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The Blizzard Blaster In-Home Workout Circuit [Workout Plans][S]o we've got an itty bitty blizzard situation pummeling the Northeast. Like an actual, real life, non hyperbole blizzard, as defined by the National Weather Service. And it's impacting a... -
Don't Break Your Resolutions In 2015 — 7 Principles To Help Crush Your Goals This Year*This article is sponsored by Meta Health and their line of wellness products. [W]e're a week out from February. It's the turning point for lofty resolutions, when most goal-setters decide... -
The Workout Music Friday Five-Pack, V18 — Drake, Jason Derulo, Hardwell, & The Chainsmokers (1/19–1/23)Image: Muscle and Fitness [G]et amped. Every Friday we're dropping a five-pack of heart-thumping, blood-pumping workout songs to build out your playlist, hardwire a little energy into your... -
The 4 Best Calf Exercises To Build Massive, Ripped-Up, Bulging Calves [Exercise Lists]Image: Muscle and Fitness [C]heck out your legs. Flex 'em. If you're anything like the legion of leg-starved bros in America, your calves likely need MAJOR work. Like, a complete overhaul. It's a... -
The Workout Music Friday Five-Pack, V17 — Bruno Mars, A$AP Rocky, Pitbull, And Ne-Yo (1/12–1/16)[G]et amped. Every Friday we're dropping a five-pack of heart-thumping, blood-pumping workout songs to build out your playlist, hardwire a little energy into your workouts, and kickstart the... -
Eating Out? Here's What A Quick 2,000 Calorie Meal Looks Like At Popular Fast Food Places[L]ove it or hate it, eating out is an unadulterated death trap. Restaurants and fast food juggernauts are in the business of making food taste incredible, even when the marketing spin might... -
Life Hacks — Exhausted? Recharge Your Brain Quicker With A Coffee Power Nap [Study][D]ead from a horrible night's sleep? Stuck crashing at work with mind-numbing fatigue, heavy eyelids, and non-existent focus? Exhausted after a ridiculous HIIT workout? Don't feel bad,... -
Um, High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) Secretly Got A Name Change [News][S]CANDAL! While America was collectively immersed in a big fat holiday coma, food manufacturers were silently at work reconstructing the long-term viability of one of food's most notorious... -
Never Challenge Gaston To A Push Up Contest, He WILL Destroy & Humiliate You [Video][N]obody does push-ups like Gaston. If you've ever felt brazen enough to think about challenging Gaston—the uber-buff villain from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast"—to a push-up contest, here's... -
[WOTM, 01/2015] Revamp Your Body And Dominate 2015 With The New Year's Body Blaster Workout ProgramImage: Women's Health Mag [L]et's go balls out and dominate 2015. New year, new you. Blah blah blah. It's so easy to get caught up in the hype, set a bombastic resolution (or a few), and proclaim... -
Resolution Better — 5 Tips For Making Successful New Year's Resolutions In 2015[E]very January, after everyone finishes recovering from their New Year's festivities, gyms around the world become flooded with a rush of new members. The reality though is that by March or... -
[Fitness Lists] Gym Etiquette — 14 BIG Reasons Why You Might Be A Gym Idiot In 2015[N]ew Year's Resolutionists — I respect the hustle and ambition, but read this before diving head first into a gym routine. It'll help you avoid becoming the token "gym idiot" that everyone...
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Read MoreThe Blizzard Blaster In-Home Workout Circuit [Workout Plans]
So we’ve got an itty bitty blizzard situation pummeling the Northeast. Brave the storm and destroy your body with the Blizzard Blaster In-Home Workout Circuit.
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Read MoreThe 4 Best Calf Exercises To Build Massive, Ripped-Up, Bulging Calves [Exercise Lists]
Calf training sucks. They’re stubborn and unbelievably frustrating. It doesn’t have to be though. We’re diving into the anatomy of the calves and unleashing the top 4 calf exercises to help throw mountains on the back of your legs.
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Read More[WOTM, 01/2015] Revamp Your Body And Dominate 2015 With The New Year’s Body Blaster Workout Program
Let’s dominate 2015. January’s WOTM is a three workout dynamo that’s designed to hammer the core, ignite metabolism & attack fat, and construct a layer of fresh muscle across the body.
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Read MoreFeats Of Strength — 8 Fitness Challenges To Conquer In 2015 [Fitness Lists]
We’re dishing out a series of 8 fitness challenges to conquer in 2015. Whether it’s squatting 1.75x your bodyweight for a set of 5 or holding a plank for 3 minutes — wage a war against yourself and develop a bloodthirsty hunger to crush your former self.
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Read MoreCan’t See Your Abs? Building Visible Six-Pack Abs Comes Down To Two Simple Things
Can’t see the stellar set of “six-pack abs” that you’ve been slaving over? Slow down and simplify. One of these two issues (if not both) is undoubtedly causing all of your CORE woes.
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Read MorePerk Up Your Derriere With The Build-A-Butt Workshop Glute Workout Plan [Workout Plans]
Welcome to the Build-A-Butt Workshop. It’s an intense, 7-exercise butt workout plan that attacks the glutes and builds a firm, perky derriere. Dive in, butt first.
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Read More47 Shocking Food & Nutrition Facts That’ll Blow Rainbow Confetti Out Of Your Noggin
An inaugural list of obscure, perplexing, research-backed food facts, stuffed from start-to-finish with 47 shocking tidbits that’ll send rainbow confetti spewing out of your noggin.
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Read More[WOTM, 12/2014] Upgrade Your Core This Winter With The Six-Pack Abs Gauntlet
Welcome to the fiery depths of abdominal hell. 11 exercises, 7 sets, 4 killer supersets — one incinerated core. Ready? ENTER THE GAUNTLET. December’s WOTM might be the most insidious ab workout we’ve ever concocted.
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The Blizzard Blaster In-Home Workout Circuit [Workout Plans]
So we’ve got an itty bitty blizzard situation pummeling the Northeast. Brave the storm and destroy your body with the Blizzard Blaster In-Home Workout Circuit.
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Don’t Break Your Resolutions In 2015 — 7 Principles To Help Crush Your Goals This Year
We’re a week out from February. It’s the turning point for lofty resolutions, when most goal-setters decide to push through or hop off the train altogether. Don’t break what you set out to do. Follow these 7 SIMPLE principles to crush your goals in 2015.
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The Workout Music Friday Five-Pack, V18 — Drake, Jason Derulo, Hardwell, & The Chainsmokers (1/19–1/23)
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Eating Out? Here’s What A Quick 2,000 Calorie Meal Looks Like At Popular Fast Food Places
Love it or hate it, eating out is an unadulterated death trap. NYTimes.com recently did a profile honing in on one specific number: 2,000. More poignantly, what exactly does 2,000 calories look like, from a fast food or restaurant lens? Here’s the evidence.
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Hack your brain and recharge faster with a 20 minute coffee power nap. Here’s how it all goes down.
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Um, High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) Secretly Got A Name Change [News]
SCANDAL! High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) got a name change on labels and nobody seems to know about.
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If you’ve ever felt brazen enough to think about challenging Gaston—the uber-buff villain from Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”—to a push-up contest, here’s a nice little PSA for everyone: DON’T.
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[WOTM, 01/2015] Revamp Your Body And Dominate 2015 With The New Year’s Body Blaster Workout Program
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Resolution Better — 5 Tips For Making Successful New Year’s Resolutions In 2015
Every January gyms around the world become flooded with a rush of new members. The reality though is that by March or April, the majority of those new gym members will revert back to their old ways. Use these 5 tips to set better New Year’s resolutions and succeed in 2015.
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[Fitness Lists] Gym Etiquette — 14 BIG Reasons Why You Might Be A Gym Idiot In 2015
Whether it’s stomach-curdling BO, curling where you’re not supposed to, or painting every piece of equipment with freshly manufactured sweat, there’s always one person that the collective gym population would LOVE to banhammer forever. Here are 14 BIG reasons why you might be a gym idiot in 2015.
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I Hate New Year’s Resolutions, But I Made Six For 2015 Anyway
I mostly hate New Year’s resolutions. They’re evil. They haunt you, coerce you into making them, and flaunt their sexy potential. Only to let you down and serve as a source of failure and disappointment later in the year. That said, I cemented 6 for 2015 anyway. Because why not? Feel free to steal mine.
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Make this for breakfast. Brunch. As a snack. Dinner. Post-workout. Whenever…wherever. Just make it. Our recipe for Runny Poached Eggs On Spicy Avocado Toast might just be the closest thing to a god-like breakfast. Or anytime meal, really.
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The Workout Music Friday Five-Pack, V16 — Beyonce, Kaskade, J. Cole, & Pusha T (12/15–12/19)
We’ve got a new five-pack of power workout songs to carry you into the weekend. This week — Beyonce, Kaskade, J. Cole, and Pusha T.
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If you love gooey, runny, perfectly-cooked egg yolks that flow like radiant waterfalls—you know, the kind that crown the top of any stellar plate of Eggs Benedict/Florentine—you HAVE to master the technique of egg poaching. Here’s how, in a quick 5 minutes.
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Friday Five-Pack V15 — 5 Workout Songs To Energize Your Workouts And Kickstart The Weekend (12/8–12/12)
We’ve got a new five-pack of power workout songs to carry you into the weekend. This week — Madeon, Axwell, Ingrosso, and Rae Sremmurd
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