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muscle building tips

15 Tips to Build Muscle

Struggling to see the muscle gains you want? Stop blaming your age. Stop blaming your genetics. While these things impact how we may design our workouts and diet to help us achieve results, they are within our power to address. Because the real reason we aren’t seeing the results we want is...

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improve your push ups

4 Tips To Increase Your Push Ups (In 30 Days)

If your push ups are…well…fuglier than you’d like, then it may be time to check your ego, break things down and focus on regressing to progress. Sometimes little form deviations creep in and we don’t even realize it. At times like this, it isn’t just about doing more push ups. Because practicing...

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lose weight

Stop Gaining Weight with Age (In 2 Steps)

So often we blame our age for the reason we’re seeing that middle age spread happen. But honestly, your age isn’t an excuse to gain fat or not feel and move your best. You’re using it as an excuse because it’s…well…easier than taking ownership. Harsh…YUP. But it’s the reality. It’s hard to take...

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fat loss mistakes

Change Your Habits Not Just Your Diet (For Fat Loss)

And that’s one of the biggest pitfalls sabotaging our diet and our success… We go in thinking we’ll do something short term to then go back to the lifestyle we want. The habits we had before. But that’s not how things work. You can’t do one thing to reach your goals then go back to what you were...

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2 ab exercises

2 Intense Ab Exercises (Most People Skip)

No you can’t spot reduce the fat around your middle by doing a bazillion crunches or sit ups… BUT focused ab work can help you get that lean, defined core when your nutrition is dialed in. Yet too often we skip the core work. If we add it in, it’s an afterthought. And too often we think we’ve done...

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body recomp mistakes

7 Mistakes Women Make Trying to Lose Fat or Gain Muscle

We’ve all fallen for the fads. The promise of a quick fix to get lean and strong overnight. But real and lasting results take time. Quick fixes often keep us trapped in a vicious cycle, making it harder and harder to see the results we want. I say this having made almost all the mistakes myself....

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workout tips

3x The Effectiveness of Your Workouts (10 Tips)

Guess what 1 of these 10 tips isn’t… DO MORE! Because too often in doing more we make our workouts less effective. We waste time and energy. And then we blame a lack of time for our lack of progress or our ability to stick with our plan. We even start to get frustrated with our lack of results for...

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lose stubborn fat

Why 93% Of Women NEVER Lose Belly Fat

Alright so do you think those old fitness infomercials are as ridiculous as I do? What’s the real reason why 93% of women never lose belly fat? BECAUSE IT’S REALLY… REALLY… REALLY HARD! And because when we feel like results aren’t snowballing, when we don’t see changes happening on the scale, we...

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