Blog entries tagged 'beach workouts'

Why is fitness INVISIBLE?

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From there, your trainer or coach monitors your progress and fine-tunes your fitness program consistently to help you reach your goals fast and injury- free.

All personal trainers are NOT the same.
Any fitness trainer can help you squeeze a few more reps out of your set. But will they know what you're doing to your body on the inside?
The risks involved over the long run? Or even provide you with a several alternatives to the same exercise?We care about fo [...]

Turn Your Car into a Gym

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Isometric means not moving or keeping the same length of tension. So imagine you are doing a bicep curl. You start by holding the weight by your side with your arm straight. You then lift/curl the weight and bring it closer to your shoulder. The phase where you lift or shorten the muscle is a concentric contraction. As you lower, you are lengthening and that is eccentric. Imagine you stop in the middle and hold the weight there for 60-90 seconds-that is iso [...]

Carb Phobic??

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Shouldn't I eat a lot of protein? You need approximately .6-.9 grams of protein per pound of body weight. If you weigh 125, you need between 75- 113 grams of protein a day. More than that, you stress the liver and kidneys and can become dehydrated. Eating lots of protein doesn't mean you are going to build muscle. I think it's funny that people have increased their intake of protein but not their exercise or resistance training and think somehow magically muscl [...]

To Stretch or Not to Stretch?

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What is a stretch? In very basic terms, a stretch is the lengthening of a muscle. We consider it a "relaxed" state. But in order to get one muscle into that relaxed and lengthened state, another muscle has to be shortening.

There are 2 types of stretching- passive and active. We consider passive BAD and dangerous. We encourage you to use active stretching. Studies from the American Journal of Applied Physiology and reports brought to us by [...]