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Don’t Let an Injury Stop You From Accomplishing Your Goals!

Don’t Let an Injury Stop You From Accomplishing Your Goals! By Mark Lani Certified Personal Trainer Can you relate to this scenario? After putting it off for too long, you commit to get fit-only to find yourself injured the minute you start working out. All of the sudden your fitness goals go back on the shelf and you are left to deal with the pain. Whether your injury occurs right off the bat or after years of regular workouts, the result is always the same. It is discouraging, painful, and…

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Taming Testosterone Troubles

Men: Have you had difficulty getting out of bed in the morning, or are you suffering from low mood or libido? Have you gained body fat, lost muscle or begun to struggle with depression or lack of motivation? Low testosterone levels may be to blame. Ten years ago, the Endocrine Society reported that men had approximately 20% less testosterone than their fathers’ generation at exactly the same age (Travison et al. 2006). This has led to a growing trend of people using testosterone creams and gels to boost lagging levels….

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The 5 Worst Mistakes That Are Destroying Your Metabolism!

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The 5 Worst Mistakes Destroying Your Results: Surprisingly, not all exercises are good for you. In fact, research has discovered that doing crunches, sit-ups and other ab-targeted exercises will NOT help you get flat, washboard abs. The problem is when you do conventional ab exercises, your stomach muscles feel sore, which fools you into thinking that you’re working your abs. Yet, after weeks of religiously doing your ab routine, your belly looks just as bloated and soft as it did before. All that time and pain for nothing! Here’s the…

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How To Instantly Improve Testosterone Levels

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How To INSTANTLY Improve Your Testosterone Levels By Kevin DiDonato MS, CSCS, CES Our bodies contain two types of testosterone.  One is the kind that is bound to a type of hormone and is responsible for dictating to the body how much free testosterone there is.  The other form is testosterone that is free and unbound, and is the form of testosterone that is metabolized by the cells for use. The job of testosterone is important in the body.   Testosterone helps aid in development of different systems in the body from the…

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The Journey Part 1: Prohormones & What They Can Do For You!

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The Journey, Part 1: Prohormones; what can they do for me? Over the next few weeks we are going on a journey, we are going to explore prohormones and how they can have such a huge positive impact on our journey towards our goals. Along with learning about prohormones, also covered in future articles in this series will be the five most important aspects to anyone looking to improve their physique: smart training, sensible nutrition, supplementation, goal setting and motivation. These articles are here to help you understand how best…

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The Journey Part 3: Training For Maximum Fat Loss

the journey part 3: training for maximum fat loss!

The Journey Part 3: Training for maximum fat loss: Welcome back, this is part 3 of the journey. We’ve now covered prohormones. You now know how they can help you with making lean muscle gains, and which ones are best to take. In this article we’re gonna start delving in to training for maximum fat loss. This will include what exercises to do, the reps, sets, and rest times, all of which will help you with getting shredded! Over the winter months you’ve been bulking, gaining muscle mass, getting stronger,…

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The Journey Part 2: Prohormones Explained

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  The Journey Part 2: Prohormones and what they do! Welcome back to part 2 of the journey. In part 1 we covered what prohormones are and how these powerful little pills can benefit you in making lean muscle gains. In this article we will go over: what types of mass building prohormones there are, the safest supplements for building muscle, and the best supplements for getting cut. There are 2 types of prohormones, wet and dry, what does this mean? Wet Prohormones: Well, wet prohormones unlike their dry counterparts…

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30 minute workout good or bad

  Is It Possible To Get A Good Workout In 30 minutes? by Mark Lani CPT, CSN Ask anyone who goes to the gym how long a good workout usually takes; you will be surprised to learn that most gym goers spend one to two hours including the commute. Based on the above response many are blown away when I tell them that is possible to get an effective workout in 30 minutes a day, and still get awesome results! Because of the hectic world we live in and limited…

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