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Top Fitness Myths Busted

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* Guest post by Brad Nelson Fitness Myths Debunked Fitness Myths #1 Ab workouts will reduce my pot belly. Truth: You cannot ‘spot’ reduce. No amount of ab work by itself will change the shape of your stomach. Just like the ‘Thigh Master’ will NOT shape your thighs. Your stomach will start looking trim and [...]

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Home Workouts For Women

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* Guest post by Thomas Moore The Best Home Workouts for Women Since there is no such thing as the best home workouts, the key is finding one that not only works for you but one that you will continue to do long enough so you see results. Just like your sexy black dress or [...]

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11 Killer Weight Loss Motivation Tips

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* Guest post by Craig Ballantyne, Author of Turbulence Training. Hey all, Susan here. I wanted to share a great post today which focuses on weight loss motivation tips. In my opinion, motivation is the #1 factor why most people fail to achieve their weight loss goals. Especially because doing home workouts by yourself can [...]

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Best Exercises To Get Rid Of Cellulite

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* Guest post by Sean Saunders Best Exercises to Reduce Cellulite – Exercising For Cellulite Removal If fast, natural cellulite reduction is what you want, then the best exercises to get rid of cellulite are what you need. What are the best exercises for cellulite removal, you ask? Just look below to find out. The [...]

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Is It REALLY Bad To Eat Late At Night?

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*Guest post by Jeffrey Anderson, MD Bedtime Nutrition For Weight Loss Over the last decade or so, many popular diet plans have suggested that in order to lose maximum amounts of weight, you should stop eating anything at least three hours before going to bed. While this is sound advice in theory, allow me to [...]

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The Best Way To Get Rid Of Cellulite

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*Guest post by Koncay Sazan. Do Only Women Get Cellulite? While many people associate cellulite with being overweight or obese, the truth is that men and women can have cellulite even if they are not overweight. Cellulite is distinguished by a bumpy appearance to the skin in fact many people liken the appearance of cellulite [...]

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The Best Cardio & Nutrition For Weight Loss

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Guest post by Brad Pilon, Author of Eat Stop Eat. How Much Cardio Do I Need To Lose Weight? I just read an article in a fitness magazine that was titled “How to walk away the pounds”. While this particular article had good intentions, I don’t think cardio (especially walking) is an effective tool for [...]

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5 Home Workouts Mistakes To Avoid

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Guest post by Kevin Yates, a Personal Trainer In California: If your home workouts routine isn’t producing the results you want I’m going to reveal the 5 most likely reasons. I’m going to share 5 reasons why you’re not getting the results you want from your home workouts and how to easily fix each one [...]

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A McDonald’s Experiment, the Truth About Rice, & a Killer Home Workout for Your Glutes

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Hey there! I am back with another post with all the top articles I found around the web this week. We’ve got nutrition, we’ve got home workouts, and we’ve got self improvement. So let’s get right into it! News: McDonalds happy meal resists decomposition for 6 weeks. Check it out, you won’t believe it unless [...]

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The Best Way To Lose Weight Fast

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Are you looking for the best way to lose weight fast? Well, you know you aren’t going to lose weight like crazy from a pill. And you know that none of those ridiculous late night infomercials (think ab belt, ab circle pro, and shake weight) are going to make you lose weight like they claim [...]

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4 Requirements For Good Home Workouts

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I wanted to make this big, elaborate list with everything you need for good home workouts. But when I sat down to make the list, I realized the pure simplicity that exists when working out at home, in that there is virtually nothing you need to do them. How great is that? In fact, I [...]

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Nutrition Advice For After Your Home Workouts

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Guest post by Mike Geary, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer Ideas for healthy post home workouts shakes to help build muscle and enhance fat loss: As you’ve probably heard before, your post-workout meal may very well be your most important meal of the day. The reason is that when you’re finished with an intense [...]

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The Firetower Challenge – Hadley Mtn

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This past weekend was an absolutely beautiful fall day here in upstate NY! No workout at home for me! Clear and sunny skies with temps in the 60′s. Can’t ask for much better then that! Scott and I suck at planning so we decided upon waking (then laying around, then going out for breakfast) that [...]

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Avocado Cocoa Rolls? WTH????

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One of my favorite websites is MarksDailyApple.com. Mark is all about primal living – in other words, living like “Grok” did thousands of years ago before modern technology. This means no convenience foods, nothing manufactured by a machine, put in a box, wrapper, or bag while only eating foods that Grok had access to back [...]

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Is 8 Years Of Poor Health Your Fate? The Answer Might Shock You…

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Guest Post By Rob Poulos, Fat Loss & Fitness Expert & Creator of ‘Fat Burning Furnace‘ I was puttering around on the internet this morning and I saw something that really caught my eye. It was the latest data regarding  our current life expectancy as humans from the World Health  Organization, along with a history [...]

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The 4-Hour Body, Improving Hip Mobility, & Barefoot Running

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This week’s can’t miss stuff from around the internet: I personally am finding mobility, more than anything else to be a huge factor in my personal fitness goals and you should take a look at the 7 dynamic stretches to improve hip mobility over at stonglifts.com. The hip and pelvis area just so happens to [...]

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Home Workouts – 5 Tips To Stay Motivated

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Guest post by Kaleena Lawless, Personal Training Specialist The biggest complaint about home workouts, is that it is hard to stay motivated at home. There are too many distractions and easy outs. At a gym there isn’t much else to do but exercise. At home there is the possibility of getting distracted by anything from [...]

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Best Turkey Chili Recipe

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I am so excited to try this turkey chili recipe this weekend. Fall is most definitely here and I am going to want a warm and hearty meal for when I finish up my home workouts this weekend. This turkey chili recipe comes from The Diet Solution Program, which comes with dozens and dozens of [...]

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Workouts Without Weights at Home

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Benefits of Workouts Without Weights at Home Why even consider workouts without weights at home? Saves time – no need to commute back and forth from the gym or waste time standing around there waiting for your turn on the machines. Saves money – no gym membership, no expensive home equipment needed! Convenient – get [...]

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Alcohol and Fat Loss, Weight Training and Brain Power, & The Truth About Corn

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This Week’s Must-Read Posts: Over on Mark’s Daily Apple, Mark Sisson instructs you how to make the perfect primal omelet – fluffy, french, or full of veggies. Alcohol makes you fat – true or false? Swing on over to Craig Ballantyne’s fat loss blog to find out. Weight training and brain power – what’s the [...]

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7 Easy At Home Workouts That Blast Away Calories

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My Mom has been out of town all week visiting my sister in CT. So I have been picking up her mail. Today she got a Health Magazine (Oct 2010 issue), so I did what any good daughter would do – I swiped it! There was an interesting article inside which listed the 7 best [...]

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Will Eating Potatoes Make You Fat?

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Guest post by Mike Geary, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer, and Author of TruthAboutAbs.com I’d like to start a little discussion today about carbohydrates… and in particular, “white foods” as well as potatoes. One reason I wanted to mention this is because so many health and fitness professionals trash talk potatoes about being a [...]

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Pumpkin Soup and Home Workouts

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Wow, last week it was 95 degrees here in Upstate NY but felt like 104 degrees with the humidity. This week it is in the 60′s and damp. Not to mention the days are getting much shorter everyday making night time come sooner. Fall is fast approaching. I generally like this time of year – [...]

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Cutting Back On Carbs, Improving Hip Mobility, & Matthew McConaughey’s Workout

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Hey, I’m taking a break from my home workouts because it’s time for this week’s top stories. Here’s some of the posts from around the internet that I thought you could benefit from seeing. In Mark’s Daily Apple, Mark Sisson talks about why carbs are bad and how to dial them in for optimal fat [...]

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The Truth Behind the Confusion of Fat Loss and Fitness

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Guest post by Rob Poulos, Fat Loss & Fitness Expert & Creator of ‘Fat Burning Furnace‘ People are confused more than ever about how to burn fat.  They are confused about the best way to go about achieving the body they want.  They are confused about what works and what doesn’t, and the reasons why.  [...]

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How To Lose 5 Pounds in 14 Days

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Think it’s not possible to lose 5 pounds in 14 days while avoiding the gym and doing home workouts? I am going to prove, once again, that it is possible. Today is September 16th and by September 30th I will be 5 pounds lighter. Here’s my plan: 1. Set my goal Goal: Lose 5 pounds [...]

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Secrets For Losing Stubborn Stomach Fat

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If you’re interested in discovering some areas where you may be going wrong in your abs training and your attempts at losing stomach fat, I have an interview for you below that you’ll want to read. In it, Men’s Health Magazine writer Craig Ballantyne, grills Abs-Expert Mike Geary, author of the internationally popular book, The [...]

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Using Intermittent Fasting as a Simple Method for Permanent Weight Loss

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Guest Post by Brad Pilon, Nutrition Expert and Author of Eat Stop Eat: If you’ve been looking for a way to lose and keep weight off permanently, then you would do well to consider using intermittent fasting as a method of reducing your caloric intake to aid you in your weight loss quest. Intermittent fasting [...]

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Why Should You Include Fasting In Your Lifestyle?

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In keeping up with the “eating less” motto from this week’s nutrition challenge, I wanted to talk to you a little bit about intermittent fasting. So I asked Brad Pilon, Author of Eat Stop Eat to do a blog post for you today on why you should start fasting (in addition to doing your Home [...]

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Why Do I Eat So Much?

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That’s really the question I wanted you all to ask yourself this week. If you take my nutrition challenges each week, you know that this week’s challenge was to only eat when you were hungry and eat less. And as enthusiastically as you all have undertaken this challenge, I wasn’t shocked to see how many [...]

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Why The Wrong Diet Can Actually Make You Gain Fat

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If you have been doing everything right, but just can’t seem to get rid of the fat around your belly, hips, neck, or thighs – it may not be your fault. (Are you doing your home workouts?) It turns out that in a world of “one size fits all” weight loss plans, actually losing weight [...]

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Best Equipment For Your Home Workout

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What Equipment Should You Use For Your Home Workout? This week’s Q&A session about your home workout comes from a question I received via Facebook: Hey Susan! I am a single working mother of 2 young children and, over the years, have neglected my health and fitness. I am 25 pounds over weight but am [...]

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At Home Cardio Workouts Helped Me Lose 20 Pounds

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What else could I possibly say about at home cardio workouts that I haven’t already said? Today I want to share a personal story about myself and how I used at home cardio workouts to not only overcome an overuse injury but to lose 20 pounds as well. It all began back in 2003. One [...]

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What To Eat To Lose Weight Fast

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I’ve worked with hundreds and hundreds of clients seeking fat-loss. And one thing they ALL have in common: They want IMMEDIATE results. And I mean they want them NOW. My guess is you’re exactly the same way. I don’t blame you. Not one bit. In today’s society we are literally trained to want things almost [...]

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Chicken is the #1 Food Poisoning Food

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Thought you might like to see this article on food poisoning from The Washington Post. By MIKE STOBBE The Associated Press Thursday, August 12, 2010; 1:10 PM ATLANTA — Cooking chicken on the grill this summer? Be careful. Poultry is still the leading culprit in food poisoning outbreaks, health officials said Thursday. Chicken, turkey and [...]

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Are Workouts at the Gym Really Necessary?

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Hey, happy Monday! Here’s a synopsis off all the great information I found last week about health, nutrition, and fitness from some of my favorite sites on the internet. I promise these will not disappoint! Mark Sisson of Mark’s Daily Apple talks about 10 unnecessary, worthless, or dangerous exercises. Take a look at this list [...]

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Nutrition Challenge of the Week

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Hey, hope you had a great weekend! Just wanted to write a quick note to inform you of this week’s nutrition challenge. Now remember, you need to be cleaning up your diet and faithfully doing your home fitness workouts to reach your fitness and weight loss goals, but by making this one nutrition improvement you [...]

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My Diet and Exercise Plan

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Lately I’ve been getting a bunch of requests to share more about what I eat each day and what sort or workouts I do. So, I thought I would use the blog to update you on that a little more frequently. But remember, you can always find out what I’m up to by checking out [...]

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Ditch Grains for Weight Loss, 5 Best Chocolate Bars, & Eating More Meals To Boost Your Metabolism

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Hey there, I just wanted to take a few minutes to let you know about a few cool health/fitness/nutrition articles I came across last week. They are awesome enough and/or important enough for me to want you to see for yourself. And so starts my weekly blog post with “link love“. Enjoy! In Harder. Better. [...]

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Roasted Vegetable Salad

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TGIF! I’m back coming at ya with a really great recipe from Isabel De Los Rios author of the best diet program for fat loss. Give this one a try this weekend and let me know what you think. BTW, you obviously can add more vegetables to this then in the recipe or even swap [...]

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Vitamin Water Lawsuit Over False Health Claims

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Coca-Cola is being sued by a non profit public interest group because they feel that they have made false health claims about one of their product lines, Vitamin Water. I am so glad this is happening – I have been telling my friends and clients for a few years now to stay away from the [...]

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12 Worst Fat Storing Foods You Should Never Eat

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One of the best ways to steer you towards what you should be eating on a healthy weight loss diet is to tell you what NOT to eat first. Tom Venuto, fitness extraordinaire, came up with this list in his wildly popular fat loss book called Burn The Fat. I am hoping this list will [...]

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10 Foods Containing High Fructose Corn Syrup

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In light of the recent research study confirming that high fructose corn syrup causes cancer cells to grow and proliferate I thought I would throw together a list of foods that contain HFCS so you can know which foods to avoid. Because the fact is, you MUST work hard to avoid this poison, if you [...]

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High Fructose Corn Syrup Linked To Cancer

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Check out this brief article on the relationship between high fructose corn syrup and cancer from Reuters on Aug 2: Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same. Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose [...]

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13 Healthy Snack Ideas For Weight Loss

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OK, I got 2 requests just today for good snack ideas. And I think I put together a pretty darn good list for you, if I do say so myself. In fact, I jotted down a few ideas while I was having a snack myself. My sister visited me this weekend from CT and was [...]

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Zucchini & Carrot Spaghetti

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Todays healthy recipe to help you lose weight comes from – me! I’m sure I got the idea for this somewhere specific, but I have come up with my own version becuae I’m so damn picky. And because of that, I’m thinking you will love this recipe – because I do. I’ve been trying to [...]

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Best Grocery List For Weight Loss

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I’ve given you all the nutrition tips you need for weight loss. I’ve given you fat burning recipes to make for weight loss. I’ve given you sample meal plans for weight loss. Now I’m giving you a grocery list for weight loss. See how good I am to you? Here is a list of items [...]

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Sample Meal Plans For Fat Burning

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I’m often asked what you should actually be eating for good fat burning. And when I tell you that you should be focusing your diet around veggies, fruits, & lean protein you often still look for more from me, as if I’m holding something back. So today I thought I would give you some sample [...]

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Dear Susan: A Message From An Overworked & Overweight Mom

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This week’s “Dear Susan” comes from someone who recently contacted me about joining my bootcamp. She has a particular situation at home that is preventing her from having the body she desires. I thought that her situation is probably not unusual and that you might be able to benefit from my answer to her…… “…..I [...]

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Chicken in Coconut-Lime Sauce

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Here is a great chicken recipe to go along with your home workouts from Isabel De Los Rios from The Diet Solution Program. Isabel provides dozens and dozens of recipes, including a whole new salad recipe book with the program. I don’t know about you but this one makes my mouth water just looking at [...]

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Home Fitness Workouts

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I wanted to share with you today an example of great home fitness workouts. Why? Because there is a lot of confusing messages out there about what makes for effective home fitness workouts. That is, do they burn fat or do what they say they will do. In my opinion, all the crap you see [...]

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