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Steps, strength, creatine, trackers and the patience it takes to keep training through an ordinary, busy month.

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    Walking Up Stairs for Exercise and How to Start Safely

    A flight of stairs is a free piece of training equipment hiding in plain sight. Here is how to turn the steps at home, work or the train station into regular exercise without overdoing it.

    03min
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    Is 5,000 Steps a Day Good? What That Number Really Tells You

    Five thousand steps can be a solid daily base, a big step up, or a starting point. What it means depends on where you come from, how you walk them, and what the rest of your day looks like.

    04min
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    How to Get 10,000 Steps a Day Without Rebuilding Your Schedule

    Ten thousand steps sounds like a lot until you split it into pieces. Here is how to collect them from the day you already have, build up slowly, and keep the count from turning into a chore.

    04min
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    Demystifying Creatine: Fact or Fiction?

    Ask five people at the gym about creatine and you will hear five different stories. One swears it doubled their bench press, another heard it wrecks your kidneys, a third thinks it…

    03min
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    What Is A Keto Diet? It Is A Strict Diet

    Plenty of diets let you bend the rules a little. Keto is not one of them. It asks you to change the basic make-up of your meals, and it only works the…

    03min
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    What are keto and carb cycling diets and what is the right choice for you?

    Two eating plans come up constantly when people talk about losing weight: the ketogenic diet and carb cycling. They both revolve around carbohydrates, which makes them easy to confuse, and some people…

    03min
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    Bikini Body Guide and Getting Ready for Summer

    Swimsuit season has a way of sneaking up. In February it feels far off. By late May the shops are full of beach towels and you are wondering where spring went. Plenty…

    03min
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    Find The Best Fitness Watches Right Now

    A fitness watch can be a helpful training partner or an expensive drawer ornament. The difference usually has little to do with the brand and a lot to do with whether the…

    03min
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    How to Have Fun While Getting Fit

    Most exercise plans do not fail because they are too hard. They fail because they are dull. Week three on the same treadmill, staring at the same wall, and suddenly there is…

    03min
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    How to Motivate Yourself to Be Fit

    Most people do not lack reasons to exercise. They know it helps sleep, mood and energy, and they have probably told themselves so many times. The trouble is that those benefits arrive…

    03min

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