What is the minimum amount of exercise needed for health and fitness? While it depends on the person, lifestyle, and goals, the general wisdom is that 20-60 minutes per day of cardio pumping, iron lifting, or muscle stretching is necessary.

While no one could deny that these numbers produce optimal results, it is possible to accomplish great things in a shorter time.

The truth is that most badly out-of-shape people have lost a crucial “body-mind” link, a connection that helps them to feel the physical hunger for healthy movement. They hate sweating, don’t like walking, and often confuse thirst or emotional pain for hunger.

For those of us who have to ease our way back into an exercise routine, even five minutes a day can be a life saving door into a healthier world.

Here are the rules:

1) In order to get the most out of this routine, it should be spread out over the day. We’re suggesting sixty seconds of work at 9 am, 12 pm, 3 pm, 6 pm, and 9 pm. This approach is called “Greasing the Groove” and has an exceptionally powerful effect.

2) Concentrate on the abdominal muscles. They are the most important group of voluntary muscles in the body, aiding posture, digestion, and sexual function. Critical to athletic performance, they transfer power from the lower to the upper body. When it comes to appearance, the abdominals are called “the window of health”—we are judged more often by our belt-lines than any other single physical factor.

3) It is virtually impossible to tone the abdominals without benefiting other muscle groups.

What exercises are best? I would suggest a tri-pronged approach: a “killer” exercise, a light exercise, and one that can be done in public—while walking or driving.

1) A roller wheel. These are available in any sporting goods store for about five dollars, and are the only ab exercise devise worth your money. Beginners roll out from their knees, more experienced exercisers from their toes.

2) Hip lifts. Lay on your back, brace your hands at your sides, cross your feet, lifting feet and knees from the floor. Now contract the abdominal muscles and lift the hips from the floor. Relax and repeat the hip lift for sixty seconds.

3) Power breathing. Contract your abdominal muscles HARD as you walk or drive. Combined with proper breathing techniques, this can actually be the perfect ab exercise. There are many yoga, Tai Chi and martial arts teachers who can teach you proper breathing technique—if you haven’t had training or studied this, don’t assume you already know how—seek out a teacher!

While the “Grease the Groove” technique is powerful (and can be used to develop strength, flexibility, or coordination) it is not intended to substitute for your longer cardiovascular workouts. It is offered as an addition, or for those days when you just can’t exercise, or as a way for the non-exerciser to begin. Consider it a doorway to a fitter, healthier world.

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A better golf swing is inevitable…for any golfer, with the right approach. It doesn’t matter age or ability. It’s a reality…and can happen very quickly!

To achieve a better golf swing, a golfer needs to realize just how physically demanding it is on the human body. You are swing an object (golf club) at up to 100 mph. This puts a tremendous amount of pressure on the joints, tendons, ligaments and muscles.

If these tissues of the body are weak, tight or brittle they will rupture and eliminate you from playing golf indefinitely. If it doesn’t, your performance will pay the price. The outcome either way is not what you want…but will happen without an emphasis on strengthening these areas.

Along with strengthening comes stretching. Stretching muscles to attain a better golf swing is common among most golfers. Although it is common, most golfers don’t stretch. Why? Because it is viewed as ‘work’. But if it were viewed as a form of golf improvement it would be a different story.

Swing mechanics cannot be improved if your golf specific strength and flexibility are ignored. It is an impossibility, unless you compensate for this lack of capabilities in your golf swing. Teaching pros are now starting to realize there is a definite connection between golf swing mechanics and fitness.

But that’s where the BIG gap is. Between instruction and physical fitness. This is the ultimate combination for total golf performance and I have been preaching it for several years now. When your physical capabilities are improved, your golf swing mechanics become much easier to achieve.

The next time you visit your teaching pro, to achieve a better golf swing, you’ll be able to do what he/she wants and the desired outcome will be achieved. This outcome is inevitable when you get your body moving better. Your golf swing mechanics fall into place.

It will only be a matter of time when all golfers will approach their golf improvement this way. It’s the only way that will warrant lasting results and ultimately a better golf swing.

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Want to know something? You can change your life anytime you want. Thanks to the Internet and all it offers, you can work for yourself. You can work from home and you can be your own boss and pay yourself whatever you want. Let me tell you more.

It’s a fact that thousands of people are making money online selling just about anything and everything to anyone and everyone. It’s fast becoming both the accepted way to buy and certainly the easiest way to sell. And the markets just keep getting bigger and bigger every day.

Just look at eBay for instance. What a prime example of successful niche market trading. With around 115 million users worldwide, eBay has made it possible for around 430,000 people to earn a full-time, online income.

At any given time there are more than 25 million items for sale on eBay. And this year the online auction phenomenon expects to trade 1.8 billion items, worth more than $20 billion. It’s truly staggering!

On top of that, consider how many individuals with their own small business websites are making a good living. It surely runs into hundreds of thousands. The point I’m trying to make is, anyone with half a mind can do it. And if it’s what you want to do, then why not?

Okay, so there’s a big market for eBay items. But with 950 million active Internet users worldwide, there’s also many other markets for many other products. This needs some serious consideration…

What are the best and most profitable products to sell online?

What do you think they are? CDs? DVDs? Books? Well, all these items certainly do sell very well online, but you would have to keep some stock (very costly) or arrange to open an account with a wholesaler who will drop-ship the products direct to your customers.

But, drop-shipping can be problematic, because you have no control over the process and things can and do go wrong, which could give rise to a lot of disappointed and unhappy customers. Result? You lose credibility and you lose sales. Worst still, you could lose your business!

An online business should be as simple to run as possible. So let’s forget about stock and packaging and packing and shipping. It’s too time-consuming and too tedious. Think! INSTANT DOWNLOAD.

And what are the best products to sell via this method?

I’m going to tell you categorically, that the best products to sell on the Internet are without doubt…information. In the wider sense of the term, information products include books, reports, courses, tutorials, music, films and software. Whether they educate or inform, they all fall into this same category.

There’s a huge, never-ending market for information products and the very best part is, you can deliver them to your customers electronically. It’s like the Internet was invented for sharing information. In fact it was! Only now, you can sell information products for big profits.