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How bad do you want it? (Inspirational Videos)
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Healthy Eating Tips Your Kids Will Love
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Every parent wants good things for their children: a positive outlook on life, a healthy respect for authority, a strong sense of self, a disease-free body…a healthy body weight. Despite our best intentions, a recent report suggests that for the first time in two centuries, the current generation of children may have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. With [...]

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Improve Your Running Mechanics “PAL”!
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Many coaches and trainers have a hard time helping their young athletes develop proper running mechanics. They are too concern about making them faster that they forget that mechanics is one of the five components of speed. We have to learn to identify the problem before providing solutions that could delay their progress. Most young athletes have developed poor running [...]

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Jump into Plyos!
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Plyometrics (also known as “plyos”) is a type of exercise training designed to produce fast, powerful movements, and improve the functions of the nervous system, generally for the purpose of improving performance in sports. Plyometric movements, in which a muscle is loaded and then contracted in rapid sequence, use the strength, elasticity and innervation of muscle and surrounding tissues to [...]

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Flipping the Switch: Turn Your Motivation On
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Have you ever wondered how some people are able to maintain amazing bodies while you struggle with your weight? They make it seem so easy to achieve and maintain results. What do they know that you don’t? When you boil it down, the answer is quite simple. The missing link between you and your ideal body is good old motivation. [...]

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One of our clients is a local hero!
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Job Louima, an active member of 1822 Fitness, was honored this week by the Boynton Beach police for helping a family back in December of 2010. We need more people like Job in our society. Well deserved Job, we are proud of you!! Watch the video… Local hero honored for helping family

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Free Weights vs Resistance Bands?
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“Joel, what’s better bands or free weights?” I get this question often, so I have decided to post this small piece of article to give my take of this subject. First, I would like to lay out a general comparison of both tools so we can see the advantages and disadvantages of both respectively. Resistance Bands: Elastic rubber strips (tube [...]

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Where did the TIME go?
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The number one reason why people don’t exercise is that they don’t have TIME. At least that’s what they tell themselves . I know we are all busy. Between getting to and from work, balancing responsibilities and having time for yourself, there’s little left over for workouts. With the holiday season fast approaching your busy schedule is sure to get [...]

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Complex is Best

Wait! Don’t just skim down to see which exercise I’ve labeled as the best, get the whole story… I’m often approached and asked to pin down a single exercise as the one that will help lose the most fat and sculpt the quickest. That’s not an easy question to answer. You see, I’m very aware of the fact that though [...]

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Overcoming Procrastination

Today I spent the morning meditating on what’s stopping me from reaching my potential, and I concluded that it is procrastination. Before I continue I want to define procrastination. According to dictionary.com procrastination is to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost; to put off till another day or time; defer; delay. Not to decide is to [...]

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