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Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms






When does everyday worry cross the line into an anxiety disorder? At what point should you be concerned about that continual feeling of dread? Are you growing anxious over things that would in all likelihood never happen? If you have these questions, then you may be able to answer them by becoming aware of generalized anxiety disorder symptoms.

If anxious thoughts, constant worry, and higher level of fear interrupt your daily living, you may have GAD, or generalized anxiety disorder. Symptoms of GAD fall into three categories ? emotional, behavioral, and physical.

Anxiety Disorder Symptoms

Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms

Anxiety Disorder Symptoms

Some of the emotional symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder are a constant stream of worries going through your mind or an overall feeling of dread or apprehension. You may have intrusive thoughts that cause you anxiety that you cannot make go away. You have the strong need to know exactly what is going on at all times, and you find it difficult to deal with uncertainty. There is also the general feeling that there is nothing you can do to stop all your worrying.

The physical symptoms associated with GAD include an on-edge and jumpy feeling. You may have great difficulty falling asleep because your mind won’t let go of the day’s events. You may have digestive issues, including a pervasive upset stomach, nausea or diarrhea. The muscles of your body may ache from always being tensed up.



Anxiety Disorder Symptoms – Inability to Relax

A general inability to relax is a hallmark behavioral symptom of generalized anxiety disorders. You don’t like being on your own, and you do not enjoy silence. You may have a difficult time with concentration and focus. While many people procrastinate, people suffering from GAD seem to have a higher level due to a feeling of being completely overwhelmed. They may also completely avoid situations that trigger their anxious feelings.

Children also have unique symptoms of GAD. Unlike adults, children and teens do not comprehend that their anxiety is of a concerning level, and they assume that their peers also suffer the same emotions that they are feeling. Because of this, is it especially important that the adults in their lives pay close attention and intervene when necessary.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms

Children and teens can manifest generalized anxiety disorder through perfectionism, excessive worry on past and future events, social acceptance within their peer group, and a feeling of self-blame for issues completely unrelated to themselves. They also seek continual reassurance or praise.


Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms

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Advantages of Using Weight Training Machines




Proper nutrition is not the only way to keep the body healthy. Regular exercise and strength training at least twice a week should be done if we want to keep our body in top condition. Weight training can be done with free weights and machines. While many people consider free weights as being for professional bodybuilders, weight training machines can be used by everyone for a similar purpose. Weight training machines are ideal for beginners and rehabilitation patients as well as serious bodybuilders.

When you step into a gym for the first time, you may be overwhelmed by all the complicated exercise machines around you. Weight training machines are designed to exercise specific muscle groups. For example, you can workout your chest, back and shoulders with a lat pull-down machine or chest-press machine. For lower body workouts you could use a leg-press or leg extension machine. A fitness expert can show you how to use a weight training machine for your workout.

Serious bodybuilders say there’s nothing better than free weights when it comes to strength training. However, weight training machines offer many advantages and benefits too.

1. Places you in the correct position

While free weights allow freedom of movement, a weight training machine automatically places you in the correct biomechanical position to accomplish the exercise motion in the proper form. The machine effectively isolates the muscles that you are using, and all you have to do is push or pull the weight. Your movement is restricted because you can only move the weight in one direction.

2. Safe to use

Weight training machines are typically safer to exercise with compared to free weights. The limited range of motion prevents you from using your muscles incorrectly. Weight training machines also eliminate accidents such as dropping a barbell that you are trying to lift.

A weight training machine is ideal for those who have an injury and are undergoing physical rehabilitation through strength training. An exercise machine is also useful if you are working with heavy weights and do not have a spotter.

3. Faster workouts

In general, it takes less time to complete your exercise when working out with a weight training machine rather than free weights. When working with free weights, you have to remove or add plates on a barbell. On a weight training machine, you can quickly adjust the weight by moving a pin or clipping cables to the desired resistance setting. This allows you to go through your exercise routine faster while maintaining an elevated heart rate.

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Who is Dolvett Quince?



A couple of weeks ago the people at the Biggest Loser announced that Dolvett Quince would be joining Anna Kournikova and Bob Harper on the the Biggest Loser this season as one of the new trainers. I had to ask myself who is Dolvett Quince? So I looked around.

Who is Dolvett Quince?

Well Dolvett is a trainer with a personal fitness gym in Atlanta Georgia and after looking around a bit (I love Google) I was able to figure out that he is in fact a very popular person in the Atlanta social scene. Also Dolvett Quince is also the creator of  Me and My Chair – a workout video that is based completely around strengthening and toning your body using nothing but a chair.

Dolvett Quince Training Philosophy

Who is Dolvett Quince?

Dolvett Quince

Dolvett is only the 7th trainer in the hostory of the Biggest Loser so what can we expect from him? In interviews so far Dolvett has said that he will be tough but fair. We can take this to mean I would expect that he will be less intense than Jillian Michaels was but at the same time a very imposing guy in the gym. Being from a personal training 1 on 1 background we should expect him to understand the emotions going through people as they lose a lot of weight.

“I think in the process of training you develop your muscles and challenge yourself. Those endorphins are being built in your body and that can bring about a lot of emotion and people tend to vent,” he explained.

“During the training process you’ll see a lot of tears, some laughing, even some anger. It’s my job to be there for that person, not only as a trainer but as a friend in a lot of ways.”

Quince added: “That is why it is personal training. You want to be personal with that individual and make sure you are there for them and help them progress and get through those things.”

When do we Get to Meet Dolvett Quince?

Biggest Loser is Back soon. The new season of Biggest Loser is starting just next week on September 20th on NBC with new trainer Anna Kournikova, Dolvett Quince, and Bob Harper. Then we finally get a real answer to who is Dolvett Quince?


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