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Italian Military Fitness
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Italian Military Fitness

Organized by Military Fitness When lacking is motivation and constancy. Italian Military Fitness is a project born last April to bring people back to training in a serious way, in contact with nature and rediscovering some important values ​​of being together with others. In contrast to the tendency to enroll in the gym and then give up after two months and meet another failure, the idea behind IMF is to use three psychological elements typical of military life - motivation, determination and teamwork - for lead people towards sporting goals that they would tend to reach more easily. Th

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Proprioceptive training

By Dr. Davide Sganzerla Proprioceptive training is a practice based on stimulation of the neuro-motor system in its entirety. The proprioceptive training is composed of a set of exercises that create situations of instability, in order to evaluate and improve the use of proprioceptive signals coming from the peripheral parts of the body, in particular from the lower limbs
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Backbone training

(by Roberto Eusebio, absolute national champion of body fitness) It is certainly one of my favorite muscle groups, or at least one of the most interesting and stimulating ones I love to train. The large dorsal, due to its vastness and breadth, is certainly one of the most impressive muscles of the human body, determined in each of us by genetics
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Is it possible to train at home?

By Simone Forte More and more often my clients ask me: "Can I train at home and get the same results I get in the gym?" The answer is always the same: "SURE, you just need to know what to do, how to do it and when to do it". Beware of those super-machineries all doing that are sold in department stores at exorbitant prices, what I can advise you given my experience is: a barbell an EZ bar two modular handlebars an adjustable bench a squat castle at least 50 - 80 kg of various discs With this equipment you will have a complete gym at your home and you don't even need a lo
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Train with Mozart

Edited by Michela and Fabio Grossi Music, it is well known, affects the psyche and the physical. In some cases it seems that the background music is of great effect to increase and enhance the results and benefits of physical activity. But what is the musical genre capable of generating greater benefits for the organism
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High intensity training and weight loss

By Dr. Nicola Sacchi - Author of the book: Drugs and doping in sport - See also: why aerobic training is counter-productive; heart rate for weight loss Do you think that the best way to lose weight is to do aerobic activity? If so, you are mistaken, as several studies show that high intensity training is more effective than aerobic activity in promoting weight loss
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Pectoral training

Edited by Roberto Eusebio On this occasion, talking about the pectoral muscles, exceptionally fascinating muscles, reminds me with pleasure of the emotions I felt when I watched in amazement as I put down Arnold, in particular in the pose of the more muscular I remained enchanted! The pectoral muscles are the most indicative or at least more relevant and exciting muscles to train for the neophyte bodybuilder
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Compensated global lengthening

We all understand the importance of stretching in the practice of our activities, both sporting and not, so much so that the research and publications of B. Anderson since the seventies on have become gospel for the lovers of this discipline. However we find in the method proposed by the author in question an intrinsic limit, which consists in acting by segments
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Slow forward, side raises and low back

By Dr. Antonio Parolisi Biomechanical and functional considerations on the lateral lift movement A movement that allows a great involvement of the scapulo-humeral belt is undoubtedly the exercise of lateral raising, as mono-articular, or slow forward as a multiarticular exercise. In the lateral elevation, in practice, abduction occurs on the frontal plane, which in order of activation includes the muscles: supraspinatus, deltoid, trapezius, dentate gran, and contralateral lumbar
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Azotemia in Bodybuilding

By Dr. Antonio Parolisi The following is only an informative draft and general considerations on the Azotemia parameter in the blood tests of a sportsman who regularly practices weight training, even at a professional level. Therefore it is not in any way to be considered as a behavioral or therapeutic guide to an outcome of hyperazotemia
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Aqqwalking treade mill: gentlemen, the future has begun!

By Dr. Doriana De Pasquale Some time ago I was wandering around the pools of the Foro Italico and, as if I had never noticed it, I admired the spacious rooms in the corridors, the changing rooms, in short, a very long journey to get to my destination. It was then that, as in a photo from the beginning of the 1900s, everything appeared to me in black and white and I almost ran into a guy from over sixty or seventy years ago
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