Using exercise to burn calories has many benefits. Exercise is known to boost your mood, increase your metabolism, lower stress, improve your sleep as well as help you lose weight. Exercise will give you more energy, which can help you stick with your calorie burning program and meet your health and fitness goals, too. Any …
A popular saying among fitness advocates is that you can’t outrun a poor diet. This euphemism helps explain that exercise alone will not compensate for a diet that is lacking in nutrition or overly saturated in calories. So, if you can’t outrun a poor diet, why should you exercise at all? Many of us simply …
Every January comes with a sense of renewal for many people. A common theme amongst individuals is to create a resolution involving things they would like to change or achieve in the coming 365 days. One of the more prevalent resolutions involves fitness. Whether it’s to simply improve overall physical appearance, get healthier or maybe …
So you’ve been a little bit too lazy in last couple of months and you finally decided to change something about your physical activities? You don’t want to become a “couch potato” and you know you can do much better than just looking like a grumpy overweight person right? And so right now you want …
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Women tend to avoid strength training. There are many reasons why, and the vast majority of those reasons are based in myth and preconceptions about what strength training is and what it does to a female body. You’ll burn calories and fat while you work out, after you work out, and your metabolism becomes faster, …
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There’s a lot of talk about enchanted pills, smoothies, and diets that can amp up your metabolism. But believe it or not, exercise is the magic bullet for boosting your metabolism. Think of your metabolism as a powerhouse that converts your food into energy and propels from one minute to the next without missing a …
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Fatigue, or not having enough energy to workout, is a common reason (i.e. excuse) why some people choose to not exercise. But as counter-intuitive as it may sound, exercising actually increases your energy. All you must do is get your butt off the couch and do it! So how does exercise give you energy?
Interval training involves varying the intensity of your exercise between high and low in order to burn the most calories. You spend 30-60 seconds exercising at a high intensity level, and then a further 30-60 seconds exercising at a low intensity level. This is repeated for a period of around 20-30 minutes, thus completing one …
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Two excuses commonly heard to avoid working out is either “I don’t have the time” or “I’m too tired”. The first one isn’t really valid as everyone can find time to exercise even if it’s going to a walk for 15 minutes. However, the second excuse could be a valid one. And if you are …
When it comes to exercising, many of us are always trying to find the perfect solution to every problem. We don’t like our legs, so we look for the way to fix it. We don’t like our arms, so we look up ways to get the perfect arms. Unfortunately, there’s no clear cut way of …
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