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365 Ways #350–What’s your stance?

#350--Your body is smart. It will not allow the prime movers involved in a particular movement to work at their full potential if the joint(s) over which those muscles cross...
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365 Ways #349–Grocery stores and hospitals would go out of business

#349--"If Americans could eliminate sugary beverages, potatoes, white bread, pasta, white rice and sugary snacks, we would wipe out almost all the problems we have with weight and diabetes and...
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365 Ways #348–Bad knees are a bad excuse

#348–If squatting makes your knees hurt, I’d say you’re squatting incorrectly. And there’s a rule in rehab: if you can’t, you must. You actually squat everyday in real life. That...
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365 Ways #347–The Appestat

#347--There's a region of the brain inside the hypothalamus which regulates the sense of hunger. It's called the appestat. And while you may have never heard this term before, for...
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365 Ways #346–The brain/body connection

#346--You cannot separate the physical from the mental. Proof of this fact can be found in an article from the the March 2010 issue of Human Brain Mapping (a.k.a. pleasure...
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365 Ways #345–You gotta rest!

#345--The nervous system takes longer to recover than the muscular system. Thus, the more neurologically complex the exercise, the longer a person should rest between sets. For example, if you're...
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365 Ways #344–Mother Nature knows her physics

#344--Crunches won't give you a six-pack. Even if you can perform this entirely dysfunctional movement for 30 minutes at your target heart rate, there's no such thing as spot reduction....
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365 Ways #343–That’s bananas!

#343--A doctor whose first instinct isn't pharmaceutical may tell you to eat a banana if you've got high blood pressure. With around 400mg of potassium per serving, that's not a...
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