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A cup of coffee for your muscles?  Scientists at the University of Georgia revealed that taking a caffeine supplement (equal to 2 cups of coffee) after exercise reduces muscle soreness more than pain relievers can.  Caffeine blocks a chemical that activates pain receptors. 
Adenosine is a chemical released as part of the inflammatory response to injury.  [...]

Sculpt a stable, injury-resistant core.  Like a baseball team, a healthy body needs to be strongest right up the middle.  Plus, women think a tight midsection is hot.
The core -your abs, hips, and lower back- is the most important area of your body when it comes to injury prevention and overall performance.  For great results, [...]

Chest pain is not the only ache that predicts cardiac trouble.  Migraines can signal an impending heart attack, indicates a new Harvard study.  Researchers tracked 20,000 men for 15 years and found migraine sufferers to be 43% more exposed to a heart attack than those unaffected by head pain.  Migraines have been tied to hypertension, [...]

The last place your body deposits fat is in the shoulder, making it one of the easiest muscles to define.  If your shoulders don’t pop after working them out, then that is a sign that you might need to focus more on fat loss.
You may feel tight now, but you were born with tremendous shoulder [...]

Take some tasty almonds to the gym.  Snack on a handful before or after you work out.  Get pumped up knowing that studies show adding an ounce of almonds a day (about 23) to a diet low in saturated fat can help maintain a healthy cholesterol level.  Repeat daily.  Snacking on almonds always fives you [...]

Any way you slice it, white bread isn’t a good choice.  When Italian scientists studied the diet records of 2,300 people, they concluded that eating more than four slices of white bread a day doubles your risk of developing kidney cancer.  The reason: White bread, like other refined grains, has a high glycemic index.  That [...]

Do you want a harder core?  Then try a much harder exercise.  Canadian researchers have determined that your abs work nearly as hard when you do a plank on a Swiss ball instead of on the floor.  To perform a plank, get into a pushup position, but place your forearms on the floor or Swiss [...]