Fitness, Walking and Travel Blog
Fitness, Walking and Travel Blog
1/16 Go for It: Pilates It’s a low-impact workout that focuses on your core — your hips, back, and abs. It uses your own body as resistance and taps into the mind-body connection. Pilates builds strength, makes you more flexible, and helps your joints move the way they should. 2/16 Use Caution: CrossFit This exercise
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Keeping with the “new year, new me” mentality, resolution makers are always looking for ways to reboot their workouts with 2017’s top fitness trends. However, jumping straight into a HIIT workout or CrossFit class without knowing what you’re getting yourself into can create a recipe for overtraining or injury that can stop any resolution in
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Open Workout 15.527 – 21 – 15 – 9 27 Calorie Row 27 Thrusters 21 Calorie Row 21 Thrusters 15 Calorie Row 15 Thrusters 9 Calorie Row 9 Thruster Men use 95 lb and women use 65lb.
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The energy in the room was electric as I stared down at the barbell surrounded by 20-or-so onlookers, a PR on my mind. But as soon as I got the weight overhead, I knew that my sixth round of overhead squat snatches would be my last. Persistent like an ex who “needs” their stuff back,
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I have done many marathons and ultra-marathons in years gone by and I still enjoy a 10K run whenever time permits. After reading a couple of articles about CrossFit and learning how effective it can be as a full body workout I decided to try my first Run and Squat today. There are track fields
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by ERIC VELAZQUEZ* CrossFit is everywhere. It’s spawned a vernacular with terms like “WOD” (workout of the day), “firebreather” and “Rx’d.” CrossFit’s dedicated masses have infiltrated our workplaces, our schools and our homes. You may even be living with a CrossFitter right now. So why haven’t you sipped the Kool-Aid yet? To its credit —
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What is CrossFit? CrossFit is an effective way to get fit. Anyone can do it. It is a fitness program that combines a wide variety of functional movements into a timed or scored workout. We do pull-ups, squats, push-ups, weightlifting, gymnastics, running, rowing, and a host of other movements. Always varied, always changing, always producing
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