Identifying Different Body Types: Suiting Fitness to Form

January 5, 2011 by Shana Hamid No Comments

Ever wonder why you don’t see results even though you know you’ve spent hours on the treadmill or elliptical? Why is it that friends or other gym goers can lean down and tone up while you do the same movements, sometimes with more effort, yet you can’t manage to lose weight? You can’t expect a [...]

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Weighing In on Weight Cutting

November 29, 2010 by Shana Hamid No Comments

Routine to combat sports, a significant custom in mixed martial arts is overt weight cutting by dehydration and starvation to make weight class before a fight. Though most athletes, coaches, commentators and fans agree that weight-cutting is a necessary skill, the procedure of cutting drastic percentages of weight in a matter of days, hours even, [...]

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