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Bird Dog or Upright Bird Dog
Come with me and try to incorporate the bird dog or upright bird dog into your tabata protocal routine. You will live the burn! Here is the example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaEdx7qIk3c&feature=channel
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Hamstring Lift
Welcome to Today's Slimming, Exercise, Fitness and Toning Your Body Tips. Hamstring Lift Position yourself on your hands and knees. Lower yourself down to your elbows, making sure the elbows stay directly under your shoulders. Keep your back straight and your abs pulled in tight. Keeping the knee bent, lift the foot toward…
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The Fat Burning Zone
There is a lot of discussion about what is the best fat burning zone to be in. This fat zone is a contentious issue with a number of people offering different opinions. This article investigates what happens in each zone and why its happening. In order for a muscle to function it needs energy. Muscles have three options…
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Stay Focused!
Determine how important it really is for you to eat the food your craving and how much do you really want it. Pay attention to when and what you are eating. Ask yourself: "Do I really want to eat this?" Never eat on the run-wait until you arrive. Otherwise, your body won't even realize you have eaten.…
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Flat Abs
Workout for Flat Abs Side Sit-Ups Sit on the floor with legs spread (wider is easier, narrow is difficult). Lace your fingers behind your head, and keep your back straight. Tip to the right, allowing your right elbow to touch the floor. Keep those elbows drawn back. Straighten your back and tip to the left. Then back and…
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How to Curb Cravings
You don't have to starve yourself to lose weight, in fact that's the worst thing you can do. By starving yourself, your fat cells learn to conserve energy (fat) more efficiently. So, your body's fat-storing process becomes extremely efficient at the expense of your body's calorie-burning efficiency. If you lower your…
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Good Circuit Training Routine
# Jumping Jacks - 50 reps # Prisoner Squat - 20 reps # Push-up - 15 reps # Bulgarian Split Squat - 12 reps per side # Bodyweight Row - 20 reps # Twisting Lunges - 12 reps per side # Mountain Climbers - 15 reps per side # High Knees Running in Place - 20 reps per side
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Still Lose Weight While Eating Fast Foods
Not all fast food is created equal. Believe it or not some fast food is actually OK while trying to lose weight. Many fast food restaurants now serve low calorie fruit or vegetable salads. If you get a salad just be sure not to load it up with high fat and calorie dressing. Get your salad without cheese or bacon. Drink…
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Thanksgiving Tips from Jay
Hello My Friend! JayTalk Promo Code In America, every November, we celebrate a holiday called Thanksgiving. According to what I was taught in school, Thanksgiving was first celebrated in 1621 when 50 English settlers fasted and feasted with about 90 regional Wampanoag Indians for three days. No one knows for sure, but more…
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Tip for the Day
Here's a great exercise you can do at your desk Torso Stretch Here is a good exercise for the torso area. With feet flat on the floor, breathe deeply and stretch your hands over your head, hold for a few seconds and then slowly bring your hands back to a resting position. A couple of repetitions and the kinks are gone.…
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Best 100 Calorie Snacks
Best Snacks 100 Calories or Less WebMD Feature from "Good Housekeeping" Magazine Good Housekeeping Magazine Logo Best snacks, from the Good Housekeeping Institute's Nutrition Director, Delia A. Hammock, M.S., R.D. Sweet Treats Good Housekeeping Magazine -5 Nabisco Nilla Wafers -1 Whole Foods Market Two-Bite Brownie -1…
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Thanksgiving Healthy Ideas
Join "Top Chef" Carla Hall and make your Thanksgiving Meal Healthier! Chef Hall will share her passion for food and her skill in preparing healthier meals without sacrificing taste, when she teams up with Patricia Davidson, MD, a Washington Hospital Center cardiologist, for a heart-healthy cooking demonstration. Webcast…
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Fat Burning
Fat burning exercises, what are they and how often you should do them. Once you have decided to do some fat burning exercises, unless you already know a lot about the subject you may be wondering which exercises are fat burning and how can you put together the best training program. Which exercises burn fat is the easy…
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Stay Motivated
How can you maintain motivation? A Journal Most important of all from the moment you start training keep a training journal. Include in it everything from how much you weighed when you began, your measurements, fat percentage level and also the exercises, number of sets and reps done. Also, if possible remember to write…
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Shocking Options From Restaurant Chains
Healthy Recipe Doctor with Elaine Magee, MPH, RD From low fat recipes, to recipes designed for diabetics, Elaine Magee RD, MPH shares recipes and advice to create healthy meals that are guaranteed to please. Friday, November 12, 2010 Shocking Options From Restaurant Chains You Won’t Believe This! The holiday season is just…
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Who Gave Veggies a Bad Name?
Healthy Recipe Doctor with Elaine Magee, MPH, RD From low fat recipes, to recipes designed for diabetics, Elaine Magee RD, MPH shares recipes and advice to create healthy meals that are guaranteed to please. Friday, October 22, 2010 Who Gave Veggies a Bad Name? Hemera If you dislike certain veggies, who or what’s to blame?…
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Who Gave Veggies a Bad Name?
Healthy Recipe Doctor with Elaine Magee, MPH, RD From low fat recipes, to recipes designed for diabetics, Elaine Magee RD, MPH shares recipes and advice to create healthy meals that are guaranteed to please. Friday, October 22, 2010 Who Gave Veggies a Bad Name? Hemera If you dislike certain veggies, who or what’s to blame?…
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Chicken On The Cheap
Healthy Recipe Doctor with Elaine Magee, MPH, RD From low fat recipes, to recipes designed for diabetics, Elaine Magee RD, MPH shares recipes and advice to create healthy meals that are guaranteed to please. Friday, May 16, 2008 Frugal Friday: Chicken On The Cheap Do those “extreme value” or “value pack” trays or bags of…
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Day After A Binge
Holidays are prime times to eat way more than is necessary with meals that are extremely rich and loaded with calories! It's fun to visit with family and feast on foods we normally would not allow past our lips, but it's not fun afterwards when we're in a food coma and chastising ourselves for overdoing it! It can also be…
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Tip of the Day - Work All Your Major Muscles
Work All your Major Muscles Playing just one sport or performing just one type of exercise is likely to strengthen certain muscles at the expense of others, leaving some tendons and ligaments weaker and thus more vulnerable to injury. For example, shin splints a common running injury that causes pain in the front of the…
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Tip Of The Day - Starvation
Never starve yourself, especially before going out to eat (or you will binge). Don't skip meals regularly or your body's starvation defenses will kick in, lowering your metabolism and making you store fat. Whilst fasting is acceptable when performed sparingly, constant regular fasting will inhibit your weight loss success.…
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Bodyweight HIIT Routine
Body-Weight Sprint Intervals 1. Prisoner Squat 2. Lunges (Box, Front/Back, Split Jump) 3. Burpee 4. Speed Ladder 5. Jump Rope 6. Rotary Jump Squat 7. Jump Squat 8. Plyo Box Jump Body-Weight Rest Intervals 1. March 2. Jog 3. 5-Dot Drill 4. Jumping Jack 5. Speed Ladder
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Dumbell Pullover Tip of the Day
Dumbbell pullover is unique in that its movement because it works the chest from a tremendous variety of angles. This exercise takes quite a bit of coordination, which adds to the challenge of the exercise. You can do this straight arm or bent arm. Somehow I found that the straight arm pullover stretches the chest more…
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Forbes Magazine Top 10 Obese States - Agree or Disagree?
Top 10 Obesity 1 Connecticut 2 Rhode Island 3 Massachusetts 4 Florida 5 Wyoming 6 Colorado 7 Indiana 8 Vermont 9 Nevada 10Idaho
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Gym Timer
I love my gym boss. It's a timer the size of a pager that attaches to your hip. I beep or vibrates with my workout or rest time is up. I feel helpless without it. www..gymboss.com
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Tip of the Day - Reducing Cellulite
Cellulite is caused by fat deposits that build up like little marshmallows under the skin and cause a dimpled effect or cottage cheese appearance. Fibrous tissues connect your skin to a deeper layer, creating the pockets of fat cells. When these fat cells grow in size, they cause a dimpling effect on your skin. Cellulite…
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The Exercise Every Athelete Must Do
The deadlift isn't just for powerlifters. Because it's a total-body exercise that builds strength, it can improve sports performance too, according to a new paper in Strength and Conditioning Journal. In fact, here are three variations of the classic move that can give you an edge on the court, the field, or even the…
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Reducing Your Appetite
When you feel hungry between meals, have a sugarless cup of tea or coffee - caffeine inhibits the appetite. Ask yourself the following questions when you feel the urge to eat: a. When did I eat last? b. What am I craving? c. Am I hungry, or has my appetite been stimulated? d. What is my reason for wanting to eat? When you…
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4 Ways to Drink more Water and Boost your Metabolism
People can survive much longer without food than without water. If the body is deprived of water or fluids in general, the liver begins to retain fluids. When the body goes into water retention mode, it does not concentrate on other important bodily functions, including burning calories and burning fat. Your weight will…
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2 Minutes of Hell Workout!
How to do it: Do one set of each exercise below without resting, and keep track of how long it takes you to complete the circuit. Then rest for twice that duration, and repeat once. When you can finish the first circuit in 90 seconds, skip the rest period. • Bodyweight Squat: 24 reps • Bodyweight Alternating Lunge: 12 reps…
