Daily Tips: Wednesday July 13, 2005

Health and Diet
Do you have trouble relaxing? Practice forced relaxation. While exercise should be your first go-to, pairing it with one of the many tried and true relaxation techniques is even better. Try deep breathing, meditation, progressive muscle relaxation and visualization. Set aside some time in the morning to relax. You'll start your day on the right note.

Fitness
For your lower body, some of the toughest exercises are the lunge and squat. You can do many variations of them. For example, when doing a squat you can change your footing by moving your legs together or spreading your legs with feet pointed out. Or you can face your feet forward to target the quads more. For lunges you can do walking lunges, side lunges, front and back lunges, stationary lunges or falling lunges.