Keep fit!

Hi bloggers ;)

I´m going to talk about exercise, food, weight… and all those topics we teenagers are obsessed with.

I´m going to start with some tips for having a healthy diet:

As you know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. For having a good breakfast you may mix dairy products (a glass of milk or a yogurt), fruits (or low sugar content juices) and bread (toasts or whole grain bread). You must have a lot of energy for the whole morning.

At 11 o´clock more or less, you should eat a piece of fruit or a small sandwich that will help you to finish the morning.

For lunch, eating three different plates is the best. The first one could be a salad (3 or 4 days per week), legumes(3 or 4 days per week) or pasta (1 or 2 days per week). I recommend that you don't add a lot of fat on the second plate, with a piece of white fish, chicken, beef or (sometimes) pork it is enough. The dessert is the perfect moment for adding another fruit because they are very healthy and they are loaded with vitamins. If you prefer, a youghurt it is also fine.

At mid-afternoon you might have a snack, low calorie content (of course).

When you arrive home at the end of the day for dinner you should eat less than you have eaten for lunch. Salad or veggies and fish will be perfect.

All in all, this healthy diet isn´t so healthy if you don't drink two litres of water each and every day, because water cleans our body outside and inside. With this diet and the low calories content you won´t lose weight all the way around, you will stay healthier than ever and you will avoid all those fat, additives and transgenic products that are making our lives shorter and shorter. If you have a healthy diet you won´t need to lose any weight, no matter what you think of it, and for people that really need to lose it, or for the ones that love sports, here are some excellent apps and advice you will adore.

LIFESUM: It is an amazing FREE app. It controls your weight, the calories you can eat everyday and if you do something wrong a big red notification will punish you. It is amazing because you can introduce the information about the food you eat everyday and it calculates the calories. If it doesn´t find the type of food, you can scan its bar code and the app will recognize it. Isn´t that incredible? The app itself can send you healthy recipes, remember what you have had for breakfast and repeat it daily, etc.

NIKE APPS: Nike has developed five apps for training wherever you are. Nike Running controls you when you go out for running, it records every single place you pass through and how many kilometers you have done. Nike Training Club is another app that contains more than one hundred trainings and exercises. You can decide what to do, to tone up, cardiovascular training… There are plenty of trainings with plenty of exercises inside them and videos that explain every movement.

They are really good and free, which is a good point.

For more information visit the App Store or the Games Store.

If you are very lazy and you don´t know how to play some sports because you prefer to stay at home, I recommend Wii games like Rumba or Just Dance, which are really funny and you would like the music a lot. I also recommend to follow @FITNESSpics on twitter for motivation, interesting tips and information about food like: chocolate that doesn´t make you gain weight but helps you have flat abs.

That is all for today, I hope you like the apps and you decide to play more healthy sports, at least twenty-five minutes everyday. If you have any doubt you can inquire it in the comments and I will answer. Here are some links about exercise and healthy food for you to look at.

If you want to try some exercises these ones are the best for starters and I have added some others that are a little bit more difficult. I have found them on a very interesting website:

http://www.helpguide.org/life/healthy_eating_diet.htm
http://www.safeandhealthylife.com/health-and-nutrition-tips-how-to-keep-up-your-energy-levels/

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Bye :)

Gorillas in the Mist

Recently, it was the 82nd anniversary of the birth of Dian Fossey. This reminded me of the film Gorillas in the Mist, which it tells the interesting life of this American anthropologist. 

In the film, she travels to Africa to study the life of the mountain gorillas. During her stay there, she starts to know more about the animals of the jungle. She observes how the few animals that remain are massacred by hunters. She dedicates the rest of her life to protect and take care of them.

She establishes a national park in the mountains. She becomes famous thank to the informative documentaries about gorillas that she records for the National Geographic. She has a really close relationship with Digit, the dominant gorilla from the first group she studied. The death of this gorilla at the hands of poachers was a great sorrow for her.

Finally, Dian Fossey is brutally murdered in her bedroom at the cabin by an unknown attacker. Her life had a tragic ending, but she died fighting for the freedom of the gorillas.

Are we going back in time?

This is something everybody has asked themselves at least once. Sometimes, while we are shopping with people older than us, they tell us that they had the clothes we want to buy when they were young.
 

If we have a look at the photos of the time when our grandparents were young, we can see that the fashionable clothes and accessories of their decade are almost the same as the ones in ours. A clear example is “Ray-Ban Wayfarer” sunglasses. Those glasses were designed in the 60’s. Despite that, they are still being worn.

Due to that, most of the fashion world moves around vintage and retro styles. These two words can be easily confused. To distinguish them we have to consider that vintage and retro don´t mean the same thing. The term vintage refers to something which was designed and manufactured for the first time many years ago, for example in the 60´s. However, the term retro involves the imitation of clothes and styles which were used in the past. 

To make this clear: if you wear the sunglasses that your grandma used to wear when she was young, it is considered that you are wearing vintage sunglasses. Nevertheless, if you buy a new pair of sunglasses similar to the original ones of your grandmother, you would be wearing retro sunglasses.   

All things considered, it would be a good idea to keep the clothes that you use daily, because they might become fashionable again in the future.

Dirt Jumping

Dirt jumping, probably one of the most underrated and least known sports in the world, although, in my opinion, the sport that requires the most hard work, determination and skill than any other. You most likely don't know what it consists of, so let me explain.

First of all, a bike is needed, preferably a mountain bike or bmx. These days there are special dirt jump bikes made specifically for the sport, which are basically a hybrid between a bmx and a mountain bike, even though they are rare and very few shops sell them.

The locations of these trails are usually hard to find or hidden, due to the fact the the people who build them don't want them to be found and receive the tragic effects of vandalism. However, many people can easily find them while having a walk in the forest or exploring the outside. The one thing that dirt jumps need is a LOT of space. In preference, the dirt must be humid and abundant, with barely any stones and rocks. Too many roots can also slow down the process of building some awesome trails!

Most trail sites start off being one or two poorly made small jumps, made by hand by a few teenagers, but gradually built up to being an exquisitely crafted and looked after maze of huge precise connected dirt jumps. Sometimes, you can find lines of up to even 20 jumps.
 

This is a photo of me having fun on the local dirt jumps of Soria (Las Batuecas), next to the train station.

As you can see, the two jumps are closely placed one in front of another so as to create a flow and continuity between them, also to keep up enough speed to clear the next jump. The trees give a great shade for those hot Spanish summers that we are used to. Also, the trees create a much nicer photo!

Here are a couple of quick videos if you're interested:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaaX0tfd-mU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFvx2WMKrIc&list=FLk6rZNadhbrv7Kg9Ho4hmEA&index=12

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