The blog below is from one of HitFit509’s members, Brenda. She has been a staple in the gym and wanted to share her trials and tribulations with you. “As I look back and reflect on my journey to get healthy ...
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Vitamin D
If you take 1200 IU vitamin D3 every day, you can halve your chance of getting influenza. Japanese epidemiologists at Jikei University School of Medicine reported this in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Vitamin D and flu During the ...
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Intensive Exercise is Healthier
Exercise is always healthy, even if you get an awful lot of it. We wrote about that recently. But does it matter whether you do high intensity exercise or take things more gently? It does, according to an article published ...
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Excess Post Exercise Oxygen Consumption
Also known as oxygen debt, EPOC is the amount of oxygen required to restore your body to its normal, resting level of metabolic function (called homeostasis). It also explains how your body can continue to burn calories long after you’ve finished your workout. Exercise ...
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Brenda’s Fitness Journal
Hit Fit 509 member Brenda takes us on her fitness journal by detailing her experiences below. March 6 – 12 Was so glad for Monday to come around and being able to get back into the gym. Was a little ...
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Suffer from Continuous Colds? Try Vitamin D3
Do you suffer continuously from colds? Do you cough every night in bed? Do you go from one course of antibiotics to the next? According to immunologists at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, you may be able to increase your ...
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Combination Training Speeds up Weight Loss
If you train because you want to lose weight, you’re best off doing combination training. The combination of cardio training and strength training helps weight loss more than cardio training on its own and more than strength training alone write ...
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Jessica’s Fitness Journey
I started my getting in to shape journey months ago, you know the kind where you have to think about it first. Then you start researching where you want to begin and at what gym. While at Physical Therapy (Institute for Sports ...
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Cortisol and Weight Loss
Through my research and web surfing here are some things you need to know to help you get fit and lose weight. -Charles Cortisol • Cortisol, despite its bad reputation, is required for optimal health and actually burns fat, under the right ...
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Interval training helps the obese lose weight
Exercise programmes designed to help obese men and women to reach a healthier weight tend to result in limited weight loss. Researchers at the University of New South Wales write in the Journal of Obesity that fat people should actually ...
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