Overhead Press Correctly Sitting at a desk all day with your arms hanging down by your sides can cause problems in your shoulder joints and muscles. It puts strain on the shoulder blade muscles, so they shorten over time. That is, obviously, a bad thing to have happen. The overhead press is the best exercise
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Avoiding Overtraining Exercise accounted for 468,000 injuries in 2019. That’s more injuries than any other category of sports and recreation. Getting and staying fit means intense, challenging workouts. But when those workouts result in injury, you may be suffering from overtraining. There is indeed such thing as too much exercise and it can have both physical
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…Everyone has days where they are struggling more than usual to get going, especially in the gym. In fact, an entire industry has grown up around that idea…
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Exercise and Your Mental Health Mental illness isn’t anything to play around with. One in five adults today in the US have some form of mental illness. At the same time, only 23% of Americans get the recommended amount of exercise. With all of the mental health benefits associated with exercise, why aren’t we collectively
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Sleep Deprivation and Your Goals Everyone has an ideal body image. We all have goals, dreams, and desires. Some of us want to be behemoth’s, able to lift anything in our way; others want to be as skinny as possible; kids want to look like Schwarzenegger in his prime when they grow up; teenagers might
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…it’s probably wrecking your body. If you are like most people today, especially those of us in western societies, you are probably dehydrated. Don’t feel too bad about that statement. 75% of Americans are considered ‘chronically dehydrated’…
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Everyone knows that exercising and eating properly creates a foundation for a lifetime of optimal health and performance. To most people, exercise is seen as the more important part of that equation, in terms of how we live, feel, and perform. Usually, people don’t know, or realize, just how significantly nutrition plays into their overall
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…maximizes results within limited timeframes is key for those who may not have the luxury of lengthy workouts. That is basically what you get with “High Intensity Interval Training”…
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Forge Your Own Fitness Path Busting your butt to get in shape can seem like an uphill battle, complicated, and a quick route to being broke (literally or financially). Actually, it’s not even close. You don’t need a swanky gym pass, a shed load of gear, or countless hours each day just to kickstart your
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…You’re sound asleep when the alarm you set for 6:30am starts yelling at you. You had decided to start working out. Today was going to be the day. You had your clothing set out, your meal plan written down and prepped, shoes near the door, and even went to bed a bit earlier so you would be well rested when you set off on your 32nd attempt to try and build yourself into something better…
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