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Get Toned With This Flexible Bodyweight Workout

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No equipment required for this bodyweight workout. It’s the New Year, which means the gyms are insanely crowded. Add in the fact that it's flu season, and we get why you might want to avoid your regular fitnes...

Does A Fitness Mattress Live Up To The Hype?

Dana Leigh Smith

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Fit Nation investigates the science behind the fitness mattress which promises athletes a better night’s sleep. You already know that sleep is a necessary pillar of general wellness and fitness recovery, but f...

Face Mapping: A 9 Step Physical With Your Mirror

Mary Ann Green

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Want to know what’s going on inside your body? Your face just might be telling the tale. Long before allopathic medicine, our ancestors were practicing healing arts — now better known as “alternative” medicin...

6 Secrets To Relieve Stress This Holiday Season

Kathy Feinstein

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Avoid the stress of the season by treating the holidays like you would any athletic pursuit. First, get a game plan. It’s the most wonderful time of the year — the holidays, of course! Rich in beloved tradi...

Food As Medicine

Dr. Sal

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What’s a commonly overlooked prescription for many of today’s preventable illnesses? A clean, wholesome diet, Dr. Sal explains. Over the past fifty years, we have seen a significant increase in the incidence o...

Cryotherapy: Freezing Yourself For Better Health

Dana Leigh Smith

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Does the thought of willingly standing half-naked in a small, enclosed chamber set to a temperature of minus 200 degrees Fahrenheit make your blood run cold? Ours, too. Perhaps that’s because that’s what litera...

The Wine All Fitness Fanatics Should Be Drinking

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Trying to enjoy a few drinks but still maintain a healthy diet? You put in all this work at crossfit, in the pool, on the bike or out on the track and then want to meet up with friends to unwind just to have t...

4 Steps To Recover From Any Injury

Kathy Feinstein

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Mentally recouping from an injury can sometimes be more challenging than physical recovery. We’ve got some surefire strategies to help you cope. You’ve got everything going in your favor. You’re getting bet...

Prevent Disease, Increase Longevity with a Plant-Based Diet

Dr. Sal

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A plant-based diet could help prevent disease and increase your longevity. Dr. Sal, Vice President of Health & Wellness at Lee Memorial Health System, explains. Growing up in an Italian home was wonderf...

Sensory Deprivation for Amazing Recovery

Nichole Rheiner

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Is sensory deprivation the key to relaxation? Does this sound familiar? The alarm goes off and you jump out of bed, chug coffee, check social media, hit the gym, shower, drive through gridlocked traffic while ...