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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Here are the Top Exercises You Should Avoid
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Getting out of bed, or off the couch is great in any way, shape or form. Exercise is beneficial to your overall health by giving you:
Read MoreBad knees? Try these exercise modifications.
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If you have problematic knees there’s no need to skip leg day, you can get a workout in without the pain that you think you have to endure. Try these modifications of some of the classics:
Read MoreThe key to green arrow abs
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Why go through the trouble? The salmon ladder exercise is among the most time efficient exercises you can train with for working all the muscles of your core and upper body.
Read More12 Step Program to Health
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The popularity of yoga in the West continues to grow. From busy moms through NFL wide receivers, people looking for a challenging yet tranquil workout are turning to yoga.
Read MoreBurn 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 MoreBest Exercise for losing weight
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The best type of exercise for weight loss is definitely something that fitness experts haven’t agreed on yet. Some people stress the importance of resistance exercise, while others say that endurance training is the bound to expend the most energy thereby better for weight loss. Some use heart rate as the primary calorie burning factor, while others use basal metabolic rate (BMR) to track weight loss training. Resistance training is said to increase BMR for up to 2 days after exercise which means your body is working long after you are not.
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.
Read MoreFood fallacies – separating fact from fiction on physical activity/exercise
/Nutrition, physical activity and exercise go hand-in-hand impacting each other. When we’re physically active, our bodies require the calorie-yielding nutrients of carbohydrates, protein and fat to fuel our ability to move, build new muscle tissue and supply vitamins and minerals helping regulate various functions.
Read MoreExercise Tips for Beginners
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1. Stretching matters
If you are new to a workout routine, you might not realize the benefits of flexibility training or stretching. The mentality is, ‘why am I wasting my time stretching when I can be sweating?’ The reality is that stretching is still a workout. Over time, due to both age and inactivity, muscles, joints and tendons in our body shorten. Stretching lengthens these tissues and allows to body to achieve a better range of motion. Better range of motions mean your body is capable of more advanced physical trials.
2. Even experts should warm up
All it take is 5 minutes to increase your body temperature and warm up your muscles. Studies have shown that this quick heart rate and temperature increases, decreases your risk of injury. Exercising too hard and too soon, before your body is ready, increases the likelihood of injury which can have you sitting the bench, so to speak, for much longer than the warm-up would have been. To clarify, warming up is not the same as stretching, so don’t confuse the two.
3. The cooldown matters too
Just as a warm up is crucial in preventing injury and prepping your body for the impending strain of exercise, a proper cooldown period is also important. You want to gradually bring your body back to a slower heart rate and a normal breathing pattern. This means if you are running, slowing down to a trot or walk until you even out these physical outputs. Give yourself at least a few minutes to get your body back to normal.
4. Try to create a routine you can stick to
Creating an exercise regimen you can reliably stick to is only going to benefit you in the long run. You don’t need to worry about putting long hours in the gym, or going for 10 mile runs. The best thing you can do for yourself is commit to 30 minutes a day. Building the habit of consistent workouts throughout the week instills good habits, and you are more likely to stick to exercising over a longer amount of time.
5. Don’t over do it
This cannot be stressed enough. As someone new to working out, it can be easy to try to rush results by choosing workouts that are out of your physical scope. Putting in 3 hours on the first day back to working out after 10 years is definitely not the answer. You are setting yourself up for failure. Over doing it can lead to injuries, soreness that lasts for a week and stops you from working out, and overall can be a huge setback for people trying to change their lifestyle.
Here'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 More3 steps to successfully maintaining weight loss
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The conundrum of maintaining long-term weight loss is well documented. People who have lost weight only to regain it back know all too well that losing weight is actually easier than maintaining the weight loss. That’s why people who have lost weight and have been successful in keeping the weight off, have been studied to figure out what are they doing to achieve the accomplishment of not regaining the weight back.
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 More7 Healthy Reasons to Embrace 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 here are 7 you may not have thought of yet.
Read MoreThe Swimming Routine For Everyone
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High-intensity interval training is by far the healthiest and best way to workout for most people. What are the options for this type of workout? Of course, you can run, bike and hit the weight room but there still continues to be the best workout possible and that's swimming. Swimming is cardio, strength, HIIT, and flexibility all wrapped up in one workout. Plus, even more importantly, swimming is restorative, meaning you can swim day after day and now suffer from overuse injuries. Are you yawning at the thought of simple swim laps. Here are 8 swimming workouts to try.
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 MoreThe Simplest Bodyweight Workout
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Athletes are not the only ones who should do bodyweight workouts. Bodyweight workouts are great for on the go and help keep you fit but if you're not interested in bulking up this is for you. With a little space and your body weight, and any small free weights you have (if you want), you can get a full body workout without stepping foot into a weight room.
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.
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