5 Top Meditation Apps and Services That Will Help You Find Some Peace of Mind

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Let's be honest, the world feels like it's gone off the rails lately, right? Perhaps the world has always been stressful and will always continue to be. Throw a Pandemic in the mix and the wild year we've all just experienced in various levels of emotional response and it feels like all that stress has compounded. So, why shouldn't meditation and m...

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How Are Binaural Beats Similar and Different to Other Forms of Mindful Exercise?

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Practicing mindfulness as part of your wellness routine can be incredibly beneficial in accelerating your long-term health and fitness goals.  Allowing yourself to relax your mind and body may sound easy to some, but it's increasingly challenging in today's world. You can work on mindfulness in your breath flow, and in turn, reducing stress le...

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Martial Arts for Young Professionals: Is It For You?

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If you're one of the young professionals looking for something new to try for your health and wellness, here's something to try: Martial Arts.  Martial arts' multifaceted approach to fitness provides a comprehensive full body and mind exercise to keep you in shape and your energy up. Whether your reason for exploring the fitness world is for c...

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Fitness Industry: This Is How to Maximize Your Revenue Per Member - Allowing Members to Do AND Spend More

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It's a tough time. Running your fitness business in a Pandemic isn't something any of us ever expected. But, you're here and you're savvy. So, what do you do to survive? No, more than that. What do you do to turn this thing around and thrive? The easy answer: You learn how to maximize your revenue while giving your members even more. The tough answ...

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Top 10 Best Foods and Drinks for Post-Workout Recovery

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Post-workout nutrition is a crucial part of enhancing recovery after your workout. When you workout, your body uses the glycogen stores in your muscles as fuel, which reduces the amount of glycogen in your muscles (Healthline). This also breaks down and damages some of the proteins in your muscles. After your workout, your body must repair the...

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When it Comes To a Post-Covid Fitness Club Pricing Strategy, Think Cooperation Instead of Competition

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The world is never going back to the way it was before Covid-19, it can only go forward, and you can either go with it or struggle to try and keep up. You already have a lot to think about when re-opening your location(s) or trying to ramp back up to meet the "new normal", whatever that is. While there are still a lot of unknowns out there, here's ...

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What Makes for a Great Trainer? Top 10 Traits of Great Trainers

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Sure, you can get great results from a self-guided workout plan but it might be time to consider a trainer. Working with a trainer will not only exponentially increase your gains, but will also increase your confidence. Exercising isn't just a physical activity, it also impacts our mental health. So, working with a trainer will help to sculpt your ...

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Health and Fitness Industry Trends for 2021

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The business that adapts is the business that survives. Not only survives but thrives. With all the changes you and your business have already had to survive this past year, knowing and understanding the trends in the health and wellness industry is of unquestionable importance. Understanding the trends: Make educated predictions and understan...

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What is HIIT, why is it beneficial, and how can you add it to your life?

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If you're just beginning to explore the health and wellness lifestyle, you may have heard of HIIT and maybe don't quite understand what the heck it is. Many people have been raving about the benefits of HIIT, and how it can upgrade your fitness routine. But, what is HIIT, why is it beneficial, and how can you add it to your life? What is HIIT?...

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How Can Mindful Eating Fix Your Relationship with Food?

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We all know the struggle of not knowing what we should be eating to look and feel the way that we want to. Reaching your fitness goals can be confusing. Trends and diet fads are all over the internet saying their diet will be the one to finally help you lose that extra five pounds. However, many of these trends involve restricting your diet in...

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Healthy Nutrition Means Eating a Healthy Amount of Food, Are You Eating Enough?

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When you start paying attention to your nutrition, it is often because you want to lose weight. The problem is many people think that to lose weight, you need to eat less than you actually do. This can not only be extremely unhealthy, but also unsustainable. Even though large calorie reductions can help with weight loss in the short term,...

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What is the Best Way to Make Meditation a Habit for Beginners?

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You've heard the talk by now, meditation is good for you. Who isn't talking about it? All the benefits, the ways it can help you find a state of calm and can help center you. You want in, right? You want to make meditation a part of your routine, and you want to make it stick. But, each time you try, you find yourself coming up short. You go for se...

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3 Simple but Powerful Morning Routines to Kickstart Your Day and Live a Healthy and Fit Life

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If you want to change your health for the long-term, it's going to take more than a few fitness challenges and some trending new exercises named after one beach or another. Instead, you need to build is a lifestyle of health and wellness, sustained by simple but powerful routines and habits. "When you start to view health and fitness as a lifestyle...

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How You Can Help Save the Fitness and Wellness Industry

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 What if there were a way you could help bring back the health and fitness industry while also investing in your own health and fitness too? GymWisely is a business that operates on a different model. We're invested in your health and wellness right alongside you, and the way we do that is through building partnerships with industry leaders in...

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How Your Health and Fitness Routine Can Help You Get a Good Night's Sleep

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Too much caffeine, too much stress, and too many unfinished tasks in a day can lead to a night of tossing and turning. It's tough enough to get a good night's sleep, so, what can you do about it?One solution may be as simple as setting up a good exercise routine and sticking to it. Combine this with some other health and fitness lifestyle changes, ...

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Sweat: the #1 Home Fitness App for Women

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Sweat lets you work out at home with the largest fitness community of women worldwide, now with Pilates, barre, and yoga! Get the fitness motivation you need with Sweat, the personal training app featuring Kayla Itsines, and other elite female personal trainers. Their app is the #1 home fitness app for women, and for good reason. Sweat ma...

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What's the right fitness and mindfulness strategy for you?

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Choosing the right memberships might feel a bit overwhelming with all of the different choices you have. Especially if you're trying to do it all on your own from several sources. But that's where GymWisely makes it so much easier, here you can join several memberships all from one location. And to make your choice of which memberships to sign up f...

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5 Powerful Fitness Tips for Young Professionals Working Remotely

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If you're working from home, you likely know just how easy it is to stray from any health and fitness goals you've set. Whether it's letting stressful situations pile up, or eating all that stress away, working from home makes it all much easier to give in to. So, what can you do about it? With these fitness tips and a winning attitude focused on o...

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Row, Resist and More with Rowgatta

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Rowgatta provides high-intensity, low-impact classes, for wherever you are, whenever you want, and whatever equipment you have. Real People Real Results Rowing is a low-impact, full body workout which complements resistance training where muscle is made, and fat is burned. The Rowgatta team has developed a high-intensity, low-impact training concep...

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Taking Fitness Classes here and there is Well and Good, But When are Health and Wellness Memberships a Better Option?

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 When are health and fitness memberships a better option than individual classes? There are tons of options out there offering various services at a wide range of prices. How do youbalance all of the things that you want to do with all of the things you can afford? Further, how do youcombine that with your unique health and fitness goals, long...

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Practice Gentle Yoga, Stretching, Pilates for any age or skill level with Fitness Figures

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Fitness Figures is the perfect way to experience Yoga, Body Sculpting, Stretching, Pilates and more from warm and highly experienced instructors. Taking care to build routines for participants of all ages and abilities, they have plenty of low resistance techniques so you can stay healthy regardless of your current flexibility. An ai...

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When Is the Best Time to Meditate: Before or After You Exercise?

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More than 14% of adults in the US have tried meditation at least once, and if you're one of them, you may already know some of the many benefits of merging your meditation practice with your exercise routine. (For more info on this, check out How Meditation Helps You Exercise More Powerfully) But when exactly is the best time to meditate for the be...

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What Will the Health and Fitness Industry Look Like After the Covid-19 Pandemic?

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When Covid-19 struck, and the pandemic took hold, most businesses faced their worst nightmares. Many shuttering permanently, and some barely holding on. It's a sad story, one that the health and fitness industry knows all too well. This is why a question of what this industry might look like after Covid-19 is finally beaten and the world begins to ...

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Perfect Time for a New Fitness and Wellness Member Acquisition Strategy? GymWisely Thinks So

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It goes without saying, the fitness and wellness industry is a highly competitive space, now more than ever. But does it need to be? Is this offering better results for providers or for the members we serve? Times are changing, and there is a great opportunity to build a new, smarter, and more cooperative member acquisition model that off...

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A One of a Kind Meditation Experience

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Synctuition is the ultimate program for deep relaxation, better sleep, a healthy mind, and improved overall well-being. It is important to relax in the evening to wash away your daily problems and worries, prepare your mind for sweet dreams, and keep your mind healthy and young. Synctuition uses cutting-edge audio technology to give you not only th...

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How Meditation Helps You Exercise More Powerfully

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Photo by cottonbro from Pexels  Is your workout routine missing something? You may not even be aware of it until you've experienced it. But there is something powerful you can add to your exercise routine and really boost what you get from it, helping your exercise routine do more for you. Plus, life is better with balance, and so is your heal...

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5 Tips to Help you Build Self-Confidence Through Working Out

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Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels Enter your text here ...Give life even the briefest moment, and it will find a way to throw a change, a challenge, or some kind of stressful situation at you. It's a basic guarantee of living. But having self-confidence and a firm belief in what you're capable of, and what you know you can do can help you weat...

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Bindupoint: Enhancing Your Inner Peace

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Bindupoint is a center dedicated to the illumination, nurturing, and development of one's most inner being. Bindu is the source of cosmic potency. It is a point that we orient ourselves towards by learning stillness through guided meditation. Stillness nurtures our peaceful nature. It helps us to rejuvenate and integrate the restless and fragmented...

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Get your Daily Dose of Joy with JoyRide

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JoyRide Cycling + Fitness offers boutique studio classes to tone every muscle in your body while improving your state of mind! We're more than just a place to sweat. JoyRide is a supportive COMMUNITY that empowers our athletes (yeah, you!) to use the strength built inside the studio as a tool to live a BIG JOYful life. While things will look and fe...

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4 ways to stay active this winter

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This winter, your fitness routine may look a little different. It's important to find ways to stay active, even with shortened days and colder temperatures. Here's four ways you can stay fit and prevent your workouts from starting to feel monotonous: GET OUT IF YOU CAN: Even if the weather is less than ideal, it can be extremely beneficial to get o...

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