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  • 5 Benefits Of Exercise You Didn’t Know

    5 Benefits Of Exercise You Didn’t Know

    As you go about getting started with a brand new workout program, chances are you are primarily considered about the aesthetic benefits of exercise. You want a lean stomach. You want firmer thighs.

  • Breathing Exercises for Concentration and Motivation

    Breathing Exercises for Concentration and Motivation

    Concentration and motivation are two big-time elements of any fitness pursuit. Breathing, of all things, more deliberately and deeply can improve physical performance, focus, and mental clarity.

  • Inspirational Quotes from Olympic Athletes

    Inspirational Quotes from Olympic Athletes

    The state of mind of elite athletes is a huge part of their athletic achievement. Can we gain something from their words? Absolutely! Let’s consider attitude, effort, fulfillment, preparation, commitment, and more through some truly inspirational quotes.

  • Moms Preaching Fitness: The New Breed of Bullies

    Moms Preaching Fitness: The New Breed of Bullies

    Point out the dangers of smoking, excessive drinking or inadequate sleep, and nobody will blast you for being a “hater” or “bully,” but heaven forbid if you point out the dangers of being fat—as Maria Kang, the “Fitness Mom,” has done.

  • Want Fit Kids? Moms Should Move More.

    Want Fit Kids? Moms Should Move More.

    If you want your children to “go outside and play,” maybe you should join them, suggests a new study. For this study, 554 women, and their four-year-olds, were fitted with an Actiheart monitor (combo accelerometer and heart rate monitor), which measures with a high degree of accuracy one’s physical movement.

  • 7 Reasons to Workout with Your Girlfriend/Wife

    7 Reasons to Workout with Your Girlfriend/Wife

    Although not many men think of it as being a good decision, working out with the person you love is the best thing you can do. Usually men think that taking their girlfriends or wives with them to train is a bad choice, but in reality, doing this is only an advantage for your relationship.

  • Peak Weak for Bikini and Figure Competitors

    Peak Weak for Bikini and Figure Competitors

    Peak week for bikini and figure competitors is different than a typical bodybuilding or physique competitor. During a bodybuilding competition it is vital that your muscle glycogen levels are filled out completely and your conditioning is at its peak with maximum vascularity.

  • 3 Reasons to Workout with Someone You Love – A Woman’s Perspective

    3 Reasons to Workout with Someone You Love – A Woman’s Perspective

    Working out is one of the best healthy choices you can make. The problem is that most of us find this type of commitment difficult. If we do find the strength to enter the gym, we still have the issue of pushing ourselves to workout.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 9 Benefits of Having a Fitness Partner

    Working out alone is a good thing but having a workout partner is better. Having a fitness partner helps you stay fit, reach your goals, motivate you and double your gains since you and your partner will build muscle, endurance and maintain it as well. Read on and hopefully you will be more than eager…

  • Do I Really Need a Fitness Instructor?

    Whether an individual wants to lose weight, gain muscle, or just get fit, enlisting the services of a fitness instructor is a worthy consideration for a variety of reasons. Novice exercisers may need a supervised program to ensure safety, but more importantly results. For others, a fitness instructor may provide the needed motivation and accountability…

  • Weider Principles for Successful Training

    There’s always that very moment in every fitness enthusiast when the results just stop on coming, you come into a plateau and the muscle building process becomes stagnant. One of the reasons why this phenomenon happens is when you fail to inject something new into your program design or workout. One of the best ways…

  • Workout Motivation Tips To Keep You Going

    Workout Motivation Tips To Keep You Going

    Whether you’re just getting started with your workout plan or you’re someone who’s been hitting the gym for months, if there’s one thing that you need to make sure you’re staying on top of, keeping yourself interested in the workout is it.