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Bill Brown
Feb 13, 2019

The Real Reason You Should Warm Up

Too often, athletes show up late to a group workout and just jump in on the fast swimming, running or riding with no warm-up. Others are pinched for time, trying to squeeze a workout into a busy schedule, so they skip the warm-up figuring the main set of the workout is more important anyway. Is

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Bill Brown
Feb 12, 2019

5 Benefits of Weight Training

Many individuals who exercise or are new to the fitness world feel strength training is only associated with more experienced athletes. This couldn’t be further from the truth. There are too many physical, health, and mental benefits to leave strength training out of your workout schedule. Here is why and how you should include this

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Bill Brown
Feb 08, 2019

How to Trick Your Brain into Lifting Heavier Weights

Master your nervous system with wave loading — and make those gains feel easier. It’s been said that being successful at anything is more mental than physical. The same is true with lifting, although we’ll be more specific: It’s neural. Your nervous system controls your muscles, but you control your nervous system. And, if you can trick

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Bill Brown
Feb 07, 2019

Eating the Right Foods for Exercise

Nutrition is important for fitness Eating a well-balanced diet can help you get the calories and nutrients you need to fuel your daily activities, including regular exercise. When it comes to eating foods to fuel your exercise performance, it’s not as simple as choosing vegetables over doughnuts. You need to get the right types of food at

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Bill Brown
Feb 06, 2019

Yoga May Be Good for the Brain

According to a new study of older adults with early signs of memory problems, a weekly routine of yoga and meditation may strengthen thinking skills and help to stave off aging-related mental decline.   Most of us past the age of 40 are aware that our minds and memories begin to sputter as the years pass.

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Bill Brown
Feb 05, 2019

The 6 Best Ways to Recover from Your Workout

We know you’ve been hitting the gym hard and busting it in your training. But spending hours lifting might actually stall your progress. Recovery and rest are essential parts of any strength and conditioning program. Most coaches and trainers would argue it’s just as or more important than the lifting itself. Recovery must occur before

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Bill Brown
Jan 29, 2019

The Best Ways to Burn Fat and Lose Weight

HIIT is going to be your new best friend. If you’ve been exercising regularly, but you’re not shedding pounds as quickly as you’d like, listen up: You may need to rethink your fitness routine and diet. These fat-blasting tips from experts will rev up your metabolism and give you serious results. Step up the intensity. To really blast fat and

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Bill Brown
Jan 23, 2019

How to Combat Gym Anxiety

I used to hate the gym—not because of actual exercise per se, but purely because I was so self-conscious. I was obsessed with the idea that I’d be criticized for my shoddy squat form or brief five minutes on the treadmill—and then exiled from my gym forever, cast off onto the island of exercise pariahs.

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Bill Brown
Jan 17, 2019

Why Barre Class Is So Good for Your Body

In ballet training, the barre is the horizontal handrail dancers grip while perfecting their technique. Barre-style workouts take those classic ballet warmup exercises and reimagine them for a much wider audience. While it may seem like a recent phenomenon, barre strength and flexibility training have been in vogue since the times of Louis XVI, says

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Bill Brown
Jan 16, 2019

5 of the Healthiest Winter Foods

1. Pomegranates Chances are you’ve tasted pomegranates in their newly popular juice form. And from a heart-health perspective, that’s probably a good thing. Pomegranate juice is rich in antioxidants (more so than other fruit juices). Just a cup daily might help to keep free radicals from oxidizing “bad” LDL cholesterol. Oxidized LDL contributes to plaque

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