Tag: Fitness
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The Best Workouts Aren’t About Physical Fitness
Picture this: you’re outside on a blistering summer day, doing a workout that you’re just sure is banned under the Geneva Convention. All of your muscles feel like they’re on fire, you can barely catch your breathe, you’re starting to get tunnel vision, and you’re fighting like hell not to puke. You have the vague…
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Are Push-ups the Cure for Heart Attacks?
A breakdown of correlation vs causation and how it relates to popular fitness studies
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HIIT vs LISS Cardio
What the hell is LISS and HIIT? LISS stands for Low-Intensity, Steady-State. Steady-state means that you’re keeping up roughly the same amount of effort throughout the entire workout. The low-intensity part is supposed to mean that you aren’t pushing yourself very hard, but that part is often ignored because LISS is generally used to describe…
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When Should You Do Cardio?
The Age Old Question One of the questions that almost every gym rat I know has asked me is whether you should do cardio before or after you do your weight training. The answer? It depends on your goals. If your goals involve getting stronger/more muscular/leaner, you’ll want to do your cardio after your weight…
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How Many Sets and Reps Should You Do?
So you know that you want to do some weight training. What should you do though? First off, you want to figure out what your goal is. It could be that you want to get stronger, it could be that you want to put on muscle, or it could be both. Reps (repetitions): doing the…
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Pulling It All Together
So you understand that there are a few different components of fitness. But where do you start? Stretch every day. I have found that doing it in the morning works the best for me because my schedule is the most consistent in the morning and I usually am stiff when I get out of bed.…
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Nobody is Judging You at the Gym
One of the most common things I hear about from people is that they’re afraid of people judging them at the gym, especially when they’re just getting started. It might be that they’re worried about looking like a weenie, or they might be worried about looking dumb if they’re doing an exercise wrong. The thing…
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The Importance of Sleeping
We all know that sleep is important, but we often don’t give it enough respect. Getting enough sleep can provide a ton of benefits, and not getting enough can take a huge toll on our bodies. So what are some of those effects? Recovery from workouts: When you workout, you are creating small amounts of…
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Eating
One of the most under-appreciated but critical components of fitness is nutrition. I have run across more people than I can count who are frustrated because they work their ass off in the gym, but don’t make any progress because they aren’t eating right. Be aware of what you eat. You don’t have to know…
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My Stretching Routine
As we established in the previous post, stretching is important. So what stretches should you do? If you’re going to do one stretch every day, I recommend making it this sequence. You start by lying down on your back and tucking a stretch strap (I recommend this one) underneath the arch of your foot. You…
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