Posts Tagged 'building lean muscle'

FIVE Quick Ways to Leave Fitness Plateaus Behind

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FIVE Quick Ways to Leave Fitness Plateaus Behind

You’ve set your SMART Fitness Goal and set off on your fitness journey exuding confidence and determined to succeed. You’ve started eating healthier, hitting weights at the gym 4 times a week, and are actually starting to see some decent results. Then suddenly, and rather unexpectedly, your results just STOP.

You feel like you’re doing everything right, but ...

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Minnesota Muscle – Winter Edition

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Minnesota Muscle – Winter Edition

Something that many of you may not know about me is that I’m blessed, or cursed by some accounts, to call MinneSNOWta my home. Land of 10,000 fish-filled lakes, a Humphries who was fortunate enough to escape the Beverly Hillbilly tentacles of the Kardashian clan, and numerous heart-pumping, calorie roasting winter activities.

I’m a firm believer that era of obesity is nourished greatly by first being the era of doing things as fast as possible, with as little effort as possible. By ...

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Building Muscle With Subway

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Building Muscle With Subway

It’s not often that I include fast food in my diet. One of my first jobs I ever had was as an employee of McDonalds, and believe me, taking the 5 gallon bucket of grease out to dump it in the fly infested dumpster-sized container out back a couple of times is more than enough inspiration for a lifetime of evasion.  (I heard they now have a truck that hooks right up to the restaurant and pumps out the grease) ...

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Protein Packed Greek Yogurt Breakfast

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Protein Packed Greek Yogurt Breakfast

Ingredients:

  • 8 oz Greek Yogurt
  • 1 tbsp chopped walnuts
  • 3 dates, fresh or dried, diced
  • 1 tsp honey

Directions:

Simply stir the chopped dates and nuts into the yogurt, and drizzle the honey on top.

Honey

Though the honey and dates included in this recipe add a decent amount of sugar, the sugar present is simple sugars including fructose, sucrose, and glucose. This means that the sugar is ...

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10 Easy Ways You Can Increase Your Metabolism

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1. Build Lean Muscle – One of the best ways to increase your metabolism is to start building lean muscle, hence the name of the website. Not only is muscle more dense than fat, taking up a mere 1/3 of the space, but it also increases the amount of calories your body will burn in a day.  Adding a mere 1 lb of lean ...

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Use Thermodynamics to Lose Fat?

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Use Thermodynamics to Lose Fat?

In his new book The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman , author Tim Ferriss exposes a few simple ways that all of us can use temperature manipulation to supercharge our weight/fat loss. One of the ways Tim Ferris accomplishes this is by taking a 15 minute ice bath 3 times a week.

The idea is ...

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Leg Workouts – A Necessary Fitness Evil

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Leg Workouts – A Necessary Fitness Evil

We’ve all seen the guys at the gym (yes, typically guys) who spend oodles of time on their upper body, without ever giving their lower body a second thought. Training your lower body is vitally important, because the lower body contains the largest single muscles of the human body. People spend a ton of time using lower body muscles just walking everyday, but this is simply not enough activity to promote growth, particularly if you’re working diligently on sculpting the ...

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