Effective Workouts for Weight Loss and Muscle Toning

Gym workouts for losing weight fast often incorporate opposing muscle supersets and high-toning movements like scissor kicks. Learn why you might feel nausea after exercise and how to safely resume training following surgery.

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What Are the Average Miles You Ride in a 60 Minute Spin Class?

You can sweat it out on a Spin class stationary bike that literally goes nowhere. You can simulate riding over hills and flat roads, or riding through winds, all with the turn of a knob that changes the resistance of your ride. You'll also pile on some cycling miles, just like you would on the open road.

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Should I Exercise 5 Days a Week?

Exercise promotes good health and weight maintenance. How much you choose to exercise depends on your goals, schedule and priorities.

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How Fast Am I Going if I Ran at 5.0 on a Treadmill for One Mile?

Knowing your pace in minutes per mile can help you estimate how long it might take you to cover a specific distance. Most treadmill models will tell you how fast you are going in terms of miles per hour (mph), but won't tell you the equivalent minutes-per-mile pace.

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Eating Brown Rice After a Workout

Eating right after a workout or training session is essential in maximizing your recovery. For high-intensity, long-lasting cardio workout, such as a long cycling training session or a 10-mile run, post-exercise carbohydrates are critical.

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How to Drink Muscle Milk After Working Out

Muscle Milk is a supplemental protein drink marketed by Cytosport, and drinking it immediately after working out is recommended for maximum benefits. It comes in a powdered mix or ready-to-drink bottles and cartons. Cytosport maintains that the product provides energy, lean muscle growth and exercise recovery.

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About Spotting After Exercise

Any irregularity in a woman's period can be disturbing and cause alarm. Spotting after strenuous exercise is usually not a signal of anything serious. For the most part, health professionals do not worry about an occasional missed period or breakthrough bleeding.

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List of Foods to Eat When Working Out

Regardless of whether you work out to lose weight, build muscle, enhance health or compete in sports, what you eat before, during and after a workout affects your results. Ideally, you fuel properly to perform at your best without feeling weak, sluggish or nauseous.

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What Are the Different Types of Circuit Training?

Circuit training involves moving from one exercise to another in quick succession. A circuit typically consists of five to 10 exercises performed for 30 to 90 seconds each. You can create a circuit to meet almost any exercise goal.

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What Are the Benefits of Stair Climbing?

Climbing stairs often is recommended as a weight loss strategy. Stair climbing also has become a competitive sport. The number of races up the stairwells in some of the tallest buildings in North America doubled from 1999 to 2007, according to a report by Columbia News Service.

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