How to get a Perfect Body?

Want to own a Perfect Body? Those curvy calves, buffy arms, tighter tummy, shapely shoulders and slender legs can be yours with some simple exercises. Add them to your routine three or four times a week to see results in less than a month.

CURVY CALVES
Stand with your feet hip-distance apart and your toes turned out. Bend your knees and lower you body unit your thighs are almost parallel to the floor. Lift both heels off the floor. Then, without allowing your heels to touch the floor, straighten up. Slowly return to the staring position. Do two sets of 10.

BUFFY ARMS
Stand holding on eight-pound weight in each hand, palms facing forward. Keeping your elbows by your sides, lift both weights until your forearms are parallel is the floor. Then, extend your arms straight out in front of you(as though you were serving a platter).Return your arms to the bent position, Slowing return to the starting position. DO two sets to 10.

TIGHTER TUMMY
Lie on your back with your hands behind your head. Use your stomach muscles to raise your neck and shoulders off the floor and lift your legs straight out in front of you until they raise your neck and shoulders off the floor and lift your legs straight out in front you until they are at a 45-degree angle to the floor. Turn your toes out. As quickly as you can. Cross you right leg over your left leg, then your left leg over right leg. Repeat for at least 30 seconds.

SHAPELY SHOULDERS
Stand holding on eight-pound weight in each hand, palms towards your body. Extend both arms straight out in front of you until they're shoulder-height, then return to the staring position. Next, still holding the weights, put your arms behind you and place your knuckles on your butt, keeping your arms slightly bent. With a straight back, lift your arms behind you until you feel a stretch across your chest. Slowly return to the staring position .Try two sets of 10.

SLENDER LEGS
Stand with your feet hip-distance apart, holding an eight-pound weight in each hand. Take a big step back with your right foot and bend your left knee so that you thigh is almost parallel to the floor. Then, lift your right knee in front of you until it's hip-height and your right thigh is parallel to the floor. Return to the starting position. Do 10,and then switch legs

Body Beautiful

The fact that we enjoyed perfect velvety skin in our teenage years is not reason enough to enjoy it throughout. Sun damage is cummulative and can be seen on our skin a decade or two later. The skin on our body needs the same kind of love and care as our face. Dull, coarse and lifeless skin is a result of a generally toxic lifestyle, and healthy eating, proper exercise and body brushing can make a dramatic difference.

Grab the Veggies
Your diet supplies the nutrients needed by the cells to keep skin, hair and nails looking healthy.Therefore, it is important that you feed your body a well balanced diet. Vegetables are actually ‘longevity' foods; they are clean burning, ‘high octane' fuels that return the cells causing premature ageing.

Veggies like tomatoes, carrots, broccoli and green leafy vegetables like spinach are packed with vitamin A and C, beta-carotene and fibre. These nutrients not only make your skin glow, but even help in destroying cancerous cells and preventing heart attacks.

They are also loaded with calcium – the mineral your body needs to keep your bones from buckling. Vegetables are rich in healthy carbohydrates and devoid of fat or cholesterol, making them good for the heart.

Poor eating habits can cause temporary hair loss, cracks in the corner of your mouth and brittle nails. Your skin can bruise easily, heal slowly and look dull, drab and ‘ashy'. A good diet, on the other hand will keep your skin looking healthy and toned, and sport a fine texture and colour.

Besides, a healthy diet will keep skin diseases at bay. In fact, if you eat right, you won't need to take vitamin supplements. In short there is no substitute for veggies.

Fitness Goals
Exercise is surprisingly enjoyable, good for the self-esteem and carries significant benefits for the quality of our lives and our health. Be it yoga, aerobics or walking, and no matter how little of it, it is important for both physical and mental health.

Exercise is a panacea for boredom, tension, anxiety and even PMS. Working up a sweat is natural and healthy, a vital requirement for a balanced, fulfilled life.

Exercise improves blood circulation, which helps in the reproduction of new cells, besides getting rid of all impurities to reveal radiant skin. But when you don't exercise enough, the blood circulation is sluggish and the skin receives less oxygen. As a result, your skin may look dull and sallow, one that lacks lustre. In fact, it might even aggravate acne

It might take some getting used to, but once you get started, your body and mind will get accustomed to the exertion and actually hunger for it.

Simply Brush it Away
Body brushing is a good way to stimulate blood circulation. Because the skin is an organ of elimination (and the largest one in the body), many toxins can be eliminated if you stimulate the circulation and the lymph system by brushing the skin.

Use a loofah or a body sponge and brush in circular motions to remove the dead skin cells. Pay special attention to the elbows, knees, shoulders, the back and thighs. Do this every day before bathing or showering. Also, keep the temperature of your bath water a little higher that of your skin so as to stimulate sluggish circulation.

Smoother skin is a spin-off of this toxin-eliminating regimen, which leaves you feeling invigorated and truly bright-eyed.