Fitness Facts

Isolation exercises are defined as exercises that use only one joint. The use of only one joint ensures that a small number of muscle groups are used. Thus, the exertion focuses on a particular area of the body. This type of training is extremely popular. In fact, most commercial workout machines are meant to isolate…

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At first glance, the power clean may not look as useful as some other exercises. It can sometimes appear to be a “lazy man’s exercise” because of the way the bar is usually dropped at the end of each rep. However, the power clean is a deceptively difficult exercise. There are a lot of details…

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As much as you hear it, how often do you think about how different you are from the other people in the gym? Everyone has a body, but that doesn’t mean their muscles are going to respond to the same workout yours does and vice versa. If you are feeling frustrated with your current progress,…

Society is a fickle thing, with trends coming and going over time, impacted by culture, the upbringing of the incoming adult generation, technology, and much more. Many people make a very complex career out of studying, predicting, and, unfortunately, influencing trends in various directions. This is a fact of life and has been why various…

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Pushups are one of those things we all think of when thinking about general exercise. Popular media has cemented this – how many times in workout montages do we see characters doing pushups, sometimes with another character motivating or adding a challenge to it? How many times have we seen the rigors of military training…

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Calories. In the fitness and health world, as well as the nutrition world, you hear people go on and on about calories. Nutritional facts on foods put calories in big old bold letters, along with fat and sugar content. We’ve been programmed, as a society, for many years to count calories and fat intake, and…

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One of the ongoing problems that we’re all guilty of in the fitness world, including me, is the bad habit of overlooking certain aspects of our physique, resulting in an unbalanced body that, from various angles, can look just wrong. Part of this is because some portions of our body can be harder to target,…

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Today, we are going to talk about a topic that many men find embarrassing. The term “man boobs” may not be a technical one, but we all know what it means. The term refers to fat deposits on a man’s chest which may resemble a woman’s breasts. Even if you don’t care about your appearance,…

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A common question that makes its way around the gym is, “How many push-ups should I be able to do?” Some people are asking this because they need upper body strength for their job, or they are planning on taking a test to join the armed forces. However, if you really just want to register…

So, you want to deadlift. Good! You obviously have goals, or you wouldn’t be here. There is no exercise that can top a deadlift for helping you burn fat, gain muscle, and get stronger. Of course, if you have been interested in learning how to deadlift properly, you don’t need me telling you why you…

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All right, ladies, listen up. You might be in your 30s, but that doesn’t mean your metabolism is going to come to a screeching halt and all hope for getting the body of your dreams is lost. Because it isn’t! In fact, your fitness journey is just dawning. A smart weight loss and fitness plan…

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There’s one group of muscles you may feel as if isn’t worked enough and this is your abs. It may feel as if especially your lower abs are unaffected by exercise no matter how much of it is done. There is a good reason why this is the case. According to certified, New York-based trainers,…

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Deadlifts will legit change your life. Okay, maybe that seems like a bit of an exaggeration, but it’s the truth. Deadlifts are one of those game-changing exercises that work the entire body when done correctly and develop strength and a stunning physique. There are also many forms and variations of deadlifts you can do. One…

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As compound exercises go, the deadlift is easily one of the best. Not only does it look and feel cool to slam the bar down when you finish, but it also works a lot of different muscles. In fact, deadlifts work the entire back of your body, from the muscles of the back all the…

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Squats are easily one of the best and most popular ways to get a leg workout. If your goal is to develop a bulging set of quads and glutes, you really couldn’t ask for anything better. In this article, we will be focusing on one particular variation of the squat. This version, which is called…

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Every dude in the gym is working for bigger, stronger lifts, so they usually get fixated on working their arms. But the instant some guy walks in with towering traps and a broader back than you, and you suddenly find yourself wondering if you’re doing the right thing. You might commend this individual for having…

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When you think of one of the more “extreme” workouts in the bodybuilding world, it’s surely the bench press. How many people – even those very well-informed in the fitness world – will cite their strength and level of training by how much they can bench? While it’s certainly not a complete definition of your…

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Perhaps the most coveted muscle, next to chiseled six pack abs, has got to be a big, round, beach ball sized pair of biceps. While the triceps make up about 70% of the mass of the upper arm, even the most developed tris can’t generate the same awe as ferociously peaked biceps. Building such a…

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