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Your workouts could be even more impactful with the right meal plan!

How to Build a Meal Plan That Will Optimize Your Workouts

We all know that macronutrients are key to a well-balanced diet. How you structure your macro consumption depends on your health and fitness goals. Getting a proper dose of fats, carbohydrates, and protein in your daily diet is beneficial for ...
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Can Gut Health Affect Your Performance at the Gym?

Like the gym, your gut was designed to keep you healthy. Just like choosing the right equipment for your exercise regimen, you have to consume the right foods to keep your gut in optimum health. You can improve gut health ...
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How Much Do You Really Need to Workout to Lose Weight?

Losing weight can seem like an uphill battle. Most of us know that workouts are an important part of a healthy routine, but many weight loss seekers give up on exercise too quickly. This is because they really don’t know ...
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4 Tips to Lose Fat and Gain Lean Muscle at the Same Time

Did you know that there is a difference between losing fat and losing weight? When a person loses weight, they might also be losing muscle - this can have a negative impact on your health. On the other hand, losing ...
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Switching Up Your Fitness Routine: How Often Should You Do It?

Feeling stuck in an exercise rut? The prospect sounds almost oxymoronic. But even the most active health buff can become stagnant in their fitness routine. Overusing the same muscles can create strain and lead to injury. And when too much ...
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Best Foods to Eat After a Strength Training Workout 

Best Foods to Eat After a Strength Training Workout 

Strength training can be grueling. The time, sweat, and endurance are all signs that you are dedicated to staying fit. Your body needs those workouts to build muscle, but it also needs time to rebound and restore. The foods you ...
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Top Tips for Moms Who Want to Start Working Out Again 

After giving birth to a baby, it is normal to experience changes in the body. These changes include more than just weight gain. You may also feel like you are not your pre-pregnancy self and lack of physical strength and ...
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Train Smarter, Not Harder: Tips to Prevent and Relieve Muscle Soreness

When finishing up your workout routine, it is normal to feel sore muscles. After all, your muscles are the ones enduring the impact of all the physical activity during your workout routine. Unfortunately, muscle soreness can be discouraging when trying ...
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5 High-Protein Vegetarian Foods for Muscle Gain

Many people choose a vegetarian diet regimen because it's beneficial to their health and aligned with their values, such as for the betterment of the environment and reduce animal cruelty. However, many people shy away from vegetarian diets due to ...
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Ditching the Scale: Healthier Ways to Track Your Workout Progress 

When on a fitness journey, it is easy to develop a love-and-hate relationship with the scale. While the scale is a valuable fitness tracking tool, it could be discouraging when defining your progress solely by numbers. Furthermore, relying on the ...
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5 Tips to Overcome Workout Boredom

You are on track with your fitness lifestyle, but are you suddenly no longer getting that excitement or joy from working out? If so, then you are facing workout boredom. Workout boredom affects our ability to improve our fitness goals ...
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Woman drinking water and listening to music after working out to increase her stamina

5 Ways to Increase Your Stamina and Energy

Energy, strength, and the right mindset are crucial to sustaining activities for long periods. The combination of these factors is known as stamina. By developing stamina, we can carry out both physical and intellectual activities without wearing ourselves down. This ...
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woman using towel on shoulders and holding water bottle after finishing workout routine

How to Stay Motivated and Committed to Your Workout Routine

It is no secret that engaging in a regular workout routine can bring outstanding benefits to your physical and mental health. However, even when we are aware of the benefits, it is hard to be consistent with a workout program ...
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Morning Stretches to Jump Start Your Day

If you get out of bed with excitement every morning, you’re one of the very few who do so. No matter what you have planned for the day, it can be hard to get moving when the alarm goes off ...
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Yoga at Your Desk: 5-Minute Break to Relief Stress and Boost Productivity

While having an office job has its benefits, sitting for prolonged hours increases the risk of developing health issues. These issues include musculoskeletal conditions, obesity, and diabetes. A sedentary lifestyle can also lead to ovarian, prostate, endometrial, or colorectal cancer ...
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Benefits of exercise

How Exercise Promotes Productivity

Besides improving our physical health and helping us with weight management, exercise also provides essential benefits to our mental health. Exercise influences the structure and functioning of the brain, which is why physical activity is a crucial factor for improving ...
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Stressed? How Exercise Can Help You

Along with a healthy diet, exercise is essential to maintain good physical and emotional health. According to research from Harvard Medical School, diets high in refined carbohydrates are harmful to the brain. And can aggravate our mood disorder symptoms. Meanwhile, ...
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desk exercises

Desk Exercises for Your Office Job

We no longer walk to water, we don't make our own clothes, and we are often found hopping into the car to drive across town to meet friends for coffee. We are blessed with so many modern conveniences and benefits ...
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11 Easy (and Subtle) Deskercises

11 Easy (and Subtle) Deskercises

A good exercise goal is 30 minutes of a moderate-intensity workout five days per week. However (and unfortunately), if you sit around all day, that's likely not enough. That's where deskercise comes into play. Exercises you can do at your ...
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How to Fuel Your Workout

How to Fuel Your Workout

The goal when it comes to fueling exercise is to achieve the most effective workout. It should both help you power through your routine, as well as making sure your body properly recuperates from the effort. Timing and nutrition go ...
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