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Technique

Carry hand weights

By swinging your arms with hand weights, you increase your workout tremendously (use weights up to 3 lbs).

Nutrition

Eat before your workout

For long workouts (90+ minutes), aim at eating half your lean body weight (in pounds) worth of carbohydrates grams for every hour.

Fill your tank

Make sure you're eating enough everyday to fuel your workouts. Most triathletes need to eat 16-30 calories per pound of lean body weight.

Reasons to workout

Workout reason 9

Speeds up your metabolism, which helps you burn more calories through the day.

Workout reason 7

Increases your "good" cholesterol (HDL).

Workout reason 8

Improves your sleep.

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Introduction to Exercise

Getting started

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