Yoga for Weight Loss: Does it Work?

Yoga for Weight Loss: Does it Work?

Diet & Fitness / Fitness

By Nick Mutt Losing weight is not as easy as advertised by pharmaceutical companies that claim their products to assure 100 percent guaranteed weight loss. Shedding those extra pounds of flesh requires some physical activities accompanied with herbal supplements that are not only free from side effects but also take…

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Motivating Music

Motivating Music

Diet & Fitness / Fitness

If you’ve been having a hard time sticking with your workout routine, music may help you stay on track with your fitness resolutions. Music can be a huge motivation when you’re working out, giving you a chance to break out of a humdrum routine and synchronize your movements to your…

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Safety Tips for the Winter Workout Season

Safety Tips for the Winter Workout Season

Diet & Fitness / Fitness

by Maureen Chapdelaine Cooler days call for a change in wardrobe, especially if you’re planning on taking your workout outside. With fewer hours of daylight and mixed weather conditions, this change in season is the perfect time to think about how to keep safe during outdoor activities. Do you run,…

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Moves for Tighter Arms

Moves for Tighter Arms

Diet & Fitness / Fitness

If you’ve been yearning for sculpted and toned arms, working out on the treadmill or elliptical machine isn’t going to help you get the muscle tone you’re looking for. The best exercises for shapely and attractive arms require you to challenge several key muscle groups in the upper and lower…

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Best Butt Exercises

Best Butt Exercises

Diet & Fitness / Fitness

We all want a shapely behind. What we don’t want is the massive effort it takes to get a curvy derriere. We can attack this typical trouble spot with target exercises to tone and define the muscles of the butt. We spend so much of our days parked in a…

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Monitoring Heart Rate When Exercising

Monitoring Heart Rate When Exercising

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One of the benefits of exercise is that it improves cardiovascular fitness. Your heart rate, or pulse, is the number of times your heart beats in a minute and is an indicator of how hard your heart is working during exercise. Learning to monitor your heart rate will help ensure…

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Cool New Workout Classes

Cool New Workout Classes

Diet & Fitness / Fitness

If you’re a certain age, you remember doing endless leg lifts in your best Jane Fonda costume to terrible 80s pop music. Fast forward a bit, and it’s sweaty spinning classes that attract the masses. Whatever the year, there has always been one hot workout trend that everyone is offering…

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5 Ways to Add Fitness to Your Life

5 Ways to Add Fitness to Your Life

Diet & Fitness / Fitness

These days, it’s hard to turn on the television for more than fifteen minutes without seeing at least one commercial talking about weight loss. However, when you get right down to it, more than weight loss is important, the key is making lifestyle changes – eating more nutritious foods and…

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