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How to lift your butt?

In the previous article I explained how you can lose buttocks fat. Buttocks lifting will be equally challenging. The shape of this part of your body depends mainly on genetics (hormonal profile), lifestyle, physical activity, your diet and amount of overall body fat. The entirety of actions you take will build your success. Is it ever possible to lift your butt and make it look better without a scalpel? Surely it is better to attempt to shape your body by means of a training than to sit at home and complain.

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Abdomen localized fat burning - does it exist?

Incited by catchwords: "get rid of belly fat by doing thousands of bends", "the best way to a muscular belly is aerobic Weider's six" many people still believe in localized fat burning. How many of your friends spend 15-20 minutes every day doing the same exercises? How many of them can show off with their beautiful, fatless bellies? Exactly. Now, why is that so?

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Here we go with Cross Fit! Exemplary plans and WODs.

I must start from warnings because a mixed training is not exactly an innocent experiment. Many of these workouts can give you for example sudden rise in heart rate, blood pressure, decrease in blood sugar levels. So, first of all - I recommend preventive medical examinations (eg. blood pressure measurement, auscultation, ECG, heart rate ECG and other indicated by a specialist). Such diagnostics can be easily performed by cardiologist (or you can obtain a referral to other specialist or a sports physician).

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The biggest mistakes in workout routines - part 1

A proper workout plan, next to a diet, is a guarantee of success. But very often you can come across mistakes that prevent you from achieving the progress in mass, strength, speed and musculature increase. Whether you have worked out for three months or 15 years, the most absurd training routines can be found also in well advanced gym goers. For example, there was a man who complained he coudn't make any progress on the bench; it turned out that he regularly did 30 sets, some till exhaustion: all options of pressing and flies.

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Which products remove water from the body?

Holding water in the body concerns many people, especially women. It may cause a lot of unpleasant feelings. Swallen ankles, sensation of heaviness, increased weight, swallen calves and feet, exhaustion. I'm sure that's not pleasant. In this article you will find few natural products, which may turn out to be helpful in removing excessive amount of water from the body.

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Kitchen scales and other gadgets, which are useful during diet

No matter which diet you decide to use, whether it's reduction, gain, or balanced diet, you may need kitchen gadets, thanks to which it will be easier and faster for you to prepare healthy and nutritious meals. There are many of such utensils. But which will be useful for everybody?

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