Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Upper Body Workout Program
Upper body strength and development is one of the most essential aspects that an individual must achieve for whether you are an athlete or a common guy working eight hours a day. Upper body strength and stability is important whether you are trying to throw a javelin, switching from a right handed lay up to…
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Fitness Club Versus Home Fitness Training
If you’re about to get started with a brand new workout program, one thing that you may be thinking about is whether you should invest in a fitness club membership, or whether you would be better off doing home fitness training. There are pros and cons of each and in order to really get the…
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Workout Sheets for Weight Lifters
Monday morning you walk into the gym. Chest day? Back day? Or maybe legs? How much weight did I use last week? What exercises did I use last week? How many sets and reps? Maybe you can remember, maybe you can’t. Bottom line is it’s important to know what you’ve done previously and what you …
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5 Factors Influencing Sports Performance
Every athlete at every level of sport is always looking to improve sport performance. Some factors that influence sports performance can be improved while other cannot. To improve sport performance one needs to look at 5 influencing factors. Body proportions, skills training, strength, flexibility and endurance. These five factors will influence what sport you play,…
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Fitness Face Off: Insanity Workout versus P90X
Two popular programs in the fitness industry right now are the INSANITY® conditioning program and the Power 90 Extreme (P90X®) home exercise system. As with most structured systems, both are effective, but the question of which is better is determined by the individual. What are your goals? What is your body type? How much time…
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Choosing and Using the Right Exercise Ball
There have been thousands of fitness products over the years. Most of them waste away after a few months but sometimes one comes along that actually works and is backed up by science. One such product that has been around since 1963 in the exercise swiss ball. It was developed by an Italian plastics manufacturer…
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How to Deadlift Properly
The deadlift is known as one of the most efficient exercises of all time. This is because the exercise targets nearly all of the major muscles in the body. It primarily targets the hamstrings, your quads, the lower back, the shoulders, the arms and your very core.
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Must Have Weight Training Equipment for Every Muscle in Your Body
Weight training equipment encompasses both traditional free weights and the machines that have arisen to supplement and replace them in the past half century. Let’s say we want to make a simple yet effective home gym, what do we need? There are some pieces of equipment we could do without and still work, if not…
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Weight Lifting Routines for Beginners
Beginners will most likely say the same thing when you ask them what muscle group they would like to develop the most. You’ll certainly get answers like the chest, the shoulders and the arms even the muscles of the back. There are different exercises out there that you can perform in order to help build…
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The Right Exercise Machine for Cardio
Generally there is no shortage of exercise machines in the gym. You’ll see rows and rows of equipment when you walk in. Ellipticals, treadmills, upright bikes, recumbent bikes, stairmasters, step mills and even rowing machines. Yet, when it comes to performing your cardio workout, which one is the right one for you? The right exercise…
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Exercises for Physical Fitness
Physical fitness has always been associated with exercise, weight lifting, proper diet and nutrition, as well as ample rest to recover from the daily stresses that the human body receives daily. It has always been defined as an overall ability to perform routine tasks or exercise related activities within a certain level. Once it has…
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Effective Pull Up Bar Workouts
One of the best exercises for strengthening and building over all back development is the pull up bar exercise. These exercises are actually simple but difficult exercises that you can perform with just the presence of simple pull up bar equipment. If you haven’t still included pull ups or chin ups in your current workout…
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The Why and How of Hiring a Personal Trainer
Improving one’s health and wellness can be intimidating, even daunting, to those individuals with little to no history of physical activity, perhaps lacking education in the sciences of nutrition and exercise, and even needing basic confidence. Enter the personal trainer! Nevertheless, personal trainers aren’t just for beginners. Experienced participants can benefit from the alternative or…
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Endurance Training for Beginners
Endurance Endurance training focuses on the cardiovascular (i.e., heart, arteries, veins, and capillaries) and respiratory (i.e., lungs) system. Improving one’s endurance means improving your body’s ability to capture and deliver large quantities of oxygenated blood (and remove metabolic wastes) over extended periods. There are many options for endurance training from which the beginner can choose:…
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7 Best Abdominal Exercises You Should Try
Abdominal exercises have gone far from being just exercises performed for aesthetic, bodybuilding reasons to functional purposes that mimic sports related movements for better performance in sports and different activities. Core exercises have taken much of the workout programs out there today for one apparent reason. A good core helps you lift more, move…
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Get in Shape With Weight Lifting
If you’re looking to get in shape, it’s vital that you take into account the best exercises to help you reach this goal. Sadly, when many people set the goal to get in shape, the first thing they do is gravitate to all the cardio machines in the gym. They figure that the best way…
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Exercises for the Obliques
Nearly everyone is familiar with the “six pack” portion of our abdominals, i.e., the rectus abdominus; but, right next door in the shadow of the six pack are external and internal (abdominal) obliques and the tranverse abdominals (tranversalis) on the sides of the waist and wrapping horizontally around the torso from front to back and…
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Use These Meditation Techniques to Keep on Going
While a little stress keeps us focused and motivated, too much is debilitating and depressing. Stress is a sense of urgency originating in the primal fight-or-flight response. The chemical overload of high, ongoing stress from work to exercise drains our nervous system, saps our energy levels, and can overwhelm us. To calm down and purge…
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How to Run Faster
In every sport you play there is one skill that will put you a level above the rest of the competition. Speed. If you can run faster than your opponent can, you’re going to have a significant advantage over your opponent. For years it was thought that speed was a genetic trait you were either…
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5 Benefits of High Intensity Sprinting
As you go about your workout program, one of the main things that you should be focusing on is adding some high intensity sprinting into the mix. Whether you are looking to lose body fat, improve your physical conditioning level, or simply improve your health, sprinting offers numerous benefits that you need to be aware…
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