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Stair Climber Workouts
Why Stairs? Stair climbing is a serious workout with the potential for aerobic and anaerobic benefit. It can develop size, strength, and endurance in the muscles of the hips and legs, from the glutes to the hamstrings and quadriceps down to the calves. Depending on the rise height from step to step, the number of…
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Upper Body Ergometer Workout
Upper body ergometers (or arm ergometers as they are more commonly known) are an excellent way of building strength and fitness. Ergometers can be used as a warm up to your resistance training workout or can be used as a cardio workout. How you use an ergometer is up to you but one thing’s for…
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Range of Motion and Squat Flexibility for Greater Gains
Range of motion is a crucial aspect of your training program. Using improper form and cheating yourself of full range of motion within an exercise will simply rob you of the results you are trying to achieve. If you are trying to increase the weight load of your squat, flexibility should never be underestimated when…
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The Skinny Guy’s Guide to Building Muscle Mass
The skinny guy or a hard gainer’s common question when it comes to muscle building or bodybuilding always revolve around sets and reps for mass. When it comes to building muscle, lifting it all out in the gym through endless hours of workouts can be counter-productive. It requires the knowledge that will help gain and…
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Powerlifting Routines
Okay, you have it in mind to try a powerlifting routine; but, you don’t know quite where to start. All you know is you want to get real strong in order to move big weight. You might even have the urge to compete. So, what is powerlifting anyway? Isn’t that the same thing as weightlifting?…
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Treadmill Workouts for Great Lungs and a Mighty Heart
Old school, competitive runners generally prefer the outdoors for scenic beauty, sunshine and fresh air, variable conditions that test our spirit and adaptability, camaraderie of fellow enthusiasts, and practical locomotion to common destinations. With so many seeming advantages, why would anyone choose to do a treadmill workout when they can go outside? Simple: it can…
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Increase Calories Burned Weight Lifting – Important Facts To Consider
One thing that you might be wondering as you go about your workout program is with regards to the calories burned weight lifting. While doing cardio you can get a rough estimation of your total calorie burn from looking down at the machine readouts, but when doing your weight lifting, you have nothing to go…
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Choreographing Step Aerobics Routines
Step aerobics classes have been in gyms and fitness centers since the late ‘80s-early ‘90s and are very popular. One of the benefits of step aerobics routines is that they provide a high intensity workout at a low impact level. Also, participating (not to mention instructing) a step aerobics class is the equivalent to jogging at a…
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7 Medicine Ball Exercises to Build Your Core Muscles
Medicine ball training is one of the most efficient training routines that develop over-all strength, balance, stability, and speed. One of the highlights of medicine ball routines are the medicine ball core exercises. Medicine ball exercises that target the core focus on rotating movements, which implement torso rotation and develop rotational power of the torso…
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Indoor Cycling Routines – What You Should Know
If you’re someone who’s very much into cardiovascular exercise, indoor cycling routines are a great way to stay in shape, enhance your fitness, and reach or maintain your ideal body weight. Many people are quick to run to the treadmill or cross trainer to get in their cardio training, but you can really see numerous…
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The Importance of Mats in Exercises
Mats come in handy throughout the execution of many exercises. Various types of exercise mats exist, and each serves a different purpose. Some mats are to protect the gym floor from heavy weight crashing into it. Others give varying amounts of cushion to protect the body during the exercise. And still others create a non-slip…
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