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.

Having Toned Body Requires Hard Work

Women's Kettlebell Workouts to Lose Belly Fat

Kettlebell exercises are great for an intense full-body workout to build strength and muscle tone, burn calories and lose weight, including belly fat. In order to shed fat, strive to exercise regularly, eat a balanced diet and reduce calorie intake so that you burn more calories than you consume.

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The Latissimus Dorsi & Pushups

Many people think that pushups help to strengthen the "lats," or latissimus dorsi muscles, since pushups involve the upper body. However, pushups do not affect the lats. Pushups are however, an excellent exercise to strengthen your upper body parts.

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How to Get in Shape After a Long Period of Inactvity

Inactivity breeds complacency. Dropping onto your couch after a long day at work has become a comfortable habit. And, even though you know you should get in shape, it’s tough to overcome the mental resistance. Exercise takes work and discipline.

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The Effects of Eating Junk Food on Exercising

If you are trying to keep up a healthy, active lifestyle you will want to eliminate junk food from your diet. If you eat it once in a while, as a “treat,” you probably won’t suffer any consequences. If junk food is your regular choice, however, or if you eat it before your workout, you might end up paying the price.

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I'm Shaking After a Workout

Shaking or trembling after a workout might be cause for alarm, but in many cases, the problem is due to something simple, such as fatigue or malnourishment. Taking measures before and after working out can help prevent the shaking in many cases, and it is often easily treatable when it occurs.

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Leg Strengthing Exercises After Being Bedridden

Physicians prescribe bed rest at times when getting out of bed or bearing weight on your legs is detrimental to your health. You may be prescribed bed rest for a variety of issues such as suffering from severe illness, extreme hypertension -- high blood pressure -- or a fractured pelvis.

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How to Lose Spare Tire Belly

If you've reached the point at which you're forced to extend your neck just to see past your belly to read the bathroom scale, your body's sending you a clear sign that you need to change. However, It's impossible to exclusively burn fat from your belly.

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How to Do the Clean and Jerk Exercise

Olympic lifting is used by powerlifters, athletes and recreational exercisers to develop total-body fitness, including strength, power, speed, flexibility and coordination. One of the most common Olympic lifts is the clean and jerk -- a complex movement that combines the clean and the jerk into one exercise.

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How Soon After Pregnancy Can I Start Bikram Yoga?

Bikram hot yoga, the strenuous, 26-posture series introduced to the U.S. by Bikram Choudhury, requires yogis to practice in a room heated to about 105 degrees. Pregnant women can and do perform Bikram yoga right up to their delivery dates using posture modifications.

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Sore Muscles & Prednisone

Steroids, such as prednisone, have an important side effect in muscle deterioration. Associated with this are both acute and chronic steroid-induced myopathy. However, steroids also have powerful anti-inflammatory effects, and are therefore used in some autoimmune diseases that affect muscles.

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What Kinds of Exercises Are Considered Low-Intensity?

Find out what kinds of exercises are considered low-intensity and how you can measure the intensity of a workout. Learn why low-intensity exercise is beneficial, especially for beginners or those with chronic health conditions.

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Burning Belly Fat: Run or Walk?

Burning Belly Fat: Run or Walk?

Add any exercise activity to help improve your health. When you want to lose belly fat, though, running is superior to walking.

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Super-Easy Gym Workout Plan to Lose Weight for a Woman

Women looking to lose weight need the help of easy gym workouts to achieve their goals. Easy gym workouts help women who are just getting started stay motivated. Easy workouts also work for women who have limited time to spend at the gym and need the most bang for their workout buck.

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Typical 10K Times of a Runner or Jogger

A 10K refers to a 10-kilometer distance for runners, usually indicating a race distance. Runners or elite athletes will complete the 6.2-mile race in 30 minutes or less, meaning they are running about a five-minute-mile pace or faster.

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How to Not Feel Exhausted After Workouts

You know that exercise is an essential component of a healthy lifestyle -- but when your daily workout leaves you spent and unable to do anything else the rest of the day, you might consider quitting exercise all together. Don't give up on working out, however.

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Do Lunges Strengthen Hamstrings?

To perform a lunge, you step forward from a standing position with one leg, bending both knees so that the trailing knee lines up under your hip, and then push back to return to the starting position.

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Scapular Retraction Exercises for Posture

Scapular retraction is an integral component of good trunk posture. If your scapular retractors are weak, your shoulders will hunch forward and add strain to your thoracic spine. Completing simple scapular retraction exercises can strengthen your muscles and improve your posture.

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