Getting Fit for Summer

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Getting Fit for Summer Getting fit for summer involves a combination of regular exercise, a balanced diet, and lifestyle changes. Here are some of the best ways to get fit for the summer: Set clear goals: Define your fitness goals, whether it’s losing weight, toning up, building muscle, or improving endurance. Having clear objectives will
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Exercising during Winter – How to keep your fitness routine going

Exercising during Winter

Exercising during Winter Here’s a few ways to keep your fitness routine going Daylight Savings has ended, you’re waking up in the dark, coming home from work in the dark and that couch is starting to feel awfully inviting, the last thing you are thinking about is exercising during winter. We are entering that phase
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Exercise Tips for Overcoming the Winter Blues

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Our Top 16 Exercise tips for Overcoming the Winter Blues and Preparing Your Summer Body Now! Motivating yourself to exercise during winter can be hard. With shorter days, cold and wet weather, it can be easier to give in to temptation and curly up under a blanket with some comfort food and Netflix. However, exercising
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Your Summer Body is Made in Winter

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Visit almost any fitness blog on the internet and you will see the mantra “your summer body is made in winter”. And while this mantra might get annoying, there is certainly a great lot of truth behind it. The average person puts on more than 4 kilograms over winter. We tend to fall into a
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Feedback in Martial Arts coaching

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Feedback in Martial Arts coaching There are many areas in martial arts where some subtlety in feedback, a minor detail, provides the answer to a seemingly much bigger problem. It could be a slight shift in weight that allows you to launch your much larger opponent through the air, or a minor change in your
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Physiological effects of Taekwondo training

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Taekwondo training and its physiological effects The purpose of this taekwondo study was to investigate the change of heart rate, oxygen consumption, blood lactate in resting phase, and post exercise recovering phase at 5 min, 30 min and 60 min after a total 10-week period including training and competition phases. Development of advanced strength training
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Body fat reduction in obese adolescents

What is best for body fat reduction in obese adolescents – lifting, running or….both ? Evidence shows that obesity levels among adolescents aged 10-16 years is increasing. Obesity-related chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease can be controlled, but not reversed, with the use of expensive medications. Therefore, if unchecked, when an
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Cardio vs strength training

Strength Training vs Cardio – which should come first ?   Over the past decade exercise scientists have consistently shown that programs combining endurance training and strength training exercises have greater effects on overall physical fitness and health than prescribing one of these exercise modalities, alone. For example, endurance training is largely most beneficial for
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Mental health improves with exercise

Mental Health Improves with exercise Mental health benefits are often underrated in the quest for physical prowess, one often hits the gym or track focusing purely on the physical effort required. The effect of psychological health drives all that we do, from motivating us to strive for improvement through to assisting us to deal with
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