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Entries from May 2008

Strategies for Boosting Your Metabolism (Part 5)

May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Variety
They say that variety is the spice of life, and this is indeed quite true. But despite this awareness, many people don’t spice up their exercise program; which is surprising, since doing so often leads to valuable metabolism-boosting benefits.
There are a few easy ways to add variety to your exercise program. We’ve already talked […]

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Strategies for Boosting Your Metabolism (Part 4)

May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Interval Training
The basic weight loss nuts and bolts behind cardiovascular exercise (or any kind of exercise, really) is, as you know, a matter of catabolism.
Essentially, if you can engineer your body to require more energy, your body will comply by breaking cells down to deliver it; and that process (metabolism) burns calories. Simple, right?
So […]

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Strategies for Boosting Your Metabolism (Part 3)

May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Build Muscle
Many people – particularly some women – are very leery about undertaking any exercise regimen that can lead to muscle building. The old perception was that muscle building leads to muscle bulking, and before long, gorging forearm veins and other unwanted results. This is, frankly, not the case.
Provided that women aren’t supporting their […]

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Strategies for Boosting Your Metabolism (Part 2)

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Exercise
It’s going to be old news for you to be reminded that exercising is a bit part of boosting your metabolism and burning up calories. Unless you’re born with one of those unusually active metabolisms which allows you to, almost freakishly, eat thousands of calories a day without weight-gain consequences, you’re like the vast […]

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Strategies for Boosting Your Metabolism (Part 1)

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments

The popular and widely respected Internet publication i-Village highlights 11 key ways to speed up metabolism. To most easily introduce and discuss them here, we’ve taken these 11 key ideas
and broken them down into 3 broad categories:

Exercise
Lifestyle
Diet

As we go through each of the 11 key points, you’ll certainly note that there is some overlap […]

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