AfroWellness Exercise Clubs
At AfroWellness, we understand that, “Life is Energy in Motion or Life is movement, stagnation is slow & gradual death. “Rhythmical physical exercise is essential for the maintenance of normal body conditions of life. Lack of natural exercise is one of the chief causes of weakness and all degenerative diseases.
In recent years, the need for rhythmic exercise has been recognized even in times of critical illness & sickness. Physiological and occupational therapy are now recommendable standard procedures in all natural healing modalities to restore the use of muscles and nerves that have been injured by accumulated toxemias which results in all degenerative diseases or by accident. Patients with extreme tissue ailments are now advised to stay in bed for the minimum period considered necessary.
Our competent experts on the front-lines of Wellness, Health, Meditation, Yoga, Fitness, and Nutrition give advice from their practice. Here are our favorite insights that have most transformed the Afrowellness community & helped our clients heal naturally.
Welcome to AfroWellness Fitness clubs;
Always Remember, Progress Requires Continuous Learning Coupled With Patience…
Rewarding progress comes only when the body & mind are well set & ready, and no sooner. Even with complete dedication, it can sometimes take years to master new healthy techniques or move onto more advanced stages of our wellness programs. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed, embarrassed, or discouraged by mediocree. Unfortunately, your desire might outweigh your abilities.
But there’s nothing wrong with ambitions. Be patient while you master the basics in our clubs, this is the foundation of more complicated healthy and wellness practices. Turning your attention to your body posture, breathing, and mind will help build the strength and mental capacity that progression calls for, enjoy your time with us as it lasts.
Methods Of Exercise;
Several systems of exercise have been developed over the years, the most popular among them being the yoga system, but whichever system you choose to adopt, the exercises should be performed systematically, regularly and under proper guidance by a qualified AfroWellness practitioner. To be really useful, rhythmical exercise should be taken in such a manner as to bring into action all the muscles of the body in a natural way.
Brisk walking is one such model exercise. It is, however, so gentle in character that one must walk several kilometres in a brisk manner to constitute a fair amount of exercise. Other forms of good exercise are swimming, cycling, mountain climbing, horse-riding, badminton, tennis, foot & netball, basketball, organized marathon, etc.
Rhythmic exercise and Activity For corrective living;
In all AfroWellness programs, we take measures to help our AfroWellness team & clients understand the basic difference between exercise and mechanical activity/ labor. While both are important as they are involved in vital physiological body movements, they vary in the degree of effectiveness and benefits.
Both employ the body in voluntary movement. Mechanical activities uses the body to a limited degree and generally to achieve a specific purpose for the necessity of earning a living in our modern society while Rhythmic exercise employs the body over the widest possible range of movement for the particular purpose of maintaining or acquiring muscle tone and control with maximum joint flexibility.
Mechanical activity involves the passive use of our bodies & requires less physical effort and often less conscious effort once the routine has been established. Rhythmical exercise demands considerable physical effort and is more beneficial as mental concentration & focus is simultaneously employed.
General Precautions;
On Health: Our rhythmic exercises are not organized for people suffering from any ailments; new subscribers & members are required to fill out our AfroWellness Health Form that conforms to our rhythmic fitness & wellness programs.
On Timing: Vigorous exercise of any kind done within our fitness club, should not be taken until a time lapses for an hour and a half after eating, or immediately before meals.
On Patients: Diseased or weak patients and those suffering from serious chronic diseases like cancer, heart diseases, tuberculosis and asthma should not undertake our vigorous exercise except under instruction & the supervision of a qualified AfroWellness physician/ practitioner.
On Feeling Tired: If exercising makes you tired, stop immediately & seek our holistic health practitioner for advice. The purpose of our rhythmic exercises should be to make you feel refreshed and relaxed and not tired.
Our AfroWellness fitness Model Plan;
The most important rule about the AfroWellness fitness plan is to start with very light rhythmical exercises and to increase the effort in gradual and easy stages over a period of not less than 21 days. The sense of AfroWell-being will begin almost immediately after a few weeks of consistent persistence; your AHC wellness instructor will be guiding you on how to follow through the AfroWellness fitness program.
One can start off with a brisk walk for 15 to 20 minutes. A comfortable sense of tiredness should be the aim. It is valueless and possibly harmful to become exhausted or seriously short of breath. Perhaps, one should aim at activities which need about two-thirds of one’s maximum ability. One way to assess is to count your own pulse rate. Counting of pulse is quite easy.
Your AHC Wellness Instructor will be able to take you through this experiment; Feel the pulse on your left wrist with the middle three fingers of your right hand. Press just firmly enough to feel the beat easily. Now count the number of beats in 15 seconds, with the help of a stop watch & with clear second reader timer, calculate your rate by multiplying by four.
At rest heart beats are 70 to 80 times a minute. This rate increases during rhythmical exercises. Really vigorous can produce rates as high as 200 beats per minute or more. Reasonable aim is to rhythmically exercise at about two-thirds of maximum capacity. It follows that heart rate should be about 130 per minute during and just after exercise. Always avoid over-exertion and never allow your pulse go above 190 per minute minus your age.
At AfroWellness, we commit to having a Community that shares values, wellness, & health practices, we understand that seeing others practice will motivate you to also practice. All club members build relationships with other members and practitioners, and work together with a group of like minded people, to fully integrate their health practices into all aspects of their lives. This builds momentum and positive energy in a way that a solitary practice might not be able to. We invite you to join our community.
Adopt a Meditation Practice for Deep conscience: Have you ever wondered in thought processes without resting your mind? It’s likely because you didn’t spend adequate time in a deep still state of the mind Reaching deep sleep states involves entering a complete state of relaxation. Fortunately, it’s something that can be fine-tuned in your working routine.
We have a 15-minute meditation from our meditation experts that walks you through a checklist to ensure you’re relaxed for stillness. You’ll check in on the tension throughout your body, learn to let go of stressful thoughts, and bring positive memories front and center. In time, real awareness comes easier and you get energized every moment you undergo this practice.
Get Outside Into Nature:
Let all your fitness practices be done outside in nature where there is fresh atmosphere, moisture air, sun’s energy, and pure earth. “Going outside moves you to another level of consciousness wit nature, it gets you to calm your mind & think differently,” “Nature gets you out of your conditioned mindset and into your instinctive perceptions. And your instincts are your connections with nature.” Yet, today, children and adults spend less time outside in nature than ever, approximately 73 percent of their day’s time is spent indoors. The result, is something called Nature-Deficit Disorder, a lack of outdoor time that takes a toll on the quality of life.
Time in nature has been shown to positively affect the human body as a whole, especially symptoms of mild diseases, reduce stress, and improve cognition. Getting outside—in a park, forest, or a swim in the ocean should be an everyday priority. We do invite you on the journey into nature, this is a return into nature that modern day humans should not miss.
Afro-Vegan Program was designed to enable members achieve & manage their weight with ease, we believe that veganism is the perfect way to achieve optimum wellness. Through experience & practice, it has been documented & proven that it takes 21 days to brake away from any given habit, and so is diet, and for our Afro-Vegan diet, we create an Afro-vegan food book to track what our clients eat for 21 days.
Our theory is that it takes 21 days to make or break a habit, and so we developed the 21 Days Challenge in order to achieve our so-called “major breakthrough.” The Afro-Vegan diet program eliminates processed sugars & all animal products and relies entirely on plant based foods for nutrient nourishment. Alkaline food groups included in our Afro-vegan diet include most organic tropical fruits, whole grains, nuts, seeds, green vegetables and legumes. In the 21 Days diet, wheat is eliminated, making the eating plan also gluten-free.
If you eliminate processed foods from your diet and eat only wholesome ones, you will lose weight. Although there is no calorie counting in this diet, the portions are pretty small and the calories are on the lower end. Our Program also promotes many raw fruits and vegetables, which is lacking in most of today’s diet in our homes.
The Advantage; Once we eliminate processed sugars, gluten, dairy products including all meat products, and we supplement your foods with nutrients your body is deficient of, the results are great; Most people are unable to supplement their diets properly and may become nutrient deficient, including vitamin B12 and vitamin D.
Our Afro_detox Program is our quickest and most effective cleansing program that uses natural organic compounds to enable the body eliminate toxins in a short period of time, this is accompanied with organic raw juice fasting & does not involve any chewing of cooked food materials. It is designed to cleanse you of the toxins that your body has accumulated over time from the acidic forming food substances you’ve been ingesting since childhood, and let you experience the ultimate inner whole body cleansing in a short period of time.
Our body and mind require a reset every now and then. Toxins accumulated through years affect regular functions in our bodies. The modern lifestyle in the urban cultures have created many un-health problems and most of the people are going through numerous degenerative disease symptoms caused by the accumulation of these toxemias. Our Afro-Detox Cleanse program can help you solve some of the most ill-health issues caused by our modern lifestyles.
Teach Your Children to Meditate;
“Meditation is a lifelong practice,” that means that children are no exception. “By laying the foundation of mindfulness for your kids or any child in your life, you’re providing them with an invaluable tool that will see them through life’s inevitable ups and downs,”
Instilling mindfulness into children’s routines can help them gather self-knowledge, become aware of their whole body, breathing techniques, and relaxation skills that stay with them and help them build healthy lifestyles throughout life.
Awareness is an important consideration in properly introducing your child to self meditation. This club will guide kids of all ages about the fundamental practice of meditation.
Know The Benefits Of Our AfroWellness Fitness Programs;
Systematic & Rhythmical physical exercise has many health benefits, the more important benefits are mentioned below;
- 1. Regular rhythmical exercise taken properly can achieve the increased use of food through metabolism by the body, which contributes to general tissue wellness, health and fitness. The basal metabolic rate and habitual body temperature will slowly rise during several weeks of physical rhythmic exercises, if the wellness program is maintained for at least 21 days continuously; the body will have to adopt such new physiological behaviors. The healthy person usually has abundant body heat and a warm radiant luminosity.
- 2. Regular progressive rhythmic physical exercise can bring about the balance of automatic, or involuntary, nervous system & blood circulation. The tone of the vagus nerve, one of the nerves that control sensation and motion, is strengthened. This accounts for stronger pulse waves, higher metabolism and better circulation.
- 3. Rhythmic physical exercise can prevent or reduce gravitational depression due to lowered magnetic field around the body. Body gravitational depression results from uneven flow of blood circulation around the body especially in the brain, feet, legs and lower abdomen.
- 4. Improved capillary action in the working of muscular and brain tissue results from exercise carried to the point of real endurance. This permits greater blood flow and gives the muscles, including the heart, more resistance to fatigue. Spa massage, steam bath or heat and moderate mechanical work activities are relatively ineffective in producing additional capillary action as compared with vigorous rhythmical exercises.
- 5. The full use of the lungs in vigorous rhythmical exercise can reduce or prevent phlegm/ mucus congestion in the respiratory system especially lungs & wind pipe due to lymph accumulation.
- 6. Gas and intra-intestinal toxic accumulations can be reduced by exercise that acts to press and squeeze or vibrate the gastro intestinal organs.
- 7. Better respiratory reserve is developed by persistent rhythmical physical exercise. This ensures better breath normalization, especially after a standard vigorous exercise. With greater respiratory reserves, rhythmic exercise becomes easier to maintain.
- 8. Improvement in muscle tone and function of veins can be accomplished by maintaining a gradual rhythmical routine of exercises.
- 9. Squeezing and draining done on the vascular system by the lymphatic system allows them to empty & refill, also sweating during rhythmic exercise relieves the kidneys from the burden of filtering excessive toxins by helping to eliminate the waste toxic matter through the skin, lungs & stool.
- 10. Consistent rhythmic exercise leads to improvement in quality of blood circulation. Studies have shown improved haemoglobin count levels, relatively greater alkalinity, and a grater red cell count.
- 11. Systemic rhythmic exercise promotes physical strength, mental vigor and strengthens will power and self-control leading to harmonious development of the whole system.
Other well-known benefits include but not limited to the following;
Exercise promotes longevity; the less active persons are, they stand a three times higher risk of suffering a fatal heart attack or clogged artery than those who work out routinely. Medical review of fatal heart attacks or clogged arteries reveals that the less active people are, they stand a three times more risk to die unexpectedly and rapidly within an hour after the attack or clogged arteries.
Hypertension risk; the lack of physical fitness leads to hypertension, but the physically fit are less likely to develop hypertension. Exercise increases calorie output; the body fat can be reduced by regular exercise. It is therefore, useful for weight reduction in conjunction with restricted and planned out food intake.
Calories usage; up to 15 hours after vigorous exercise, the body continues to burn calories at a higher rate than it would have without exercise.
Obesity & cholesterol reduction; moderate physical exercise has been found to be accompanied by less obesity and lower cholesterol levels. Stress management; Regular exercise plays an important role in the fight against stress. It provides recreation and mental relaxation besides keeping the body & mind physically fit. It is nature’s best tranquilizer. Chronic fatigue caused by poor circulation can be remedied by undertaking some exercise on a daily basis. It helps relieve tension and induces sleep.
Increased energy utilization; moderate physical exercise at the end of the day can bring a degree of increased freshness and renewed energy.
Overcoming depression; exercise also plays an important role in the treatment of depression. Exercise produces a chemical and psychological change that improves your mental health. It changes the levels of hormones in blood and may elevate your beta-endorphins (mood-affecting brain chemicals). It gives a feeling of accomplishment and thereby reduces the sense of laziness.
Persistent Progress With Our Programs;
There are times in life meditation or in yoga, when we’re unsure about how to move forward; when we feel disconnected from our true selves. These times of ambiguity or challenge can be accompanied by a tendency to drift from our regular practices or to switch back and forth between fitness clubs. Receiving conflicting advice can inhibit you from progressing, we encourage you to maintain a consistent practice with our club programs, to build progress over time.
“By staying with AfroWellness Clubs, practicing a specific program, and concentrating the mind in only one direction—those kinds of difficulties are less likely to arise and can be more easily overcome if they do. Instead of fearing challenges? Face them head-on with consistency.
Advice From Our Expert;
Eat Whole, natural raw organic foods; Healthy eating doesn’t have to be confusing. Clean eating is fairly simple. It’s all about focusing your diet around one-ingredient whole foods—a full apple, an avocado, raw tropical fruits & green vegetables. Eating foods in their original raw state helps your body naturally rejuvenate, detoxify, manage blood sugar levels, and fill up with vitality without overdoing it. Simplicity is key. Focus on recipes such as salads, soups, and bowls that call for whole raw foods that promote both health, well-being, and longevity.
