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Restorative Exercise

5 Types of Restorative Exercise for Recovery

Intense exercise, such as HIIT training and strength training can improve your body composition and cardiovascular health, but your body needs to recover between more intense exercise sessions. That’s where restorative exercise comes in. Here are some forms of exercise you can do during those “easy” days to help your body recover.

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Squats and flexibility

How Squats Can Improve Your Flexibility

Squats are one of the best kind of exercises when it comes to building lower body strength, but can they also make you more flexible? This article explores the myth that strength training exercises, like squats, shorten muscles and reduce flexibility and how they can make you more flexible.

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Pilates for Athletes

Benefits of Pilates for Athletes

In recent years, Pilates has been picking up steam as one of the most popular forms of total-body fitness. Athletes of all types see the benefits of a Pilates workout magnified in the other sports they practice, as Pilates targets the core elements that every athlete needs to improve their game: balance, coordination, flexibility, and strength.

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