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What You Can Learn From Cavemen

How would you like to be naturally lean, muscular and energetic? To effortlessly maintain a low body fat, rippling muscles and picturesque health?

Mark Sisson, an athlete, coach, and student on a lifelong quest for exceptional health, happiness, and peak performance (his words), penned the book, “The Primal Blueprint” to show you how to do just that.
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Resistance Training Principle #13: Avoiding Big Bulky Muscles!

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When most people think of the stereotypical body builder, they think of this really big guy with huge muscles who is just so tight and stiff that he actually has a problem moving. Have you ever watched a bodybuilder play a sport? It’s quite comical! Many people find it difficult to imagine a graceful and flexible body builder. Like the elusive Sasquatch, they are rare, but do exist!On a more serious note, the tightness image of weight lifting comes from this “bodybuilding” style of training that promotes small isolated exercises, a lack of athletic development or movement training, combined with a poor attention to joint mobility.

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Resistance Training Principle #12: Warm Up and Quit Being A Statue!

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We’ve all seen it before…the person who gets to the gym, heads right to the weight room and just starts lifting? Well, this situation creates many challenges and risks, including decreased performance, higher potential for injury and poor development of key movement skills.Your body does not respond very well going from complete inactivity to an intense level of output. Your musculo-skeletal (muscles, bones, joints, ligaments, cartilage and tendons), cardio-respiratory (heart and lungs) and your metabolic energy pathways (where you get your energy to workout) need a gradual stimulation in order to function optimally. You should always start your resistance (and higher intensity cardio) training workouts by performing some simple movement and balance activities in addition to general activities such as, walking on a treadmill, or climbing on the stepper for a few minutes.

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Not All Exercise is Created Equal. Get Fit and Start Living YOUR Life…Today!

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Article written by Tim Borys

There is no doubt that exercise is beneficial to health, vitality and performance. However, most people spend years doing incorrect activities and fail to get the results they desire.

The common approach is to spend time in the gym working specific muscles or doing large amounts of “cardio” on machines. The fact is, a significant percentage of this work is unnecessary and often counterproductive. [Read more...]

Resistance Training Principle #11: Apply Progression for Continuous Results!

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There are literally hundreds of different exercises you could perform to get the results you are looking for. However, it isn’t the exercise that is the most important thing. It’s how you do it (technique) and how you progress, change, and modify the exercise over time to keep your body adapting. This is where the expert advice and support of a qualified and experienced Personal Trainer is invaluable. If you are just getting started, begin with basic exercises.

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4 Ways To Burn More Fat

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There is nothing quite as frustrating as seeing your results fizzle out.

This is a common place to end up, usually after a few months on the same exercise routine. In the beginning your body responds to your routine with lost pounds and gained muscle tone, then one day all results screech to a stop.

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Resistance Training Principle #10: Avoid the Overtraining Trap

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A couple posts ago, we discussed the principle of Over training. Although it is important to regularly overload the body, there is a difference and a fine line between overloading and over training and it’s important that you know the difference. As previously mentioned, Overload is when you push your body slightly past its current physical baseline in an effort to create an adaption effect. This results in increased levels of fitness over time.

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Resistance Training Principle #9: Get in Touch with Touch Training

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If you have ever watched a great Personal Trainer working with their client, you may notice that that the trainer will often use their hands and touch their client while training. They are not trying to get “fresh” with their client (no pun intended); they are using an actual physiological principle to maximize training effects.You see, you have sensory receptors on your skin.

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Transform From

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Have you ever seen a really impressive “before” and “after” photo on a weight loss product?

Well, there’s something that the diet industry doesn’t want you to know. There is more involved than just the diet product, and it’s the same across the board.

Look into the eyes of any person in their “before” picture and you’ll see that they are deeply disturbed. The body they have is no longer in sync with the body they are able to accept.

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Resistance Training Principle #8: Ninja Mind Control Tactics for Better Fitness!

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The understanding of the mind-body connection discussed in Principle #7 has wide reaching implications. In fact, it is intimately connected with virtually EVERY aspect of your life!As professional Personal Trainers, we hear from clients all the time that they feel they are NOT genetically gifted and those those who get results are just lucky, born to be fit, or many other excuses. This could not be further from the truth and is one of the key reasons people fail to see fitness results, develop socially, intellectually, or professionally. Basically, they lack the self confidence, self-image, and mindset to overcome their fears and negative self-talk.

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