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Best Resistance Bands For A Full-body Workout

Chaos outside, constant distractions inside, comfy couches and the fridge is just an arm span away. When you’re stuck at home it’s easy to turn into a sloth and fall into an unhealthy routine, but what matters mostly is not how you move, but that you actually do move at all.

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The Ultimate No-Equipment Home Workout

To cater to those whose gyms have closed, or are simply afraid of heading out, here’s a full-body bodyweight workout routine that can be completed right at home for #mentalhealth. Best part? There’s absolutely no equipment needed–not even resistance bands!

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Gym And Coronavirus: Is It Safe To Go To The Gym During The Pandemic?

While China remains the hardest-hit, many countries around the world, including Italy, Iran, South Korea, United States, and the United Kingdom, have seen an exponential increase in the number of cases within weeks. Scary, we know.

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How To Break Through A Weight Loss Plateau

And for a while, it seemed like your efforts were paying off–the numbers on the scale keep creeping down, your jeans feel looser, and everyone around you is noticing the progress you've made. But all of a sudden, it stops

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3 Hamstring Exercises You Should Do, Always

Here’s some bad news: just because your legs are sore the next morning, doesn’t mean that you’ve sufficiently worked your hamstrings, the bands of muscle on the backs of your thighs.

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The Easy Way To Boost Your Metabolism – NEAT

There’s an easier way to boost your metabolism! Say Hi to ‘non-exercise activity thermogenesis’ (aka NEAT). In this article, learn everything you need about NEAT, and how you can make use of it in your daily life to experience fat loss – on the double.

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Clean Eating Can Be Bad For You

While there’s no strict definition of ‘clean-eating,’ it always promotes whole foods and demonizes processed options and added sugars. Now, at this point, you must be thinking: ‘Isn’t that healthy for you?’ Clean-eating – sounds benign enough, right? Well, no.

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Lost Your Workout Motivation? Here's How To Get It Back

How are you progressing on your fitness goals? If you're like most, you're likely to have waned in your workout motivation. You used to jump up at 5.30 am to pump some iron. But now, you're likely snoozing the alarm and snoozing till it's time to head to work.

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BCAAs Supplements and Why It Is NOT A Complete Waste Of Money

BCAA's can help you build muscle, limit fatigue, burn more fat, and reduce DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness). Given how well the supplement industry markets them, you might even already have a bottle of BCAA powder stashed away in your gym bag right now.

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Ripped Abs With These 5 Advanced Bodyweight Exercises

As you may have realized by now, getting them to show up is incredibly challenging. How so? Well, you'd need to shed off the extra belly fat that's covering your abs! Just for reference, men would need to get down to ~10 to 12% body fat, while women would need to lean down to ~ 14 to 18% body fat.

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How Many Times A Week Should You Work Out?

Going to the gym seven days a weak can put such a significant strain on your nervous system that you'll undoubtedly fall ill, causing your fitness goals to cough and splutter to a halt. And that's it; you can say goodbye to all the hard-earned gains you made for a while.

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3 Advanced Lifting Techniques To Fast-Track Your Progress

If you haven't seen much progress in the gym despite following the age-old advice of 'lift heavy' and 'eat big,' it may be time for you to incorporate some, if not all, of the following advanced lifting techniques. These intensity techniques will allow you to go beyond conventional failure.

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5 Tips To Crush Your Fitness Resolutions In 2020

If many January Firsts have passed and you’re still struggling to stick to your fitness-oriented goal, you’re not alone. New Year’s Resolutions are notoriously difficult to adhere to; in fact, studies show that up to 20% of resolutions are broken within the first week of January!

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Why Diet Sodas Can Be Dangerous To Your Health ?

If you're trying to lose weight, one of the obvious steps to take would be switching from your favourite, regular sodas to sugar-free varieties. You've probably heard that these artificially-sweetened drinks can, in fact, sabotage your weight-loss efforts – despite having 0 calories!

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5 Reasons You’re Not Getting Stronger

Your muscles have grown, and you've added significant pounds to all your lifts. But one fine day, your progress stalls; you hit a big fat plateau where you struggle even to add a measly 2.5 pounds to your deadlift. What gives?

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Easy Steps To Master Your First Pull-up

When you’re a beginner to the pull-ups, it can seem like there’s no middle-ground between dangling like dead meat at the butchers and then suddenly being able to bust out ten perfect reps. Thankfully, there is way that will help you build up the necessary strength to execute a full pull-up.

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The Paleo Diet and why it really works?

The paleo diet has been reported to eliminate bloating, eradicate seasonal allergies, free you from migraines, and even help you burn off a few pounds. Read more about what it is, which foods are allowed (and not), and whether you should try it out for yourself!

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Mystery solved : Lose Fat and Gain Muscle at the Same Time

You can lose fat and gain muscle at the same time, but… Not so fast – the truth is that multiple studies have shown that losing fat and gaining muscle at the same time can be done. Difficult, but possible. Only, it comes with a catch.

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What Should I Do On Rest Days?

if you’re someone who detests the idea of taking a day completely off the weights, read this article. It will (hopefully) knock some sense into the inner iron demon within you and show you how well-planned rest days can fast-track your muscle-building progress.

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The Ultimate Guide: The Barbell Back Squat

While most people squat, many don’t perform it correctly – or optimally for maximal leg muscle growth. Perhaps it’s the setup. Or, maybe they’re just not reaching sufficient depth.

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How To Make Your Lower Abs Pop

Aren’t the upper and lower abs one single muscle? Now, before we deep-dive into how you can – finally – meet your lower abs, it’s critical to address a common misconception. Many believe that the upper and lower abs are just one muscle and that the lower abs cannot be selectively targeted.

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The Harsh Truth About Building Muscle As A Female

Everywhere you look, it seems like all women want to do is to lose weight. What if you're trying to gain weight by putting on lean muscle mass? If you do, I think you'll agree with us that muscle-building information relating to women is a lot more scarce!

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You Only Need These 3 Equipment To Build A Home Gym

Look: you can be honest with me. I understand. Between all the packing and the time taken to commute amidst the heavy traffic (depending on what time you work out), you can be exhausted even before you step into a commercial gym.

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The Top 3 Glute Exercises You’re Not Doing

Do you think that deadlifts and squats are all you ever need for a functional, perky butt? Well, if you do – you’re in for a rude awakening. In this article, we’ll explore why soreness doesn’t always lead to maximal muscle growth

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Struggling To Lose Weight? Take a Look at Ketogenic Diets

By now, it must be near impossible for you to take part in dietary-related conversations without the mention of the word “ketogenic.” From its purported enhanced fat-burning effects to its potential to cure cancer, it seems that there’s nothing this low-carb diet can’t do.