Category: Blog
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Should You Practice Yoga Before or After a Workout?
Take a deep breath in through your nose and release it out through your mouth. Feel the earth beneath your feet and the sky overhead. Feeling better already? Yoga has been practiced in many forms …
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Anaerobic vs. Aerobic Exercise: What’s Best for You
What type of exercise is best for me? This is the fundamental question of fitness, but the answer can be difficult to find. When you step inside the gym, should you start throwing weights on …
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How to Become More Flexible: 10 Stretches to Improve Flexibility
It’s always been equal parts fun, fascinating, and a little shocking to watch a contortionist perform at an acrobatics show. However, you don’t need to be able to flip your feet over your head to …
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How to Build Endurance and Increase Stamina
Do you have that friend who has run a marathon or maybe even several of them? It may seem impossible that anyone can run or walk for 26 miles over a single stretch of time, …
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The Best HIIT Workouts to Burn Calories & Build Muscle
Who doesn’t want to burn away extra fat and build some nice lean muscle before the weather warms up? Fortunately, you don’t have to quit your job or cancel on your family and friends to …
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The Best Cardio Workouts for Weight Loss
A recent Gallup Poll found that over 50% of Americans would like to lose weight. Cardio workouts, along with the right nutritional choices, can be a great tool to burn calories, slim down, and live …
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Five Full-Body Kettlebell Workouts
No doubt you’ve noticed the neat row of kettlebells lined up in the free weight section of your gym. Some exercisers may feel intimidated by the big hunks of metal attached to a handle, while …
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How to Build a Circuit Training Workout Routine
Unbeatable Circuit Training Workouts for the Gym and Home Are you looking for a fast, challenging, and full-body workout that can be endlessly customized to make sure you never get bored? Then it’s time to …
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From Beginner to Advanced – All the Squat Variations You Need to Know
“Fifty squats a day keeps the doctor away – Seriously.” So says sports therapist Dr. Christopher Stepien in an article for The Active Fitness. Dr. Stepien is onto something. Squats are a foundational fitness movement …
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Powerlifting Training for Beginners
Perhaps you’ve walked into a gym, watched a muscle-bound dude lift a stupendously heavy barbell from the ground, and thought, that was beautiful. That was powerlifting. If you want to become strong enough to be …