Train Outside Your Comfort Zone

Train outside your comfort zone - Your comfort zone is the biggest obstacle to your fitness and weight loss...so always train outside it.

A study carried out in 1996 by sports scientist Professor Izumi Tabata found that training outside of your comfort zone or, to use the technical term, high-intensity interval training (HIIT) - four times a week achieved the same benefits as someone who trained five times a week doing, steady, long-duration cardio work. -Matt Hussey

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Maintain Muscle Mass

If you maintain muscle mass while losing weight you'll look better and feel better.

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Music Boosts Performance During Training By 15%

Listening to fast tempo music during training boosts performance by 15%.

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse found in a 2003 study that participants who chose to listen to faster-paced music generated a higher heart rate, pedaled harder and generated more power, increasing their level of work by as much as 15% by diverting their focus to the music.-Wikipedia

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Muffin Top Melting Workout

Muffin Top Melting Workout - See the complete video HERE on YouTube

Just 30 Minutes A Day Goes A Very Long Way

There are 1,440 minutes in a day, schedule 30 of them for exercise.

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The Benefits of Doing Regular Aerobic Exercise

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The Benefits of Doing Regular Aerobic Exercise:

1. Strengthening the muscles involved in respiration, to facilitate the flow of air in and out of the lungs
2. Strengthening and enlarging the heart muscle, to improve its pumping efficiency and reduce the resting heart rate, known as aerobic conditioning
3. Strengthening muscles throughout the body
4. Improving circulation efficiency and reducing blood pressure
5. Increasing the total number of red blood cells in the body, facilitating transport of oxygen
6. Improved mental health, including reducing stress and lowering the incidence of depression
7. Reducing  the risk for diabetes.
8. Burns body fat, while building leaner muscle.

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I find it really motivating to occasionally remind myself of all the good exercise does to my body and mind. It can be so easy to think of exercise as only a means of burning calories and losing weight, but it can do so much more. 

It Takes Sweat Determination and Hard Work

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

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Train Like You Mean It

Train like you mean it.The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.

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Workouts are Non-Negotiable

Workouts are non-negotiable! They are just as important as school and work. GET IT DONE.

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You Are Worth It

I reward my body by training hard and eating clean...because I'm worth it.

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Your Body Was Made To Exercise EVERYDAY

You eat EVERYDAY, you sleep EVERYDAY, and your body was made to exercise EVERYDAY. - Jack Lalanne

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Do Something That Makes You Sweat

Go do something that makes you sweat.

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Focus On The Great Moments Ahead

I will RUN, I will TRAIN, I will EAT CLEAN, no matter how lazy I feel at that moment, because it's how I want to feel in the moments to come that matters most.

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