Tag: core stability
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New Year Fitness Tips
The gym is full of people around the new year who are trying to make good on their New Year’s resolutions. They come in like a blaze of glory, thinking a year’s worth of inactivity is made up for in an instant. However, some of these people flame out in a week or two when…
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Spice up your exercise by changing positions
When you were a baby (a long time ago for some) you loved lying on the floor and staring up at the world above. If you wanted to go anywhere or were hungry, all you needed to do was cry and wail until your slaves came running to meet your every need. Life was so…
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Balance Training 2.0
When you’re young, losing your balance isn’t a big deal. You pick yourself up, dust yourself off and you put a band-aid on your boo boo. If you’re lucky, your mum will kiss it better for you too. However, when you get older, losing your balance becomes a very big deal. Let these facts from…
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Reclaim your waist line with 5 simple moves
After you polish off your second side of fries and the guilt sets in, you finally resolve to go the gym to work on your waist line. If it’s been a while since you’ve hit the gym and you’re thinking about resorting to those old school moves of crunches and sit ups, stop now. Instead,…
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6 Instant Exercise Upgrades
Upgrade your exercise with these 6 tips Remember how your English teacher told you to dot your i’s and cross your t’s? Or your high school coach always telling you to move your feet? Sure you do, it wasn’t that long ago, right? These are called one per centers. One per centers can make a…
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What you should be doing in the gym- Part six – Groundwork
The hard part is over. You made it to the gym and that’s usually half the battle. Now that you’re there, what are you going to do? This is where a lot of people get stuck but don’t worry, I’ve got your back. This is part six of a six-part series that focuses on the…
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Spice up your core training
Google core training and you get over 4 million hits. Every man and his dog has an opinion on core training. Make it 4 million and one. 🙂 So what is “the core”exactly? Think about this for a moment. The answer you’re likely to get is “it’s my six pack, dude.” However, the core is…
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Bench training
You lie on it, you lift on it and you sweat on it. The humble weight bench takes a real beating. Without the bench, there would be no bench press or excessive grunting. However, it’s time to see the bench in a completely different light.The bench is a tool you can use to improve your…
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Must do core exercises
When someone performs a crunch poorly, I shed a tear. Well maybe not, but I do get upset. You may have seen “that” person who walks into a gym, a little lost, a little bamboozled but with every intention of getting in shape and getting those six-pack abs. Armed with knowledge learned from long-ago high school…