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Fitness Business Systems: To Buy or to Build?

At some point every fitness entrepreneur will have to decide whether to build from scratch or buy a pre-packaged solution. At some point every fitness entrepreneur will have to decide whether to build ... Continue Reading

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Beyond Crawling: Cross Patterning for Athletes

I’ll be honest - most of my adult life has not been spent dealing with fitness. As a physical therapist, I thought there was obviously a carryover from one area to the other, but until recently I had no ... Continue Reading

Conjugate Method: A Better Way to Plan Your Training Week

Everyone wants it all in terms of his or her fitness plan. They want strength, fitness, low body fat, and flexibility. The problem with the human body, though, is that it only gets good at the things it ... Continue Reading

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Interview with Fitness Specialist Fred Fornicola

Fred Fornicola is a Fitness Specialist and the owner of Fit by Fred in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Fred has been involved in the field of strength and fitness since 1976 and has authored hundreds of articles ... Continue Reading

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Breaking Down the Fitness Fads of 2014

So, 2014 happened. It was my first year as a regular contributor to Breaking Muscle and an interesting year in the fitness industry. Fitness has always been rife with the ebb and flow of trends. This year ... Continue Reading

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WTF Workouts: Do You Have What It Takes to Complete Them?

WTF workouts are challenging. If you can complete them, you must be in fine shape. They can be brutal and can lead to you saying, "Why the flip am I doing this?" WTF, of course, stands for "win the ... Continue Reading

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Circuit Training Doesn’t Get You Fitter

Humans love black and white. We love definitive. We want everything to fit in a box, be on a list, or abide by rules. The problem with all that is the world and our lives are chaotic and ... Continue Reading

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The Fitness Industry Has Failed: How Variety Will Get You Fit

The fitness world is always a strange place. From the Shake Weight to CrossFit to petty infighting between brands or offshoots of brands, there’s always something that makes you shake your head. But of all ... Continue Reading

3 Tips for Building a Home Gym on a Budget

I recently had the opportunity to set up my own home gym. My husband and I do more functional fitness than other types of programming, and since we live so far away from any decent gym, we decided to build ... Continue Reading

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5 Fitness Challenges That Will Strengthen Body and Mind

If you want to test yourself these days, there is no shortage of badass events for you to pick from. From the almost common Ironman to the Badwater Ultramarathon to the Enduroman Arch to Arc race, there ... Continue Reading

Conjugate Method: A Better Way to Plan Your Training Week

Everyone wants it all in terms of his or her fitness plan. They want strength, fitness, low body fat, and flexibility. The problem with the human body, though, is that it only gets good at the things it ... Continue Reading

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The 10 Commandments of Fitness and Wellness

I’m no Moses, but I’ve certainly experienced enough in my many years of fitness to establish my own ten commandments when it comes to fitness and wellness: 1. Thou shalt have no other gods in fitness ... Continue Reading

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Welcome to The NRG Games – Fun, Family, and Fitness

On January 25, thousands of fitness enthusiasts will fill the Fort Worth Convention Center in Texas for the inaugural NRG Games, an event bringing multiple sports, seminars, activities and local sport and ... Continue Reading

A Holiday Wish for the Health and Fitness World

Last year I wrote a fairly common and traditional type of holiday wish list. That is, I wished for stuff I don’t have that perhaps, if the stars aligned, I could have - a snazzy new Audi, a killer new road ... Continue Reading

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John F. Kennedy’s Legacy of Physical Fitness

Well, November 22 has come and gone once again, but this year the anniversary was more special than those previous. It has now been fifty years since the tragic assassination of U.S. President John F. ... Continue Reading

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I Move, Therefore I Am: 10 Philosophy Lessons About Fitness

I used to think the phrase “find your path in life” was pretty straightforward. You just choose a nice little road and walk on it wherever it takes you, right? This has not been my experience, and I’m sure ... Continue Reading

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8 Moves To Add To Your Workout – Demonstrated By Our Coaches!

Here at Breaking Muscle we don't just have great articles - we also have videos to help you with your training. If you're looking for some new moves to add to your routine, or for tips on how to improve, ... Continue Reading

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Your 5 Worst Fitness Habits

With a Holiday Season beginning and a New Year starting soon, take time to examine some of your worst fitness habits, and get on a path for success! Overtraining Most fitness enthusiasts have ... Continue Reading

Featured Coach: Liam “Taku” Bauer

This week marks the start of a new four-week cycle of workout programming in our Strength and Conditioning Workouts. Our new Featured Coach is Liam “Taku” Bauer. “Truth, Not Trend” is the slogan for Hybrid ... Continue Reading

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Josh Crosby Talks Benefits of Indoor Rowing

Like spinning before it, rowing has gone from being a competitive outdoor sport to one of the growing new trends in group exercise. At the forefront of this movement is coach Josh Crosby. Crosby believes ... Continue Reading

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