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Maximizing Your Results: The Importance of Exercise Recovery
Nathan Cook Nathan Cook

Maximizing Your Results: The Importance of Exercise Recovery

Exercise (stress) of a meaningful degree is required to tell the body something needs to change. Recovery is required to allow the body time to build up bigger and stronger. Without recovery, you are only doing more harm than good. Under recovery is more often than not the problem with lower levels of health and performance rather than overtraining.

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Understanding the Definition of Exercise for a Healthier You
Nathan Cook Nathan Cook

Understanding the Definition of Exercise for a Healthier You

Exercise itself is breaking down the muscles of our body to stimulate our bodies to adapt. Exercise itself does not make you stronger or healthier. The recovery between exercises is where the magic happens. If the balance between exercise and recovery is off, it can be very detrimental to your health. If you get nothing from this, please take away this: Recovery is AS essential to optimizing health as exercise.

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Revolutionize Your Workouts with Super Slow Training: The Exercise Institute Way

Revolutionize Your Workouts with Super Slow Training: The Exercise Institute Way

Proper strength circuit style exercise, or global metabolic strength and conditioning is a safe means to an end. Properly done, exercise can serve as a stimulus to the body. If that stimulus is intense, brief and infrequent enough it will trigger our bodies protective mechanisms in a positive way. Increasing our muscle mass and in turn help us live longer, stronger, leaner & injury free.

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The Crucial Role of Supervision in Strength Training

The Crucial Role of Supervision in Strength Training

Those who used supervision for strength training had better outcomes in almost every way. Especially, post- menopausal and osteoporotic women, which had a 74% lower dropout rate than those that chose to strength train by themselves. While there was no evidence that supervision affected fat loss any different, it showed better outcomes on strength gains.

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A Critical Component of Exercise: Maintaining Proper Form

A Critical Component of Exercise: Maintaining Proper Form

A sure-fire way to improve muscular strength is to lift weights. The purpose of strength training is to use the weight to cause muscular fatigue, not to use your muscles to move the weight. Good form and technique are crucial to engaging the correct muscles during exercise, and building a strong, balanced physique.

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