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The lunges
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The lunges

Main activated muscles, execution technique and benefits of this exercise. PREMISE: FOR MEN: Lunges create an anaerobic environment throughout the body, which allows you to get the most out of other exercises by improving the level of general physical strength. Furthermore, involving many muscles and requiring a lot of energy, they stimulate the release of large amounts of anabolic hormones such as testosterone and growth hormone

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Abdominals: truth and lies

Watch the video X Watch the video on youtube By Dr. Davide Marciano The abdomen, the most loved by Italians. Anyone would do anything to reduce the waistline and see this wonderful muscle band. Unfortunately there is a lot of confusion in abdominal training and for this reason it is better to clarify some things
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Abdominal Mania: the pros and cons of abdominal muscle work

By Dr. Antonio Parolisi Today there are so many nicknames that are attributed to the fat around the waist: there are those who call it bacon, those who love, those who roll or simply those who say "the belly" ... Currently a large slice of the fitness industry enriches capital grounds with products that aim to train the famous abdominal muscles in order to have the squares or the infamous turtle
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The beautiful turtle

Edited by: Marco Batistoni Let's now move on to the second exercise: crunch lapel on fit ball or swiss ball. Of course it is advisable not to perform both exercises in the same training session; generally in my exercise prescriptions I alternate them, one in day A, the other in day B. We position ourselves supine on the ball, making sure that the lumbar curve adheres to the surface of the fit in a homogeneous and natural way as a beneficial stretch in hyperextension, then we grab with our hands a wall rack to keep the balance (or position the fit ball at center of a multigym, lowering the b
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Abdominal: a commercial ... muscle

Edited by Andrea Turri The abdominals, together with the buttocks, are the most commercial muscles of our body, usually the first for boys and the second for women. In fact, in the gym we often hear the boy asking the instructor to teach him the best exercise to get the infamous "turtle". Consequently, for some years now, the great "undergrowth" made up of various companies that produce fitness machines has been studying the best way to offer the average public the purchase of the century, taking inspiration from professional equipment or the principles of training methodolo
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Aerobic or anaerobic?

Edited by Mario Agamennone In this article I will try to simplify as much as possible the description of aerobic and anaerobic activity. The terms aerobic or anaerobic determine different ways of generating energy in muscles during training. (Daniel Kosich) Aerobic indicates - in the presence of oxygen -
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How to create an optimal training program

By Dr. Simone Losi Optimal training means the best ratio between training intensity and training duration, correct training frequency and use of the most suitable exercises based on individual physical and postural characteristics. Let's start by talking about the correct training duration / intensity ratio: the intensity must always be privileged with respect to the duration of the single training session, since after about 50 minutes from the beginning of training there is a progressive increase in the release of some hormones including cortisol, which is highly catabolic (uses proteins f
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Personalized training

By Dr. Antonio Parolisi Fourth part And now we finally come to the drafting of a weekly training plan for our subject, which we consider to be a motivated subject and who intends to increase the musculature to the fullest. For the criterion of muscular priority I choose to give space at the beginning of the week to the muscles that need a high volume of training
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Personalized training

By Dr. Antonio Parolisi Part Three A very important concept in muscle-building is that what matters is the recruitment of as many fibers as possible, in fact even the red ones are hyper-mechanized, certainly with reduced capacity compared to the whites but, in any case, can be hyper-threaded. So we need to stimulate all the energy systems with the relative fibers in order to maximize the effects of growth
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Functional workouts to improve body performance and resources

Starting from the assumption that every athletic gesture and sport in general should always create and research positive and lasting effects in the daily life of each of us, through new and unique high-performance and rewarding work schemes, we have tried to develop a program training aimed at improving the multiple capacities and qualities of the organism
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Abdominal Muscle Training and Bust Torsion

By Dr. Dario Mirra Introduction In view of the summer, like every year, the run on the flat stomach begins, so we begin to give in with thousands of repetitions to train the abdominal muscles, to chisel the belly and the waist, to then move on to the torsions of the bust, with the purpose of thinning the hips
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