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Strength Training is a Must for Everyone

Strength training is not only for building muscle mass, it’s essential for maintaining your ability to live independently as you age, slows the aging process, and even promotes weight loss. If you’re new to strength training, learning proper exercise technique … Continue reading

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What’s The Best Way To Lose Belly Fat?

For years people believed wrongly that cardio training was the only way to shift body fat. In fact, the best way to burn fat is by doing weight training and high intensity cardio. Note, that a cardio effect can be … Continue reading

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Circuit Training With Weights

At Pro Active I like to prescribe circuit training for fat loss and general toning up because it keeps you moving by only allowing you to take minimal breaks between exercises. This workout is different from other programmes you may … Continue reading

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Vigorous Exercise May Significantly Lower Your Stroke Risk

A new study shows that vigorously exercising at least four times per week can reduce your risk of a stroke, especially if you’re a man; the results are unclear if you’re a woman. This study (and some prior studies) seem … Continue reading

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Are You Struggling To Maintain Your Fat Loss?

This is the time of year when you are likely to be going for it with full determination at the gym… this is GOOD NEWS if you are progressing the way you want to. Unfortunately for a lot of people … Continue reading

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How To Burn Fat in Just 4 Minutes!

Did you know that high-intensity 4-minute workouts are more effective than an hour of moderate cycling? A study shows eight 20-second all out sprints on a stationary bike, each separated by just 10 seconds of rest is more effective than … Continue reading

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Methods That Are Keeping Dieters and Gym Members Fat!

1. Paying no attention to the diet and expecting to burn off bad calories at the gym. 
 2. Spending hours every week doing steady pace cardio in the hope it will burn fat and transform the body so it … Continue reading

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Strength & Weight Loss

The one size fits all approach to fat loss and weight loss doesn’t work, but still people keep on trying to do it and get nowhere. Personal trainers in gyms usually stand next to their clients on the X trainer, … Continue reading

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A Cost Effective Way To Have Personal Training Sessions

At Pro Active I’ve started offering 30-minute workouts to slash the price in half. The half an hour workouts incorporate metabolic enhancing exercises that burn more calories and fat. Metabolic workouts are fun, intense and challenging. The workouts are similar … Continue reading

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How to Burn Extra Calories

By tweaking your current workout it is possible to lose weight quicker. Metabolic finishers take minutes and the metabolic after burn lasts hours. Some people do hours of cardio every week in the hope to lose fat but never get … Continue reading

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