Recent research has put forth a dubious concept called “metabolically healthy obesity.” Basically, it's a term used to describe obese people whose metabolism performs like that of a person with a normal weight, and who don't seem to have signs of health problems that often plague obese people (high blood...
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Weight Training Can Reduce Anxiety
Want to quiet your racing mind? Take it to the gym: Weight training can help relieve your anxiety, a new meta-analysis in the journal Sports Medicine suggests. That’s what researchers concluded after crunching the numbers from 16 previous studies on 922 participants. The lifting routine varied in each study, but...
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High-Protein, Muscle-Building Vegan Recipes From Pro Athletes
You know you can score plenty of protein just from plants. (At least that’s what people keep saying). But have you ever seen a meat-free meal that you’d actually want to eat? Paleos, prepare to have your mind blown. We asked five vegan athletes to share a few of their...
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These Are the 6 Exercises You Can Do to Become as Fit as a U.S. Soldier
Since the early 2000s, the United States Army has been devising a new series of fitness tests to better prepare their soldiers for the battlefield. For years, the military's current standard, the Army Physical Fitness Test, has been viewed as an inadequate measure of the muscles and movements that a...
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What 7 Elite Vegan Athletes Eat to Get Ultra-Jacked
At times, it's hard to wrap our protein-obsessed heads around the idea that someone can be meat-free and muscled up. After all, the vast majority of low-carb, high-protein foods come from, y'know, animals. But between movies like What The Health (which argues that we're slowly killing ourselves by loading up...
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Here’s How Much Protein You Should Eat Each Day To Build Muscle
Given that the first dietary change most people make when they start doing strength training is to eat more protein, it’s a relief to find out that scoffing more protein does indeed help build bigger muscles. A review of 49 studies covering a total of 1,863 people who regularly undertook...
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The Real Reason You Can’t Run Faster
Whether it’s their choice of shoes or what they eat for breakfast, runners are always seeking a competitive edge to shave another minute off a personal record. While gear and diet choices are important, they'll never be enough if your body is out of balance. Learning your body's cues will...
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Pro Tips for Tackling CrossFit’s Toughest Moves
No athlete masters double-unders, muscle-ups, and handstand push-ups on day one of CrossFit. Getting these moves down takes practice, patience, and of course a killer training strategy. To give you a leg up, we talked to three CrossFit coaches about the best ways to approach each of these moves. Build...
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The 10 Best TRX Exercises for Men
Men love to lift heavy dumbbells, barbells, and kettlebells and make use of many of the machines in the gym. But, you don't always have to train that way. In fact, there's one piece of equipment you may be neglecting that could seriously help you to improve your lifts: "The...
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7 Functional Fitness Tests for Any Athlete
Here at OverSizeMe, we try to debunk the theory that raw athletic talent is genetic. We’re not referring to bodybuilding, but rather to movements that directly affect sports performance. We believe that by doing specific workouts and doing them over a period of time, a guy can surpass the athletic feats he...