Fitness Facts

Is there a limit to muscle growth? This is a question everyone has asked themselves, and the answer is pretty cut and dry. All I can really do is explain why this limit exists and touch on the various factors that cause it. I will also offer some cautions about trying to push past these…

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Today, we’re going to look at something that’s going to seem a bit counterintuitive. When we think about fitness, we think about weight loss primarily. Combatting obesity is such a focus in fitness (justifiably for the most part) that we often forget that it’s entirely possible to be woefully underweight as well. Being underweight may…

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When you were younger, chances have you used jump ropes quite a bit for play. Now that you are older and stronger, it is time to add a new and tougher rope to your life. Battle ropes are thick ropes that are typically anchored by either a pole, a beam, or a wall. They come…

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As much as you hear it, how often do you think about how different you are from the other people in the gym? Everyone has a body, but that doesn’t mean their muscles are going to respond to the same workout yours does and vice versa. If you are feeling frustrated with your current progress,…

Is every set of rankings created equal? The answer to this is an obvious no considering how subjective many of them are. Whether the focus is the best football player, the best world cup tournament, or the sexiest women of all time, there is usually a single perspective and a desire for traffic that drives…

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Congratulations on taking the first major step on a life-altering journey. As a beginner to the world of lifting weights and breaking a sweat, you probably have a lot of questions about strength training. Before stepping into the gym, you should have some idea about what is going to go down (or what is going…

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When you are looking for peak performance in your chosen sport, you have to consider the mental factors as well as the physical ones. Even the most physically capable of people will find that their impressive physiques will do them no good without a mind and a will to drive them. In this article, we…

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This article is intended for the serious beginner. To clarify our meaning, we are addressing those of you who may be new to the bodybuilding game and who want to chart out a path for success. Even for those of you who have been training for a while, it might be helpful to try some…

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Weight loss is one of those somewhat touchy subjects in the fitness and health world. We all have an ideal weight, and exceeding our ideal weight is indeed unhealthy, and will be counterproductive to our fitness goals and how we want to look. But before we get into a great set of exercises that can…

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Society is a fickle thing, with trends coming and going over time, impacted by culture, the upbringing of the incoming adult generation, technology, and much more. Many people make a very complex career out of studying, predicting, and, unfortunately, influencing trends in various directions. This is a fact of life and has been why various…

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Pushups are one of those things we all think of when thinking about general exercise. Popular media has cemented this – how many times in workout montages do we see characters doing pushups, sometimes with another character motivating or adding a challenge to it? How many times have we seen the rigors of military training…

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Calories. In the fitness and health world, as well as the nutrition world, you hear people go on and on about calories. Nutritional facts on foods put calories in big old bold letters, along with fat and sugar content. We’ve been programmed, as a society, for many years to count calories and fat intake, and…

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As someone who personally hates wearing shoes and can’t wait to be free of them at the end of the day, I’m always surprised by what difference shoes can make in a workout. Sure, comfortable running shoes are excellent for well, running as well as a lot of sports. Cleats are excellent when you’re running…

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One of the ongoing problems that we’re all guilty of in the fitness world, including me, is the bad habit of overlooking certain aspects of our physique, resulting in an unbalanced body that, from various angles, can look just wrong. Part of this is because some portions of our body can be harder to target,…

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So, you’ve heard someone at your gym or in your circle of friends laud the Texas method. They may have talked about how it maintains a tenable level of progress long-term without being that complicated to approach. It’s also not something that occupies all of your free time, which a lot of exercise routines tend…

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Do you hate cardio and aerobic training? The repetitive, sweaty, tedious nature of this kind of exercise can turn a lot of people away. Most people just can’t stay motivated doing jumping jacks, running on treadmills, or riding in a hurry to nowhere on a stationary bicycle. The disdain for this kind of exercise is…

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When you think about it, we rely on our backs for just about everything we do. An unhealthy back impacts our lifestyle to such a degree that it becomes challenging to get through a daily routine, let alone enjoy activities. Anatomy of the back To appreciate how the back functions, or not, it helps to…

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When we think about fitness – not just being properly healthy, but athletic, Adonic fitness – we think of two parts of the body above all others, the abdominal area and arms. We picture mighty, rugged, swole guys and toned, sleek women who could probably dismantle us with a pinky finger. Everyone wishes they looked…

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