Nia Shanks

Lift Like a Girl: Be More, Not Less

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One Simple Hack to Stop Screwing Yourself Over

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Would you rather listen to this article? Use the player below, download it, or use iTunes. The One Simple Hack part of the title either piqued your interest, or triggered your potential-bullshit alarm. Simply writing it induced a bit of nausea for me since most “hacks” are overused, regurgitated phrases filled with empty promises. Or they’re just stupid. This simple hack, I’m relieved to say, is …

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Good Things That Get Ruined When Taken to Extremes

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It must be human nature. As a species we’re quite adept at taking something good and, in an effort to extract greater rewards from it, we manipulate it, mold it, stretch it to become a more extreme version of itself. And we screw it all up in the process, losing sight of what made it good in the first place. Healthy Eating Making better food choices is good. Taking eating well to an extreme …

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My Experience Trying to ‘Hate My Way’ Back to Skinny

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If I eat this it’ll help me lose fat, and that will make me like myself more. If I eat this it’ll cause me to gain fat, and that will make me hate myself more. I have to do this workout so I can lose fat, fix my flaws, and finally like my body. For a four-year period that’s how I analyzed everything I ate and drank; I even scrutinized the calories in a stick of gum. My workouts were about …

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10 Overlooked Reasons Why Every Woman Should Strength Train

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Lose fat and get sexy. The end. While that’s what most sources say why women should strength train, there are additional (perhaps better) benefits women can reap from weight training. Sure, you’ll see below how it can help you lose fat and tone up, but, you’ll also see how strength training can help you build a better brain (huh?), better bones, better boobs (say what?), sleep better, and …

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