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May 17, 2012 • Easy diet tips to keep you lean and a great unilateral workout wait for you on my magazine overview. Don’t miss it! Men’s Health - Wonder what muscles are tackled doing barbell chest press or dumbbell chest press? The barbell press focuses more on the chest and the triceps while the dumbbells emphasize the chest,...
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May 16, 2012 • Statistics may show a decline, but heart disease is still the number one killer in America. Paradoxically, heart disease can be prevented through diet, exercise and stress/sleep management. Is it harder than popping in a pill? Maybe, however no drug can truly fix the root of the problem. A lot have been written about avoiding...
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May 13, 2012 • Muscles get all the attention when it comes to working out. But rarely do gym rats talk about strengthening the bones, which are hardly noticed unless it’s a broken bone or a stress fracture. What you may not have realized is that the stronger and bigger muscles are, the bones should also grow to accommodate...
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May 10, 2012 • “Young adults aged 18 to 29 (56.8 percent) remained the most likely to exercise frequently in 2011 as they have in past years,” reports a survey from Gallup.com on American exercise habits. Up to here, we can’t complaint. However, the frequency diminishes as we pass the 30s; precisely, when the typical signs of aging starts...
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May 9, 2012 • One of the most common diet pitfalls is “drinking your calories.” You can easily consume about 800 calories, a full meal, throughout the day just by gulping some seemingly innocent beverages. Take a look at this data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Morning: Medium café latte (16 ounces) made with whole milk...
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May 7, 2012 • Do you get up from the chair using your back or the hips/leg muscles? When spending long hours sitting has became quite the norm, the body has taken a toll by creating some type of distortion motor patterns. More alarming than the abnormal body moves are the deficits in motion and motor patterns developed. “People...
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May 2, 2012 • Don’t know which drink to pick for the happy hour without sabotaging your diet efforts or how to manage your afternoon munchies? Here you have what the latest resources on fitness, diet and health are saying about your burning life questions. Men’s Health UK Drink this, not that! a) Bloody Mary 118 cal, 1 g...
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May 1, 2012 • Every sports and fitness activity seem to have their “own” top food choices. Energy gels to boots endurance for runners, sports drinks to prevent electrolyte imbalance in a two hour plus tennis match or soy foods to keep up with the vegan diet that many yogis praise. Nutritionally, all choices make sense. However, could your...
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Apr 30, 2012 • After a couple of months squatting you probably increased how much you can lift. However, after the initial spike, some people can’t maintain the rate of strength gains you experienced in the beginning. Even worse, you now may be experiencing nagging joint pains. When you lift weights you are putting your muscles and soft tissue...
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Apr 26, 2012 • Shakira got one thing right. The hips don’t lie. You can’t hide what the hips can tell about your body, from misalignments to weak muscles that may be causing lower back pain or the tender knee you’ve been tolerating. Certainly an ill-fitting shoe, the worn-out chair and many other external factors may contribute to some...
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Apr 25, 2012 • Who hasn’t heard about the benefits of having a diet rich in fiber? Whether the goal is to decrease body fat or to lower the risks of heart disease and diabetes, fiber is a must. But where does the fiber in your diet content come from? You may not know that not all “whole grain”...
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Apr 22, 2012 • Push-ups are for the upper body what squats are for the lower body. They have all the qualities that make a good exercise to stand out. This is a multi-joint exercise. It can be done anywhere with no equipment, and best of all, just by tweaking the hands and legs position you can change the...
