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- The Benefits of Circuit Training
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Circuit training has recently grown in popularity, because of the great benefits that it provides. Circuit training is a way of blending your weight-training with cardiovascular exercise into one very-intense workout. The purpose of circuit training is to burn a lot of calories in a short period of time, build solid muscle mass, and boost your metabolism.
- Get a Six-Pack
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Six-pack abs are the most sought after physical trait for fitness enthusiasts. They represent the pinnacle of health and sexiness, and not surprisingly, they are one of the most elusive accomplishments. Building big arms or a big chest is hard, but just about anybody can do it if they lift enough weights and eat enough. However, six-pack abs require more than just doing a lot of crunches; they require the combination of a solid workout regimen and healthy eating.
- Choosing a Cardio Machine
[Health-and-Fitness:Fitness-Equipment] Choosing a form of cardio that fits you best, and yields great results can be challenging because there are so many different machines in a gym to choose from. Until you spend a great deal of time, committed to one specific machine, it is hard to determine if it will lead to results, or if it is just a waste of your time. In this article, we will be looking at various cardiovascular exercise machines and discussing the pros and cons of each machine. The first machine we will look at is a treadmill.
- Get Ripped Without Weights
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Some folks that get bored with lifting weights find that they get much more enjoyment out of bodyweight exercises. They can be performed pretty much anywhere, and they do not require any special equipment. In addition to the conveniences of bodyweight exercises, they also have a much lower risk of injury, and are much easier on the joints. In this article, we will go over some basic bodyweight exercises that cover the major muscle groups. We will start with the leg muscles.
- Speed Up Fat Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Sometimes weight loss isn't as simple as burning more calories than you eat. A lot of people hit plateaus in their weight-loss program, where no matter what they do; they just cannot lose the last bit of fat, and achieve their goals. There are some specific things that are often overlooked that can help bust you through your plateau.
- Walking For Health
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Walking is one of the easiest and most beneficial forms of exercise. It is easy on the joints, and requires relatively less effort than other types of sustained calorie-burning, such as jogging, making it less-difficult to perform for long periods of time. Walking provides many health benefits.
- Lose Fat With Strength Training
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The most important benefit of incorporating strength-training into your fat-loss plan is because it boosts your metabolic rate while you workout, and for a period of time afterwards. As you pack on muscle, your metabolism will be permanently faster because lean muscle mass burns calories.
- Christian Bale's Powerhouse Batman Workout
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] When Christian Bale set out to get in shape and become Batman, he was a man on a mission. He had just finished working on The Machinist, and only weighed 122 pounds. He had just six weeks to pack on some serious muscle.
- Build a Sexy Body With Pushups
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Pushups are a great exercise to lose fat and tone up the entire body. If you are in a hurry to build a beach body for Spring break or summer, or you just want to start working out and your schedule does not allow you to go to a gym, then pushups are for you! Because they require the simultaneous use of a several muscle groups, pushups build muscle mass on the entire body- resulting in a large total muscle gain.
- Jessica Simpson's Workout
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] If you have ever wondered what you would have to do to have a body like Jessica Simpson did in the Dukes of Hazzard, this article will illustrate the basic principles of her workout and diet plan. First, we will take a look at her workout plan. Jessica Simpson works out a minimum of two hours every day, five to six days per week, no matter what project she has going on at the moment.
- Mark Walhberg's Workout
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Have you ever wondered how Mark Walhberg maintains his oversized biceps and ripped abs? In the past when working on films, he usually devoted 30 minutes a day, five days a week, to weight lifting, but for the past two years it's been his grueling regimen of boxing training that's what's kept his physique at a 10. He goes full throttle into boxing mode when he's between films or as he says, "When I don't have to worry about showing up to work with a black eye.
- Angelina Jolie's Workout
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Angelina Jolie's star status has rocketed to new proportions after taking on blockbuster action-film roles in movies like "Tomb Raider" and the 2008 action-flick 'Wanted." Sporting a model's svelte physique in the 90s, Angelina Jolie is now known for her lean, sculpted figure. Jolie's secret to gaining lean muscle mass is her healthy protein-rich diet and high speed, high endurance physical training.
- Building A Strong Back With Targeted Weight Training
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] There are many types of machines, pulleys and callisthenic methods that can be used to get a good back workout. In this article, we will take a look at the different muscles of the back, and will recommend an effective weight training exercise that targets each muscle. First, we will take a look at a general back exercise that targets the entire back, called the bent-over row.
- Introduction to Squats
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Weight training programs often neglect the legs, and instead focus on more visible muscles that can be flexed and used to impress, such as the chest and biceps. However, properly training the legs is imperative to a successful training program because the legs are the largest muscles of the entire body and they burn lots of calories in the downtime between workouts. The ultimate leg exercise, that exercises nearly every muscle in the legs, is squats.
- Kickbox Cardio
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Kickboxing cardio is based on the Thai sport of kickboxing. It is a modified version of the martial art that is designed to maintain an elevated heart rate and provide a total body-conditioning workout. Kickboxing cardio classes are usually performed to music, with most movements synchronized with the rhythm of the music.
- Great Ab Exercises
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] In addition to a solid cardiovascular exercise routine, developing your abdominal muscles requires specific targeted exercises that work out the different abdominal regions. To begin, we will look at the different abdominal muscles.
- Matthew McConaughey's Movie Star Workout
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] You won't see Matthew McConaughey doing bench-presses at the gym. In fact, lately, you won't see People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive 2005" anywhere near a gym. Matthew McConaughey maintains his Adonis-like physique by enjoying various calisthenics workouts.
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