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Are You Timing Your Meals?
By Phil Tucker · 13 years ago
If you sit down and try to figure out what your optimum caloric intake should be, if you factor in your weight, height, exercise level and all the other factors that count, you will end ...
Hydration and Exercise
By Phil Tucker · 13 years ago
You’ve heard no doubt that our bodies are composed of about 70% water, haven’t you, and this should give you a good idea as to what this article is going to be about. Whether you’re ...
Eating and Fitness: Exercise and Food
By Phil Tucker · 13 years ago
If you’ve been to the gym, you’ve seen those big guys lifting iron. They pump a few reps, and then some of them scramble desperately for their gym bags, sobbing inconsolably over ever second wasted, ...
Pushing Past Your Limits in Sports
By Phil Tucker · 13 years ago
There I was in a yoga class, and the instructor had told us all to assume plank position. That’s when you’re in a pushup position, but instead of straight arms you’re resting on your forearms, ...
Strong Mind, Strong Body
By Phil Tucker · 13 years ago
Most of us have spent our whole lives living in comfort. We have been driven everywhere, we have worked desk jobs, we sleep in expensive, soft beds, we eat delicious food that it takes moments ...
Keeping Your Exercise Goals Honest
By Phil Tucker · 13 years ago
We all want great results. The most competitive of us are goal oriented, and the key to success has always been to fixate on your goals, to post images on your dream board, to remain ...
How to Handle the Barbell When Squatting
By Phil Tucker · 13 years ago
The squat is the best exercise for building power, strength and muscle size, demanding as it does the cohesive use of so many muscles at the same time, from the arches of your feet to ...
How Our Spines Deal With Compressive and Tensile Forces
By Phil Tucker · 13 years ago
When we think of our spines, we imagine a column of bones, curved and strange, from the fat vertebrae at the base of our spine to the delicate ones at the top. Bones, a column ...
How Deep Should Your Squat Go?
By Phil Tucker · 13 years ago
The squat is the most powerful, rewarding and difficult of all the exercises you can perform in the gym. It harnesses the greatest number of muscles, requires the highest level of muscular coordination, stimulates your ...