Posts tagged exercise
How To Set Up Your Home Gym or Workout Space

Working out at home can be convenient, safe, and fun — but only if your space is set up right. Otherwise, it can be a total disaster. In this blog post, we’ll go over what to do (and not do) when you’re setting up a home gym or workout space.

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Get Better Results from Your Workouts With This Time-Tested Method

Ever wonder why some people seem to get better results out of their workouts than other people? Chances are, if you talk to a gym rat who knows what they’re doing, they’ll tell you about the strategy behind their workouts — periodization.

Kind of like how babies learn to crawl before they learn to walk, a good workout program should build on itself in a systematic way. Another way to think about it is like gears on a 10-speed bike (or in a car). You start out in the lowest gear, which gets you ready for the next gear, and so on.

There are all sorts of ways to build periodized programs, but just so we don’t get in the weeds, I’ll focus on only one way: a workout program built for my typical client.

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