Fitness Mastery: Hypertrophy, HIIT & Running Optimization

Comprehensive fitness involves a mix of strength training for hypertrophy, HIIT for metabolic health, and corrective exercises for postural alignment.

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Exercises for Contracted Muscles Behind the Knee

Hamstrings and calf muscles are directly behind your knee. Contracted muscles result from tension and can cause muscle cramps. Stretching is needed to reduce the contraction and increase the flexibility of these muscles. Range of motion exercises, or stretching, assist in warming up your muscles.

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Normal Breathing Rate for a Teenager

Breathing rate, also known as a respiratory rate, is the number of breaths that you take per minute at rest. Breathing rate is a general indicator of the health of your lungs and cardiovascular system. It changes very rapidly in response to excitement and stress, for example, during physical exercise.

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Exercises to Reduce Stomach Sagging

Having a sagging stomach means you also have weak abdominal muscles. These consist of the transversus abdominis, rectus abdominis and obliques, which are on your sides. Tone and tighten these muscles by doing focused exercises with the weight of your body and some fitness tools.

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How to Get a Man Addicted to You

To get a man addicted to you, you need to stimulate the parts of his brain that trigger craving and longing and engage in activities that release habit-forming, feel-good chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

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How to Lose Weight with Trampoline Jumping

The spring generated while jumping on a trampoline can give you the feeling of soaring through the air. If you've ever watched children jumping on a trampoline, you know how much laughter results from the experience. It's almost like witnessing pure joy.

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The Best Calf Exercises for Women

The calf is composed of two major muscles: the gastrocnemius, a large muscle located near the top of the calf, and the soleus, a smaller muscle on the inside of the calf. Most women want these muscles to be toned so they can have shapely, attractive calves.

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Tummy Tuck Exercises

Tummy Tuck Exercises

Many of the results of an actual tummy tuck can be achieved through exercise and diet. If you’ve had abdominoplasty, it’s important to maintain those results.

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How to Keep Fit When Using Crutches

After an injury or surgery, crutches may be necessary to reduce the weight you place on your injured foot, knee, leg or hip. While crutches and your injury may keep you from doing your regular workout routine, they do not need to keep you inactive.

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Knee Strengthening Exercises Done Sitting in a Chair

Strong knees are important for athletes and non-athletes alike. Your knees are supported primarily by your quadriceps and hamstrings, but your calf muscles and hip adductors and abductors also play a role in knee stability. Strengthening these muscles is a critical part of protecting your knees from injury and pain.

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How to Get Fit in 10 Days

You've got a few pounds to lose, but climbing the stairs leaves you winded -- and your military fitness test, a hot date or your high-school reunion is only 10 days away. Getting into tip-top shape simply isn't possible in such a short time.

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The Best Walking Shoes for Flat Feet

"Flat feet" is a popular reference term for the medical condition describing feet with collapsed arches. Flat-footedness is caused either by the body’s inability to develop arches or by weak muscles that fail to maintain arches.

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How to Train for the 400-Meter Dash

The 400-meter dash is a challenging event that requires an athlete to possess both a high level of speed and specific conditioning. The 400-meter race requires contributions largely from the anaerobic glycolytic system, which produces large amounts of metabolic waste products that ultimately lead to the "burning"

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How to Build a Gymnast Body

Gymnasts look like bodybuilders. Gymnasts have very defined muscles and extremely low body fat levels. To build a gymnast's body, you must train in a similar manner. Their size and definition come from their training methods. Gymnasts train for strength, power, balance, coordination, agility and conditioning.

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Why Am I Always Sleepy & Tired?

Being tired after a long day or heavy exercise is normal. Being sleepy and tired all the time, especially for no apparent reason, can indicate a more serious problem or an underlying chronic disease.

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How to Lose a Double Chin Fast

A double chin occurs when the platysma muscle becomes slack and loses mass. This can make you appear to be middle aged, and also rather unhealthy. Obesity can contribute to a double chin, and losing weight can help.

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What Benefits Will I Get From Using an Air Walker?

Air walkers closely resemble elliptical trainers. The air walker simulates a walking or jogging motion with pedals that travel in a smooth, arched path. Unlike elliptical trainers, which often have many different resistance levels and incline settings, air walkers typically function at one standard setting.

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How Do Antibodies Work?

When the body is exposed to a pathogen, like a virus, the immune system creates antibodies against the pathogen. Those antibodies stay in the blood. The next time the body is exposed to that pathogen, the antibodies attack it before it can make us sick.

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