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Fixing Bad Posture at the Office Keeping a balanced posture is a goal for all activities, from playing sports to sitting at the computer. Yet many of today's workstation-based work environments can make it difficult to keep an awareness of one's posture while sitting and focusing on mental tasks.
New Apps Incentivize Going to the Gym Having difficulty keeping clients inspired and motivated to come to the gym for a workout? For those into social networking and smartphones, a new generation of gaming apps aims to make going to the gym extra rewarding.
Your Summer Body Winter is such a time for 'hibernating' that it almost feels acceptable to 'bulk up' over winter. But with summer creeping around, it only becomes harder to hide the truth away.
Getting a Grip: Using Wrist Straps, Pt. 1 While some controversy surrounds the use of wrist straps in weight lifting, as with many pieces of equipment in and around the gym, there is a time and a place for them.

Overworked & Underfed: Aerobic Overtraining

You train so hard, eat so little, yet you are still gaining fat. What's going here? You may be a victim of aerobic overtraining.

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Sports Injuries: Overuse vs. Acute Trauma

Most sports injuries can be classified broadly into two types based on their cause: acute trauma or overuse. It is important to known the signs of both when working with any personal training client.

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Having a Bad Air Day?

Exercising in the great outdoors doesn't always come with a breath of fresh air. In many places, summertime has the worst air quality of any season. When a forecast lists a code red day for the air quality index, what does that mean for your outdoor plans ?

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Do You Have the Right Workout Gear?

No doubt you’ve seen racks upon racks of high-priced, designer gym-wear and wondered if paying $75 for an EZ-breath, hyper-fibre, 4-way stretch fabric tank top was worth it. Don’t you get the same effect from an old, cotton t-shirt?

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Avoiding Hamstring Strain

The hamstring muscles are frequently used and frequently injured in sports. And it's not just for the out of shape: Hamstring strains commonly occur in athletes with tight hamstring muscles and in those whose quadricep muscles are disproportionately weaker than their hamstrings.

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High-Rep Resistance Training & General Fitness

High-rep resistance training is possibly the healthiest form of exercise to recommend to clients with general fitness goals. While aerobic workouts alone can lead to loss of tissue, and heavy resistance exercise alone can result in poor cardiorespiratory efficiency, high-rep resistance training avoids these pitfalls when it comes to general fitness.

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