Kobe Bryant dies at 41

Kobe Bryant had everything. Pretty Woman. Four girls. The last of them was born just 7 months ago. For 20 years he played for him in the best league in the world. Years translated into 500 million, half a billion. One of the richest athletes of all. With houses, cars, planes and sea boats.

At 18 he entered the league, at 38 he left it, at 41 he died. And for just three years, he could only enjoy everything he really earned. He devoted his entire life to the game, when he was a kid he rolled socks and threw in no-frills shots at all, the socks were the ball and the tin was the basket. He was a huge workaholic, the hard work flowed through his blood, and of all Kobe was the first to go to training and the last to go from there too. In every workout, he would throw thousands of stray shots along the way in the dark just to always know where the basket was about.

And he threw, threw and threw until he became a legend in the yellow team town. Gianna ("Gigi"), his 13-year-old daughter, went with him to every single yellow team game, they sat together in the front row, Gigi was an actress herself and Kobe would whisper in her ear The secrets of the game and she listened. Whenever the big screen in the courtroom presented her father, she heard every man in the world admire the omnipotent man sitting next to her, her father, Gigi also admired him, as an actor, as a father, but mostly admired him as a human being.

Kobe Bryant couldn't be hated because he couldn't be loved. And in case you were looking for more proof of how life is a gift, I'm the happiest in the world to tell you that you found it up close because beloved Kobe Bryant died, the man I thought would live forever and probably forever for him is 41 years old. He didn't even get to say goodbye to his partner for life or his 7-month-old home, how much he would like and it just shows us that we have to live our every day in the world as if it is the last day of all. Don't just live once, it's a lie, just die once and live life every day again, it's order and it's okay to ask forgiveness, say "I love you" or thank you, so please live without fear. Because it is impossible to know when we will take our last breaths and when that happens, you do not want there to be living souls that die, just because of the doubts we have been left behind.

R.I.P 

Why do you work out?

I’m not only going to tell you why I work out. I’m going to tell you why a lot of gym rats work out. This is a secret that most of them don’t want to tell you. But I’m about to spill the beans.

It’s tradition at this point. OR maybe habit is a more proper word. Like I said, I’ve been training for about 5 years now.

Anytime you do something for that long it becomes a habit. I go to the gym the same way most people brush their teeth.

You wake up, and you do it. You don’t think about it. You just do it.

This is also why I don’t look down on people who can’t seem to stick to the gym. I get it. It’s hard. Doing something as difficult as working out multiple times per week is tough for anybody.

That’s why I try to get people in the habit of going to the gym as quickly as possible.

Here are some tips I came up with to help with habit creation:

1. Get your workout clothes ready and sit them at the door before you go to sleep at night. This is for those who train in the morning. This way you’ll be forced to get out of bed to go to the door and get your clothes on. Put on your clothes and keep going right out the door.
2. Set very specific short term goals. Being specific will allow you to narrow your focus and ignore all the noise. Short term goals will light a fire under your butt while long term goals make procrastination easy. If you have a goal of bench pressing 225 lbs. 6 months from now it becomes easy to say, “I don’t NEED to go. I can miss a day and still hit my goal.”
3. Don’t do too much too quickly. Too many people take an all or nothing mentality to fitness. Starting with a 6 day/week training schedule leaves you nowhere to build to and will burn you out more quickly. Start off small and build from there.
4. Have some fun. The best way to keep yourself going to the gym is to actually enjoy yourself while you’re there. This will take some experimentation on your part, but you have to find a particular niche that you have fun with. Whatever you find enjoyment in, use it to push yourself into that weight room every day.

Can I lose belly fat without strength training?

No, I can tell you exactly.

People who start to gain weight all start with belly fat. The belly is the easiest to accumulate fat, so it is also the most difficult part.

Although waist training (such as rolling belly) can train abdominal muscles, it has no direct effect on reducing visceral fat. Pure strength training can help reduce subcutaneous fat, but has no obvious effect on visceral fat.

If you really want to lose belly fat and get rid of your belly, you need to do these things:

1.Aerobic exercise

In the process of fitness, we must understand that we are losing fat instead of losing weight. We need to consume excess fat through effective methods. There are many types of aerobic exercises, elliptical machines for cycling, etc. If you want to lose waist and abdomen fat, it is very important to persist in the process of aerobic fat reduction, at least 40 minutes.

2. Do more strength training

Strength training is mainly to increase muscle mass to improve the body's basic metabolism. Reducing abdominal fat does not require all the energy to focus on waist and abdomen training. Fat is systemic, not where it is thin.

Fat reduction must be performed all over the body at the same time. There is no such thing as local exercise to reduce local fat. In addition, for stubborn fat in the abdomen, it is necessary to carry out a systematic weight loss exercise. After you have experienced systemic weight loss exercise, you will slowly lose your "belly" and your abdominal muscles and vest lines will slowly Revealed.

Can arrange lumbar and abdominal training 1-2 times a week

More muscle groups can be arranged for the legs, chest, shoulders, etc.

3. Appropriate attention to diet and reasonable intake of nutrition.

Healthy eating: including increasing protein and fiber content, and controlling meals, all of which have been shown to help reduce body fat.

Protein intake is about 25-30% of your daily calories and may increase your metabolism by up to 100 calories per day.

Increasing fiber intake is another good strategy for weight loss. Vegetables rich in soluble fiber help to lose weight, it increases satiety and reduces calorie intake.

Must remember: eat less carbohydrate foods, do not eat any snacks, do not drink drinks, beer.

If you have any other questions about losing weight, please leave your comment.

If you think this answer is helpful, could you please upvote me.

7 simple ways to lose a little weight

How to reduce tummy fat? Here I want to share some tips to help gus. My secret is just 7 steps !

1.Eat less for dinner

Eating too much dinner is not easy to digest, which causes fat to accumulate in the abdomen, and it will naturally grow into a small belly for a long time. Eat as little dinner as possible every day, and eat lightly. If you are not very hungry, just eat 30-50% full. Two hours after a meal may wish to have some yogurt to help digestion. Eat less for dinner is definitely the first premise to help you get rid of your belly!

2. Standing against the wall after meals

Half an hour after dinner, let the entire body face back against the wall, clamp the buttocks, so that the hips, legs, waist, head, neck, etc. are as close as possible to the wall. At first, you can clamp the paper. Whichever falls. After a few minutes, you will be very tired and your muscles will become sour, but you must stick to it. After 15 minutes you will be free! This method can not only thin waist and belly, but also thin neck and face! Do it at least once a day, and you will see results in a week!

3. Keep your stomach muscles in when walking

When you walk and stand normally, you can shrink your abdomen and cooperate with abdominal breathing to make your abdomen firm. This method is invisible.

This helps stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis, promotes the excretion of waste from the body, and enhances lung capacity. I'm not used to it at first, but just remind myself at any time that "shrink my abdomen can lose weight". After a few weeks, not only will the abdomen become more and more flat, but also the walking posture is more charming!

4. Pick up beans

Bending over the waist can help to thin the abdomen, but bending over the waist looks silly and tasteless, it is more difficult to adhere to, I suggest to pick up the beans!

Pour about 200 soya beans on the ground every day, then bend down (you can't bend your legs !!) Pick up the soya beans one by one and place them in the basin on the table.
Bend down and pick up the beans. Straighten the beans on the waist plate and bend down until you finish picking up the beans. This is equivalent to doing 200 bends and lowering the waist. If you stick to it for a month or two, you can lose your belly, and your hips and legs will have unexpected gains. !!

5.Standing twisted

This can be practiced at noon or at night. If you're watching TV, while you're watching ads, get up and stand, lift your chest and abdomen, then twist your waist left and right(Similar to the twisting movement of belly dance, it is necessary to use the waist to force, not the strength of the legs or back.) Persist 100 times every day to ensure that you can get rid of your small belly!

6.massage

Massage is the most commonly used method of thinning the abdomen. Using rubbing to promote blood circulation and promote gastrointestinal motility, thereby reducing intestinal absorption of nutrients, allowing metabolic waste to escape from the body, can also help improve constipation!

7.Coarse salt massage

Coarse salt has a sweating effect, which can help discharge waste and excess water from the body. When taking a bath, add some hot salt to a paste to make a paste, then apply it on the abdomen for massage. Wait until the coarse salt particles have completely melted and then rinse off. Then you can start taking a bath. But don't use too much force during the massage to avoid roughening the skin. If your skin is more sensitive, a lighter bath salt will be more comfortable.

Here are 7 ways to help you get rid of your belly. Let's get started! lose weight!

The Best Ways to Lose Half Your Body Weight

Hello, my friend! I totally relate when I saw that kind of question you asked. Because there’s a ton of ways of losing weight: some are hard, some are easy. There’re people who are comfortable with physical exercises ( though this is hard to stay motivated and focused) and there are those who are comfortable with dieting, fasting etc. etc. I’m going to suggest this to you, and I Know that if you take action; results are unavoidable!

Let’s dive in together then…

I guess you know that defining a body type by using a piece of fruit is an outdated stenography, right? This is obvious because it doesn't tell us much but only reminds us what our flaws are. Isn’t it? Here are some Medicine unit pored through some research that will even let you know more than ever (I believe) about why your fat deposits are where they are!

Question: Which body type are you? The reason why you need to know this is because it’s going to help you maximize your Weight loss results...

Let’s assume that you have a mirror right in front of you. Where’s the largest concentration of your body fat?

1. If you carry weight around your midsection between your chest and hip bone you may be the stress type.

2. If you see a pinchable fat on the side also called “love handles”, you might be the sugar type.

3. Fat around your hips butt and thighs? You may be an estrogen type.

4. Now raise your arms! Do you see some excess skin under there? If yes, you could be the T-type.

Hopefully, you know your body type by now (please, note that it may be a combination of more than one).

My next question is: Now that you’re aware of your body type, what are you going to eat to maximize your results?

It becomes easier...

A. Stress type: If you are of this type, you may feel a little stressed out, always snacking, you strike at different times of the day or, sometimes right before you go to bed, you’re snacking, munching on something and, at the end of the day; pounds go on and land right there, actually deep under the muscle.

The reason you get this kind of weight is because of the stress that makes you eat things you shouldn't but also, very specifically makes you put quarters.

The cortisol [an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism] alerts your body about a situation (a bad one: famine for example) that may happen or that things aren't good so, store all the calories and put them around my intestines around my liver to get myself protected. Yes, your body's trying to help but it's doing the wrong thing for you for it creates this stress type collection of fat which tends to be sort of dangerous with issues like heart disease; things you wouldn’t want.

The good news is that you don’t have to fear at all because there’s a bunch of solution (there is always a solution by the way). I'm going to suggest a good solution if you are of this type which is pretty much easy and simple.

You're going to try if you can to eat carbohydrates (Eat your complex carbs warm) but; make sure it’s the right kind. Okay?

Because they're going to sue you and you need that warm for the carbs, as we all know that they make more that "feel-good" hormone serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine) but the warmth also soothes you, it helps to stress you.

What are you going to do? Just do the regular things that are good for your body but add to it something to address with your main problem which is “the stress”. I got a little idea for you; your breakfast’s going to be morning smoothies: some yogurt, almond butter, some flax seeds squashed, banana then, add some oatmeal.

Meals are a complex carbohydrate which won’t rush into your bloodstream, not going to panic your body but it's just soothing.

The next step is simply to microwave it for a minute and; there you go… You got your morning smoothie. It's an antidote to the stress type weight gain and hopefully, you will enjoy It.

Finally, relax, don't penalize yourself and deal with the stress with a little bit of nudge with the right foods and all of a sudden you can make yourself look the way you want to look.

B. What about the sugar type people or those who hold the fat around their middle?

They have a little bit of those love handles and they love sugar (It’s not a surprise).

Now, the problem with sugar is insulin. If not because of this hormone, it wouldn't be a big deal. But when you have a lot of sugar, the insulin has to deal with it and when you make more of it, guess what it does? It says: “store the sugar as fat” and it does very meticulously: It goes to certain parts of your body and in many cases, it'll become those love handles.

so, to deal with it you have to use sugary lowering techniques. I got a suggestion for you:

Get a pancake! If you like sugar, this will taste wonderfully wonderful…

What are you going to use then? Just mashed banana with only two eggs and put a little cinnamon on there. Remember: there's no flour in that! I hope it’s not hard to believe…eggs+ banana= pancake? Ooh Yes! The good thing with this is that there’s no insulin. You just replaced the taste so; you don’t need sugar.

Also, garlic and oregano and sage are herbs that take you in a different direction than sugar so you won't feel compelled to put sugar in your body.

Got it? I hope you did! some other day off diet ideas and you'll surely see the fat coming off especially the love handle area. That’s it!

C. The estrogen type.

These are people who store their fat around their hips and their thighs. People, when the childbearing years are progressing, will often not only have a lot of estrogens but also strong PMS symptoms as well and maybe, they get tired and they may want to overeat.

If you want to deal with the estrogen you have to deal with the “foods reading” because they can help block the estrogen, however, add the cruciferous vegetables and they very specifically seem to help you deal with estrogen levels. So, find the Brussel sprouts, the broccoli, the cabbage, cauliflower, daikon, kale and make them part of what you're eating.

D. Finally, the T-type are those who have trouble building muscles and they, therefore, have a little excess flab and skin on their arms.

T stands for testosterone. We want to build muscles but the question is how do you have it happen? A big problem for a lot of people (for some reasons) is they don't have enough vitamin D and that impacts their testosterone levels. So, I want you to include foods, include a tool to get you more vitamin D.

I want you for lunch or dinner, a couple of times a week, to include a protein that has vitamin D.

Classically, those are cold-water fish, salmon sardines.

 ways of losing weight: some are hard, some are easy. There’re people who are comfortable with physical exercises ( though this is hard to stay motivated and focused) and there are those who are comfortable with dieting, fasting etc. etc. I’m going to suggest this to you, and I Know that if you take action; results are unavoidable!

Let’s dive in together then…

I guess you know that defining a body type by using a piece of fruit is an outdated stenography, right? This is obvious because it doesn't tell us much but only reminds us what our flaws are. Isn’t it? Here are some Medicine unit pored through some research that will even let you know more than ever (I believe) about why your fat deposits are where they are!

Question: Which body type are you? The reason why you need to know this is because it’s going to help you maximize your Weight loss results...

Let’s assume that you have a mirror right in front of you. Where’s the largest concentration of your body fat?

1. If you carry weight around your midsection between your chest and hip bone you may be the stress type.

2. If you see a pinchable fat on the side also called “love handles”, you might be the sugar type.

3. Fat around your hips butt and thighs? You may be an estrogen type.

4. Now raise your arms! Do you see some excess skin under there? If yes, you could be the T-type.

Hopefully, you know your body type by now (please, note that it may be a combination of more than one).

My next question is: Now that you’re aware of your body type, what are you going to eat to maximize your results?

It becomes easier...

A. Stress type: If you are of this type, you may feel a little stressed out, always snacking, you strike at different times of the day or, sometimes right before you go to bed, you’re snacking, munching on something and, at the end of the day; pounds go on and land right there, actually deep under the muscle.

The reason you get this kind of weight is because of the stress that makes you eat things you shouldn't but also, very specifically makes you put quarters.

The cortisol [an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism] alerts your body about a situation (a bad one: famine for example) that may happen or that things aren't good so, store all the calories and put them around my intestines around my liver to get myself protected. Yes, your body's trying to help but it's doing the wrong thing for you for it creates this stress type collection of fat which tends to be sort of dangerous with issues like heart disease; things you wouldn’t want.

The good news is that you don’t have to fear at all because there’s a bunch of solution (there is always a solution by the way). I'm going to suggest a good solution if you are of this type which is pretty much easy and simple.

You're going to try if you can to eat carbohydrates (Eat your complex carbs warm) but; make sure it’s the right kind. Okay?

Because they're going to sue you and you need that warm for the carbs, as we all know that they make more that "feel-good" hormone serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine) but the warmth also soothes you, it helps to stress you.

What are you going to do? Just do the regular things that are good for your body but add to it something to address with your main problem which is “the stress”. I got a little idea for you; your breakfast’s going to be morning smoothies: some yogurt, almond butter, some flax seeds squashed, banana then, add some oatmeal.

Meals are a complex carbohydrate which won’t rush into your bloodstream, not going to panic your body but it's just soothing.

The next step is simply to microwave it for a minute and; there you go… You got your morning smoothie. It's an antidote to the stress type weight gain and hopefully, you will enjoy It.

Finally, relax, don't penalize yourself and deal with the stress with a little bit of nudge with the right foods and all of a sudden you can make yourself look the way you want to look.

B. What about the sugar type people or those who hold the fat around their middle?

They have a little bit of those love handles and they love sugar (It’s not a surprise).

Now, the problem with sugar is insulin. If not because of this hormone, it wouldn't be a big deal. But when you have a lot of sugar, the insulin has to deal with it and when you make more of it, guess what it does? It says: “store the sugar as fat” and it does very meticulously: It goes to certain parts of your body and in many cases, it'll become those love handles.

so, to deal with it you have to use sugary lowering techniques. I got a suggestion for you:

Get a pancake! If you like sugar, this will taste wonderfully wonderful…

What are you going to use then? Just mashed banana with only two eggs and put a little cinnamon on there. Remember: there's no flour in that! I hope it’s not hard to believe…eggs+ banana= pancake? Ooh Yes! The good thing with this is that there’s no insulin. You just replaced the taste so; you don’t need sugar.

Also, garlic and oregano and sage are herbs that take you in a different direction than sugar so you won't feel compelled to put sugar in your body.

Got it? I hope you did! some other day off diet ideas and you'll surely see the fat coming off especially the love handle area. That’s it!

C. The estrogen type.

These are people who store their fat around their hips and their thighs. People, when the childbearing years are progressing, will often not only have a lot of estrogens but also strong PMS symptoms as well and maybe, they get tired and they may want to overeat.

If you want to deal with the estrogen you have to deal with the “foods reading” because they can help block the estrogen, however, add the cruciferous vegetables and they very specifically seem to help you deal with estrogen levels. So, find the Brussel sprouts, the broccoli, the cabbage, cauliflower, daikon, kale and make them part of what you're eating.

D. Finally, the T-type are those who have trouble building muscles and they, therefore, have a little excess flab and skin on their arms.

T stands for testosterone. We want to build muscles but the question is how do you have it happen? A big problem for a lot of people (for some reasons) is they don't have enough vitamin D and that impacts their testosterone levels. So, I want you to include foods, include a tool to get you more vitamin D.

I want you for lunch or dinner, a couple of times a week, to include a protein that has vitamin D.

Classically, those are cold-water fish, salmon sardines.

Just make sure that in one way or the other get your vitamin D levels in there. Got it?

Thank You for reading and I hope you'll take steps right after. 

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Remember this: Do It and trust that It will work for you.

Cheers,

What does it feel like to be fat?

I was fat almost my entire life and it feels like hell.

I thought I was normal until I started to go to kindergarten and kids treated me differently than they treated others. They were calling me fat and hitting me and the worst of all was when we were having a nap in the afternoon, then other kids would get up from their beds and walk over me, which hurt when they would step on my stomach.

Then in elementary school they started to bully me immediately, they called me "bacon bomb" , "pig", "fattie", they would hit me,punch me,stab me with pins. Once one of the boys had wooden stick that was really sharp on top and he threatened to stab me with it so he was chasing me all the way to the toilet,where I locked myself so he couldn't reach me anymore.

Nobody ever wanted to sit next to me and when teacher said they have to sit next to me they hated it.

Sometimes boys would take my pencil box and play football with it. Once I had pencil box that I got with puddings so it had brand name on it so few boys said "It was required to send 3 empty packs of pudding to get that pencil box but Nina sent 100."

Whenever somebody farted in the class they would say it was me.

Whenever we would go on a trip I would be the only one sitting alone in the bus.

When we would play group games on physical education class, team leaders had to choose members of their team and of course I was the last one chosen.

At age 11 I enrolled in karate class and there was one girl who was hitting me very hard and she would say she's doing that because I'm fat and while she was hitting me she was saying things like "you fattie" or "stupid fattie".

Once around Easter time one girl looked at my fat legs and said " We are going to cook your leg for Easter". The teacher heard her and she didn't say anything, she just uncomfortably looked at me and smiled.

On the streets people would also laugh at me and scream insults.

This is me when I was 14

In high school it didn't get any better. At first I thought I befriended one nice guy but later I found out he was talking nasty stuff about me behind my back.

People from my class would stand in groups and talking and when I wanted to join them they would say "Nobody invited you." or "You are not welcome." At that time it was popular to have blogs so I had one too and one girl from my class was commenting nasty things on my posts,like "you're fat" or "just continue filling yourself up with sweets".

One time I saw one girl from my class on the street and asked her where she was going and she replied: "To see someone you will never have." (meaning boyfriend)

When teacher told one girl she would have to sit next to me during classes from now on she started to cry and the other girl came to comfort her and she said: " I know how you feel when you have to sit there."

Boys on school hallways and outside of school used to make pig sounds or scream: "Babe give me your number" when I was passing by and laugh.

Winters were always the worst, especially before Christmas and New year when they were using firecrackers; then I was afraid I wouldn't make it home alive after school.If there was snow they would throw big ice blocks they would find under the snow at me.

Once two girls at class were talking random stuff and one of them said " I wouldn't feel disgusted to drink water from the same bottle after someone." and the other said " Even after Nina?!" and first girl said "Welll...maybe."

If someone from my class had a birthday party they would invite everyone but me.

When I was around 16 or 17 I had a friend who was normal weight and she always used to have boyfriends and all guys liked her and sometimes I would ask her what some of the guys she was friends with thinks of me and she would tell me how they think that I'm disgusting and ugly and they wouldn't even touch me with gloves on their hands. Once we were taking a walk and saw two guys we knew and one of them told me " You are pretty" and I said "Thank you" and as soon as they left my friend said "He was just kidding when he said you were pretty."

In college things got a bit better, people there weren't bullying me for my weight anymore. But enough damage was already done and I'm not able to function socially as normal people do. I have hard time making friendships and getting into relationships and if I do get into one I'm extremely jealous and constantly scared the person I'm in a relationship with will find someone prettier than me and break up with me.

Also,one of my friends who is very good looking posts photos with other friends on Instagram but not with me, probably because she's embarrassed.

During the last couple of years I lost a lot of weight and I'm doing better but the damage that has been done to me is beyond repairable.

This is me now,still not perfect weight but I'm doing much better.