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10 Life Lessons You’ll Learn From A Healthy Lifestyle

If you can learn to achieve your health and fitness goals, you can learn to achieve success in every other realm of life. The gym is like a microcosm for every day life. If you can learn to be empowered and achieve success in that realm, you can learn to be confident and achieve success in every...

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Best Core Exercises: 23 Bodyweight Core Exercises

Having a strong core means strengthening everything from your shoulders to your knees, down your frontside AND your backside! It also means doing not only rotational, but also anti-rotational moves - exercises where you twist and turn but also moves where you FIGHT your body's urge to rotate as...

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What Does It All Mean – Concentric, Eccentric and Isometric

What Does It All Mean – Concentric, Eccentric and Isometric

There are a TON of different ways to vary up the same basic exercises to keep things interesting - And one of those ways is to focus on different muscle contractions, different pieces of the movement. Ever slow down a part of the movement? Like slowly lowering into a squat? Ever hold a movement?...

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The Glute Bridge and Curl

I love the glute bridge. It is a great exercise to activate the glutes so that you can prevent pain and injury, lift more and run faster. But doing the same exercise over and over again gets boring. Also, your muscles adjust and need a new challenge to keep getting stronger. That is why it is...

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healthy creamy garlic sauce

A Healthy Creamy Garlic Sauce

I think often people feel  like eating well means eating flavorless food. But it doesn't have to be that way. Below is a great Creamy Garlic Sauce to add flavor to meatballs, burgers or even chicken. And the best part is...IT'S HEALTHY! Creamy Garlic Sauce Ingredients: 1/2 cup yogurt 2 tbsp cream...

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at-home-workouts

At-Home Workouts | 19 Bodyweight Exercises You Can Do At Home

You don't need a cardio machine to get in a cardio workout at home. Actually, you don't need anything other than your own BODYWEIGHT to get in a killer workout ANYWHERE! Here are 19 At-Home Exercises for some amazing quick cardio workouts you can do even when you're short on time! At-Home Workouts...

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5 Burpee Variations

Today I wanted to do a little Throwback Thursday post and I also wanted to share a great in-home cardio exercise - THE BURPEE! Burpees are a super tough bodyweight cardio exercise. They are not for everyone so make sure to modify as needed. HOWEVER, if burpees are right for you, they can be a...

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suspension trainer workout

Quick Suspension Trainer Workout

One piece of equipment and 30 minutes. That is all you need to get in a great full-body workout at home. Below is a Quick 30-Minute Suspension Trainer Workout to blast your entire body. Whether you have a TRX or a Jungle Gym XT, this is an quick workout you can do anywhere. How many rounds can you...

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