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Ways to Tone your Arms with Pilates

Posted: May 12 in Gastric Band Blog by

Using tools such as resistance or exercise bands, hand weights, and the Joseph Pilates Magic Circle, you can use Pilates exercises to tone your arms. Be prepared with a Pilates mat and a large towel or blanket. Follow these four steps to see an improvement in the tone of your arms in 30 days.

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Walking Safety Tips

Posted: Apr 21 in Gastric Band Blog by

Walking is a great way to ease into a more active lifestyle. Practice these safety tips to get the most benefit from your walking regimen.

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How to Do Sit-Ups with a Lap-Band

Posted: Apr 06 in Gastric Band Blog by

Lap-band surgery helps obese people lose weight by restricting how much food the patient can eat. An adjustable band is placed near the top of the stomach, creating a smaller pouch that holds about 4 ounces of food. Although lap-band surgery can help you lose weight by limiting how much food you can eat, adding exercise is suggested to achieve the best results.

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Can walking help you lose weight?

Posted: Mar 10 in Gastric Band Blog by

While you can lose weight by walking or doing other types of exercise, combining exercise with a balanced diet is the easiest way to lose weight. But even something as simple as walking every day can help you lose more weight than dieting alone.

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Is Walking Really a Workout?

Posted: Feb 19 in Gastric Band Blog by

While experts and physicians often recommend walking as a great way for inactive people to ease into fitness, it’s hard to believe that something so simple can make a difference in your health and fitness level.

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How to Make and Keep Holiday Fitness Goals

Posted: Dec 28 in Gastric Band Blog by

Weight loss and weight maintenance is rarely easy, but the holidays can make it even harder. Holiday parties, an abundance of food, and added stress and activities all make sticking to a healthy diet and exercise routine more difficult than ever. But with a little preparation, you can survive the holiday season with your weight loss and fitness goals in tact.

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Yoga and Weight Loss

Posted: Oct 02 in Gastric Band Blog by

Despite the calming aura that surrounds yoga, it’s still challenging, and it can increase flexibility and strength. It is a great activity to include in your weight loss workout regimen; however, it shouldn’t be your only exercise. Most disciplines of Yoga do not increase your heart rate enough to have an aerobic benefit. Aerobic exercise burns [...]

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Popular Nature Trails in the Albany, Georgia Area

Posted: Aug 28 in Gastric Band Blog by

Living in South Georgia makes getting active after bariatric surgery easier. Southern Georgia could not be more different than its northern half. Without a large city like Atlanta, southern Georgia is a quiet, more rural setting. In southern Georgia, there is almost no need to restrict yourself to a designated nature trail in order to [...]

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5 Exercises You Can Do While Talking On The Phone

Posted: Aug 05 in Gastric Band Blog by

Sometimes doing two things at once can help make the time go by more quickly. If you struggle with fitting in activity during the day, why not pick up the phone and call a friend – then sneak in some exercises while you chat? It will make doing the activity more pleasant if you have [...]

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Popular Biking Trails in the Albany, Georgia Area

Posted: Jul 02 in Gastric Band Blog by

Take advantage of the great outdoors in and around Albany this month as you look for new ways to increase activity for weight loss. The nature trails and parks here are educational and breathtaking and the biking trails are long and rambling. The longest biking trail in Albany, Georgia is the Albany Nut Roll Classic. [...]

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