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Thanksgiving Day History And Fun Facts

Thanksgiving Day Is Already Upon Us

Thanksgiving day is brings many American families together to enjoy parades, football and a huge afternoon feast!Below are some fun and interesting facts about Thanksgiving over the years in America.

The First Thanksgiving Day

As we all learned in grade school classes and plays, the most familiar story of the first Thanksgiving took place in Plymouth Colony in 1621. The celebration between the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians lasted 3 days. Did you know (or remember) that Plymouth Colony today is Massachusetts? It wasn’t until 1883, during the Civil War, that President Lincoln proclaimed a national day of “Thanksgiving. He ordered it to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November. Congress finally made Thanksgiving Day an official national holiday in 1941.

How You Can Avoid Getting Fat This Holiday Season

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Follow These Tips To Avoid Getting Fat This Holiday Season

That time of year is upon us again. The holiday season full of fun and cheer but also makes it difficult to avoid getting fat. You worked hard to keep your body in top shape throughout the summer and now you’re worried that after a couple of weeks into the holiday season you will be rummaging through your closet to find your “fat” pants.

Well, this year doesn’t have to be like your previous experiences. By reviewing a few tips explored in this article, you can choose the ones that would best curb your holiday binging habits. When going to holiday parties and festivities you can be occupied by good company instead of worrying about how to avoid getting fat. With a little will power, determination, and distraction, you will be breezing through the holiday season enjoying healthy portions of your holiday favorites while maintaining the figure you worked so hard for.

8 Ways to Jumpstart Your Weight Loss Journey

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8 Ways to Jumpstart Your Weight Loss Journey

We all want to look our best. Yet, still, nearly 74 percent of the population is considered overweight or obese. This is due largely to the fact that fast food restaurants and other convenience foods are lurking at every corner. If you’re ready to increase your aesthetic appeal and overall health, now’s the best time to start taking steps to shed the pounds. It can be difficult to stay on track when you start with unrealistic expectations. In order to best assure weight loss success, follow these eight ways to jumpstart your weight loss journey.

Junk Food Cravings – Change By Following These Steps

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Junk Food Cravings – Change By Following These Steps

Like everyone, you probably find yourself at different times of your busy day having junk food cravings. Not only does junk food taste great but it also is usually super easy to get your hands on – candy bar, popcorn, bag of chips, ice cream bar, or other high carb low protein snack bought on about any street corner mini market these days, or you can swing by any fast food restaurant to grab a high carb, high fat burger, burritos, nachos… so many choices to fill those junk food cravings in so little time. I rarely have people tell me they have a junk food cravings for something good for them like a piece of fruit or high protein, low carb snack. [Read more…] about Junk Food Cravings – Change By Following These Steps

Change Up Workout Routines To Lose Weight and Gain muscle

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Change Up Workout Routines To Lose Weight and Gain muscle

Your body is an incredible thing. It changes food into energy and raw building materials for your body. It regularly repairs itself. It enables you to do amazing things.

This amazing ability does bring some problems. The body’s ability to adapt makes losing weight difficult. Your body learns how to burn less energy when you use the same exercises.

The same concepts apply to gaining muscle. Your body will strain less as you perform the same activities. This results in smaller gains.

Bootcamp Workouts – Good Use To Mix Things Up

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Bootcamp Workouts – Good Use To Mix Things Up

Whether you are going to a gym to lift or working out in your garage, everyone likes to (and your body needs to) take a break from weight lifting. I wrote an article about resting your body for a week after a 4-6 week intense training effort but what if you just don’t feel like going back to weight lifting. It happens, so I’m told. For me, I’ve started my day off going to the gym 3 days a week to lift for so long I wouldn’t know what else to do with myself. But for those of you that are feeling burnt out, here is an intense but fun way to keep motivated. Many cities offer classes for bootcamp workouts but you don’t need to spend extra $. Some things you should know before starting-

• Bootcamp workouts can be done 3 days per week.
• You can use a bootcamp workouts each time, or you can pick 3-4 workouts and rotate
through them over the course of 4 weeks for targeted results.
• All exercises should be done at a controlled pace unless specified.
• All exercises are done for time rather than repetitions because of the differences in fitness levels across campers.
• If you need to make the workouts easier, simply reduce the number of times you go through a circuit (i.e. only go through a circuit once rather than twice) and take MORE REST between exercises and circuits.
• Be conservative. Focus on perfect exercise form.
• Each workout starts with a warm-up. Do NOT skip the warm-up.
• Finish each workout with stretching for the tight muscle groups.