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4 Reasons Why Taking Protein During Your Strength Training Workouts Increases Your Chances Of Success
If you’ve just started to get involved with strength training workouts, one thing that you’ve likely heard before is the fact that adding some protein to your diet right before, immediately after, and during your workout session is a great way to see faster success.
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Types of Exercise Induced Hernias
If you have ever experienced a hernia, you know how painful and sometimes debilitating it can be. Hernias can occur in different places in the body, and they have a variety of causes. But did you know that certain exercises you perform may predispose you to a potential hernia?
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Recommendations For How Much Fiber Per Day You Should Intake
You may have heard it all before that fiber is an essential aspect of nutrition in which it aids in regular flushing of wastes in the body. It also helps lower fat, cholesterol and harmful toxins which may aggravate certain conditions.
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Inversion Therapy Benefits
If you have ever visited a chiropractor or alternative health specialist in the hopes of alleviating chronic or acute back pain, you’ve likely been told about inversion therapy.
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Pilates Reformer: How It Can Help Your Workout
When Joseph Pilates created his unique brand of exercise there no way he could have known how successful it would become. Now some 80-odd years later, Pilates is one of the most popular forms of exercise around the world. But there is often some confusion about which method is the most beneficial – mat or…
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The Benefits of Morning Exercise
Finding the time to exercise is not always easy and it is all too easy to procrastinate and put it off. By exercising in the morning you can put a stop to the many reasons to avoid exercise later in the day and set yourself up for a great day full of energy.
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Detoxifying Diets for Weight Loss
Americans love fads, especially diet fads. One of the latest crazes is adopting a temporary, detoxifying (detox) diet to rid our bodies of toxins to affect weight loss.
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What Do Nitric Oxide Supplements Do For My Workout?
If you’re looking to maximize the results that you get from each workout session you perform in the gym, looking into nitric oxide supplementation may be a wise thing to consider.
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Cardio Kickboxing Conditioning
Cardio Kickboxing is a combination of martial arts such as karate, Muay Thai, boxing and aerobics performed rhythmically with music. It is also referred to as aerobic kickboxing.
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Carbohydrates and Weight Lifting: Why it is Beneficial to Eat Carbs After a Workout
Weight lifting is a fantastic way to build muscle and strength, tone and define, and increase weight loss. But like all exercise, it requires fuel and energy to not only complete a workout but to repair the body in preparation for your next training session.
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Why You Need Red Meat as Muscle Food
The key to weight gain is a calorie surplus achieved through diet in cooperation with activity levels. The metabolic process of using energy to construct complex molecules from simpler ones in the synthesis of needed compounds and tissues is called anabolism.
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Is Creatine Safe?
The compound creatine is a naturally occurring organic acid; it’s found in red meat and fish. This fact alone doesn’t mean it’s safe; but, it is reassuring to know that it’s not a wild concoction of a mad scientist.
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