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Friday, October 23, 2020

SSB: 8 Fitness tips to working candidates






Are you a working personal with a formal job and trying to get into armed forces as an officer?, 
No time to hit to the gym?

We all know that fitness plays an important role in SSB interview;

Here are simple 7 hacks to control your weight as you want and kick your fitness level to the sky. For better understanding of yours the hacks/tips have been divided into two parts,
Those are,

  1.   Habitual alteration
  2.    Alterations in diet



HABITUAL ALTERATIONS:



  •  Take stairs: If your workplace is in upstairs and you use escalator/lift regularly use stairs instead which helps in burning calorie. This might be difficult to follow initially, in that case try taking at least two trips a day via stairs then eventually you will get habituated.

  • Take periodic breaks in between: If you work in such an environment where you have to work for hours by sitting in front of screen continuously, then you have to consider taking break at least once in 45 minutes and stretch-out a bit. In that particular break try to catch couple of deep breaths and walk around or use that as water break walk to water point.


  •  Correct your sitting posture: I know most of us sloth while sitting on chairs (we are kind of slothers by birth). Are you aware of the fact that our sitting posture also adds up to our bad body shape?                                                                                                                                    Yes, It does matter how do you sit while you work or any time, So try to correct your sitting posture and sit upright while working.

  •  Just find a reason to walk: As mentioned earlier walk as much as you can or just find a reason to walk. For example imagine you have to go for groceries to nearby super market instead of taking vehicle choose to walk to market.  



DIET ALTERATIONS:


  •   Drink lots of water: We know that around 70% of our body is made up of water and it is essential. Drinking a lot of water could trigger your fat burning process, adding lime and honey to it will boast it even more.


  • Keep meals short and split it if possible: we generally have the tendency to grab lots of food in our regular meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and have nothing in between them. Scientifically it’s an unhealthy practice.                                                                                           Then what is right practice?                                                                                                                    It’s a good practice to split your meal into chunks and munch healthy bits every now and then. (Munching means not having unhealthy snacks) by this our brain will be programmed in such a way that subconsciously it keeps a count saying ‘‘okay..!! I think body is getting food on time lets stop storing it’’ and burns extra fat stored (it’s important to mention here, that skipping meals or fasting irregularly is a bad practice).

  •  Try to avoid junk/processed food: In current fast moving world we tend to have processed, easy grab able and fast foods. These processed foods contribute a lot in our unfit body. So it is no good to have junk/processed food.

  •      Be calorie deficit if you are overweight: If you are reading this article so far means I presume that either obese or feared of becoming so. Most of our regular food will be rich in starch and it’s common to lean towards extra greasy/extra spicy food which will eventually contribute in storing fat if it is excess than limit. So make a promise to yourself to stop eating even though you are craving to eat or make a rule for yourself saying ‘‘okay, today I’ll eat, but I’ll will not touch specific food for minimum of 10 days’’



ONE BONUS TIP:

  •    Be consistent:  Everyone knows that they want to be fit/stay fit and ways to be is also known, but no one wants to work for that. I know it’s THE most difficult part to be consistent but there is a hack, psychologists have stated that it takes only 21 days to convert anything into a habit. So what are you waiting for? Give it a shot..!!


Bottom line:

The above tips are workable but we all know that military standards are high and after selection we are expected to go through tough training. So I would advise you to go for a run every day morning at-least for half an hour.

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Global warming - lecturette SSB

 As the name suggests 'Global warming is increase in temperature of earth atmosphere'. There are many contrary views on concepts of global warming and there are bunch of leaders who state it; as a misconception. anyways with a belief of global warming as a threat; lets discuss causes, effects and simple possible solutions.


Causes: 

Global warming is caused by multiplication of so many things. There are natural causes such as volcanic eruptions are also there . If we have to list top three man made causes which rapidly increases the pace of global warming are given below.

1)Increased pollution level and emission of green house gases:

The top contributor to the global warming is emission of green house gases. The emission could be by vehicles, industries or even by burning of waste products. The produced gases mainly does two things; one, it multiples the green house effect and second, these emitted gas being heavy gases it absorbs the heat and acts as heat storage.

2) Deforestation:

We all know the deforestation in India is  alarmingly at higher rate. This adds into global warming by cutting recycling of carbon-dioxide (CO2).

3) Depletion of Ozone layer:

The CFC and other gases produced by refrigerators, ACs and other machines will disintegrate Ozone, creating patches in the ozone layer. This lead to harmful and intense radiations to penetrate into earth's atmosphere.


Effects of Global warming:

1) Unusual patterns of seasons- hence crop loss:

Earlier days we use to have rain in rainy season; cold breeze in winter and heat in summer. But due to global warming and other effects we could see unusual season patterns and hence loss of monsoon-dependent crops. this is major concern for agriculture dependent countries like India because agriculture here are heavily dependent on monsoon. 

2) Melting of glaciers and habitat loss:

The global warming has direct effect on melting of ice/glaciers. This directly effect on the habitat of part of animal kingdom living in the glaciers.

3) Increased sea level:

The above point has direct relationship with this effect. The melting of glaciers; will increase the water; and hence the sea level will increase and hence many parts of the land will go under water. Scientists have predicted that it is a possibility that, major parts of Mumbai and other coastal cities are going to disappear in coming years.


How can we control it?

Like the solutions to all the other problems; we should either curb the causes to control the adverse effects or to find a alternative to balance the cause. Below are couple of straight forward and simple solutions.

1)Controlling pollution:

As we know that vehicles and burning of fossil fuels are largest contributors of pollution; as a solution, lets cut that part out; lets use public transports as much as we can; lets switch off the lights fans and other equipments, whenever we are not using; lets move together towards reliable sources of energy such as solar, wind and tidal energies.

2)Cultivate greenery:

It is evident that the deforestation is direct cause of global warming; In simple words, there are two things which we can do; one lets stop cutting forest and two lets plant more trees and take care of them. 

Bottom-line:

 The bottom line is that, global warming is real and its high time to protect our planet. Even though capitalist leaders like Trump do not agree on the effects of global warming; the evidences are visible and its high time.



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