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	Hydration: Essential for Extreme Training! Article originally posted in the 'Performance Advocate' e-zine. Sign up for your FREE copy here: www.humanmotion.com 9 September 2009
	Performance Article: Boosting Training Intensity - By Carmen Bott MSc. CSCS carmen@humanmotion.com Over the years, people have come to see me for a variety of reasons, whether it is to gain strength and power for sport, to improve conditioning levels, to lose body fat and/or to get back into shape. Whatever, their goals might be; and the exercise prescription to follow, two elements must be present for results to take place: Consistency and Intensity Consistency is the easy one. Be committed, follow the program "x" number of days per week, keep on keeping on. . . It's really quite simple. Intensity, however, is not so simple. It is the factor that requires the most gumption, the right frame of mind and the willingness to push oneself past what is comfortable. This factor is more critical and of course, it is the one that most individuals need help and more importantly, candid clarification on. I have met many clients that have told me they are 'hard workers.' Too be perfectly honest, hard workers are not a dime a dozen. They are much, much, more rare than you think. And being a great athlete does not mean someone is a hard worker either. So, based on this fact, I am going to make an assumption: YOU are not training as intensely as you can.... [READ MORE!] 5 August 2009
	Group Exercise Training….for Strength?... By Cliff Harvey (Originally printed in 'Can-Fit-Pro' May-June Issue 2009) Group fitness training has traditionally been the domain of aerobics and its various permutations: yoga, pilates, martial arts, spin and step classes and more recently BOSU® and ‘boot camp’ classes.... One critical component of physical fitness that has been lacking in a group fitness setting is in the area of strength development..... 26 June 2009

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