Articles for category: Fitness & Exercise

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Best Women’s Fitness Message Boards

Because staying motivated is easier when you have a strong support system, Fit Girl is happy to share our list of the best women’s online message board websites, along with the number of unique visitors that each one gets on a monthly basis. These can be especially helpful to anyone who is starting a serious ...

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Product Review: The Ab Lounge Sport

Every time you turn on the television there is another fitness infomercial trying to convince consumers to buy a brand new product. Among these products are a plethora of abdominal exercise machines. Of the thousands of products available, I am truly pleased with my choice. The Ab Lounge Sport is a great abdominal fitness machine ...

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Why Stair Climbing Can Fail at Fitness

If you think you’re fit because you use a staircase in your house, keep reading, because you are being deceived into thinking that simply climbing the stairs every day will automatically make you fit and healthy. I’m a certified personal trainer and my parents have a staircase in their house. The presence of this one ...

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Top Ten Ways Treadmills Can Benefit Your Health

The treadmill has long been used by many fitness professionals as well as by numerous individuals in their homes or in hotels. It is probably the most popular single piece of fitness equipment used by both fitness centers and home workout enthusiasts. Many people appreciate the many benefits treadmills have to offer including improved health ...

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Stretching Exercises for the Office

Do you want to relieve stress and tone those bodily muscles the easy way? Here are four examples of stretching exercise that you can do during your office hours that help keep tension at bay and build that dream body you have always wanted! Well, these simple exercises does not relieve you from having to ...

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Standing Stretches for Patellar Tendonitis

Standing stretches are crucial when you have patellar tendonitis. You may not want to do any stretches because you are in pain, but the lack of stretching will lead to stiffness and even more pain. Even though standing stretches can be very painful at the beginning they will eventually make your patellar tendonitis pain decrease ...

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Can You Get Ripped Doing Only Bodyweight Exercises?

You actually can get a ripped physique if all you do are bodyweight exercises, but you must meet some conditions to make this happen. A ripped physique from only bodyweight exercises can be yours. However, you’re fooling yourself if you think hard work won’t be involved, and that includes proper eating. I’m a certified personal ...

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How to Perform a Basic Parkour Wall Run

About three years ago, I was finally able to put a name to the sport that is parkour. For years, I’d seen people getting hurt on popular video sites, but had never known what it was called. Well, as soon as I had a name for the sport, I started doing some research, and found ...

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Finding Exercise DVDs that Really Work

There is no such thing as an exercise DVD that will work for everyone. This statement has nothing to do with the content of the DVD; even a DVD that is absolutely guaranteed to contain exercises that will get a person into shape is doomed to fail in many cases. The reason that there this ...

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The Perfect Crunch: How to Work Your Upper Abs

The perfect crunch is a small, controlled movement that targets your upper abs. If you want to get a defined stomach, you’ll need to work your upper abs, and if you want to get those muscles pumping, you’ll need to master and practice the crunch. A lot of people know the basics of how to ...