The One Exercise for Proven Results!

Do you want to have a sexy, toned, and defined body that would make 20 year-olds head's turn? Are you tired of doing the same old fitness routine with little to no results?

Why not try a simple exercise that you probably will recall doing back in primary school. The exercise- The Jumping Jack!

Doing a routine set of jumping jacks just once a day can radically improve muscle tone in your upper and lower body and give you those six-pack abs you've always dreamed about.

You may ask, how does doing jumping jacks guarantee that kind of benefit?

The simple, yet quick movement of the jumping jack over a series of repetitions increases the heart rate, works to define your biceps, triceps, hamstrings, glutes, calves, and the abdominal wall.

What is the secret? The key to gaining effectiveness to all these muscle groups is to focus intently on speed, breathing, and number of repetitions.

SPEED: While starting out, you will want to take it fairly easy to get your body used to the exercise again. However, you will quickly want to establish a goal of increasing your speed to a quick movement for optimum benefit. Not only does it increase your pulse rate, you get a fabulous cardiovascular workout that doesn't involve workout machines, running 10 miles, or sweating in the gym for two or three hours.

BREATHING: Don't forget to breathe! A lot of times, people new to establishing a fitness regiment get in a hurry, and fail to breathe properly causing light-headedness and lack of concentration on the exercise. You always want to remember to inhale on the intensity of the exercise and exhale on exertion. As you inhale, you will contract your stomach muscles, alongside focusing on the other muscles mentioned, and release upon exhaling.

REPETITIONS: Starting out with three sets of 25 might be good for beginners, but over time you will want to work up to three sets of 100 or even 200. The body as a whole becomes accustomed to a routine and can plateau leveling off at seeing any benefit. Increasing the repetitions will allow for continual improvement of not only seeing muscle definition, but your energy level will increase as well.

PERSONAL STORY: An avid jogger, I sought to get my primary source of cardiovascular exercise jogging 5 x a week. However, when snow and ice hit and with limited indoor space, I was left seeking to determine an exercise that would give me the same (or added) benefit affecting multiple muscle groups.

After only two months of consecutively incorporating this about 4 x a week, it is amazing how doing this one exercise teamed with a raw food diet has increased my energy levels, productivity levels, and produced quicker fitness results. At present, I am doing 600 jumping jacks (6 sets of 100 each) in addition to stretching, and lunges (3 sets of 100 each). My goal is to increase each week without going overboard. It must be these green smoothies, because my energy is through the roof!

Recently, I was in coversation with a stranger whom I was conversing about the raw food lifestyle. He was intrigued about my zest for it and talk of increased energy and asked about transitioning from being a carnivore. I laughed when he commented that I was awfully healthy looking to be a vegan/raw foodist. I replied that it was a miconception that raw foodists lived on "bird seed and rabbit food," and in fact, the more conscious one is about his/her health, the more you desire to have higher levels of fitness of the mind, body, and soul. Although I'm not sure if he was convinced to convert on the spot, I surely planted a seed in his mind to consider it as he said he was an avid bodybuilder who wasn't seeing the results he had hoped.

Perhaps he should try doing the one exercise that his gym teacher knew would benefit him years down the road!

In natural health & optimum fitness!

Cheers~ Jade