Why is the Morningware Halo Oven different?

Here’s the secret, or at least it was a secret. The Halo utilizes a technology called 4-way ‘halovection’. A full spectrum of infrared waves combines with convection air, conductive heat and halogen heat that are referred to as ‘instant on’. It will cook your meals a full 50% quicker than a regular convection oven and use a staggering 85% less energy. And no preheating!

Not only that, but this Halo Oven will not burn the outside of your food just because it’s thoroughly cooking the inside; and as an added bonus, seals in all of the natural juices. You can actually cook frozen food, right out of the freezer, in mere moments. That and the sealing in of the juices are my two favorite parts. Because you can’t always plan ahead, wouldn’t it be nice to pull something out of the freezer at the last minute and prepare it as if it had properly thawed? Surprise guests no longer have to put up with whatever they can get.

It looks like a spaceship!

Okay, maybe it resembles a spaceship, just a little bit; but its very uniqueness is what sets it apart from all other kitchen appliances. It’s not a stove, it’s not a grill, and it’s not a microwave. It’s a Halo Oven. It comes with a digital control panel which is easy to use, a halogen power head for superb cooking, an easy access dome holder, a stainless steel grill that is adjustable and a base and glass tray that are dishwasher safe. An extending ring can be purchased to allow for larger cooking jobs up to a 23 pound turkey.

Okay it cooks fast, what else does it do?

Ready? The Halo Oven dehydrates (only if you so choose), broils, steams, roasts, barbecues, bakes and grills all in the convenient location of your counter top. This device can even ‘air fry’ – oils, and fats or shortenings not required. How incredibly healthy is that? And if you’re thinking that all that heat is really going to make your kitchen uncomfortable in summer, guess again. This device will not heat up your kitchen. Furthermore, it is smokeless. Healthy and clean. Simply amazing. The Halo Oven is operated digitally by a microchip and offers a cooking time of up to 10 hours. It has heat settings that range from 190° F to 400° F; and that’s all you’ll need.

Don’t wait or you could miss out

By ordering your Halo Oven right now, you will receive a free 2-year warranty certificate in writing, free cooking chart, a free recipe book and (this one’s amazing) free shipping! That’s right, no more getting socked with S & H charges. Because that’s where they always get you, after all. Great TV offers, two for one, free this, free that…. and then… the dreaded shipping and handling charges. Well, not with the Halo Oven; at least not right now. Better hurry!

What is included with Light Relief?

Included is a base component that holds the chief circuitry, button controls, a graphic display, and batteries. The light pad unit which is hand held contains an assortment of almost 60 infrared, blue and red LED light producing diodes. The light unit also has a heat switch, which can be switched off and on, as you wish. Additionally, it has four frequency options (high, medium, low and start) that are changeable by depressing the button (blue in color) at the head of the device.

Instructions for using the unit

Hold it in your palm and secure it by threading your fingers beneath the elastic strap at the head of the device. After that, put the device over the region to be heated and treated. Light Relief applies light generated heat for your body’s comfort and the reduction of joint pain, light muscular pain, or stiffness. It relaxes muscles and assists in providing improved freedom and range of motion. Light relief actually provides a short-term increase in the circulation of the body’s blood supply.

What causes the pain that Light Relief reduces?

Research has shown that years of abusing our muscles he due to misalignment of our bodies causes damage to tissue and delicate bones in the body’s joints. Pain and inflammation can be reduced by tackling the cause of the pain from the inside, at its source. Mobility and flexibility can even be increased by encouraging healthy cartilage growth so that you can get back to enjoying a more youthful and active lifestyle.

Wouldn’t you love to recapture the joy of life?

Well, you can because Light Relief, along with your free bottle of Joint Support Formula, will not only dramatically speed your pain relief; but through a blend of all natural ingredients Light Relief can soothe chronic or temporary joint discomfort in your back, feet, hips and legs.

Don’t wait to order

Ordering now gets you an adjustable, hands free strap; travel bag; body band and ‘how to use’ guide. And, if you act quickly, a $40.00 valued bottle of Joint Support Formula is yours as a bonus: free. There’s no risk because your Light Relief includes not only a 30 day “pain free with light or we make it right” guarantee but a 2 year warranty that replaces the unit even if damage to the device is your fault. It will be replaced free. Acting right now can even snag you one more bonus. One of the three payments required for purchase will be dropped; leaving you merely two easy payments for unlimited access to pain relief.

Light Relief reviews gave it 4.5 out of 5 stars. It has been cleared by the FDA and is backed by movie mogul, Robert Wagner.

That translates to a waste of 15, 20 or even 25 pounds on your bench press, simply by not getting your daily amount of water. Not to mention, water has an incredibly large effect on the entire body.

Blood pressure, metabolism and even kidney function are all directly affected by water consumption. Keeping your kidneys healthy is quite important if you’re currently taking any supplements that may be hard on your body.

Water helps flush out the system and keeps your body processing correctly. So when it comes down to it, make sure to keep the water flowing through your body for overall health. For the average person, somewhere between about a half a gallon and a gallon of water a day is best.

If you feel thirsty throughout the day, make sure to get some fluids as soon as you can. Once you’re thirsty, you’re dehydrated.

#1: Ab Training: Focus on quality, not quantity
You often hear about fit guys performing 1,000 crunches in a session, but you don’t hear professional bodybuilders say that. Why? One thousand crunches is a cardio workout. It’ll burn a lot of calories (fairly inefficiently), but it won’t leave behind a ripped sixer.

A well-delineated six-pack comes from the intensity of individual ab movements. If you can perform more than 20 reps in any set, you aren’t even close to working hard enough. It’s time to add some resistance.

#2: Press for Size
For maximum hypertrophy, use the seated barbell shoulder press or Smith machine version. Keep reps in the 6-8 range and do your heavy pressing movements first in your delt workout when you’re freshest and strongest to gain the most mass.

#3: Work with a Training Partner
A reliable gym partner provides the necessary motivation to train hard and diet enough to make bigger progress. A knowledgeable, sensitive partner can help make your workouts more effective and rewarding while accelerating your progress faster then you could on your own.

The relationship should be symbiotic, with each of you highlighting the other’s strengths and working on one another’s weaknesses.

#4: Power lift for size
Make squats, deadlifts and bench presses the core of your mass-building program. Add other compound movements such as shoulder presses, incline presses, barbell curls and lying triceps extensions and you have a potent routine.

#5: Change your program often
Nothing continues to work forever. If you stick with the same routine month after month, your body will adapt to and anticipate that workout, no matter how intense it may be. The end result: Your body will stop growing. Avoid this by modifying your training program every 4-8 weeks.

This will help throw off the way your muscles have adapted, to add more mass as they continue to adapt.

#6: Vary Your Exercise Order
Many bodybuilders start every workout for a particular body-part with the same exercise. This, however, teaches your muscles to adapt instead of grow. Change your exercise order every second or third session, adding and substituting exercises liberally so your muscles don’t know what to expect. That’s what makes them grow.

#7: Warm up appropriately
Start each workout with five minutes of stationary biking or similar cardio option. For each body part, perform two light sets of 10-zo reps of an appropriate exercise before starting your working sets.

#8: Keep forearm, ab and calf work at the end
Always do your forearm, ab and calf routines at the end of your workouts. Because you rely on these muscles for most exercises — forearms for grip, abs for core strength and calves for a solid stance — they’ll compromise your strength if they’re fatigued. Always train them after major body parts.

#9: Train complementary bodyparts together
To aid recovery, pair complementary body parts such as back and biceps — both pulling muscles. With this plan your bi’s have longer to recover than if you trained your back and biceps on different days.

Another complementary pairing is chest and triceps — both pushing muscles.

#10: Use training cycles to add muscle mass
Maximum strength gains are made possible by dividing your workout year into distinct training cycles. Commonly referred to as periodization, this system is based on the fact that continual heavy-duty training doesn’t lead to optimal progress.

The body instead responds to gradual increases and decreases in intensity, so switch between light weights/high reps and heavy weights/low reps.

Meanwhile, some accept all blame for their fate — whether or not they deserve it — and are already strategizing what they’ll do different next time. Invariably, the latter make the greatest improvements, while those who always have an excuse for losing almost always have cause to use it.

You can either be reactive or proactive. When you’re reactive, you blame outside circumstances and other people for obstacles or failures. By inference, there was nothing you could’ve done differently.

When you’re proactive, you take responsibility for everything in your life and, because you’ve assumed control, you can anticipate difficulties, then devise a plan and take actions for overcoming any circumstance.

Perhaps no bodybuilder and, indeed, few people have ever been more proactive than Arnold Schwarzenegger. Since childhood, he’s planned to win and acted accordingly. Those rare times when things didn’t go his way, he focused not on opponents or uncontrollable factors, but instead worked diligently to make certain he wouldn’t feel the sting of defeat again.

In Pumping Iron, he playfully dismissed his fellow Olympia contestants as insignificant to his eventual victory — a demeanor some may see as arrogant, but it merely reflected the proactive mindset that he had no control over their physiques, so he focused entirely on himself, feeling, as he must, that if he’s as good as he can possibly be, he’ll win again.

What you should take away: Whether or not you pose competitively, your approach to bodybuilding must be proactive. Don’t rely on excuses, however legitimate, for why you don’t have the physique you desire.

Such a reactive mindset can only slow your progress. Instead, assume full responsibility for your current condition, seize control of your fate in all aspects of your life, and plot a course to achieve your bodybuilding goals today!

Just think, being able to eat more and still lose weight and working out less. Sound good? Well that could be exactly what you can do if you decide to consistently follow a few simple steps. You see, there are two categories, which the metabolism falls into; catabolism and anabolism.

Both are good for you at times and can assist you in reaching your goals faster and easier.

Since anabolism is the one most people are attracted to, lets start there. Anabolism is when your body builds muscle tissue or stores energy by creating fatty tissue. This is the process in which your body gets itself ready for a hard workout by storing fat that is used in the energy making process.

It is also the process that makes your muscles get bigger, more defined and cut. In order to get that burst of energy during your workout, your body has to be allowed to store that energy that is created from what you eat.

On the opposite end of the spectrum though is catabolism. This is the process in which the energy is created by burning fat and muscle tissues during your workout. This is where you can sculpt your body by using the specific areas in which you are attempting to make stronger, leaner, and more defined.

Your body has to use energy that it has already stored to power your muscles to work harder, which in turn burns off the fat that you don’t want.

Both areas of your metabolism have their good and bad points, therefore, you have to keep watching both of them and maintain the balance of your body’s peak performance.

That balance that you need can be attained by using any of the following steps, but the more that you achieve, the better chance you will have to avoid an uneven weight gain or loss, in effect, losing the rewards of your hard work.

- Make a change in your daily life
Your daily habits can make a big difference in your metabolism. Do you like to wait in your car for a good parking spot to become available? Start parking on the edge of the parking lot and just simply walk. This can burn off excess stored energy as well as possibly save you time in the long run.

- Eat smaller meals more often
By eating more often but eating smaller portions makes your body work on digesting the food you eat, at the same time giving your body nutrients that it needs to build the muscle tissue that you want.

Even if it is just a small carrot stick or a solid meal, keeping something small in your stomach can make a big difference in your metabolism level.

- Do weight training
Weight training will boost your and stimulate the growth of muscle tissue. The constant resistance of the weights will burn energy more effectively as well build muscle tissue.

- Do a daily cardio workout
Something as simple as walking fast for short periods of time, say from your parking spot to the store entrance will raise your heart rate and create what is known as “oxygen debt.”

This will get the heart pumping harder, processing oxygen to your cells, and making your body process waste in sweat while recovering from the activity at the same time.

- Drink cold water
Although not totally agreed upon as an effective metabolism booster, drinking cold water does make your body have to work harder to process it into your system. Your body has to warm the water as well as maintain your normal body temperature as well as work to replenish your cells.

Therefore, if you don’t have a small snack handy, try drinking a glass of ice water.

Men:
Professional Bodybuilder: 3-5%
Extremely Lean: 6-9%
Lean: 10-15%
Average Healthy Level: 16-20%
Poor: 20-25%
Very Poor: 25%+

Women:
Fitness Model / Bodybuilder: 8-11%
Extremely Lean: 12-15%
Lean: 16-19%
Average Healthy Level: 20-25%
Poor: 25-29%
Very Poor: 30%+

Looking at this chart, you may get an idea of where you want to be at eventually. You also may have no idea how to find out where you are right now on the scale, or how to get a reading on your own body to find out for yourself.

If you are just starting out, your body may be settled into what is sometimes called a “set point,” or the point at which your body is comfortable maintaining your natural body fat level. This level can be in any of the chart’s categories and can be healthy to very unhealthy.

Unless you make a change to your diet and exercise regimen, you probably wont see much of a change either way. For example, if you are not dieting, you may naturally stay close to 10%.

You have more than likely stabilized your metabolism and you will not fluctuate unless you change your diet or activity level.

Making that needed change can be a stress on your body though, so you will need to make an informed decision as to how much you want to change. Dropping your body fat too quickly too far can have adverse effects on your immune system, digestive tract, and your all around general health.

Although there is not a minimum set percentage of body fat that is healthy for either men or women, it is generally accepted to be around 6-9% for men and 13-15% for women. Once there and “acclimatized” to that level of body fat, most people should be able to maintain it at that lower level indefinitely and still stay relatively healthy.

For women who drop into the single digits, or men who drop into the lower single digits may tend to suppress their immune system and begin to get colds or the flu more often, as well as some more serious conditions.

Unless you are an “ectomorph,” someone with a naturally very low body fat level like a greyhound for example, maintaining extremely low levels of body fat can be even deadly.

A lot of bodybuilders have natural set points of 9-10%, sometimes even higher. However, when they compete in contests, they will drop a lot lower than that, but only for a few days at the most.

They will rise back to their set point in no time. But, not everyone is a professional body builder. Whatever you want your set point to be, make it at a point where you feel that you look good to yourself and feel good. It will be a lot easier to maintain that way, and you will be much happier for it.

It is no wonder that recent studies have shown that we are actually more stressed out than we have ever been before.

Those scientific studies on stress say that just over forty percent of all of the adults in the country are suffering adverse health effects as a result of their stress. Seventy-five to ninety percent of those adults visit various health care physicians for stress-related problems.

These studies also show that stress is the cause of about a million employees a day being absent from work. Employee retention is also suffering as a result of stress because nearly fifty percent of employee burnout and forty percent of worker turnover due to people quitting their jobs or getting fired are caused by stress as well.

Well I am sure that these statistics have really stressed you out, not to mention depressed you as well. There are a lot of ways to escape the stresses of everyday life. These various stress management techniques can be an easy addition to any daily routine.

Stretching
Just stretching for a few minutes a day can make a huge improvement in how you feel and allow you to relax easier. It does not have to be all at once so you can break it up by getting up each hour and stretch. When you are concentrating while you work, you can become stressed and begin to tense up.

This can be cumulative throughout the day, making your muscles feel tight and sore. By taking just a few seconds at a time to stand up and stretch, you can greatly reduce the stress of the day so that it will not build up. An example of what you can do during your stretching can be to lean your head to the left so that your right ear is towards your right shoulder.

Hold your head here so that you are stretching the side of your neck. After a few seconds there, change to the other side. Next, look down and drop your chin towards your chest. Slowly let your head roll over to the right, and then roll your head to the left. You should feel better after this exercise.

Also, try to add a few arm circles as well. This will relieve the tension in your shoulders and increase your range of motion.

Laughing
Laughter does a lot more than express to those around you that you thought something was funny. It actually changes the chemistry in your body and gives your immune system a needed boost. Smiling can make those around you feel welcome and can show that you enjoy their company.

Choose to be in a good mood and it will be catching to others. If the general workplace has a lighter atmosphere, the stress will be lighter as well. If you are at home, go to YouTube or a similar website and find a video that makes you laugh.

When you are stressed out, watch the video and laugh until you cry.

Incense and Oils
Look for an incense or essential oil that has a soothing scent to you. Everyone is different and what soothes you may not be soothing to others, so be respectful to others. Use the incense in a small corked bottle and wear it around your neck or keep it in your pocket.

The cork topper will absorb the incense oil, giving off a light aroma. When you feel stressed, lift the bottle to your nose and lightly inhale the scent. Also, the essential oil scent of lavender or Dragon’s Blood resin may also be a choice to look into.

Instead of a corked bottle, you can put a couple of drops on a cloth or tissue and inhale it deeply while thinking about being relaxed. If at home, you can use a diffuser or oil burner.

Show Some Love
By showing affection towards someone else, or something else, will allow you to forget about the stresses of the day for a short time. By petting the dog, kissing the kids, or hugging your significant other not only will make you feel better, but it will spread to the object of your affection as well.

Think back to when your life consisted of just you and your partner before the kids were born, or how your kids look when they do something that makes you laugh. Sometime today, take a few moments to let the ones that you care about know how much that they mean to you.

Listen To Some Music
No matter what kind of music you like to listen to, whether it is rock and roll, country, hip hop, or techno music, just the act of listening can relax you. By listening, you are not able to talk, and your ability to think of other things is also reduced.

But, if you feel yourself getting revved up by the music that you are listening to, try listening to more soothing music such as Classical arrangements or Celtic Ballads. Use mental pictures of the ocean, a bubbling stream, a waterfall, or even a large field of wheat to put you in a more relaxing mood.

By doing these simple steps, you will begin to feel better in no time at all.

What Is Mind Muscle Connection

The problem between the mind and muscle connection occurs when people are only focusing on causing the weights that they are lifting to just move up and down instead of what they should be concentrating on.

They should be trying to make sure that the correct specific muscles are being used and worked on with the exercises that are designed to use and work on those specific muscles.

This means that when using an exercise that is supposed to strengthen the biceps, such as standing arm curls, it is important to do it correctly and focus on working out your biceps, not using your back and shoulders to lift the weights.

The major key to succeeding in this is that you have to understand exactly what the muscles that you are working out are intended to do. Instead of just thinking of only which muscles are worked out while doing this or that exercises, you should be thinking about which muscle the exercise is supposed to be working out, and then make sure that those muscles are the only ones that are getting worked out, by concentrating on the form that you are using in carrying out the exercise.

Thinking of the muscles that you are supposed to be working out, the only way to make that muscle grow the way that you are wanting it to is in making the technique that works that muscle as difficult as possible.

This is done while exercising with the maximum amount of weight that you can safely use but also making sure that the weight that you are using is not so heavy that you can not complete the recommended number of repetitions.

Use The Correct Form

You have to make sure that you are using the correct form, posture, and positions when working out to get the greatest benefit from your workout. This is one of the biggest reasons for workout injuries and reaching a plateau on your muscle growth.

Therefore, the next time that you go to the gym, keep in mind that the way you work out is just as important as the workout itself. Try to visualize your form before you begin each workout technique. Using an empty dumbbell or barbell, depending on the exercise, practice the exercise while going through your form in your head.

Notice the placement of where your arms are. Are they in the correct starting position? Go through a repetition or two noticing exactly which muscles are tensing and relaxing. Then make sure that after you add weight to the dumbbell or barbell, you are still using the correct muscles.

With every single exercise, if you do this, you will begin to see results occur at a faster pace. Once the weights are being used, make sure you are focusing on contracting and relaxing your muscles that are being worked on. Keep in mind that a muscle can only pull and relax.

Muscles cannot push. In order to move any part of your body, one muscle pulls while others relax. For instance, your quads pull your lower leg straight with the upper leg while your calves pull your lower legs to be parallel with the ground.

Using The Correct Amount Of Resistance

Resistance training is taking into effect the amount of weight that your muscles can move without using other muscles that are not supposed to be used during the exercise that you are doing. Muscles in general can only feel the resistance you are putting on them.

For instance, if your bicep is only able to move 50 pounds, and you are trying to curl 75 pounds and you are using your shoulders and back to make the repetitions, then you are cheating yourself out of the benefits of using just your biceps.

In order for you to make the weights move, you must distribute the weight’s workload to more muscles, which in turn, defeats the purpose of doing weightlifting in the first place.

Hopefully, the next time that you are working out, you will keep these things in mind, while also keeping in mind that while using heavy weights is the key to muscle growth, you must not use more weight than your muscles can lift on their own without having to distribute their work to other muscles.

The three classifications this method is based on are what was stated at the beginning of this article, the ectomorph, mesomorph and endomorph. Nature has predisposed us to certain traits that may be common in more than one of these classes.

As a result, a person may possibly classified as a ecto-meso or endo-meso.

- A true ectomorph is a small-framed individual who has a difficult time gaining muscle. This person tends to have a naturally low level of body fat. We often refer to an ectomorph as someone who has a “fast metabolism.”

- Mesomorphs are sometimes described as having an “athletic physique” and are naturally endowed with appreciable muscle and a relatively low amount of body-fat.

They tend to increase muscle more easily than an ectomorph and have less of a struggle losing body fat than the heavier-set endomorph.

- Endomorphs are often called “the people with slow metabolisms.” They tend to have an easier time gaining body fat and a harder time losing it, but typically carry more muscle mass.

Classifying a person under one of these categories requires careful consideration. The characteristics are the result of genetics not brought about by behavioral patterns. One does not become an endomorph because of overindulgence in high-calorie foods and a lack of physical activity.

Overeating and under-exercising are lifestyle choices, not natural selection. Conversely, the person who battled their weight all their life doesn’t become an ectomorph by dieting and exercising diligently to maintain a lean physique.

The term “metabolism” is thrown about with little consideration to its meaning. Every chemical action or reac¬tion in your body makes up your metabolism. When we discuss fast or slow metabolism, we are usually discussing energy metabolism.

This describes the processes in which our body specifically takes calories and turns them into energy to breathe, maintain proper temperature, go to the gym or work around the house.

A calorie is how we measure the energy value of food and physical activity. A calorie is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of 1 liter of water at 15 degrees Celsius by one degree. Simply stated, a calorie is a measure of thermic energy.

To produce energy, your body uses the calories you ingest from food or beverages. If our intake exceeds the demand for energy, those calories are stored as fat.

Approximately 65% of our caloric expenditure each day goes towards our life support. We call this basal metabolic rate, or BMR. This takes into account your heart beating, lungs functioning, maintaining normal temperature, regulation of certain processes, etc.

The remaining calories arc burned through activity and the thermic effect of food. This is the number of calories your body uses for digestion and accounts for roughly 10% of your daily expenditure.

Physical activity is something we can control. We make the choice each day to use the stairs rather than take the elevator, go to the gym over watching TV or do yard work instead of taking a nap.

Regardless of what nature has predisposed us to, we can improve our body composition through proper diet and exercise. Many people feel they are prisoners of their genes and resign themselves to going through life unhappy with their bodies. Giving up is not a solution.

Understanding your soma-type and how you arrived at your present physical condition is half the battle; the rest is just hard work and patience. Examine your lifestyle and eating habits. Are they conducive to your goal?

If you stay out all night and don’t eat enough calories, you can’t expect to gain muscle. Skipping workouts and poor food choices are counter productive to fat loss, so don’t blame nature if this is behind the failure to get lean. Genetic predisposition is merely a starting point.

Where you finish is entirely up to your willingness to make the most of what you have, which is also true in life!