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Running for Weight Loss: 4-Week Plan & Tips for Starting

Running for weight loss typically involves periods of alternating intensity, between walking, jogging and sprinting, to achieve maximum calorie burning. Check-out our 4-week running plan to promote weight loss and other tips for getting started.

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Strength Training: Benefits, Tips & Exercises

Strength training is a form of exercise involving a higher number of sets, fewer repetitions, heavy weights, and longer periods of rest in between sets. Strength training helps build muscle, improve posture, support weight loss, and reduce the risk of injury. Check out workout tips and exercise examples.

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Ab Workouts: 10 At-Home Exercises for Well-Defined Abs

Ab workouts include exercises to help strengthen and tone the abdominal muscles and reduce belly fat. To increase definition, it is also important to practice aerobic exercise and follow a low-calorie diet. Read about exercises for well-defined abs as well as nutrition tips to support your ab workout.

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Natural Energy Drinks: 6 Recipes to Fuel Your Workout

Natural energy drinks, like honey lemon energy drinks and green tea energy drinks, are a great way to keep your energy up during a workout, especially with intense forms of exercise like running, CrosssFit, or HIIT, for example. Check out healthy recipes and read about precautions and contraindications.

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Arm Workout: 13 Exercises for Home & the Gym

An arm workout includes exercises like push-ups, bicep curls, and lateral raises. These can be done at home with the use of dumbbells, resistance bands, or even just your body weight. Arm exercises for the gym include lat pulldowns and triceps pushdowns. Read more about arm exercises for home and the gym.

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What To Eat After a Workout (Carbs, Protein and Snack Options)

After a workout, you should eat high-carb foods and proteins, such as sweet potatoes, bananas, yogurt, cottage cheese, soybeans and eggs. These can help promote recovery after exercising, helping with muscle gains or weight loss. Learn more about what to eat after a workout, with healthy snack options.

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8 Adductor Exercises for the Inner Thighs

Adductor exercises, like the leg press, sumo squats, and stability ball glute bridge are great options for helping to strengthen and tone the inner thighs and reduce the appearance of cellulite. They can be done at home or at the gym using just your body weight or with weights. Check out 8 adductor exercises.

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9 CrossFit Workouts to Lose Belly Fat

CrossFit workouts like jumping rope, push-ups, and burpees can be done at home or in the gym and under the guidance of a certified personal trainer to guarantee correct form and technique to minimize the risk of injury. Check out 9 CrossFit exercises that can help you lose belly fat.

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Metabolic Conditioning (MetCon): Benefits & How to Perform

Metabolic conditioning, or MetCon, is a type of training method that is aimed at improving your energy levels, performance, fat burning and endurance. The exercises are typically high-intensity and increase your heart rate, breathing and body temperature. Learn more about how to perform metabolic conditioning.

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Functional Training: What Is It, Health Benefits & How to Perform

Functional training is a type of exercise that is mostly done with gym equipment and that aims to improve physical fitness, having several health benefits. Learn more about what functional training is, its main benefits and how to perform it.

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6 At-Home Shoulder Workouts (Plus Stretches)

At-home shoulder workouts are simple, easy, and effective, whether you are looking to tone, strengthen, or build muscle in your shoulders. They can also help improve shoulder stability. Read about shoulder exercises to target the deltoid, trapezius, and arm muscles as well as post-workout stretches.

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10 Top Knee-Strengthening Exercises (for Home or the Gym)

Knee-strengthening exercises are a great way to build muscle strength and resistance and improve knee stability. They may be recommended for healthy individuals or for those with knee pain caused by arthritis. Learn how to do 10 different knee-strengthening exercises to protect your knees from wear and tear.

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Top 17 Glute Exercises (for Home and the Gym)

Glute exercises allow you to work the gluteus medius, maximus, and minimus, as well as the calves, thighs, and front and back of the legs. These exercises can be done with or without weights, at home or in the gym. Read instructions on how to perform these exercises, with options to add weights.

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Body Recomposition Diet: Guidelines + Meal Plan

A body recomposition diet should be high in protein, healthy fats, and whole grains and low in simple sugars and saturated fats. It should be accompanied by regular physical activity, sufficient fluid intake, and adequate rest. Read guidelines for following a body recomposition diet, including a meal plan.

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Cooper Test: What It Measures, How to Complete & Results

A Cooper test is a cardiovascular fitness test that measures how far a person can run in 12 minutes. The objective of this test is to quantify a person’s physical condition. Learn more about how to the calculate results of a Cooper test, what results mean and what normal results are based on age and gender.