Healthy Habits - Fitness and Weightloss

Core Commitment + Support = Weight Loss Success Yuck. Core commitment. The very sound of it turns me off. I have never been big on commitment - core or otherwise.

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This gives a few advantages. First being that you work up and can tweak the exercises either through intensity or repetition to your own fitness level as you start out. And basically the same advantages apply as you advance - the exercises grow increasingly more challenging, and as you progress, you can add weight to get increase benefit and avoid plateaus.

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I just realized that the end of this week will mark 1/2 way into the bikini ready transformation challenge. What’s the verdict? I won’t look 20 again and no program except surgery is going to make me Bo Derek (here I am dating myself again), but I think that if I want to, at the end of the challenge I’d be able to wear a bikini without being chased off the beach.

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I recently set up our own little home gym using easy exercise equipment, videos etc that we already had around the house.
Since I am saving quite a bit of money and it is great to have, I have been using often, I thought I’d splurge and replace my Bodywedge that I used to love working […]

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Speaking of exercise, one of the great things about spring and summer is that there are all kinds of “free exercise” opportunities to get you into shape without even realizing it.
Like to garden? That can be a superior work out.
Like to bike? Another great work out that will drop pounds like no tomorrow done regularly.
Is […]

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I was cleaning out my dresser and found my work out clothes that had become my daily wardrobe when the gym was open where I live.
They immediately brought back “feel good” memories, and memories of how ingrained they had become into my routine.
I set them out every night, or put them in my gym bag, […]

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During a seminar at our gym, the nutritionist told us that a protein with a small carb was essential within 1/2 hour of exercising to replenish/repair muscle tissue after exercising, making your next work out and fat burned between more effective.
I usually was hungry anyway as I eat often but not before exercising, so I […]

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WHICH IS BETTER, YOGA OR PILATES?
Both Yoga and Pilates are highly beneficial but give different results.
Yoga is wonderful for stretching and keeping you limber, and for de-stressing as well. It also creates strength in all areas.
Pilates strengthen your core area - your abs and back in a highly focused and effective way.
I love them both. […]

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