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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.

Diet Tips and Exercises for Women That Work

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Diet Tips and Exercises for Women That Work

Whether it’s to shed those last few pounds from pregnancy, the creeping extra pounds of middle age or simply to improve your general health and energy levels, a healthy diet can provide the nutrition you need to reach your goals. For women diet tips must be simple and practical, so they can easily be integrated into a busy, daily schedule. Similarly, it’s easy to neglect your need for daily exercise when you’re busy from morning till night. Finding ways to incorporate health habits into your day will benefit both your physical health and your mental well being.

Aromatherapy Essential Oils For Sleep, Relaxation

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Aromatherapy Essential Oils – Assist In Sleep, Relaxation

Aromatherapy essential oils have long been used to treat a variety of conditions from stress and insomnia to burns and infections. If you are battling stress from everyday life or have insomnia, you should really consider the small amount of investment required to use Aromatherapy to help. Here is a brief guide to aromatherapy essential oils.

Burn Fat And Build Muscle With These Finishes

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Burn Fat And Build Muscle With These Finishes

You just finished your weight lifting for the day and are feeling good as you should. But wait, before you leave the gym or hit the shower, burn fat and build muscle with this “closer” to finish up. Since your muscles are probably feeling pretty tired from your workout, you will not use any weights – except your body weight. They are brief but intense which is why you should do them at the end of your workout. It’s a great way to burn fat and build muscle plus when your done, you will have an extra bounce in your step throughout the day knowing you left everything you had in the gym. Only do one of this twice a week.

Fat Burning Tips – Use These Tricks Of The Trade

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Fat Burning Tips – Use These Tricks Of The Trade

The key to a maintaining a well-toned physique and a healthy body composition is fat burning. There are many ways to approach fat burning, both in your diet and exercise routine. Each approach is effective on its own, but the best results come when you combine them, helping you to burn the most fat that you can at all times. Here are some useful fat burning tips.

STAY WELL HYDRATED
One important tip when it comes to fat burning is a very simple one: drink more water. Since our bodies are made up of over 50% water, being properly hydrated helps your body perform its most basic cellular functions better, like the transportation and burning of fat. The amount of water an individual needs every day varies depending on their activity level, but in general, you should drink at least one ounce of water per two pounds of body weight a day to stay sufficiently hydrated.

FOODS TO AVOID FOR FAT BURNING
Another good fat burning tip is to reduce your consumption of starchy carbs such as pasta, rice and potatoes. This should come as no surprise to anyone who has ever researched this subject, but it’s worth repeating because it’s a very important component of a fat burning regime. Consuming too many complex carbohydrates at once provides your body with more energy and glycogen stores than it needs, so it stores the excess as fat. This isn’t to say you should give up carbs altogether, but you should stick to 3-5 starch servings a day when you are trying to burn fat.