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To Strap or Not to Strap | BodyRecomposition

So here’s an optimal compromise that will both ensure some grip training, ensure that your training doesn’t suffer and maybe make everybody happy.  Assuming grip is important, start pulling workouts without straps.  Depending on how good your grip is you’ll eventually find grip starting to become limiting.  It might be on your fourth sets of deadlifts, your third set of rows, whatever.  Doesn’t matter when it starts to happen.  Just that it does at some Read more…

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Worst Sports-Related Passwords

Although baseball, soccer, hockey, and basketball teams do appear on the top 25, the names of NFL teams show up most often (“eagles,” “steelers,” “cowboys,” “raiders,” “packers,” “giants,” “redskins,” “dolphins”). So if you know you work in an office full of football fans, urge them to enhance their passwords (especially if the local team is in the NFC East division). via Worst Sports-Related Passwords.

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The Top Five Ab Training Mistakes | StrongFirst

There are many exercises to choose from for effective ab training.  The key is to practice both feed-forward and feed-back tension and to say farewell to the “burn”.  All of the StrongFirst curricula—kettlebell, bodyweight, and barbell—are obsessive about building strong abs.  Consider the Total Tension Kettlebell Complex as an example. via The Top Five Ab Training Mistakes | StrongFirst.

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LastPass – Premier Password Manager

Every week another large company has a data breach.  One way to help protect your accounts is to have a different password for every account.  This is HARD to do! A password manager is a great way to have one master password and then have your others in an encrypted vault that travels with you between phones, browsers, etc. Create an account and install the browser extensions or try the full Windows client.  Then save Read more…

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5 Bodyweight Exercise Substitutions – Early To Rise

And then comes the hard part – clearly communicating what needs to be done…with yourself. You must be clear about your own goals in your head. You must be clear about what it will take to succeed, and you must also be clear about what you will and will NOT do for success. Those are your rules. Know them, communicate them, and stick to them. You can’t hit the gym every day, but you can Read more…

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Top 10 Smart Ways to Save Money on Clothes

Perhaps you’re thinking “just don’t buy any more clothes!” Clothing, unfortunately, quickly gets worn out or outdated, and work and other special occasions will require us to invest in our wardrobes. Gaining weight, losing weight, and/or trying to clothe children who grow like weeds are also challenges. We can, however, make our clothing budget count more by keeping the clothes we love last longer and also spending less on new clothing. via Top 10 Smart Read more…

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9 Easy Ways to Become Unsatisfied with Life

Unfortunately, our world has made it too easy to experience the opposite. Our society has championed pursuits that often fade. We spend our lives pursuing them, but have little to show at the very end. And too many, in this scenario, experience regret at the lives they chose to live. Rarely is the easy path the wisest path. And just because a pursuit has become common to those around us does not mean it results Read more…

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