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Goal Setting for FAT LOSS!

So many people battle with ways to lose fat, but this doesn’t have to be difficult. The single most important part of the process is setting goals. Setting short-term and long-term goals may increase your odds of success. Not only will setting goals keep you on the right track, but it also provides an end [...] [...]

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13 Healthy Habits to Improve Your Life…. Disregard them, and you may well be taking a big gamble with your mental and emotional well-being. There are 13 ways to boost your chances of living a happy, healthy life. More can be added to this list, but, for simplicity’s sake, we’ll stick with this typically unlucky number. Instead of [...] [...]

Using your mind (and brain) to make healthier choices

To help fight the nation’s obesity epidemic, elected officials around the U.S. are getting into the business of legislating that restaurants post calorie and sodium content along with their menus. California enacted a law in July of 2009 mandating that fast food restaurants post calorie charts, following New York City’s lead for some restaurants in [...] [...]

The Power of Positive Habits!

How much would your life improve if you could literally put your behaviors on “auto-pilot” and eliminate the need for “teeth-gnashing,” “gut-it out” willpower? What would it mean to you if you could automatically just eat the right foods and automatically carry out your workouts every day, without straining… without even having to think about it? How [...] [...]

Successful Weight Loss

Ingredients for Success By Paige Waehner, About.com Guide You already know how to lose weight…At it’s simplest, you need to burn more calories than you eat, right? And exercising and eating healthy is the healthiest way to do that, right? But, successful weight loss doesn’t start with your body–it starts with your mind. As we’ve all discovered, the mind [...] [...]

Muscle Tricks

Use these little-known trainer tips to bust plateaus and make instant progress. This article is all about strategy—the best methods for busting plateaus and making new size and strength gains. Tripple Sets: ”The key to building big muscles is to recruit as many muscle fibers as possible,” says Chad Waterbury, a strength and conditioning coach in Los [...] [...]

5 Reasons Why Women Should Lift Weights

Women who lift weights will be stronger and more capable in their everyday lives. Weight lifting helps women to burn fat efficiently. The more lean muscle a female has, the higher your resting metabolic rate will be. Someone with a fast metabolism will burn more calories than someone with a slow metabolism doing the same amount of work. When [...] [...]

Get Stronger Now

Follow these 10 rules for immediate and long-lasting muscle and strength Strength is the foundation of nearly all physique and performance goals. When you’re strong, you more easily gain muscle size, lose fat, run faster, hit harder, play longer, and move more living room furniture for your wife. We’ve rounded up 10 no-questions-asked tips to help [...] [...]

Fat-Burning Moves

Tweak your current routine to drop more fat Shorten Rest Periods. Progressively shaving seconds off your rest period can help to raise your metabolism. Just don’t go too low. You need a minimum of 30 seconds’ rest or you risk burning out. The one exception: circuit training, which requires no rest between sets. Train the Whole Body. If you’ve [...] [...]

Fitness Fables

Is no pain, no gain really true when it comes to exercise? Does the amount you sweat really correlate to the amount of fat you’re losing? Experts take a look at these and other fitness fables. The world of fitness abounds with fables, from no pain, no gain, to drinking water before exercising can give you [...] [...]

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