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5 Tips to Achieve Your New Year’s Fitness Goals

Determine Your Readiness Make sure you’re both physically and mentally ready to start an exercise program. Tell your doctor you want to begin a fitness regimen and you want to make sure you’re healthy enough to start. Once you have been physically cleared to proceed, consider your mental readiness. How likely are you to stick with an exercise program once you begin? While there are many factors to consider, three are most significant. You are more likely to succeed if you: Have [...]

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3 MORNING FITNESS TIPS FOR BETTER HEALTH

Want to know the key to an overall healthier, more productive day? Making sure your mornings get off to a great start. How you spend the first several hours of your day can determine how you’ll spend the rest. Therefore, if you’re interested in improving your health, focus on making healthier choices in the A.M. with these morning fitness tips. 1. Stretch One of the best ways to get your morning off to a good, healthy start would be to schedule in [...]

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5 Reasons You Should Embrace A Fitness Lifestyle

Few decisions in life can equal the influence of introducing health and fitness into the fray. The benefits run much deeper than the aesthetic improvements that draw so many in the first place. A fitness lifestyle can help with anxiety and depression, provide regiment for the aimless, build self-esteem and accomplishment, and yes, it can help you lose weight, build muscle, and improve human performance too. Read below for five uncommon reasons you should embrace fitness within your life. 1. The [...]

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3 Stretches for Strong, Flexible Hamstrings

Target Your Hamstrings   1. Beginner: Strap Stretch Step 1: Lying on back, raise the right leg and place the center of a yoga strap around the arch of the right foot. Step 2: Keeping left leg on the floor, slowly extend the right leg toward the ceiling, or as high as you comfortably can. Don’t yank on the strap or allow the left leg to lift off the floor. Step 3: Hold for 8 breaths; repeat on another side. 2. Intermediate: Standing Stability Ball Step [...]

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16 Tips to Triple Your Workout Effectiveness

Limit your workouts to 30-40 minutes. Though the tendency of some people who really want to get a lot out of their workouts is to spend a lot of time at the gym, the truth is that after 30 or 40 minutes, the benefit isn’t as great. To go that long, you’d have to lower the intensity of the workout, and that means that you’re spending too much time working out. It’s better to work out at a higher [...]

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