Things You Should Do Before Every Workout

8 Things You Should Do Before Every Workout   Pre-workout Necessities    A solid pre-workout routine begins long before you step into gym shorts or break a sweat. And like everything else, sloppy prep translates to sloppy execution. That can lead to uninspired training sessions or injury, both...

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Reasons You're Holding onto Body Fat

10 Reasons You're Holding onto Body Fat    With many other factors that could be playing a role in why you aren't losing body-fat, these 10 reasons are usually behind the slow progress. Make sure you are doing your very best at controlling these so you can optimize your results and get the lean body...

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Easy Metabolic Boosters

4 Easy Metabolic Boosters     Metabolism is such a nebulous term in the fitness industry. But it has a specific and very elaborate meaning. For our purposes, it is the rate at which your body burns energy. This, of course, is good to know for those of us concerned with body composition because the more energy you can burn,...

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How to Train Hard in a Commercial Gym

How to Train Hard in a Commercial Gym You’ve put in a few solid years of training and you’re ready to take your workouts to the next level. Problem is there’s no sports performance facility or powerlifting gym within a 50-mile radius of where you live. So how do you get in hardcore workouts while being surrounded by...

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Popular Lifts You Can Live Without

7 Popular Lifts You Can Live Without We asked certified personal trainer John Rowley, author of The Power of Positive Fitness, his thoughts on a handful of exercises people should consider omitting from their regular routines. And without hesitation, he had answers. “Just watch what everyone else does in the gym. If you do...

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HOW MANY SET IS ENOUGH

HOW MANY SET IS ENOUGH How many sets do you do per exercise? One? Ten? Somewhere in between? Most fall somewhere in the middle but there are the outliers at either end that are loyal to that choice, almost to a fault. Research and anecdotal evidence have shown that ultra high-volume training can only be done for short...

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Things Never to Do in a Gym

13 Things Never to Do in a Gym When it comes to gym etiquette, we already know to avoid cellphone conversations, re-rack our weights, and curl anywhere outside the squat rack. But there are plenty of lesser-known blunders you could be making at the gym that upset and disrupt others. Worse, some of these mistakes could...

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Unconventional Moves For Huge Gains

4 Unconventional Moves For Huge Gains One of the most dangerous things any iron aficionado can do is to get comfortable. Comfort is the death knell for muscle growth and strength gains. Every once in a while you have to abandon the familiar to really generate the uptick in mass that keeps your boat floated. Stepping away from...

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