As a fitness conscious individual, you always look to perform exercises that benefit your body in a number of ways. You look to build your muscles, increase your body strength, cut some weight, tone your body muscles and keep fit among other things.

One of the rare sights in a gym is someone leaning on a wall with their feet firmly on the floor and knees held at 90⁰ to the floor. These are called wall sits (squats). Whenever someone spots me doing the squats, they normally think I am wasting my precious gym time.

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When we think of exercise, we are usually very focused on what the heart is doing. We want to know how many beats per minute it is going, how to speed up our heart rates or slow it down, whether that is for cardio or fat burning.

We buy fancy gadgets to track it all, then compare our results to our past data as we move forward in physical training.

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What does a strong body mean to you? Bodybuilding means strengthening the smaller layers of muscle around and beneath the larger muscles in the body. The goal is to have as strong a body as possible.

Bodybuilding is the development of the body using diet and exercise for a healthy lifestyle. Bodybuilders combine cardio workouts with targeting specific muscle groups. This burns fat as well as building muscle for an optimally defined body.

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Back when I was a gym and exercise novice, one of my goals was to get toned, bulging biceps. So I started cranking out set after set of curls, lifting dumbbells and barbells without much planning.

It’s only after a lot of research that I came to realize my haphazard approach wouldn’t work to build up my goal arms.

Like most people who don’t take time to learn these things, I failed to realize that not all bicep exercises were created equal. Exercise selection is important as different workouts subject your biceps to varying levels of intensity, thus affecting their effectiveness.

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If you live an active lifestyle or you do some bit of exercise from time to time, recovery is an essential aspect to consider. The relationship between perspiration and recovery after exercise is sort of difficult to define.

However, it could be the difference between an exercise routine that is effective and that which isn’t. Perspiration can be defined as the process of sweating or the actual sweat itself.

You may then ask, how is perspiration related to recovery after exercise? Well, in this article we will demystify this issue with facts.

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