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Your 1RM – Use it to Build Your Workout

One Rep Maxes (1RM) are critical pieces of information about yourself that can be used to craft future workouts and record your progress. Typical workouts that have 1RM’s  tied to them are bench, deadlift, and squat. These three lifts are also at times called the “big three.” Some powerlifters (or a lot of times braggadocios highschool football …

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Creative Fitness Gift Ideas For Your Fit Friends

Oftentimes it may seem that purchasing fitness related gifts might offend the recipient. However, for your self-proclaimed fitness-freak friends and family, there is nothing wrong with giving creative, fitness-related gifts this holiday season. For a list of a few fitness themed gift ideas see below: Enroll your recipient in a 5K, obstacle run, or other …

Creative Fitness Gift Ideas For Your Fit Friends

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Functional Strength Gift Ideas

‘Tis the season for gift giving! Luckily offering functional strength tools/workout equipment can be both incredibly thoughtful and affordable. Offering gifts around strength training also doesn’t have the same implications as giving standard fitness equipment (ahem…you need to lose weight.) Instead building strength is incredibly useful to all genders and ages, and a great topic …

Functional Strength Gift Ideas

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The ERG/Rowing Machine: The Most Efficient of Your Workout Time

I must admit that I have been very disgruntled with the (predictable) influx of new gym goers that have shown up post-January 1st. However, this recent swarm has actually resulted in me trying new machines that I typically avoid when I have free range of equipment. For example, this past week, I had planned on …

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