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The ways for you to include exercise in your daily life are innumerable and range from taking a walk every day to joining a health club to buying sophisticated exercise equipment. Before you spend a lot of money on your exercise program, be aware that the amount of money you spend has no effect on your motivation to use it. Many people try to trick themselves into exercising by thinking that if they spend a lot of money, they’ll be sure to use whatever it is they purchased. It doesn’t work. In fact, the amount of money you spend on home exercise equipment is directly proportional to the amount of guilt you feel when you turn it into a clothes rack. If you have guilt-producing exercise equipment at home that you know in your heart you’ll never use, sell it!

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The Bowflex is a popular home gym workout system that incorporates polymer rods for resistance that emulates the typical weights and pulleys used in weight machines. It consists of on fairly large system that includes a bench as well as leg and arm levers. It comes in a much smaller package than the typical home gym, considering that only one unit needs to be purchased as opposed to several different machines. However, the Bowflex carries a high price tag. In fact the home gym system can cost up to 2,000 dollars. Bodylastics is a similar system that also relies on resistance training, but it is available for a mere 50 dollars and won’t take up important space in your home like a larger system will.

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By understanding a little more about the muscles you are using, you will start to recognize just how your bodybuilding exercises make the difference.

The smart thing about this is that you will understand better how to leverage your exercises to make much better use of them

So, as you can guess from this, it’s not just about knowing the complicated and often almost unpronouncable Latin names of the muscles.

“Latin is a language, that’s dead as dead can be - it killed the ancient Romans, and now it’s killing me” - inscription inside my latin dictionary, circa 1967!

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What to drug addicts and some runners have in common?

Addiction to the high that comes with their fix.

Did you know that endorphins were discovered in the 1970s when scientists were researching drug addiction. They discovered that the brain manufactures chemicals that are even more potent than morphine or heroin, but which share the same receptors as those drugs. These natural chemicals produced by your body are the endorphins responsible for that sense of euphoria you’d get after a particularly intense workout, or a good run.

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