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According to the American Council on Exercise (ACE) the top 10 most effective abs exercises are:
1. Bicycle Crunches
2. Knee Lifts on Captain’s Chair
3. Crunches on Ball
4. Crunches with Vertical Legs: This exercise is just like a traditional crunch but with your legs extended up into the air.
5. Torso Track Machine
6. Crunches with Arms Extended: This [...]
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A friend of mine asked me whether or not calorie shifting work. The idea is that calorie shifting is a strategy to reduce the natural slowdown in your metabolism when it thinks it should go on starvation mode when you are trying to loose weight.
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Mineral makeup is popping up every where. There is even a mineral make up blog about it. You can find it at the drugstore for less than $10 or at Macy’s for $50 per item. It claims to be natural, from the earth, and free of dyes, chemicals, and preservatives. It claims to be much [...]
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March — the time of year when spring is just around the corner and the crowds starts to thin out. This is the time of year when regulars get their gym back and the New Year Resolution members slowly drop off the bandwagon — again.
Why is there such a big difference between the regulars [...]
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10 tips on how to stop weight gain at work.
As mentioned in my work environment post, we gain approximately two pounds a year as we age due to the sedentary nature of our lifestyle. What we do at work has an impact on our waistline since we spend so many of our waking hours at [...]
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Here is an interesting post by Jonathan Fields on blogging on this treadmill. This idea has been around for a while now. Here is an article on it at the New York Times in 2005.
There are probably small ways to include movement in our sedentary activities. It is the small everyday movement that we [...]
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I had soft tissue damage on my back from my car accident a few years ago. The pain was excruciating. I am not talking about the ache on your back after a day of weeding in your garden. I am talking about 12 OTC ibuprofen pills popping a day type of pain that last for [...]
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Ever wonder what it would be like after you loose all the extra padding? Here is a quick glance at that future place we are all striving for:
Your career
Good health and fitness give you more confidence and energy for quick thinking. Whether making a presentation or handling difficult clients, this difference will show. [...]
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It take an extra 500 calories a day to put on one pound at the end of the week. There is 3,500 calories in a pound of stored fat. Most of us cannot tell that we are storing an extra quarter of a pound. Most scales do not detect that small incremental weight difference. By [...]
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A co-worker asked me ‘What is emotional eating? Why does his wife talk about it all the time? Is it just a female thing?’
Emotional eating is when you cannot separate mood from food. Some people eat when they are happy, unhappy, bored, excited, stressed, relaxed, etc. Give me an emotional and there is someone [...]
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