Best Exercises For Lean Legs

by Jenn FitzPatrick 04.16.2012

When it comes to your body–whether you are a man or a woman–we all have those parts that we love and the parts that we love to hate. For me, I love my abs and arms because even with the littlest of training I can see fast results. However, the same is not true for [...]

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Why you should care about getting enough protein

by Mary C. Weaver, CSCS 04.13.2012
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Experts are always going on about how we need five or seven—or is it nine?—servings of vegetables and fruits per day, and rightly so. But when’s the last time someone urged you to eat more meat? OK, I know—protein comes in many forms, not just flesh. Dairy products, eggs, and soy are also particularly rich [...]

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“The More You Know” Thursday: Remove SHOULD from your vocabulary!

by Janine@ThePurpleGiraffe 04.12.2012
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Good morning lovelies! How are you doing today? It’s a lovely day here in NH and I know that I should work out… but I don’t really have much motivation. Ever felt that way? Yes, that’s a question I already knew the answer to. We’ve all felt that way. We know that to get fit [...]

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Sugar Shakedown

by Jenn FitzPatrick 04.09.2012

Easter has to be one of biggest “sugar” days of the year next to Valentine’s Day and Halloween of course. And the evidence for this is  everywhere. Walk into any store and you are bound to be staring eye to eye with  chocolate bunnies, candy-filled eggs,  bright yellow Peeps, and all the other sweets that [...]

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Why slow fat loss is the faster solution

by Mary C. Weaver, CSCS 04.06.2012
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This week at a networking event I talked to a gal who had just gotten off the hCG diet. I was feeling particularly bold, so I told her that I am completely opposed to extreme diets like the one she had been following. Why? The hCG diet is a 500-calorie-per-day starvation plan with the added [...]

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“The More You Know” Thursday: Too Sore to Workout?

by Janine@ThePurpleGiraffe 04.05.2012
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Happy Thursday lovelies! Can you even believe that it’s April? It’s that time of year again! You know… …when people start to realize that bathing suit season is a few short weeks away… …when workout dvds start flying off the shelves… …when gym memberships start to get use again for the first time since February [...]

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