If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Have you ever looked at the models on the covers of health and fitness magazines and wondered how they can look so good?
I know I have, and one day I decided to find out what their secrets are.  I went [...]

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If you’ve never seen a BOSU trainer, it looks like someone chopped the top off a stability  ball and glued it to a hard, flat, plastic base.  BOSU is actually an acronym that stands for Both Sides Utilized or Both Sides Up depending on the context being used - I’ll get a little more into that in a minute.
When I [...]

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What the heck is the skinny-fat phenomenon?
Simply put, it refers to people who have a thin appearance, but a high amount of body fat.  Usually, these individuals are blessed (or cursed) with the skinny gene.  No matter how many Twinkies and Ho-Ho’s they eat, they don’t gain weight.  As a result, many don’t feel the [...]

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The stability ball was first introduced as a physical therapy tool.  However, it didn’t take long before fitness enthusiasts caught onto the overall benefits provided by exercises done on a stability ball.
The ball is usually sold as a core development tool because, by using the unstable surface of the ball as a platform to perform [...]

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Many people don’t realize that eating a healthy diet and eating an unhealthy diet is basically a matter of habit.
There are several things that you can do to change bad eating habits in order to improve your overall health.
Learn About Nutrition
Before you can develop good eating habits, you have to have a basic understanding of what good nutrition [...]

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Having a home gym makes getting in shape a little more convenient.  With a home gym you no longer have to pack your gym bag before work and then drive to the gym only to have to change into your workout clothes in a locker room with a bunch of strangers.
You don’t have to wait [...]

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I’ve been involved in fitness in one way or another since I was eight years old.  As a kid, I always had coaches who motivated me to stay in shape.
After high school I joined the Marine Corps and you can bet, I had plenty of people in the Marines to motivate me as well.  I also taught aerobics [...]

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All-in-one trainers usually do well in the home gym market because they provide affordability, ease of use and reduced space requirements.  While there are many of these machines on the market today that are of high quality and will give users a great workout, there are just as many that are poorly constructed and will end up being more [...]

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