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Quick Peanut Butter Protein Muffins

Quick Peanut Butter Protein Muffins

Want to lose weight? Or maybe you're tired of that little bit of body fat that seem to cling to your belly or thighs no matter what you do!? Well let me tell you....depriving yourself of all of the foods you love is not the way to get the results you want...especially if you want those results to...

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Are You Bridging Wrong?

Are You Bridging Wrong?

Glute bridges are a basic bodyweight move. People will even say, "These are easy!" And think they are beyond that basic bodyweight exercise. But guess what!? All too often people aren't doing them correctly! AND even the most advanced exerciser needs to return to that FUNDAMENTAL move. Let me ask...

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5 Quick Tips To Improve Your Push Ups

5 Quick Tips To Improve Your Push Ups

To improve your Push Ups, you’ve got to actually practice doing them. The problem is...So many of us do them wrong to start! We have poor form and don’t engage the correct muscles so we are stuck at a modified variation FOREVER. Or we try and progress too quickly and then get caught up on doing...

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The Macro Cycling Pyramid Of Nutrition Priorities For Success

The Macro Cycling Pyramid Of Nutrition Priorities For Success

I get asked all the time about meal timing, and supplements, and micronutrients and this and that latest antioxidant (or whatever craze there is currently) when people are struggling to lose weight or that last little bit of stubborn belly fat. They STRESS over those little details...little...

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10 Bodyweight Moves To Redefine Your Core

10 Bodyweight Moves To Redefine Your Core

Focused core work is important if we want to build a strong, lean core that not only looks amazing but also helps us run faster, lift more and prevent aches, pains and injuries! We need moves that really activate and work our abs and glutes while strengthening everything between our shoulders and...

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Why You Should Include Unilateral Exercises In Your Training

Why You Should Include Unilateral Exercises In Your Training

"I don't want to do that. I feel unbalanced and awkward and I can't lift as heavy." I had a new client tell me this when I explained that he'd be doing Single Leg Deadlifts. My response? "That's exactly why you SHOULD be doing them." His statement though shed some light though on why so many...

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The Five-Minute Full-Body Burner

The Five-Minute Full-Body Burner

It isn't about how long you spend working out...It's about the QUALITY of the time you spend. Sometimes we get so focused on needing to spend a certain amount of time working out that, when we then don't have "enough time," we end up doing NOTHING. Or we just put ourselves into a "run out the...

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The 7s Strength-Cardio Blast

The 7s Strength-Cardio Blast

Often I get asked, "Is it better to do strength or cardio training? How many days of each should I do?" But workouts aren't necessarily only one or the other. Strength workouts can have cardio elements and cardio workouts can have strength elements. Yes, you can focus purely on one or the other,...

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