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How to Rest and Recover: A Beginners Guide

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  How to Rest and Recover: A Beginners Guide By Michael Fitch Hello again and thanks for checking out my final blog in this series of three where I’m sharing my best tips on how to start being fit!  Today, we’re looking at an often-overlooked, yet quintessential aspect of fitness: rest and recovery.  Properly resting and recovering complements your workouts and healthy eating and helps you achieve your fitness goals by giving your body the proper time to recover and rebuild to perform at its highest potential!  Appropriately resting and recovering is crucial not only for your physical wellbeing, but your mental wellbeing as well.   If you haven't read my first two blogs yet, I recommend starting with them or reading them after this one.  In my first blog, I provided five easy tips on how beginners can start working out, even from home with no equipment!  In my second blog, I detailed five tips for how to start eating clean, including a brief ...

How to Eat Healthy: A Beginner Guide

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  Starting to Eat Clean: 5 Easy Tips for Beginners By Michael Fitch Hello again and thanks for checking out my second blog in this series of three where I’m sharing my best tips on how to start being fit!  Today, we’re diving into an equally crucial aspect of fitness that is a healthy diet and five easy-to-implement tips for beginners.  Remember, a balanced diet complements your workouts and helps you achieve your fitness goals by giving your body the proper fuel to recover and perform at its highest potential!  Eating clean will also help you to feel your best all of the time both mentally and physically.   If you haven't read my first blog yet, I recommend starting there or reading it right after this one.  In it, I provide five simple tips for beginners on how to start working out and I provide an easy to follow 20 minute at-home exercise routine with no equipment required (that means you can do it right now!) Tips: 1. Prioritize Whol...

How to Work Out: a Beginners Guide

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 Starting to Work Out: 5 Easy Tips for Beginners By Michael Fitch    Hello and thanks for checking out my blog on how to start working out for beginners! This will be the first of a series of three blogs I'll be writing to help beginners learn to workout, including tips for at-home workouts; no gyms or equipment required!  Make sure to read to the end of my blog where I'll leave an easy to do home exercise routine! A Bit About Me: My name is Michael Fitch, I'm a senior management major at Gustavus Adolphus College.  I've been involved in athletics for my whole life, primarily in the form of competitive swimming for fourteen years.  After my first year of swimming NCAA Division III at Gustavus, I decided to step back from swimming and focus on a different passion of mine: weightlifting.   Since I started to focus on weightlifting, I've developed a great love and interest in working out.  Past that, I've found that I really enjoy helping my friends ...