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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.

Lower Body Workouts: Supply & Demand

Many people want to build muscle in the arms, shoulders, back and chest at the expense of the less "showy" lower body. Here's what they're missing.

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Tick Proof Your Summer

It's high summer in the northern hemisphere, and unwanted 8-legged hitchhikers abound in many of the places people exercise outdoors. Throughout the continental United States, ticks are known to transmit Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, to name just a few illnesses.

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Gauging Success

Success can be defined a number of ways -- and measured on a number of levels. It's important for clients to realize that gauging progress by any healthy habits they adopt on the way is just as important as noting any changes in appearance.

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Electronic Fitness Kicks it up a Notch

While today's home game consoles hold out the potential to promote aerobic activity, some studies have found that many programs fall short of putting players into a target heart zone. That may change, however, with the advent of software designed to kick the cardio aspect up a notch or two.

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More on Warming Up

While there seems to be no limit to the number of exercises to target specific muscle groups, there are just a handful of exercises that should be performed no matter what the nature of a resistance workout.

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Training & the Travelling Client

It's a fact of life: Clients will travel. So how do you keep them motivated to train even while they are away for a week or more at a time?

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