4 Simple Exercises Every Blogger Can Do At Home

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Most bloggers spend countless of time working in front of the pc days after days, weeks after weeks without paying much attention on exercises & ignore their health. What they don’t realize is that it doesn’t have to be some long & boring cardio session, all you need are some simple and easy exercises that you can do at home. These workout routines not only help to keep you fit but also will tone your body as they work on every single part of the muscle groups.

1. Bench Dips

Position your hands width apart on a secured chair/table. Straighten your feet & put it on a chair in front of you. Straighten your arms and slowly lower your upper body and keep your elbows tucked into your sides all the time. Once you reach the bottom of the movement, slowly push yourself back up to the starting position with your triceps.

2. Sit ups

Lie on the floor & straighten your legs at a 45 degree angle with your hips touching the floor. Place your arms in front of your chest & breath slowly as you raise your upper body off the floor, forcing your chest muscles toward your thighs. Focus the strength on your abs. Slowly lay down to the floor after that.

3. Standing Calf Raises

Start with your heels down. Keep your knees straight & slowly rise up using only the strength of your ankle. Consider purchasing a kettlebell once you have get used to your own bodyweight for more challenge.

4. Push Ups

Position yourself facing down on the floor and balancing yourself with palms face down & using your legs. Your hands should be at the same width as your shoulders. Keep your lower back straight. Slowly bend your arms and lower your body to the floor.

If the exercises mentioned above are too easy for you then I will definitely recommend you to visit free sites like how to build muscle where you can kick start your fitness journey with some beginner advices. If you dont mind to splash some cash, then you can purchase either a.)Arnold’s Bodybuilding For Men which is an oldie but goodie, b.)How To Get Ripped, Cut & Buff, which is an ebook acknowledged by Christopher Fee, an authority in strength training who’s a certified trainer with a 4-year degree from Springfield College, or just any treadmills for sale on the internet. Trust me, as a buyer of these products you are guaranteed to benefit a lot from them. :P


Top 50 Most Viewed Videos On YouTube Of All Time

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YoutubePerhaps the best website ever created of all time, Youtube is visited by billions of visitors every day, searching for funny video clips, music videos, movie trailers or instructional videos created to solve daily problems. Among the vast amount of videos that were uploaded, plenty of them are definitely outstanding and generated a lot of views.

Here we take a look at top 50 most viewed videos on YouTube of all time:

1. The Evolution of Dance

You only need 6 minutes to become a superstar. Judson Laipply, a 30-year-old comedian/motivational speaker from Cleveland, created this video titled ‘The Evolution of Dance‘ back in year 2006 which features the comedian dancing to 32 different songs over a six minute period. From Hound Dog of Elvis Presley to Dirt Off Your Shoulder of Jay-Z, he has managed to compile a list of songs from various famous artists and created a dance with his unusual dance medley.

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8 Best Social Networking Softwares For Web Entrepreneurs

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Social Networking

The popularity of social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace has led to the creation of a number of excellent social networking software applications. While there are entrepreneurs who wish to become the next Zuckenberg by launching their own social networking websites, they may not have the modal or skill required to build a website from scratch. So if you’re looking for reliable social networking software, the following solutions might be what you are looking for:

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31 Interesting Facts

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The world around us is strange and magnificent, if we’re only willing to take the time to look. There are so many interesting facts surrounding us that, if we were to really understand our world, our brains just might explode. We even have organizations – like the Guinness World Records – to keep track of interesting facts for us.

Here are 31 interesting facts for you to enjoy:

1. The Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps.

2. A soccer player will run an average of seven miles each game.

3. When you see an advertisement for a watch, the hands are set to 10:10. This allows the watch’s brand name to be framed by the hands.

4. A rooster can’t crow if it can’t extend its neck.

5. Dalmatians have no spots when they’re born.

6. Handedness determines how you tend to chew your food. If you’re left-handed, you’ll tend to chew on your left side and vice versa.

7. Handedness also seems to affect longevity. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

8. If you chew gum while you peel an onion, it can help to prevent tears.

9. The first ocean vessel to use the SOS Morse code signal was the Titanic.

10. Your eye’s pupil expands by about a third when you look at something pleasing.

11. The rabbit and the parrot can both see behind themselves without turning their heads.

12. Laughter lowers your stress level and boosts your hormones.

13. An average six year-old will laugh around 300 times every day. The average adult laughs about 15 times.

14. The sweat of a hippopotamus will turn red when it is stressed or upset.

15. The MGM lion has a name: Volney.

16. Google gets its name from the numerical term “google,” which means a number with one million zeroes.

17. The Chevy Nova had a hard time selling in Spanish speaking countries. “No va,” means “Doesn’t go.”

18. Your fingernails and your hair will continue to grow for a few hours after death.

19. Women tend to blink, on average, about twice as often as men blink.

20. The three famous monkeys have names: Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil).

21. There are 365 steps on the front of the U.S. Capitol Building – one for every day of the year.

22. A kangaroo can jump as far as 30 feet in one jump.

23. The flea, however, can jump 350 times its body length.

24. Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world.

25. The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.

26. The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.

27. Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers.

28. Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.

29. Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.

30. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.

31. Henry Ford produced the model T in black colour because the black paint appears to be the fastest paint to get dry during the time of creation.


Top 20 Words of Encouragement

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If you’re like most people, there are days when you just feel down in the dumps. You feel like giving up. You feel like you’re a failure, and that you’ll never be loved, or be successful, or have the kind of life you want to have. On days like that, you need words of encouragement.

Here are 20 words of encouragement to keep with you for those days when you just feel blue:

1. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined” – Hendry David Thoreau. The author of Walden was someone who dared to dream, who dared to live the life he imagined.

2. “Leap and the net will appear.” – Zen proverb.

3. “Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself… Nothing is impossible!” – Norman Vincent Peale. Dr. Peale has been offering words of encouragement to people for more than three decades.

4. “Do, or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda. Wisdom from the Star Wars universe.

5. “Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it.” – David Guy Powers. David reminds us of an older word of encouragement: carpe diem.

6. “Carpe Diem” – proverb. This Latin phrase means, “Seize the day.” Take advantage of life while you still have it.

7. “This, too, shall pass away,” – Abraham Lincoln. All things, even the hard times, will come to an end one day.

8. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb.

9. “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell. Failure should never blind us to new possibilities.

10. “Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” – Henry Van Dyke. Every effort will pay off, the important thing is to try.

11. “A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.” – Proverb.

12. “Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.” -Aldous Huxley. You can’t control your situation, but you can control how you respond.

13. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt faced many difficulties in his life and overcame them, often by just hanging on.

14. Never, never, never, never give up.” – Winston Churchill. Churchill knew the importance of standing up for what is right, no matter how hard.

15. “I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself, my work, and my God.” – Helen Keller.

16. “Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain.

17. “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach. Change is not always a bad thing.

18. “Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, `Grow, grow.’” – The Talmud.

19. “Don’t worry, Be Happy.” – Bobby McFerrin. This one, of course, is more effective if whistled.

20. “It is not the possession of good things which bring happiness-it is the ability to enjoy what comes.” – Proverb.