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The importance of training monitoring
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The importance of training monitoring

Edited by: Francesco CurrĂ² In a last article I expressed the need to explicitly monitor the training in order to really customize it and make it more effective: the training must be "built" on the athlete. The athlete does not have to adapt to it: he cannot do it, unless it is a genetic talent or he uses large amounts of drugs!

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Let us spread our shoulders

Edited by: Francesco CurrĂ² We agree with you that an overdeveloped muscle group compared to neighboring sections, rather than offering aesthetic advantages creates symmetry problems. In our opinion, however, this "law" escapes the muscular section of the deltoids: have you ever heard "belittle" someone because their shoulders are too wide?
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Six reasons why aerobic training is counterproductive

As an Athletic Trainer and Personal Trainer for 18 years, I had the chance to see several enthusiasts in the fitness world train in different gyms, not only in the local gym in my home or in my travels in the United States, but in different European countries. In every gym or fitness center, the thing I noticed is how the same people do the same workouts month after month, year after year
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Lower limbs training

By Dr. Simone Losi The training of the legs in general in Italian gyms often plays a secondary role, compared to the training of the upper body. The motivation lies in the fact that training your legs well involves a lot more effort (in fact if we think about it we are half of our body), and then there is the popular belief that arms and pectorals developed in a greater way amplify the effect of physical grandeur
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Women's training: because they never get better in the gym

Curated by Gerolamo Cavalli and Gabriele Gualandris Biological function of women: splendid clinic naturally equipped for procreation, therefore for the survival of the species. Is it weak sex? Everything to see ... the weaker sex is a myth to debunk because the woman, if seriously convinced and followed by a good trainer or athletic trainer is more practical of man and as soon as he verifies the results in terms of well-being and physical form, he immediately reveals tenacity and excellent endurance of work volumes and resistance to fatigue
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Interview with Massimo Rugolo

Edited by Massimo Rugolo " 5) What is the most effective workout for the buttocks? Ask a woman what she would like to improve and she will answer you in only 2 ways: BUTTOCKS AND BREASTS. The buttocks are increasingly at the center of attention in the gym and we try to discover the magical exercise
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Legs and buttocks: false myths and errors in female training

Curated by Alessandro De Vettor and Alessandro Cioffi Legs and buttocks are parts of the body to which the female universe dedicates so much attention and care as to the face, the treated part par excellence. Indeed, it often happens that girls and women who shun makeup do worry and commit themselves diligently to preserve or achieve tone and aesthetically pleasing forms of the lower part of the body
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Functional training: fashion or necessity?

By Dr. Dario Mirra The world of gymnasiums and fitness in general, especially in the modern era, has seen itself flooded and almost destroyed in its professionalism by the myriad innovations that every day came out of the mind of some genius, physical trainer, motor sciences graduate, or from simple room clowns, to try to give newness, freshness and a good dose of smoke to the eyes of the customers of the different centers, who dazzled by the light of some new course, method, alchemy etc
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Functional training: basic principles

By Dr. Dario Mirra Functional training, now a concrete reality in the fitness world, sought everywhere and everywhere present. Certainly inflated and in some ways still unknown, as it seems to be useful to do a little work with kettlebells or on a proprioceptive platform, and here is a lesson in functional training
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Functional training: fashion or reality

By Dr. Davide Marciano In recent years, in Italian gyms, more and more frequently, we hear about functional training and more and more often we see areas dedicated to this training, where the law is no longer the aesthetically beautiful and exorbitantly costly machine, but a spartan environment where you can do free exercises or / and with simple tools, such as fitball, medicine balls, TRX, kettlebells, Bulgarian bags, clubs, jump rope, pull-up bar, etc
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AIP customized supplementary training

Programming of workloads in the water and fitness room, a further arrow to our bow Edited by: Gian Paolo Tascio A structured scheduling of workloads, allows where possible, the possibility of obtaining an INTEGRATIVE CUSTOMIZED TRAINING (AIP) , or a further and targeted training program, to be performed inside the weight room , perfectly balanced and organized according to the work already performed or to be performed in the training room, swimming pool and in all those group activities where general work programs are performed (lower limbs, upper limbs and trunk)
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