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Top 5 Holiday (Christmas, Hanukkah) Fitness Presents

This year, instead of wasting your money on presents that your family and friends will never use, why not buy them something that will be fun and help get them healthier?

Guide: Healthy Holidays

Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Years are all right around the corner. Is your diet and exercise going to suffer during this time of the year or will you be able to enjoy yourself while at the same time staying healthy?

Is a gym necessary?

Gyms have great equipment, staff that can show you new exercises and an environment that promotes fitness. Unfortunately, not everyone can afford a gym membership and others are not comfortable visiting one. So is the gym the only place you can get a good workout or can you get in shape another way?

Top 5 Excuses for not Eating Healthy

Everyone has a different excuse for why they're not exercising. Even if you think you have the best excuses in the world, they're still not going to help you get in shape. Here are some of the most popular excuses and how you can stop making them.

Top 5 Excuses for not Exercising

Top 5 Ways to Lose Weight Without Counting Calories

Reducing your calorie intake is the only way you'll ever lose weight but counting calories can be a pain. Luckily there are ways to cut down on your calorie intake without writing down endless numbers.

Why am I not losing weight?

Losing weight is only possible when one condition is met: eating less calories than you burn. If you don't follow this rule, there's no way to lose weight.

Muscle Diet

Those looking to gain weight are told over and over again to eat all foods, all the time. If you aren't eating you aren't gaining, right? This is true, but if you take this advice, you’re much more likely to get fat and unhealthy rather than muscular and in shape.

Top 5 Weight Loss Myths

Losing weight is a simple enough process. You increase your physical activity, cut your calorie intake and bam, the weight melts away. Even so, there are half truths and lies being spread about how to lose weight faster and with less effort. Don't get caught up trying weight loss strategies that aren't based on real science.

Top 5 Ways to Get Toned

After hours of research, you finally have a plan to tone up. Before you hurry off to the gym and do hundreds of sit ups while avoiding all forms of fat in your diet, take a look at some myths you need to avoid.

Top 5 Fat Burning Myths

The Fat Burning Zone

If you use any of the cardio equipment at the gym, you've probably used its built in fat burning program. Before you get too excited about all the fat you're going to lose, you should know why these types of programs aren't the best idea for getting toned or even losing weight.

Toning

Toning is an often misunderstood concept. Most people know what toning is but get confused when trying to achieve it. Toning is simply increasing muscle definition by burning fat. Exercise and diet play an important role and ignoring either will delay any results.

How to: Gaining Weight for Skinny Guys

Though some people find it very difficult to lose weight, there are people that find it just as hard to put any on. A combination of super fast metabolisms, bad eating habits and wrong approaches to exercise are all factors that cause this problem.

What's the difference between a catabolic and anabolic state?

Catabolic and anabolic are two different states that describe whether the body is building tissue or breaking it down.

Will this diet work?

When trying to lose weight the question is, will this diet work? The answer to that depends on the diet's prescribed caloric intake as well as the types of foods it recommends you eat. Not all diets are created equal and simply entering a calorie deficit doesn't always equal success.