Sports & Fitness: Performance Training, Rules & Recovery

Elite athletic performance and general fitness are sustained through structured hypertrophy strategies, sport-specific conditioning, and rigorous adherence to injury prevention protocols.

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List of Illegal Golf Club Drivers

Golf drivers must conform to specific dimensions in terms of length, weight and head volume. Club materials are also restricted to avoid any undue advantage, such as an excessive spring effect.

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The Average Walking Stride Length

Walking is a convenient and effective fitness activity that most people can participate in. Although more advanced pedometers calculate distance, the basic devices only provide total steps. If you know a person's average stride length, you can convert steps into approximate distance.

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Top 15 CrossFit Bodyweight Exercises You Can Do at Home

The human body is capable of incredible feats. We can jump, lift, run, walk, carry children, pick up groceries -- and the list goes on and on. But in order to complete those feats safely, you need to learn to move and train more functionally.

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10 Ways to Get Back on the Fitness Wagon

The only thing harder than starting a new exercise program is getting back to it after a long hiatus. Working hard during the first half of the year might prepare you for swimsuit season, but if the most strenuous thing you do all summer involves unfolding a beach chair, you need a plan.

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What Is a Thruster Exercise?

Exercises can be categorized as isolation or compound. An isolation exercise involves movement around a single joint and targets a relatively small number of muscles. A compound exercise involves movement around two or more joints and targets a large number of muscles.

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How to Get Ripped in 90 Days

Getting ripped in 90 days is possible, depending on how much fat you have to burn and how much work you're willing to put in.

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How to Get Eight-Pack Abs Fast

How to Get 8-Pack Abs Fast

Eight pack abs require extremely low body fat, lean muscle, and well-defined abs. Here's how to diet down and reveal your eight pack abs.

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10 Upper-Body Exercise Swaps to Amp Up Your Results

The old saying, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result” also pertains to your workouts. Over time, your muscles adapt to the same old routine. That means you can get better gains from changing things up.

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How to Build Dense Muscle

We all have our reasons for going to the gym. And muscle hypertrophy, or growth, is one of the main ones. To build lean, dense muscle, you must progressively overload your muscles to enhance muscle fiber recruitment. How do you do that?

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