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Healthier, Fitter & Leaner After 12-Day McDonalds Challenge Thanks to HIIT? Plus: TRX®, Fitness ↗ Fatness ↘ in Women

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Short news: Sprinting & TRX  "Have you already burned off that burger you had for lunch today?" If that's a question you're asking yourself regularly, you are at a high risk of misinterpreting a recent study by Christian Duval et al. (2017) as a license to eat how much you want, whatever you want, whenever you want. Unfortunately, a 12-week study in which young, healthy subjects were allowed to consume only three more or less energy-adequate meals is not representative of the futile "if you eat more/worse, just exercise more"-approach to diet and exercise. Apropos exercise, if you're still looking for the right exercise to get or stay fit and healthy, TRX training, the suspension training bodyweight exercise that has purportedly been developed by/for US Navy Seals seems to actually live up to some of its promises of developing strength, balance, flexibility and core stability - overall fitness (VO2max) improvements are yet probably its greatest...
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Four Ways to Turn Your AM Push-Up Routine into a Full-Body Workout: Wobble Board, Stability Disc, Fitness Dome, and TRX Suspension Trainer Under Scientific Scrutiny

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Based only on the study at hand, the TRX system does not seem to be significantly superior to the three other systems. In conjunction w/ previous research, discussed in the light-blue info box and the bottom line, though, it appears to be the best, certainly most versatile device. Ok, the push up is already a full body movement, but as a recent unsponsored study from the University of Valencia  shows, the muscle activation during push-ups performed under stable and unstable conditions varies significantly. So significantly, in fact, that certain muscle groups, such as the serratus aneterior, may be hammered twice as heavy when you use the "right" instability devices... and the best thing: None of the devices Borreani et al. tested will overrun the budget of a well-equipped homegym. With that being said, let's take an initial look at the contestants. There's the classic push-up (not shown in Figure 1 , because it requires no extra-device, but the floor), the (A)...
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