If you’ve not heard of the Tibetan eye chart, it is one of the more powerful ways to improve your vision. Here is a look at how you can use this to improve your vision naturally.

In order to improve eyesight we will have many methods that can be used. Out of all, one has managed to gain a lot of attention lately. We are referring to techniques that were used by Tibetan monks. They created a special chart that was used in order to improve vision. It was called the Tibetan eye chart.

The Tibetan eye chart looks a lot like a geometric drawing of squares, triangles and circles. In order to improve eyesight you would need to go through a simple exercise routine. It was believed that if you simply move the eyes over this chart you are going to take them through a good workout. This should improve vision. The Tibetans also thought that the chart was going to help by relieving tension that is found in the area that surrounds the eyes. There were even some that though that the Tibetan eye chart will do wonders in helping by eliminating lipids while bringing in nutrients that were helpful.

The problem is that we have no real proof that this chart will work. It can seem unlikely that something like this would have still been in use if it did not work. Also, specialists agree that eye exercises help to improve eyesight. The Tibetan eye chart is basically just a series of eye exercises so we can say that there is a very strong chance that it can help.

To sum up, it is almost sure that the Tibetan eye chart can help but it will not bring in tremendous results. The main aim is to relieve tension stored in your eyes and to exercises the muscles. Also, you should exercise and rest your eyes regularly. By doing this you basically help the eye to work better.

Practice techniques like palming and distance focusing. These helps the eye relax as well as train the eyes and “push it” to see clearer and better. These are natural techniques you can do from home or the office. Do it regularly and you will see positive effects within weeks.

However, if you have medical problems you should mainly focus on what the doctor is telling you as exercises are definitely not going to help.

Everyone can rattle off the criteria needed to build a good baseball line-up, but what about single sex slow-pitch softball line-ups? What you are looking for in a softball line-up is a lot different than in a baseball line-up.

In a traditional baseball line-up, your leadoff hitter is a guy with speed, who takes pitches and can get on base regularly and shake the pitcher up. Generally you have a contact guy batting second, trying to get the leadoff hitter into scoring position… and then the meat of your order. You try and have the guys with the lowest batting averages down in the lineup, so they hit the least number of times per games.

It is pretty straight forward and, besides Tony LaRussa in St Louis, all major league managers stick to the same basic guidelines.

But slow-pitch softball is different and this article will help you create a line-up that will give you the best chance to win, so that when you check your league schedules on your online league management website, your team will be hovering near the top.

The first thing to understand is that, unlike baseball, in single sex (not coed) slow-pitch softball everyone generally has a puncher’s chance of getting a hit. Even the worst guy on your team should be apt enough to have his/her bat meet the ball. Even if it is a slow roller up the line, every once and again they should be able to get a hit. (In traditional fast pitch baseball, these guys would be strikeout victims every time).

You should also have guys on your team that seemingly get a hit every at-bat. These guys can smoke the ball up the middle with ease and grace and their skills should be utilized to the fullest. And if your team is even moderately good, you should have a couple guys you will be able to rely on in key situations.

So, what you should do first is jot down the names of all your players, in no particular order. Next what you should do is put an asterisk next to each guy who is like the first described, the puncher. Next underline the guys who fit the second bill, namely, those who routinely get on base. Last you will want to circle guys who have the power to hit the ball over the fence, or if your league does not allow homeruns, then circle the guys who can usually find a gap and can hit inside the park HRs. Not everyone on your team needs to have a marking.

If you end up with an equal number of each you are fine, if you have more of one than the other, still fine. (However, if you have more than five with asterisks you may want to find another team to play on.)

The next thing you will want to do is break all the like-marked players up. In traditional fast pitch baseball you want your two worst hitters at the bottom of the order, but not so in slow-pitch softball. This is not to say you should bat your less skilled players lead-off or in the cleanup spot, but they shouldn’t always bat back to back. In softball it is all about getting guys on base and scoring runs. Back to back lousy hitters will ruin any inning.

Now that you have separated all your players out, you can start making your lineup.

The assumption, for the sake of this article, will be that you are batting 10 and you have 2 with asterisks, 3 with HR power, 3 that consistently get hits and 2 that didn’t have any designation. If your numbers vary any, adjust this accordingly. Also, it really does not matter which players you select, and in fact you can vary it up game by game, it only matters that they fall into the category you assigned them.

The first thing you will want to do is spread out your power hitters. Unlike baseball, it is actually detrimental to bat them consecutively. Take your 3 with power and put them into the 3, 5 and 7 holes. This will break up the power and give you a shot at hitting one over the fence at virtually any part of your game. This will also keep them close enough that if one doesn’t hit it over the fence on cue, that right around the corner you will have another guy with power.

Second, take your two worst hitters, those with asterisks, and put them in the 8th and 10th spots. This puts them far enough down that they won’t get as many at-bats as the top of the order, but not having them back to back will stop any rally killers.

Next take an underlined name and put it at the top of the order, and, why not, make it the fastest guy on your squad. They may end up at second off an infield grounder, which will help you later.

You should have 2 consistent hitters and 2 without designation left.

Put one of the consistent hitters in the vacant 9 spot. This way, you shouldn’t go 1-2-3 when the bottom of your line-up is due to lead off an inning.

You should have the 2, 4 and 6 holes left. As a confidence booster, you may want to put one of the non-designated guys in the 4 spot, just make it clear that they are not there to smack HRs, as clean-up hitters of the past were assigned to do. The boost in confidence may take their game to that next level and get them a base hit they may not have otherwise gotten.

The 2 spot should go to your last underlined guy and the 6 hole can be filled with your last non-designated player.

Your lineup should now look something like this:

1- Consistent Hitter

2- Consistent Hitter

3- Power Hitter

4- Average Hitter

5- Power Hitter

6- Average Hitter

7- Power Hitter

8- Lower Ability Hitter

9- Consistent Hitter

10- Lower Ability Hitter

Looking over this the weakest part of the lineup may be your 3-6 hitters, if your power guys are not also good hitters. If that is the case, take your biggest power guy, the one who either hits it a mile or not at all, and make him the 7 hitter.

Besides that one adjustment, this should result in a winning line-up, and you should see your team atop your league standings next time you check out your online league management system.

Whether you are an elite athlete, are looking to lose weight, or are simply just concerned about keeping your heart healthy, a heart monitor can be an essential tool that can help you to determine how well you’re progressing in your exercise routine. It measures the intensity of your exercise routine by recording your heartbeat activity. Essentially, using a heart monitor doesn’t just help us improve our fitness progress but likewise increases the capacity to diagnose heart disease.

So, how exactly does a heartbeat monitor work? Heart monitors work on the same principles that an EKG machine uses to calculate the electrical impulses of the heart. These monitoring devices are made up of a couple of different components: a receiver and transmitter. For each beat of the heart, an electric transmission is carried through the heart muscle that causes it to tighten. The monitor’s transmitter should be placed in direct contact of the skin to ensure that device can find a precise signal. The transmitter then sends an electro-magnetic signal containing one’s heartbeat statistics to a device which monitors and display the heartbeat.

Of the types of heart rate monitors, the most precise utilize a strap that is wraps around the person’s chest right below the breastbone. Once attached, the transmitter emits signals to a wireless receiver that is commonly attached to a belt or waistband. More sophisticated video display units can also capture the time frame, estimate average and peak heart rates, and generate an alert sound anytime the wearer’s heart rate goes outside of their ideal target zone.

Heart rate watches are the most common form of heart monitors. The device at the back of the watch serves as the sensor which then sends the signal in digital form. These kinds of wrist watches also offer numerous other features aside from just displaying the wearer’s heart rate. Some include stop-watch and lap modes, pedometers, and can even log the quantity of calories burnt off during the exercise session.

In addition, heart rate meters are cheap, simple, and easy to use heart rate monitoring devices. As the blood begins to flow, the number of fuel and heart contractions increases or lowers compared to the existing rate caused by physical exercise. Meters are able to take measurements using only from the pulse detected in the fingers of you hand in order to receive a relatively accurate reading.

These devices work to demonstrate the heart’s effect on overall wellness and performance. Measuring the pulses of the cardiovascular system and the electricity an individuals heart can generate can bring to light a few perilous health conditions, while heart rates, in addition, have a direct association to an person’s physical performance. Without a heart monitor, it is much more difficult to track the performance of your heart and, not having this information puts you at a disadvantage when it comes to achieving the optimal performance in all areas of life.

You have probably seen the infomercial on TV for the workout program, Turbo Jam, and wondered are the results real? Does this program really work? Can this program help me to get real results? You might have even seen the turbo slim rapid results program that comes with Turbo Jam featured in the infomercial that guarantees results of up to 10 lbs of weight loss and 10 inches lost in up to 10 days, but do fast start programs like that really work?

I tested the Turbo Jam program being 20 pounds overweight and after battling chronic fatigue for 6 years due to my autoimmune disease ulcerative colitis. I hadn’t worked out in over 2 years because of the chronic fatigue associated with the disease. I decided to give it a try after wanting to lose 20 pounds, shed the tire around my waist and get more energy. I didn’t really know if the program would work for me seeing how I was out of shape, suffered from a chronic illness and hadn’t worked out in over 2 years. I was surprised by the results.

I started with the Turbo Slim 10 day rapid results program that comes with Turbo Jam. It is a 10 day fitness and meal plan that is an additional plan to the regular and advanced workout schedules and meal plan that is included with the workout program. During the 10 day program, you workout for 10 days straight and follow a meal plan that consists of real food! No starvation here! I was surprised to find the meal plans included real everyday foods that people actually have time to prepare and consists of ingredients that people already have around the house. My favorite meals were the tuna salad, chicken pita, turkey burger, and chicken burrito with rice and beans. Real easy to prepare and fix. The magic of the 10 day rapid results meal plan and fitness plan is that it is high in protein and low in carbs and helps to rev up your metabolism to burn a lot of calories. The 10 day kickstart program really delivered results. I lost 7 lbs and 3 inches in 10 days following the plan. This weightless motivated to complete the entire program and go on to lose 12 lbs and 8.5 inches in 38 days with the program.

So if you are a woman considering purchasing Turbo Jam and you struggling with low motivation whenever you don’t see results and see some result during your first two weeks of a program, and you want to lose weight quickly and shed inches from your waist, I highly recommend the program.

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If you have read about vertical jump training, then you have probably come across the terms RFD and reactivity. If not, even then it is very important that you understand these terms because these two factors are very important when it comes to improving your vertical jump.

RFD stands for Rate of force development. This means how fast your muscles can produce the force that is required to jumping higher. When you jump higher during a game, you don’t have enough time to bend down and gather all your strength and then jump up. Besides, the longer you take to jump the less effective your jumping will be. In jumping it is very important that you have a high RFD, which means your muscles are able to produce your strength very quickly.

Reactivity (or reactive strength) on the other hand how fast you can complete your jumping motion (going up and coming down) without losing anything in your performance. What this means is when you land from a jump, you should be able to absorb all the force quickly, take control of yourself and then again be able to jump back as high as you as you can. Reactivity is very important and plays a very important factor in many games. Any dunker who can perform insane dunks has a very high reactivity. It plays a very important role in jumping higher.

These two terms, even though they might sound two scientific, are extremely important in vertical jump training. You should definitely include the exercises which help improve RFD and reactivity in your training routine.

Any exercises which trains you for quickness is essentially training you to increase your RFD. Plyometrics when done with your entire strength and ability, train your RFD to improve along with strength and speed. Reactivity can be drastically improved by depth jumps. Training for reactivity improves the strength of your joints and ligaments. So when you jump higher you joints will be ready for the impact when you land and this will minimize any injuries that you are prone to in jumping higher.

Vertical jump training includes many aspects of jumping higher. These two factors are only a small portion of aspects that you should be working on. To gain the most of your vertical jump training, you should concentrate on every aspect of vertical jumping, which will create synergistic effect and will increase your jump within weeks.

If you’ve ever worked out at home, you know that it can be difficult because you are not sure what to do. Then you need to figure out how many exercises to do and how many times to do them. There are books available on working out but somehow they expect you to have all this equipment available. Who has the money for that right?

Gym Frustrations

I have worked out in crowded gyms and I felt kind of rushed as I waited for people to finish using the machines until it was my turn. My idea of getting in a quick work out means being able to setup the equipment quickly and going from station to station without a lot of waiting around.

What I’ve found frustrating about the gym I go to is that people are always just standing around talking instead of really using the equipment like they should. I just want to get out of there. I know they are not doing it on purpose but they are delaying my time in the gym and it is now going to take me longer to get home.

What is a Door Gym

Small workout equipment that does not require a lot of space. I am describing a piece of equipment classified as a door gym. Why is it described as a door gym? Simple! It attaches to the back of any door in your house or apartment.

I thinks it’s a crafty idea. The goal of a door gym is to minimize work out time by providing you the ability to workout at home. Usually home equipment machines are bulky, take up a lot of space. This however, takes up very little space because it attaches to the back of any door in just a few minutes. It is portable so it can taken when traveling so finding a gym is not needed. The resistance of the power bands is up to 200 lbs providing ample resistance.

For workout equipment to be useful, they should provide you with both a printed manual and a DVD. The workouts should be described and shown and there should be enough exercises to keep things interesting. If you can throw in short workouts, that is great.

Is It Hype or Is It Really Worth It?

A good door gym will come with attachments for both legs and hands, making it possible to complete whole body workouts in a short time. Enough resistance should be provided to make the workout challenging. You may have seen personal trainers in the gym utilizing power bands and that’s what you want to look for to provide constant resistance. Working out at home definitely has its perks and if it can save driving time, it becomes even more attractive and worth looking into.

· Gymnastics level 1, 2 and 3 balance beam routine has a time limit of 30 seconds.

· Gymnastics level 4 beam routine has a time limit of 50 seconds.

· Gymnastics level 5 balance beam routine has a time limit of 1 minute and 5 seconds.

· Gymnastics level 6 beam routine has a time limit of 1 minute and 10 seconds.

· Gymnastics level seven balance beam routine must be a minimum of 30 seconds and a maximum of 1 minute 20 (80 seconds).

· Gymnastics level 8, 9 and 10 minimum of 30 seconds maximum of 1 minute and 30 seconds (90 seconds).

Ten seconds before your time is up the person timing will either ring a bell or say “warning.” Once your time is up you will either hear a bell ring again or the person timing say “time.” If you go over time you will receive a 0.10 deduction from your average score. If you are a level 7-10 and your routine is shorter than 30 seconds you will receive a 2.00 point deduction from your final score plus a deduction for whatever is missing in your routine. The time for a beam routine will began as soon as the gymnast takes off from the mat or springboard. And the time ends as soon as the gymnast lands on the mat after her dismount. If the gymnast falls during her routine the person timing will stop the time once the gymnast makes contact with the floor. The time will restart as soon as the gymnast makes her first move to continue her routine. The gymnast only has 30 seconds to remount the balance beam after she falls off. This time will be timed separately; this means there must be two stop watches. The person timing will notify the gymnast when she has 20 seconds and also 10 seconds remaining to remount the beam. If she doesn’t remount the beam within the time limit the balance beam routine will be terminated. Within the 30 second fall time a gymnastics coach is allowed to coach and talk to the gymnast without receiving any deduction. During the fall time the gymnast may perform a skill on the mat but will receive a 0.20 deduction.

Nothing about weight loss has changed since the beginning of time! The road to a healthy weight has always been the Second Law of Thermodynamics;

Calories in – Calories out = Calories accumulated.

To put it simply, to lose weight you need to eat less, exercise more or both. What if you could only use one method. There are many eating/diet plans, and good ones, Nutrisystem, Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers, just to name a few. On the exercise side some of the most famous, or infamous exercise programs include P90X and Insanity. All of these programs are effective in their own right, but if you had to choose one direction, which way should you go?

The answer is perfectly clear. If you could choose exercise or diet, you should choose diet. I say this with the utmost confidence. And this is coming from the mouth of a lifetime fitness fanatic and a strength and conditioning coach. Why do I say this with so much confidence? That’s easy! It is extremely difficult to out exercise your diet! Let me give you a couple vivid examples.

If you had an 140 lb woman, and she ate two pieces of cheese pizza and a piece of cheese cake, that would be a total of 955 calories. In order to burn that off, she would have to run 10 minute miles for 1.5 hours! In the height of my running days as a young man I couldn’t do that and I highly doubt you could either.

Here’s another vivid example of this. According to Malia Frey, a weight loss expert writing on About Health, dropping a daily large cola from McDonald’s completely (if you drink about one per day) would result in reducing your annual calorie intake by over 200,000 calories – or about 60 pounds – in one year. Replace that soda with water and overcome obesity. That’s just one large soda. For the same 140 lb woman to burn the same amount of calories, she would have to run 1.5 miles in 16 minutes, EVERY DAY! Wouldn’t be easier just not to drink the soda and have a glass of water instead?

Fortunately, we don’t have to pick one. We can incorporate both a healthy meal plan and exercise in achieving and maintaining a healthy weight. Experts say that the contribution is 75% nutrition and 25% exercise. I will talk about both in future articles.

Do you want tight toned and sculpted six pack abs? Read this article and discover how isometric abs exercises can give you a ripped and sculpted midsection in just seconds

Doing Isometric abs exercises can very quickly help you get a lean, flat stomach — as well as six pack abs. When it comes to working out your abdominal area what you don’t want is to increase the muscle size. All you will end up getting from doing stomach exercises incorrectly is a bigger waist.

And that’s exactly what all of us don’t want — isn’t it?

That is why Iso Tension exercises for your abs is probably one of the best ways to work out your stomach area.

Isometric abs exercises focus on three aspects of training your abs and core. In addition, isometrics easily focuses on three major muscle groups that make up your entire midsection.

• 1. Transverse Abdominus ( these are the actual muscles that keep your stomach tight, pulled in and flat.)
• 2. Obliques (these are your side ab muscles — typically known as your love handles when they are covered by fat. You don’t want to overtrain this particular muscle group because this will add more girth to your waist.)
• 3. Rectus Abdominus (these are the actual muscles that form your six pack abs)

The fantastic advantage that isometrics has over any other exercise protocol is that it doesn’t take a lot of time in fact if you were doing freehand isometric exercises you shouldn’t hold the isometric contraction for more than a few seconds.

If you’re using an Iso exerciser or Iso exercise equipment you have the advantage of being able to train both with repetitions and iso tension.

Here is an easy stomach Iso-Tension exercise that you can perform at your desk at work or at home. (Bear in mind you will get faster results if you use some type of progressive resistance exercise equipment such as resistance bands, isometric exercise equipment, or dumbbells.) For this exercise you will need no equipment whatsoever.

1. Sit in your chair comfortably with your back straight.

2. Take a deep breath and at the same time squeeze your stomach and tightly (suck your stomach.)

3. Keeping your stomach sucked in tense the stomach muscles hard as you can.

4. When you begin to feel your ab muscles beginning to quiver… breathe out while maintaining the isometric contraction.

5. Relax

That’s how simple an isometric abs exercise can be. So don’t wait try it now while you’re reading this article. It only takes a few seconds.

Much of what we do, whether at work or in our personal lives, involves routine processes. For example, driving a car to shop at our favorite grocery is routine, not requiring much thought even though we focus on being careful. At work we may greet our customers or patients with routine greetings, although we try to be friendly. These routines do not require a lot of thought. Instead, our minds adopt patterns for these routines rather quickly as it saves a lot of energy, according to recent brain research. So, if most of what we do is routine, then we need to make sure that the patterns or processes involved in these routines are effective and customer- or patient-centered.

Before proceeding too far, let me define what a process is. According to the American Society of Quality (ASQ), a process is “A set of interrelated work activities characterized by a set of specific inputs and value added tasks that make up a procedure for a set of specific outputs.” To illustrate this, I will examine a portion of the process of checking a patient in at an outpatient clinic. The input is information given by the patient-name, nature of visit and insurance coverage. The value added tasks are the questions from the person checking in the patient. For instance, “Do you still have the same insurance? May I see your card?” Doing this provides value for the clinic as it provides a means of billing for the services. The outputs are the recorded responses of the patient.

For the best outcomes that are predictable for both patients or customers and the provider or business it is necessary to understand the many processes at a provider site and effectively manage the processes. This function is called Business Process Management by quality professionals and was the focus of an article in the May, 2015, issue of Quality Progress, the flagship publication of the ASQ-“Process Primer”.

Failure to actively manage the processes at your work site may have many unintended consequences that affect the bottom line. Let me return to the check in of the patient mentioned above as an example. Suppose the receptionist asking for the current insurance information of the patient finds out that the patient has just enrolled in Medicare. When asking for the insurance card the patient supplies his/her Medicare card. This seems fine but suppose the patient is in a Medicare Advantage program and, being new to Medicare, does not supply that card. Then, when the clinic files a claim, it will be denied and the billing staff will have to contact the patient to find out how to resolve the problem. This extra work is costly and time wasting. It could have all been avoided if the check-in routine included asking Medicare patients if they are using a Medicare Advantage payer.

According to the article “Process Primer” there are five pillars of Business Process Management (BPM):

1. Identifying top priority, critical processes.

2. Validating customer (patient) requirements.

3. Documenting the processes.

4. Developing process measurements.

5. Managing and improving the processes.

These pillars should be actively addressed and managed by site executives and leaders and staff trained to address them. Managing business processes requires training of staff and/or use of professionals who are experts in the field. Typically, quality experts trained in the use of lean six-sigma methodology or similar approaches are capable of providing guidance in BPM for a site. Many organizations provide training for staff in the use of the basic tools of lean six-sigma, including the Medical Management Group Association.

Identifying Critical Processes

There are many processes at a work site. It would take too much time and effort to identify and manage them all. Thus, it is necessary to identify which are most critical to patient and practice outcomes. These should be actively managed to insure optimal, predictable outcomes that satisfy the patients and customers. After the most critical processes are under control and producing predictable, effective outcomes, staff can move on to managing less critical processes.

Validate Customer Requirements

It is very important that customer needs are understood and being met. In healthcare, this approach is being patient-centered. Processes that directly impact patients, such as the provision of clinical care, must be focused on the needs of the patient. It is key that providers actively work to understand these needs. Other staff who have contact with the patient must also be patient-centered.

Not all customers are patients, though. For instance, the work of the billing staff has a direct impact on the financial health of the provider group; the customers of the billing staff are the office management and the rest of the staff. I would consider the processes that they use critical to the health of the provider organization. Thus, it must be managed so as to produce optimal outcomes.

Model the Processes

The current state of all critical processes need to be understood. One of the best ways to do this is to use mapping tools such as flowcharts, value stream mapping or software that allows the mapping of the details of a given process. According to “Process Primer”, this includes people, systems, information, materials, tools and equipment, and documentation.

Develop Process Measurements

For a process to be managed key indicators must be identified and measured. At a clinical site these could include population level health outcomes, such as the average blood pressure of patients with diabetes. For billing it could be the number of claims in AR that are 60 days past due. Let me emphasize that it is not sufficient to have just one key indicator per process. Rather, measurements should be taken at various stages of the process to insure best management.

Manage and Improve a Process

Once key processes are identified, mapped and indicators are being measured as well as patient requirements identified the best providers will work to continuously improve the processes in order to insure ever better outcomes. This will provide ever-improving outcomes for patients and providers.

The best businesses and providers will be actively engaged managing and improving their processes. Although Business Practice Management is complex the time spent on it has a tremendous impact on the health of patients and the business of the provider. In the face of the changes in reimbursement to providers BPM is critical to the health of the provider.