving between meetings, answering calls, rushing through errands and climbing stairs, yet the number on her wrist made the day feel strangely incomplete. She had not reached 10,000. So, despite being tired, she considered going back outside for another walk, not because she wanted to, but because she had been taught that anything less somehow did not count. But what if 6,000 steps was already doing far more for her health than she thought? For years, 10,000 steps has been treated almost like a daily health examination. Fitness watches celebrate it. Walking challenges are built around it. People compare their numbers and feel a small sense of victory when the screen turns over to five digits. But the origin of that famous number is far…

Keep Reading
By
Featured

The 21 Day Desk Job Reset: Simple Movement for Busy Professional Women

By Blossom Ukoha “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” — Jim Rohn By 10:00 a.m., many professional women have already responded to dozens of emails, attended a virtual meeting, reviewed reports and solved problems for everyone except themselves. By 6:00 p.m., they have barely taken 1,000 steps. Their minds are exhausted, yet their bodies have hardly moved. Ironically, the modern workplace has made women more productive than ever, yet more sedentary than at any other point in history. For many women, this is not an occasional busy day. It has become a way of life. The alarm rings before sunrise, emails begin arriving before breakfast, meetings fill the calendar, deadlines compete for attention and, before you know it, another day has slipped away. Somewhere between leading teams, caring for family, responding to messages and chasing ambitious goals, one important person is often forgotten.…

Keep Reading
By
Fitness Challenges

Five Exercises That Every Pregnant Woman Should Do

Exercising during pregnancy can be helpful for a woman’s mental and physical health, and it can as well provide the newborn with a healthier beginning. Frequent exercise during pregnancy can enhance your posture and lessen some common distress such as backaches and fatigue. There are proven facts that physical activity may curb gestational diabetes (diabetes that develops during pregnancy), alleviate stress, and generate more strength needed for labour and delivery.

Keep Reading
By
Fitness Challenges

Trying to Drop Those Pandemic Pounds?

By Aditi Maheshwari Women have a formidable list of activities simply because of being a woman. Being tired is surmised to be a weakness. Success however should not be confined to result specific but on the contrary, it should be a reflection of the best choices made. The will to stand up for oneself and others is not easy and requires immense courage to be executed but women’s legacy is of comfortably handling the discomforts. Sharing in this article what can be the best choices to stay fit for a woman, no matter whether you work from home or office. Eat a good breakfast and depend on healthy snacks to avoid lifestyle diseases. Stay hydrated by drinking a sufficient amount of water. Since desk jobs are not generally manually intensive and more sedentary in nature, it leads to back-breaking, muscle tension and strain, neck pains are quite common and such…

Keep Reading
By