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Health and body weight
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Peter C.
It is wise to control one's body weight as being overweight or obese may bring health problems. People who are overweight are more prone to Type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease (heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure), certain type of cancer such as bowel cancer, etc. Being overweight or obese can also cause psychological problems such as l ...
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Carbohydrates and Body Weight
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Matt M.
I came across this nice study the other day. The authors looked to see if there were any relationships between carbohydrate intake and body weight. Several factors were studied including carbohydrate amount, glycemic index, and glycemic load.Controlling for the various factors, they found that daily carbohydrate intake and percentage of calories ...
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Runners and Body Weight
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Matt M.
Here's a recent study(pdf) by Weyand and Davis that looks at the relationship between running distance and body weight. As I've mentioned previously, we know that distance runners and sprinters have similar amounts of body fat, but different total weights. The Weyand study shows this to be true by looking at top performers at various track distan ...
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Body weight Training Exercises
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Scott W.
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Burn Fat With Body Weight Circuits
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Angie Schumacher
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So with the Turbulence Training 30 Day Max Fat Loss workouts I have been doing, I am doing weight training 4x per week. I have been avoiding intervals on the treadmill, to avoid right hip pain. I still seem to be making progress, but I need a little bit of variety in my workouts, so I decided to add some body weight circuits. I have some smaller c ...
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My FREE Body Weight Circuit Report..
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Angie Schumacher
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Remember a couple of days ago I told you that I am taking part in this year’s www.12daysoffitness.com gift-giving?Well, I’m just putting the finishing touches on the report I’m giving away and wanted to tell you all about it to make sure you don’t miss out. After all, you are my daily readers and I want to make sure that you ...
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Body Weight Exercise Circuits
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PJ S.
Body weight Exercise Circuits are a great way to introduce variety into your interval training workouts. If you are sick of performing interval training on your treadmill, elliptical trainer, or stationary bike, body weight exercise circuits can renew your enthusiasm.Here are some sample body weight exercise circuits:Push-up variation: 10 repsStep- ...
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Body weight Cardio vs. Intervals On Treadmill
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Angie Schumacher
I wanted to see how comparable body weight exercises were compared to interval training on the treadmill, so I decided to to a little test.I did 11 minutes of body weight exercises, such as jump rope, jumping jacks, high knees, cross cross, and so on in tabata style, 20 seconds work, 10 seconds rest. I burned 111 calories. My heart rate averaged b ...
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How to lose 20% body weight!
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Melting Mama
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Chew a lot of sugar-free gum. Really. I'm guessing that many of my peers already know this about sugar-free gum, and many breath-mints: The sugar alcohol, sorbitol, used in gum and mints, has a particularly harsh effect on the body. If I eat more than a couple typical sugar-free breath mints, I'm not pleasant, so I avoid those altogether. As fo ...
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Ideal Body Weight - Fantasy vs. Reality
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Israel L.
A doctor once told me that for my height, I should weigh between 124 and 138 lbs. I laughed right in his face. That seemed to upset him, so he went on to preach about the dangers of obesity, and how the excess weight I was carrying around was destroying my body. I laughed again, much harder this time. Just so you know, at the time I was 31 years ...
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