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Trans Fit: The vegetarian athlete

As a vegetarian, do you wonder if you’re getting the nutrients you require for your fitness or sport activities?

This is still a common question: can vegetarians perform as well as their carnivorous counterparts in physical competition?

To meet your nutrient needs and improve athletic performance, use these suggestions:

Meeting Calorie Needs

To best meet energy demands, consume six to eight small meals daily. These feedings supply a steady energy source and are easier on the body’s digestive system than three large meals per day.

Gaining and Losing Weight

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Scott Herman's Getting Fit VIDEO: Plyo Intensity - EXPLODE UP!

This week, Scott Herman shares his Plyo Intensity: EXPLODE UP! workout. Below is the workout overview and video. See the full workout plan embedded at the bottom of this story.

This routine is designed to work on your overall explosion whether you are trying to jump higher or further.

All you need are some plyo boxes and enough space to jump high and far!

Plyo Intensity can be applied to any sport, especially those that involve jumping such as basketball, volleyball, and football.

Now go give it a try and reach new heights with your fitness goals today!

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Boot~ique: How to be fit in your 40's and 50's

If you are like most women, you want to look your best at all times.

Sure, we all have those instances where we run out to the store in sweats and a t-shirt, but the overall goal is to look great even in that attire.

It's been said that "with age comes wisdom," and that certainly applies to staying fit and healthy.

Just look are at the celebrities in their 40’s and 50’s who have taken being fit and looking great to another level.

Women like Madonna, Ashley Judd, Halle Berry, Courtney Cox and others seem to have found the fountain of youth.

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Scott Herman's Getting Fit VIDEO: Tri Umphant shoulders!

Looking for horseshoe triceps and boulder shoulders?

Then you have come to the right place!

For hypertrophy gains, you need to be hitting 8-10 reps hard, per set.

Be sure to go heavy, but do not sacrifice form for weight!

Triceps

• Three exercises
• Four sets
• 10 reps

Shoulders

• Two exercises
• Four sets
• 10 reps

60-90 MAX rest between sets

Triceps

(0:41) Barbell Close-Grip Bench Press
(1:57) Kettlebell Standing Overhead Extension
(2:52) Tricep Kickback

Shoulders

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Boot~ique with VIDEO: Sexy bikini booty workout

You're going to be showing a lot of leg in just a few months.

Don't you want to be able to show off nice, tone glutes?

You can!

Do this workout that targets your glute muscles and create long, lean and tone legs for this summer.

Complete this circuit of five exercises.

Use a Gymboss interval timer to time your exercises.

Set your 1st timer for 50 seconds and the 2nd for 10 seconds so that you do each exercise for 50 seconds with a 10 second rest between them.

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Boot~ique: Ten ways to stop eating when you’re not hungry

In a perfect world, we would naturally only eat until our brains told our body that we had enough food to survive comfortably with, and then we would stop eating.

We would listen for the signal our brain sends to our stomach to recognize that we’ve satisfied (not stuffed) our hunger.

As a result, overeating and needless grazing would be eliminated and our waistlines would thank us for it.

However, when you get that strong craving that you feel compelled to feed, it doesn’t feel like perfect world conditions, does it?

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Scott Herman's Getting Fit VIDEO: Abs of Glory!

April is stress awareness month.

What better way to eliminate stress than to CRUNCH it out in time for April!?

The SHF ABS of GLORY routine will get your abs looking SO GOOD that there will be nothing to left to stress over!

Well, other than finding enough places to show them off!

This routine requires:

1. Pull-Up Bar
2. Captain’s Chair
3. Decline Bench
4. Medicine Ball
5. Stable Structure To Hold Feet

List of Exercises:

Sets and reps will vary per exercise.

1. Dumbbell Hanging Knee Raise (3-4 sets; 15-20 reps)

Boot~ique with VIDEO: Burning fat with five quick exercises

Get beach-body ready with this bodyweight workout that burns massive amounts of calories.

Since you don't need any equipment, you can literally do this workout from anywhere.

Follow along with our video as our San Diego boot camp instructor shows you how to do each fat burning exercise.

Do each exercise for 20 reps each, one after the other, until you complete all five exercises.

That's 100 reps.

Then take a quick break (up to a minute) and then repeat the whole circuit. Keep working on it until you can get up to five rounds.

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Trans Fit: A bit about chocolate

Now that Valentine’s Day has just passed and Easter is just around the corner, it means only one thing to many lovers: Time to bust out the chocolate!

With all the recent media hype about the health benefits of this sweet concoction, many chocoholics are rejoicing.

But can that solid chocolate heart from your sweetheart really be good for your ticker?

Health Benefits

Chocolate is made from cacao beans, which contain flavonoids, the same kind of beneficial plant compounds found in fruits, veggies, red wine and green tea.

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Scott Herman's Getting Fit VIDEO: Scott & Sean's Q&A Episode 16

Scott Herman and his buddy Sean answer viewer questions in another edition of Scott & Sean's Q&A.

Have a question for Scott and Sean? Ask it HERE.

(1:41) Question 1: Joshua Hernandez

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