Tag: fitness
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The Surprising Truth about High Blood Pressure
If your blood pressure is checked while you are sitting with your legs crossed rather than with your feet flat on the ground, it will give you a false reading. Having coffee in the morning or exercising thirty minutes before the test will increase your blood pressure. And the list goes on. If the waiting…
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Addressing 5 Common Causes of Leg and Muscle Cramps
Leg Cramps, we’ve all experienced them. It could be a minor discomfort or pain so bad that it takes your right off your feet. They can happen late at night while you are sleeping, or after you have had a long run or walk, after not doing any activity at all. You can get these…
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How Bad Do You Want It?
Before I go too far, you must understand that my brother and I had never seen nor heard of anything to do with the game of hockey. The only ice we knew of was ice cream, ice cubes, and block of ice the ice man would bring each day to place in the ice box.…
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The RICE Method: How This Popular Method Of Treating Injuries Actually Slows Recovery
So why – in the face of expert advice against the practice – do people still turn to ice to treat an injury or swelling? Usually, the goal when using ice is to numb the immediate pain, but this method will only relieve the pain for a moment and will not treat or take away…
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The Effects of Vaping on the Body
We now understand that vaping can be just as addictive as cigarettes, but many users still believe that the habit is far less harmful than smoking, but is this true? Is bringing in that vapor to the human body a bad thing? While the medical community has not reached a consensus that vaping is as…
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Honest Health and Fitness Advice in the Age of “Get-Fit-Quick” Schemes
Here is a pill that some may find hard to swallow: exercise is not supposed to be fun. It’s not supposed to be easy or comfortable. Real results don’t happen overnight. If you put in the work and go down the right path, you will sweat. On occasion, you might puke. You will drop a…
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Bodysmith International Online Fitness Programs: No “One Sized Fits All”
These programs are not just another set of home workout videos, instead, they are a collection of expertly crafted programs encompassing workouts, fitness advice, health and nutrition tips and much more to keep you motivated and on track with your goals.
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Ozempic: The Truth About The Latest “Diet Drug” Part 3
We must keep in mind that over-weight and obesity are complex chronic disorders that are caused by a multitude of factors. Behaviors’ and habits around diet and exercise, environment, genetics and even other medications that may be associated with weight gain, are a big part of the picture. So if you remove one of these…
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Ozempic: The Truth About The Latest “Diet Drug” Part 2
You will need to discuss how many days you have to avoid the drug before your surgery because the danger of having undigested food in your stomach during surgery. Undigested food can lead to reflux aspiration which cause aspiration pneumonia. This happens if you aspirate the contents of our stomach up into your lungs; symptoms…
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Ozempic: The Truth About The Latest “Diet Drug”
Like anything in our society, people want a quick and easy solution and Ozempic is that solution for weight loss; or at least it appears to be. One of the problems our society faces is that the majority of people have been convinced that there is an easy solution to every problem, we don’t have…
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A Space For All: The Women Of Bodysmith International
In this day and age, it is very important for young athletes to know that they have a place to go to train and not be intimidated and I am proud of the community at Bodysmith for creating just that. A space to be empowered and supported; judged for what your body can accomplish instead…
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Avoiding Workout Fatigue: Why Boring Workouts are the Best Workouts
A few things are going on but lets start with the most important factor; consistency. To see good results with a training program, you need to be consistent. Of course, maintaining good nutrition and giving your body time to adapt to the training program is important but if you are not consistent in your workouts,…