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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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Ali Heck
Jan 14, 2019

8 Ways Meditation Can Relieve Stress and Anxiety

In today’s fast-paced, instant-gratification world, people are juggling more, sleeping less and taking less time to just be. In fact, 42 percent of adults report that their stress level has increased over the past five years. More research is coming out tying our stress levels to physical ailments. Insufficient sleep has reached levels of a public-health epidemic. It’s no

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Bill Brown
Jan 10, 2019

Should You Try High-Intensity Interval Training to Boost Your Brain Power?

Besides being a great, quick workout, HIIT may confer cognitive benefits. But more research is needed. Regular exercise, research shows, can positively change the brain. Studies have found that it may help to improve brain function, boost memory, enhance mental health and possibly stave off or slow cognitive decline and protect against dementia. Even quick

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Bill Brown
Jan 08, 2019

The Truth About Exercise and Appetite

  Beware the Exercise Halo A great sweat session can make you feel like a health angel—for good reason, given its life-enhancing power. “But we can feel so virtuous that we reward ourselves with some not-so-healthy habits,” warns Susan Bowerman, R.D., assistant director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition. Don’t fall for these self-sabotaging thoughts:

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