The plank exercise is an abs workout much like pushups. It is a great way to increase endurance in your back and legs while stabilizing the muscles. You start off similar as you would if you were performing pushups. Instead of resting on your palms, your palms should be flat on the floor and you should be resting on your forearms. Simply puff off of the floor while rising up onto your toes. Remember to keep your back flat. Your back should form a straight line from your head to your heels. Now move your pelvis while contracting your abs to keep your rear from sticking up in the air. You should hold this position for twenty to sixty seconds then lower yourself and repeat this three to five times.
While these are effective abs workouts in order for you to develop flat or muscular ads you will have to stick with it and work hard every day. Performing regular cardio exercises, a health diet and constant strength training is the only way to truly develop a six pack. Getting tights abs takes a lot of exercise as well as a lot of free time and dedication. Some people don’t have the time required to develop tight abs. If you insist on developing tights you are really going to have to push yourself. The daily workouts can end up causing a lot of stress. You should really thing about it before you make a commitment.
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Understanding color psychology helps home makers choose colors for home decorating.
Color affects human beings every day of their lives, even during their very earliest childhood. In fact, studies have shown that babies respond more readily to bright, primary colors than to pastel colors.
The favorite color of most preschool children, up to the age of five, is bright red. Young children, between five and ten years old, show a preference for bright yellow. Adult women generally prefer blue-based colors, whereas men tend to prefer yellow-based tints.
Even education levels and the degree of sophistication seem to affect people’s color preferences. In general, highly educated and sophisticated people favor complex colors, while those with less education and lower income favor low intensity, simple colors.
Ethnic Traditions Affect Color Preferences
Our personal history also has a significant influence on our color preferences, and using heritage colors has been proven to make people feel more contented by making them feel more connected to their ancestry.
Colors and Climates
Climate affects color preferences, too, and people respond differently to various colors, depending upon the climatic conditions in which they live. For example, Scandinavians have a preference for light yellows, bright whites, and sky blues, in contrast to their long, dark winter nights. San Franciscans, who live in an area that is often foggy and overcast, generally aren’t fond of gray, but gray is a popular color among people in Miami.
Historic Colors
Color preferences have also changed over the course of history. In the mid-1800s, very bright colors were popular, but they were replaced by more subdued tertiary colors such as muddy reds, greens, browns, blues, pinks, and ambers in the 1870s and 1880s. The darkest shades could be found in dining rooms.
Pastel and cream colors came back into fashion in the 1890s, and were popular during the latter part of Queen Victoria’s reign. But as fashions changed and furniture began to become more ornate, heavier, and more elaborate, room colors also began to change, becoming richer and darker, although Victorian bedrooms remained light and cheerful.
Color affects human beings in many ways, on both the conscious and subconscious levels, every day of our lives, and a thorough understanding of the effects of color is very important when making interior design decisions for the home.
(c) Copyright 2004, Jeanette J. Fisher. All rights reserved.
Professor Jeanette Fisher, author of Doghouse to Dollhouse for Dollars, Joy to the Home, and other books teaches Real Estate Investing and Interior Design Psychology. For more articles, tips, reports, newsletters, and blog, see http://www.joytothehome.com/
