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The Importance of Heart Rate Monitoring

The fitness industry seems to be flooded with different workout programs these days all saying they are the key to success. It can be har...

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Keeping a Health Journal

If you are just beginning your fitness journey or have been exercising for a while and looking to make changes to your physique a health ...

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How to Breakthrough Low Motivation

No matter how long you’ve been going to the gym and no matter how much you love working out there are days you just will not feel like go...

Jordan_Kirkpatrick

5 Simple Exercises to Help With Your Major Lifts

If you spend 5 minutes talking to a gym rat you will be asked what is your max on bench press, squats, and deadlifts. It seems these 3 li...

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Why You're Not Seeing Results: Top 5 Reasons

We are at that time of year where you start to see the gym thin out. A lot of the people who started the year signing up for a gym hoping...

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The Importance of Proper Gym Footwear

Gym footwear is an often overlooked aspect of fitness. People usually go for the pair that looks good with their gym clothes or wear the ...

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Is Poor Hydration Affecting your Workout?

As we age, we tend to not rush to reaching our daily water intake. We tend to go off a basic principle that if we are not thirsty, we are...

Liza Brackbill

Couples Who Stay Fit Together, Stay Together

Your life partner is supposed to be your biggest cheerleader, your supporter in everything you do. So, if you have your sights set on a f...

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Rest Days: Why Are They Vital?

It seems the further most people travel on their fitness journey, the less rest days they tend to take. When you are in the beginning of ...

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5 Ways to Break Through a Plateau

If you are someone who has been going to the gym for a while, hitting a plateau is something you can relate to. It is an obstacle that ev...

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Low Reps vs. High Reps

If you go into any gym, you’ll hear time and time again that low reps are for building muscle and high reps are for toning. It is a mantr...

Liza Brackbill

Wind Down Your Workout With Proper Recovery

Believe it or not, your workout recovery is actually as important or even more important for your body than your workout itself. The step...

Jordan_Kirkpatrick

Music’s Effect on Your Brain

We have all been in the situation where you are in the locker room lacing up your sneakers before your workout and you reach into your gy...

Liza Brackbill

New to Fitness? Have No Fear!

Getting started on anything new can seem a bit daunting at first, especially in the world of fitness, where gym rats who know what they’r...

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The Mental Game of Lifting

It seems that these days most people think of weightlifters as knuckle dragging orangutans that have too much testosterone. This stereoty...

Liza Brackbill

Your Workout and Your Brain

As 2011 approached its close, the American Psychology Association launched an article called “The Exercise Effect.” The article discussed...

Jordan_Kirkpatrick

Yoga: Can it be for Weightlifters Too?

As a weightlifter, it is easy to start looking down on other forms of fitness just because you can lift more weight than them. You can st...

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3 Bench Press Grips and How They Affect Your Muscles

There is limited equipment in the gym, no matter if you go to a gym or have an in-home gym. After time, you will find yourself going to t...

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3 Easy Ways to Boost Your Metabolism

Everyone wants a flat stomach. It doesn't matter if your fitness goals are to put on muscle or lose weight everyone wants the tight, flat...

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Why You Need to Stretch Before Lifting

You know those stretches your personal trainer makes you do before starting your workout routine? That part of your training where you si...

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