Category: Warrior
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Wake Up, Beauty, It’s Time to Beast: Rowing
Rowing offers a dynamic, full-body workout combining cardiovascular training and strength-building. It targets several muscle groups, including those in your upper body and core, making it a fantastic option for anyone looking to diversify their fitness regimen.
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Wake Up, Beauty, It’s Time to Beast: Boxing
Boxing and kickboxing offer more than just an avenue for learning self-defense. They provide a vigorous, full-body workout to boost strength, stamina, agility, and confidence. As you float like a butterfly and sting like a bee, you might find a new, empowering approach to fitness.
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Wake Up, Beauty, It’s Time to Beast: Swimming
Swimming is a full-body workout that balances strength-building, endurance training, and coordination enhancement. It’s a low-impact, high-efficiency exercise that offers many benefits, from improved muscular strength and cardiovascular health to stress relief and increased flexibility.
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Wake Up, Beauty, It’s Time to Beast: Yoga
In the sprawling landscape of fitness, yoga holds a special place. A multi-faceted discipline from ancient India, yoga combines physical postures, breathing exercises, and meditative practices, offering a holistic approach to health and well-being. Many yoga poses, like the downward dog or the warrior series, demand core engagement and upper body strength, helping build balance…
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Wake Up, Beauty, It’s Time to Beast: Pull-ups
Let’s delve into the world of pull-ups, an exercise that, while challenging, provides an impressive array of fitness benefits. Many fitness enthusiasts label pull-ups as one of the most effective exercises for upper body strength.
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Wake Up, Beauty, It’s Time to Beast: Push-ups
Push-ups are frequently overlooked in favor of more elaborate gym equipment and routines. Yet, this humble bodyweight exercise is a great compound movement that packs a significant punch for building upper body strength.
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Wake Up, Beauty, It’s Time to Beast: Planking
Planking, when first introduced to the fitness scene, may have been met with skeptical glances. Why would someone want to balance their body weight on their toes and elbows in a seemingly static position and call it exercise? Yet, as years passed and the fitness world embraced planking with open arms, these initial apprehensions gradually…
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Loving You: Set Realistic Goals
Rather than striving for an ideal body size, shape, or weight, realistic goals include increasing physical strength, enhancing flexibility, improving endurance, or cultivating better nutrition habits. These goals acknowledge the amazing things our bodies can do rather than reducing them to their appearance.
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Loving You: Mindfulness and Meditation
The human body is a remarkable, intricate entity that houses our consciousness, experiences our emotions, and allows us to navigate the world. Despite its undeniable importance, we often treat our bodies as mere vehicles, neglecting the connection between our physical selves and mental well-being. Here’s where mindfulness and meditation come into play – as powerful…
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Loving You: Stop Comparisons
Everyone is unique – in personality, experience, and, indeed, in body shape and size. It is this rich tapestry of diversity that makes humanity beautiful. Yet, in a society that often values certain body types over others, it can be challenging not to fall into the trap of comparison.
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Loving You: Seek Professional Help
Navigating the body confidence journey can sometimes feel like a solitary and daunting endeavor, particularly when negative body image thoughts become overwhelming. It’s important to remember that seeking professional help is a valid and often beneficial step in this journey. Therapists and counselors trained in body image issues can provide strategies and tools to help…
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Loving You: Focus on Ability, not Appearance
Human bodies have an inherent strength and beauty that often gets overlooked. This beauty is not measured by dress size, flawless skin, or perfect symmetry but by the incredible things our bodies allow us to do daily. By shifting our focus from appearance to ability, we can begin to appreciate and celebrate our bodies more…