Focus on Fitness

Quick workouts have never been this popular as it is today as more and more people are engaging in quick and intense (HIIT) workout sessions online. Work from home has made our lives all the more hectic so to stay fit in confinements, snappy workouts have come to the rescue when hitting the gyms looks unlikely for some time. There are numerous workout video options available for you to start exercising at home, among which you can choose from 20 minutes Abs & Cardio HIIT workout from Group HIIT which is a quick fat burning session in a format of 20 minutes time frame. Several strength training sessions, Pilate’s workout, no equipment workout are also few videos from which you can pick from.

In today’s era, there is an integration of technology and fitness making a part of our routines. There are several applications that can help to calm minds and to exercise at home without using heavy equipment. We are sure you must be having one fit band or application in your mobile phones to keep a track of your heart rates and footstep counts, this is how the fitness industry has evolved and is more to come in near future.

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Virtual Fitness games can be a big boon too as it has tricked people’s mind into thinking of playing rather than exercising. As there are lot of people who cannot stick to daily workout routines easily, they can actually indulge in fun workout sessions. You can start with games like ‘Dance Dance Revolution’, ‘Wii Fit’ which is a hula hooping game. All you need to do is pick the right game for yourself. There are plenty of games circulating in the market that helps to burn your calories faster and easier.

While we are surrounded with too many screen activities now there is a need to take good care of our eyes too. Eye yoga is another wellness trend that’s catching up. Yoga is one art form that has so many advantages from providing stability of heart and mind to keeping you stay fit physically. Practising eye yoga strengthens the functioning of your eyes and helps them to relax. What you can do is simply practise blinking exercise as this exercise is key in times when we spend a lot of time on screen time. Rolling your eyes upward and downward and changing focus from left side to right side simultaneously can relax your eyes out. Even palming and nose tip gazing works effective as part of eye yoga exercise.

In such isolationist times, we have learned to connect to ourselves and introspect on our wellbeing that also involves sexual wellness. No doubt, covid pandemic have accelerated the need of sexual toys at Indian homes too and have given rise to mindful sexual experiences. Well another reason to indulge into sexual wellness is yearning for comfort and intimacy that we missed in the past year. Today, the world is considering intimacy over sex and so wellness brands are coming up with essential oils containing CBD to help relax minds, forging a soulful connect to inner intimate energy of the bodies. Thus slowly we can see a rise in customers investing into buying quality wellness products. Wellness salts for bathing and massage oils not only heals and relaxes the body but also offers comforting sexual experiences. We can also see the rise in radical educators who are educating people about personal wellness and are bestowing knowledge about self-pleasure.

So this year, it seems like many of us have pledged to take good care of mind, soul and body that covers the overall aspects of physical, mental, spiritual and intellectual wellness.