Training
The Importance of Hill Sprints in Workouts
Some people claim that running is boring, monotonous, and reaps slow gains and benefits to the body. So why do it? Running hills offers numerous benefits you typically wouldn’t see from simply jogging 2-3 miles ...
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How to Sleep Better to Improve Muscle Growth
Exercise and nutrition are typically the first two factors people consider when trying to gain muscle. Recovery, on the other hand, is often forgotten. According to Song et al. (2023), sleep that is poor in ...
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How to Build a Recovery Plan That Actually Works
You’ve got your training plan nailed down, but have you thought about the other half of the equation for making progress? That’s right—recovery! While training pushes your body to grow stronger, recovery allows it to ...
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Train Hard, Recover Harder: 5 Tips to Jumpstart Your Recovery in 2025
Recovery is the unsung hero of your fitness and wellness routine. It can be hard and tempting to only focus on pushing harder through workouts, doing more reps, more weight, and just simply always trying ...
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Sports Performance Training for Young Athletes
WHY SPORTS PERFORMANCE?When is it time to encourage your young athlete to start sports performance training? For many athletes, specialized sports performance training does not become incorporated into their regular training program until they are ...
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A CLOSER LOOK AT THE 5 ISOMETRIC EXERCISE BENEFITS THAT YOU SHOULD BE CONSIDERING
The fitness journey can be a tough one to embark upon. If you have yet to get started, the process is often daunting. However, these journeys do not have to be as challenging when the ...
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Exploring Anaerobic Exercise for Strength Training and Body Building
Anaerobic Exercise: What You Need to Build Muscle Anaerobic exercise is short bursts of high-intensity exercise designed to help you build muscle and process glucose (sugar) in your body. Weight lifting, sprint running, and HIIT ...
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HIIT: The Workout for Busy People
If you’re like me, you classify yourself as a perpetually busy person. Things are always coming up, filling your schedule, leaving you feeling like there’s no time left for yourself. But what if I told ...
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Functional Fitness and Why You Need to Incorporate it in Your Training
What is functional fitness?Functional fitness is a style of exercise that focuses on everyday movements (OPEX Fitness, 2023). Instead of focusing on maximal strength with ideal form, functional fitness emphasizes holistic strength and stability paired ...
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Losing Weight During Perimenopause
As women get older, maintaining their desired weight becomes harder. The workouts that worked in their 20s and 30s may no longer give the same results. It’s normal for weight gain to start a few ...
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Training Your Core Is Essential
When you think of core training, you probably think of endless crunches and planks. You might think of six-pack ab muscles on beach-ready bodies. But you may not think about all the other things a ...
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Women, STOP Being Afraid to Lift Heavy!
Let me guess, some unnamed people have ingrained in your brain that lifting heavy, or lifting weights at all, will make you “bulky”. I’m here to tell you that’s BS, and it’s time women take ...
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