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Weight Loss’ Hidden Addiction
We are all quite familiar with the common addictions that keep so many people overweight and unhealthy – chocolate, sweets, junk food, alcohol, overeating, and so on. There is no big secret about any...
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My Competition Battle
Well the competition season is finally over as of last weekend, and it certainly was a very hectic one to say the least! I did three national-level Figure shows on three consecutive weekends, each one...
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Earning Results Through Perseverance
I was reading a book some time ago called Geisha, by Lesley Downer. As the name suggests, the book is about the Geisha of Japan, and in the beginning of the book the author talks about her experience...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 6 Rules of Success
Success leaves clues, as they say, so when we’re lucky enough to come across someone who has been unusually successful in any area, it makes good sense to study how they approached their life and what...
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The Truth Behind Fitness Programs
I recently saw a photo of a fitness model with a fantastic physique that had been posted on a Facebook page. Among the several comments attached to the photo was one by a woman who said something along...
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Healthy Eating
These days we hear a lot about healthy eating, and more often than not what’s being referred to is healthy eating in the physical sense. In other words, what’s best for our body – things like high fat...
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Competiton Tanning
I wanted to write a blog post today about tanning for competition. It’s something that I knew absolutely nothing about when I did my first Figure competition last October and although I don’t claim to...
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80% of Your Results Come From 20% of Your Efforts
I was watching some online videos of CT Fletcher the other day, which are always very entertaining and in a way, a breath of fresh air. While everyone else seems to be focusing on making working out...
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Your Competition Day Checklist
Those of us who have stepped onto the competition stage before know all too well how scary and uncertain the first time can be, especially when you don’t have the benefit of a coach or someone...
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Extremism in Fitness
One of the most counterproductive and even damaging traits relating to health, fitness and weight loss that so many uninformed people succumb to is the culture of extremism. Of course, extremism is...
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To Deprive or Not to Deprive?
Within fitness there seems to be an ongoing difference of opinions when it comes to treats, cheats, cheat meals and cheat days. The most conservative groups out there believe in eating “clean” all the...
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The Mind’s Role in Training
As you can imagine, dragging yourself into the gym five to six times a week on a mission to push yourself to new limits time and time again can be extremely challenging – physically, emotionally and...
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The Value of Failure
I was watching an episode of The Twilight Zone the other day which was very interesting. In this episode a genie granted a hard-working shop owner four wishes, where he could ask for absolutely...
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You Don’t Know What’s Possible Until You’re Doing it
I wanted to make a blog post today about an incredibly inspiring woman that I learned about recently who really represents the no excuses mindset. This woman has had every reason to believe that her...
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The Truth About Dietary Supplements
Dietary supplements are one of those things that divide people’s opinions. Some believe that if you’re serious about losing weight and/or being fit and healthy you have to be taking supplements. Others...
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7 Steps To Unshakeable Mental Strength
It can be so difficult sometimes to make even relatively minor changes in our lives or reach seemingly simple goals, that when we look around at the high-achievers in life it’s easy to be in awe and...
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7 Simple Strategies For Guaranteeing You Stick to Your Workout Program
Sometimes even the best-laid and best-intentioned plans can quickly unravel. And we all know that a very familiar example of this is the struggle to stick to your workout program. Be honest . . . how...
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10 Steps To Becoming a Genuine Alpha Fitness Chick
Reaching Alpha status in the gym is no mean feat, and quite frankly, it’s not for everyone. You need to have “the right stuff”. And if you don’t have the right stuff, you need to get it, if you ever...
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3 Tweaks to Your Planks For Killer Abs
The good old fashioned plank is a very well-known and commonly used exercise in many people’s ab routine. And as far as isometric exercises go, it’s not a bad little technique. The main problem however...
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Your Competition Day Checklist
Those of us who have stepped onto the competition stage before know all too well how scary and uncertain the first time can be, especially when you don’t have the benefit of a coach or someone...
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