Fitness Facts

When trying to shed pounds, people do crazy things, like cutting massive amounts of calories, yo-yo dieting, and stressing themselves out until they lose sleep. Then, upon hitting the fat-loss plateau, they struggle to come to terms with their own actions and choices. If this sounds familiar, then you might also be committing one of…

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Aside from the popularity with celebrities and thousands of studios popping up from East to West, there is something that sets yoga apart from the crowd when it comes to fitness and weight loss. Though yoga is a mind-body practice, the postures have been known to brighten your outlook on life while toning your muscles…

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Working on your backside? Basic squats are great for making your tush burn, but eventually, you will plateau. A basic squat also only works the backside from one angle; and the glutes are made up of a number of muscles, such as the hamstrings, quadriceps, gluteus maximus, gluteus minimus, and glutes medius. In order to…

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There are two givens when it comes to building mass and keeping that muscle: you’re going to have to work hard, and you’re going to have to really challenge yourself. This is more than lifting heavy weight. The body naturally responds to lifting weight, and you gain mass naturally; but you’re going to need more…

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Before getting into the reasons why a 7 day split workout could be the answer to your overtraining woes, it’s time to set some facts straight. In every magazine, book, workout video, and trainer’s philosophy, there has been mentions of 2 day splits, 5 day splits and more, but no one ever talks about the…

You dream of a physique that is balanced between powerful and chiseled, proportioned, and symmetrical. Building your chest muscles is probably already one of your goals to help you get that physique you want. If you are hitting the weight room and working those pecs without seeing much result, it is less a question of…

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Of all the categories of exercise that can burn someone out right away, no matter the resolve, cardio has to be the worst. As important as cardio is for a balanced, effective, healthy lifestyle, most people don’t enjoy it. It’s exhausting, it can be rough on the joints, and anyone formerly in the military, or…

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One of the biggest challenges to more advanced muscle-targeting workouts is the need for equipment that can be expensive, hard to take with you on trips, and often very expensive. Weights, benches, sophisticated exercise equipment – all of these are great, but unless you’re willing to put the expense into equipment, the time into the…

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Introduction: Over twenty years of lifting weights, I have seen it all and done most of it. The list of all the various methods that I have tried would be tiresome to list, but that’s fine because today, we’re going to talk about just one method, and it’s a method that I have found to…

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When it comes to weight-loss programs, fasting is considered to be the most extreme. However, there is one method that is even more extreme, and that method is called “fasted cardio.” Fasted cardio is a simple concept: You do a lot of cardio while fasting. This is a somewhat extreme method, but for those of…

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Consider all the fitness role models and athletes who inspired you to start working out. Every single one has a unique approach to fitness, but there is one thing you won’t see them avoiding: pull-ups. Although difficult, pull-ups are key to total body fitness. That’s why you should be committing to getting a perfect pull-up,…

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We’ve all seen the stereotypical personal trainers and coaches on television and sadly, in real life as well. We’ve all cultivated this collective stereotypical image of a pumped, upselling “professional” who seems like a mix of a high school sports coach and a flaky motivational speaker. This doesn’t, of course, always seem that ideal, if…

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