What are the best foods for flat abs?
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Belly fat is known to be a barometer for many chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and can increase your risk for stroke as well.
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Burn Calories Faster By Working Out a Resistance Band
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Here are some great exercises, proposed by the fitness experts at SELF magazine, to try using the resistance band to get a jumpstart on your new year’s fitness goals:
Read MorePerfect pre- and post-workout snacks for anyone
/Your pre- and post-workout food choices can make a big difference in what you achieve in terms of muscle mass. Even though intense workouts are still the main driver of developing a muscular physique, what you eat before and after exercise is the spark fueling this process.
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/Protein is an essential compound in every single one of the trillions of cells in the human body. Proteins are large molecules consisting of amino acids helping the cells to function properly and account for about 20% of our total body weight
Read MoreHere's Your Exercise Routine...for Work?
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One of the biggest issues facing us as a modern society is that our lives revolve around sedentary activities. Driving, lengthy commutes, our office jobs, TV and movies. Everything is done sitting down. According to the WHO (World Health Organization) physical inactivity is the 4th leading cause of death globally. Prolonged sitting will also increase the risk of type 2 diabetes by 90%.
Read MoreWhy physical fitness is not all about weight loss
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Americans are stuck. Whether we’re stuck in a physical cubicle or a mental rut, we’ve lost our enthusiasm for bodily movement. Despite the joy we felt as children, our days filled with imaginary play, tree climbing and jump rope are long gone. Most of us can think back to high school and college days where we chose to participate in a sports or intramural team. We probably did these activities because we enjoyed the camaraderie, had fun, and maybe we were even good at them. These reasons were reinforced through the bonds we formed with our teammates, and improvements made in our physical fitness. Even during our biggest moments of doubt, we had the support and encouragement of our parents, coaches and friends to keep us motivated.
Read More10 Tips For Your Morning Workout
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If you're one of those people who has embraced the morning workout routine, kudos! But are you longing for the days when every time you worked out, you felt fresh and rejuvenated? Exercise is incredibly important for our overall health and losing weight If you're at the point when exercise is part of your daily routine (good for you!), but feeling like you're not getting the maximum benefits out of your workout, here are 7 tips to boost it.
Read More7 Secrets to Burn More Fat While Running
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Running is probably mankind’s oldest physical endeavor. Good ol` fashion running still matters. Even further, this summer when you're on vacation, running on the sand will boost your calorie burn rate. Running on the sand makes your body have to work twice as hard to get over it. You expend at least 150% more energy and burn more calories running on sand than on hard surfaces—and it actually makes you faster. Everyone understands the obvious benefits of running but did you know there's ways to burn more fat?
Read MoreHIIT: The Best Workout Approach
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Over the last decade, interval training has been believed to be the best workout for most people. As the go-to fitness routine, interval training improves strength and endurance over moderate-intensity steady-state cardiovascular exercise. Study after study has shown that interval training, particularly high-intensity interval training (HIIT) is the gold standard for rapid results in speed, strength and endurance, be it from running, cycling, weight training or using cardio machines at your gym.
Read More5 Workout Moves For A Flatter Stomach
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For many people, the waist is often the first place excess fat goes. Unfortunately, it is also one of the hardest areas on our bodies to lose weight. Having a “muffin top” is not only unappealing, but it is also unhealthy to have on our bodies. In fact, having excess belly, or abdominal, fat is worse than having excess fat on most other places on our body. Belly fat or visceral fat is a huge proponent of chronic diseases like heart disease and diabetes and can even bring on stroke. Here are 5 tips to help get rid of that belly fat.
Read MoreTRX: Latest Workout Trend?
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A new workout trend is hitting gyms everywhere. Enter, the TRX suspension-training system. It increases the effectiveness on virtually ever exercise known. Why? Because it requires you to not only work against your body weight and gravity, but it forces you to constantly keep yourself stabilized. Adding tension like this to any move is going to up the ante. Every single move is a core exercise without you having to really think about it.
Read MoreThe Secret To Getting To The Gym
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You know the feeling, you just cannot bring yourself to get to the gym or start your workout when the 5 a.m. alarm goes off. We talked about a recent study that showed the best way to instill exercise as a real habit in your life. Study published in journal, Health Psychology. Researchers found most consistent exercisers made exercise into a specific type of habit. Usually one triggered by a cue like hearing the morning alarm, going to the gym without even thinking about it or getting stressed and immediately deciding to exercise. Scientists wanted to see whether this type of habit known as instigation habit was better than another type of habit, when it comes to predicting who stuck with a month of exercise.
Read MoreNew Study: Here’s how to really make exercise a habit
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New study shows the best way to instill exercise as a real habit in your life · Study published in journal, Health Psychology. Researchers found most consistent exercisers made exercise into a specific type of habit. Usually one triggered by a cue like hearing the morning alarm, going to the gym without even thinking about it or getting stressed and immediately deciding to exercise · Scientists wanted to see whether this type of habit known as instigation habit was better than another type of habit, when it comes to predicting who stuck with a month of exercise ·
Read MoreModerate Exercise Wins
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Experts are saying slow down for more results, whether you're looking to lose weight or tone up. Moderate exercise has increasingly been shown to have a tremendous amount of benefits not to mention a long-lasting effect. We explore.
Read More7 Weight Loss Myths
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Some of these may shock you and some you may already know. The truth is weight loss doesn't have one simple formula. Everyone's body is different and you need to find what works for you. But rest assured, these are myths.
Read MoreHow To Fight Weight Loss Plateaus
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A few weeks back we touched on the debate of eating the same thing every day. This ties in with weight loss plateau as well because most nutritionists will say that eating the same thing everyday for weight loss isn't the best approach. Here are other things you can do to fight weight loss plateau.
Read MoreHow to boost your fitness results
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Are you longing for the days when every time you worked out, you felt fresh and rejuvenated? Exercise is incredibly important for our overall health and losing weight If you're at the point when exercise is part of your daily routine (good for you!), but feeling like you're not getting the maximum benefits out of your workout, here are 7 tips to boost it.
Read MoreWorking out but NOT losing weight? Here's why
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We all struggle to lose weight but do you workout all the time and still see very little results? We uncover this health mystery.
Read More8 Bad Habits that Give You Belly Fat
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Having excess belly, or abdominal, fat is worse than having excess fat on most other places on our body. Read on for what you need to know and how to finally lose it.
Read MoreTips for easy weight loss
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 1.6 billion adults worldwide are either overweight or obese.
They project that in just three years, this number will increase to approximately 2.3 billion adults. The WHO further reports that, “44 percent of diabetes, 23 percent of ischemic heart disease and 7 to 41 percent of certain cancers are attributable to overweight and obesity.”
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