Archive | March, 2011

Squatters’ rights.

24. March 2011

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Like Lunges, squats are great at toning your legs and butt – and help to keep it lifted, rounded and toned. Changing your leg and foot positions while keeping your knees straight up from the ankles and aligned with the toes, you also hit different muscles. Think about sitting back into a chair and not [...]

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Burn baby, burn.

24. March 2011

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Research has shown that muscles contract with more efficiency when lactic acid accumulates in them. When you’re doing exercises and feel the burn in your muscles, it signifies a buildup of lactic acid in the muscles. When lactic acid causes your muscles to hurt, you breathe harder and faster, so you slow down to match it. When you’re [...]

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Are you working hard at weight loss, or hardly working?

24. March 2011

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There’s an easy way to self-monitor your exercising. It’s called perceived exertion and is really quite simple to grasp. On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being how hard you’re breathing as you lounge around watching TV- and 10, where you can’t do one more jumping jack without feeling as if you’re going to pass out. [...]

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